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<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">CfP: Workshop at the LLcD Conference (Langues et langage à la croisée des disciplines), 9-11 September 2024 (Sorbonne Université, Paris)</span><br>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Conference URL: </span><a
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Workshop title: Subordination in Creole languages</span><br>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Workshop organizers:</span><br>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Stefano Manfredi (SeDyL, UMR 8202, CNRS, IRD, INALCO)</span><br>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Susanne Maria Michaelis (Leipzig University & MPI-EVA, Leipzig)</span><br>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Sibylle Kriegel (Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, LPL, Aix-en-Provence, France)</span><br>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Nicolas Quint (LLACAN, UMR 8135, CNRS/EPHE/INALCO)</span><br>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Workshop description:</span><br>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">While many studies have explored and compared the morphosyntactic and semantic aspects of subordination in various linguistic areas and language families (Frajzyngier 1996; Kortmann 1996; van der Auwera 1998; Caron 2008), research on subordinated clauses in Creole languages remains limited.</span><br>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The conceptualization of subordinate clauses as semantically hierarchical structures (Van Valin & LaPolla 1997; Nordström 2010; Cristofaro 2003) entails the definition of other grammatical notions, such as ‘finiteness’, ‘dependency’, ‘embeddedness, ‘hypo-/parataxis’ and, more generally, raises the question of how we define ‘syntactic complexity’ cross-linguistically. Furthermore, the comparative validity of the previously mentioned notions varies according to the adoption of different theoretical frameworks (e.g., functional grammar vs. generative grammar) as well as to language-dependent factors (Comrie 2008, Haspelmath 2010).</span><br>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">This workshop aims at gathering researchers working on Creole languages with different lexifiers (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic) and featuring diverse substrate/adstrate languages (e.g. Niger-Congo, Oceanic, Nilo-Saharan) in order to contribute to the debate on the definition of semantic and morphosyntactic parameters for comparing subordinate clauses cross-linguistically. Indeed, because of the particular historical dynamics of their emergence and the role played by language contact in their linguistic development, Creole languages raise a number of questions related to the grammaticalization of adverbial, complement, and relative clauses as well as to the formal parameters to be used for defining subordinate clauses (e.g., presence/absence of subordinating devices, TAM marking, presence/absence of pronominal arguments). In this context, the increasing availability of corpus-driven descriptions (see Vieira Semedo 2021, Duzerol forth.) and linguistic databases (Manfredi and Quint forth.) of subordination constructions in Creole languages open new descriptive and comparative perspectives on this highly variable syntactic domain.</span><br>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">In the light of the above, submissions to the workshop may include in-depth case studies of the syntax of subordinate clauses in individual Creole languages as well as presentations with a more comparative focus. We welcome both synchronically and diachronically-oriented studies of subordinate clauses in Creole languages. More generally, the workshop seeks to answer a range of questions related to the following domains of research:</span><br>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">- Morphosyntactic comparison of subordinated clauses: How can we better compare the morphosyntactic encoding of adverbial, complement, and relative subordinating relations across Creole languages? Are ‘finiteness’ and ‘embeddedness’ valuable morphosyntactic notions for the comparison of subordination in Creole languages (cf. Mufwene and Dijkhoff 1989; Cristofaro 2003; Nikolaeva 2007)?</span><br>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">- Grammaticalization of subordinating devices (subordinators, complementizers, and relators): Do subordinating devices present shared grammaticalization paths across Creole languages? To what extent is the grammaticalization of subordinating devices in Creole languages affected by the semantics and typological profile of their substrate/adstrate/superstrate languages (cf. Michaelis and Haspelmath 2020) ? To what extent does the ‘overlay function’ of subordinators (cf. Kortmann 1997) affect their grammaticalization in Creole languages?</span><br>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">- Mood, modality, and subordination: What is the diachronic link between the grammatical expression of mood and modality and the morphosyntactic encoding of subordinating relations (cf. Frajzyngier 1996; Nordström 2010) in one or more Creole languages? How do Creole languages grammaticalize and convey equivalents of a subjunctive mood in subordinated clauses?</span><br>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">- Morphosyntactic variation of subordinated clauses: What are the main sociolinguistic variables producing morphosyntactic variation of subordinated clauses in one or more Creole Languages (cf. Deuber 2005 for Nigerian Pidgin)? What are the main grammatical factors producing language-dependent variation of subordinated clauses in one or more Creole Languages?</span><br>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">- Typological considerations: Do Creole languages typologically differ from non-creole languages in the domain of subordination (cf. Van der Auwera 1998; Bakker et al. 2011; McWhorter 2018)? To what extent does first/second language acquisition affect the grammaticalization of subordinated clauses in Creole languages (cf. Diessel 2004; Veenstra 2015)?</span><br>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">- Linguistic databases and corpora: How can we ensure cross-linguistic comparability of subordinated clauses while giving information about language-dependent syntactic variation by means of linguistic databases (cf. Michaelis et al. 2013; Manfredi and Quint forth.)? How can corpus-driven analyses of subordination contribute to the broader typological comparison of subordinate clauses?</span><br>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Submission guidelines</span><br>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We are inviting abstracts for 20-minute presentations (French or English) that address essential aspects of subordination in Creole languages, both from a descriptive and comparative perspective. To participate, please submit preliminary abstracts (300 words, in docx format, including your affiliation) to the workshop organizers by <b>20 January 2024</b>, at one of the following email addresses: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:stefano.manfredi@cnrs.fr">stefano.manfredi@cnrs.fr</a> or <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:susanne.michaelis@uni-leipzig.de">susanne.michaelis@uni-leipzig.de</a>.</span><br>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">This workshop proposal has not yet been accepted by the conference organizers. We will submit it together with your preliminary abstracts by the end of January 2024.</span><br>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">References</span><br>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Bakker, P., A. Daval-Markussen, M. Parkvall and I. Plag. 2011. Creoles are typologically distinct from non-creoles. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 26: 5-42.</span><br>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Caron, B. (ed.). 2008. Subordination, dépendance et parataxe dans les langues africaines. Louvain: Peeters.</span><br>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Comrie, B. 2008. Subordination, coordination: Form, semantics, pragmatics. In: E. Vajda (ed.), Subordination and Coordination Strategies in North Asian Languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, pp. 1-16.</span><br>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Cristofaro, S. 2003. Subordination. Oxford: Oxford University Press.</span><br>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Deuber, D. 2005. Nigerian Pidgin in Lagos: Language contact, variation and change in an African urban setting.</span><br>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Diessel, H. 2004. The Acquisition of Complex Sentences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.</span><br>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Duzerol, M. forthcoming. La complémentation et la relativisation en martiniquais (créole, Martinique) : une étude de corpus [PhD dissertation]. Lyon: Université Louis Lumière.</span><br>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Frajzyngier, Z. 1996. Grammaticalization of Complex Sentence : A Case Study in Chadic. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.</span><br>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Hapelmath, M. 2010. Comparative Concepts and Descriptive Categories in Cross-Linguistic Studies. Language 86, pp. 663-687</span><br>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Kortmann, B. 1996. Adverbial Subordination: A Typology and History of Adverbial Subordinators Based on European Languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.</span><br>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Manfredi, S. and N. Quint (eds.), forth. SCrolL – The database of Subordination in Creole Languages. CNRS, HumaNum.</span><br>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">McWhorter, J. 2018. The Creole Debate. Cambridge University Press.</span><br>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Michaelis, S. M., P. Maurer, M. Haspelmath and M. Huber (eds.) 2013. Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.</span><br>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Michaelis, S. M. and M. Haspelmath. 2020. Grammaticalization in creole languages: Accelerated functionalization and semantic imitation. In W. Bisang and A. Malchukov (eds.), Volume 2 Grammaticalization Scenarios from Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2020, pp. 1109-1128.</span><br>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Mufwene, S. and M. Dijkhoff. 1989. On the so-called « infinitive » in Atlantic Creoles. Lingua 77</span><br>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Nikolaeva, I. (ed.). 2007. Finiteness: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations. Oxford: Oxford University Press</span><br>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Noonan, M. 1985. Complementation. In: T. Shopen (ed.), Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Cambridge University Press, pp. 42-140.</span><br>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Nordström, J. 2010. Modality and Subordinators. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.</span><br>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">van der Auwera, J. (ed.) 1998. Adverbial Constructions in Languages of Europe. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.</span><br>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Van Valin, R. and R. LaPolla 1997. Syntax: Structure, Meaning, and Function. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.</span><br>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Veenstra, T. 2015. The development of subordination. In A. Trotzke and J. Bayer (eds.), Syntactic Complexity across Interfaces. Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 137-162. </span><br>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Vieira Semedo, E. 2021. Frase complexa em cabo-verdiano (variedade de Santiago) : um estudo da integração entre cláusulas) [PhD dissertation]. Paris: INALCO.</span></p>
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Susanne Maria Michaelis
DFG-AHRC Project CrossMoGram
Leipzig University
Institute for Romance Studies
Beethovenstraße 15
04107 Leipzig
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Guest
Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
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Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://apics-online.info/">http://apics-online.info/</a></pre>
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