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<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We would like to arrange a workshop on the pathways to insubordination at the next SLE meeting in Helsinki in 2024. As described in the CFP below, we invite language-specific
contributions, as well as cross-linguistic or areal studies:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Pathways to insubordination<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Convenors: Ezra la Roi (Ghent University), María Sol Sansiñena (University of Leuven), An Van linden (University of Liège)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Keywords: insubordination, subordination, mechanisms of change, corpus linguistics, clause patterns and clause linkage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Description</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
This workshop focuses on the diachrony of insubordination, a phenomenon defined by Evans (2007: 377) as “the conventionalized independent use of a formally subordinate clause”. An example is a clause introduced by the complementizer que (‘that’) that is used
to express a wish in Spanish, as in (1).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Nati: Bueno, chicos, me voy a acostar.<br>
Rafael: Chau, que descans-e-s.<br>
COMP rest-PRS.SBJV-2SG<br>
‘Nati: OK, guys, I’m going to bed.<br>
Rafael: Bye, have a good rest.’<br>
[CREA Teatro, El hijo de la novia, Argentina, example from Sansiñena 2015]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Over the past two decades insubordination has witnessed an increase in scholarly attention (e.g. Verstraete et al. 2012; Brinton 2014; Narrog 2016; Gras & Sansiñena
2017; D’Hertefelt 2018, and the articles in Evans & Watanabe (2016) and Beijering et al. (2019)), mostly from a synchronic perspective, while the diachronic perspective has so far “received comparatively less attention” (Cristofaro 2016: 395), and few studies
have been carried out on the basis of historical corpus data (see e.g. Gras & Estellés 2012; Van linden & Van de Velde 2014; la Roi 2021, 2022). This workshop seeks to investigate the developmental pathways leading to independent clauses that are structurally
similar to subordinate ones, like the que-clause in (1). It has been argued that “patterns that are superficially identical on the level of contemporary languages, may turn out as the results of radically different diachronic processes” (Wiemer 2019: 157)
and that insubordinate constructions “can emerge from a variety of sources via a variety of mechanisms” (Mithun 2019: 31; see also Cristofaro 2016), such as ellipsis of a main clause (Evans 2007), extension of dependency (Mithun 2008, 2016), dependency shift
(D'Hertefelt & Verstraete 2014), hypoanalysis (Van linden & Van de Velde 2014), cooptation (Heine, Kaltenbock & Kuteva 2016), and clausal disengagement (Cristofaro 2016). The available evidence thus imposes the need to study the development of such clause
structures on a case-by-case basis. Against this backdrop, this workshop seeks to look deeper into the diachrony of insubordinate constructions along multiple pathways of change.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Aims of the workshop</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
The workshop will bring together linguists working on insubordinate clause patterns, their sources and the mechanisms by which they developed, either on the basis of historical corpus data for languages with written records or based on first-hand data collected
in the field for those languages that do not have historical data. We invite language-specific contributions, as well as cross-linguistic or areal studies. More specifically, the topics and questions to be addressed include, but are not limited to, the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">-Considering the wide range of functions of insubordinate constructions, how can we relate them to their respective sources and developmental pathways?<br>
-What are the methodological challenges in tracing the diachrony of insubordinate structures in historical data?<br>
-What can interactional approaches to insubordination and the study of prosody contribute to diachronic hypotheses?<br>
-In the absence of spoken data, what information on the diachrony of insubordination can be gleaned from dialogical text types? What proxies can be used for prosodic information?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Invited speakers: Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Björn Wiemer (Mainz University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Discussant: Sonia Cristofaro (Sorbonne University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Please send provisional abstracts of up to 300 words (excl. references) in PDF
<u>by 10 November 2023</u> to </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:Ezra.laRoi@UGent.be"><span lang="EN-US">Ezra.laRoi@UGent.be</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">.
If the workshop is approved, we ask authors to submit 500-word abstracts before 15 January 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:NL-BE">Dr. Ezra la Roi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:NL-BE"><a href="https://ezralaroi.com/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0563C1">https://ezralaroi.com/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:NL-BE">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:NL-BE">Ghent University
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:NL-BE"><a href="https://www.dialing.ugent.be/"><span style="color:#0563C1">Δ</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0563C1">ialing</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:NL-BE">
– Diachronic and Diatopic Linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:NL-BE"><a href="https://www.gcla.ugent.be/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0563C1">GCLA</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:NL-BE">
– Ghent Centre for Late Antiquity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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