<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><br><p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Call for papers</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">(<i>apologies for multiple posting</i>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt" lang="EN-US">Ad hoc categories and their linguistic construction. </span></b></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt" lang="EN-US">Typology, diachrony and use</span></b></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Workshop proposal
for the 49th SLE meeting, </span></p>
<p style="text-align:left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Naples, August 31
– September 3, 2016</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Convenors:</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Caterina
Mauri (University of Pavia), Andrea Sansò (Insubria University)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b> </b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Background and aims of the workshop:</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">A
large bulk of psycholinguistic research (Barsalou 1983, Smith & Samuelson 1997,
among many others) has shown that the traditional view of categories as
fundamentally stable objects is untenable in various respects. Categories,
instead, as Croft & Cruse (2004: 92) put it, “are inherently variable, and
created on-line as and when needed”.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Languages
have overt strategies that make the online construction of categories “visible”
and explicitly allow the hearer to identify some relevant exemplars as the
starting point for an abstraction process leading to the on-line construction
of a contextually relevant category. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">These
strategies include things as diverse as: </span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">(i) so-called list constructions or general extenders
(e.g. Engl. “central Iowa and stuff” as a strategy to construct on-line the
ad-hoc category “RURAL AREAS OF THE USA”),</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>(ii) associative or similative plural constructions
(cf. (1) see <span>Moravcsik 2003</span>),
by which speakers may extend the reference of a given noun to include some
individual or entities typically associated with the referent of that noun, </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>(iii) derivational collective morphology (cf. (2)),
which can be used productively to create new lexical labels for ad hoc
categories,</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>(iv) so-called representative (Haspelmath 2007) or
non-exhaustive connectives (cf.(3)), i.e. connectives that specifically encode
that the two (or more) items that they connect are just members of a category
including other similar elements, </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>(v) reduplication (cf. (4)), which in some may be used
with such a function, etc.<span lang="EN-US"></span></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The
on-line construction of categories is thus much more pervasive in grammar than
one might assume, involving such diverse grammatical domains as number and
plurality, lexical derivation, connectives and more transparent constructions
such as general extenders. All these construction types share a common function
but differ as to the way the category is abstracted away from the given
exemplars.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This
workshop aims to provide a unified approach to these constructions and to their
common abstracting function, by gathering together studies that explicitly deal
with the strategies that languages use to construct ad hoc categories on-line. We
welcome cross-linguistic studies, taking into account more than one language,
as well as studies dealing with the diachrony of these constructions and with
their patterning in discourse and interaction, based on corpus data.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>See examples in the attached file!</b><br></span> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Topics</b></span></p>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i>Possible
phenomena to be investigated include:</i></span><br>
<br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">- exemplifying constructions (meaning ‘for instance’,
‘such as’, etc.)</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;font-variant:normal">- </span>general extenders</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;font-variant:normal"></span>- connectives and their exemplifying functions</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;font-variant:normal">-
</span>associative and similative plurals</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">- nonce compounds</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">- reduplication leading to a ‘X and so on’ reading </span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">- collectives and their relation to the construction of
categories</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;font-variant:normal"></span>- derivational strategies leading to contextually
dependent categories or sets</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">- …</span><br>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><br>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i>Possible
topics include:</i></span><br>
<br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-<span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;font-variant:normal"> </span> cross-linguistic studies on constructions used to
build ad hoc categories</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-<span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;font-variant:normal"> </span>diachronic studies </span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-<span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;font-variant:normal"> </span>corpus-based research on the referential continuity of
the exemplars and the category</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-<span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;font-variant:normal"> </span>analyses of the discourse relevance and discourse
phenomenology of ad hoc categories</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-<span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;font-variant:normal"> </span>the cooperation of speaker and hearer in the construction
of ad hoc categories in interaction</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-<span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;font-variant:normal"> </span>psycholinguistic evidence for how these constructions
are processed and the ad hoc categories construed</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-<span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;font-variant:normal"> </span>semantics and pragmatics of exemplification</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-<span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;font-variant:normal"> </span> …</span><br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Abstracts</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">We
invite short abstracts of 300 words, excluding references and examples. Abstracts
should be in an editable format (e.g. .doc or .docx; no pdf will be
considered). Abstracts should be sent <i>to the two workshop organizers</i>: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:caterina.mauri@unipv.it" target="_blank">caterina.mauri@unipv.it</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:andrea.sanso@uninsubria.it" target="_blank">andrea.sanso@uninsubria.it</a>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The
workshop will be part of the 49th annual meeting of the SLE in Naples, August
31 – September 3, 2016. Presentations will be maximally 20 minutes, allowing 10
minutes for discussion and room changes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Important dates</b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The
deadline for the submission of the short abstract is <b>November 10, 2015</b>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Note
that if your abstract has been included in the workshop and the workshop has
been accepted, you will also have to prepare a full abstract and submit it to
be reviewed by the SLE scientific committee. The deadline for the submission of
full abstracts is <b>January 15, 2016</b>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>References</b><span style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Barsalou, L W. (1983) “Ad hoc
categories” <i>Memory and Cognition</i> 11/3, 211-227.</span></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Corbett, G. (2000) <i>Number</i>, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.</span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Croft, W. & A. D. Cruse. 2004. <i>Cognitive Linguistics</i>. Cambridge: CUP.<br>Haspelmath M. (2007). Coordination. In: T.
Shopen (ed.), <i>Language typology and
syntactic</i> <i>description</i>, vol. II: <i>Complex constructions</i>, 1-51, Cambridge:
CUP.</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>Moravcsik, E. (2003). “A
semantic analysis of associative plurals”, <i>Studies in Language</i> 27/3:
469-503.<br>Smith, L. B. & L. K. Samuelson. 1997.
Perceiving and remembering: category stability, variability and development.
In: K. Lamberts & D. Shanks (eds.). <i>Knowledge,
concepts and categories</i>, 161–95. Hove: Psychology Press.<br></span><br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">---- <br><br>Caterina Mauri<br>Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici- Sezione di Linguistica<br>Universita' di Pavia<br>Strada Nuova, 65<br>I-27100 PAVIA<br><br>Tel. +390382984687<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:caterina.mauri@unipv.it" target="_blank">caterina.mauri@unipv.it</a> <br>Homepage: <a href="http://studiumanistici.unipv.it/?pagina=docenti&id=1114" target="_blank">http://studiumanistici.unipv.it/?pagina=docenti&id=1114</a><br></div></div>
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