<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify">Dear colleagues, </span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Please, find below the call for papers for <a href="https://en.lacim.net/post/call-for-papers-lacim-2024-international-conference" target="_blank">LACIM 2024</a> International Conference on Grammaticalization in Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran-Mesopotamia area, to be held in Paris, December 4-5.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Best,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Victoria</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background:rgb(253,252,250);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,102,153)"><a href="http://www.inalco.fr/enseignant-chercheur/victoria-khurshudyan" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-decoration-line:none">Victoria KHURSHUDYAN</span></b></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:black"><br></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Maître de conférences, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">|</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,102,153)"><a href="https://webmail.inalco.fr/www.inalco.fr" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(51,102,255)">www.inalco.fr</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background:rgb(253,252,250);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Membre à SeDyL, Structure et Dynamique des Langues UMR8202 CNRS - INALCO - IRD/UMR135 </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">| </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,102,153)"><a href="http://sedyl.cnrs.fr/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(51,102,255)">http://sedyl.cnrs.fr</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background:rgb(253,252,250);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Membre associé à ERTIM, Équipe de recherche : textes, informatique, multilinguisme </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 1cm;line-height:normal;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 1cm;line-height:normal;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">_____</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(46,116,181)">Call for Papers</span></b></p><h1 style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:24pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(47,46,46);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">                                               LACIM 202</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(47,46,46);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">4                  </span><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(47,46,46);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"></span></h1><h1 align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:24pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(47,46,46);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">International Conference</span><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(47,46,46)"></span></h1><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Grammaticalization in Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran-Mesopotamia area</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;text-indent:21pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Paris</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">December 4-5, </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">20</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">24</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;text-indent:21pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:21pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">The </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">second</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> international conference organized by the <a href="https://en.lacim.net/" target="_blank" style="color:blue">European network on linguistics and languages of the Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran-Mesopotamia area (LACIM)</a> will be held in Paris from 4 to 5 December, 2024. It will be dedicated to grammaticalization in Anatolia-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Caucasus-Iran-Mesopotamia area.</span></p><p style="margin:6pt 0cm;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">LACIM is a European network of linguists engaged in research on the languages of Anatolia, the Caucasus, Iran and Mesopotamia. We are primarily interested in the interplay of contact and heritage that has shaped the region's current linguistic ecology, through millennia of interaction. As such, our research program transcends the boundaries of the different language families that are present in the region and pursues an interdisciplinary approach.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Grammaticalization is often defined as “ … a process which turns lexemes into grammatical formatives and makes grammatical formatives still more grammatical...". (Lehmann 2002 [1985]:ix). While grammaticalization is commonly viewed as a type of language change, its extent can vary across different studies and theoretical frameworks. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Over the past </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">four decades, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">research on</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> grammaticalization has expanded to include various cross-linguistic theoretical perspectives (Lehmann 1985 [2015], Traugott and Heine 1991, Heine & Hünnemeyer 1991, Bybee et al. 1994, Newmeyer 1998, Haspelmath 1998, 1999, Bisang et al. 2004, Narrog & Heine 2011, Heiko & Heine 2018, Kuteva et al. 2019), </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">as well as</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> to deepen </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">its </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">language-specific description and analysis (Narrog & Heine 2018, Bisang & Malchukov 2020).</span></p><p style="margin:6pt 0cm;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">The </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">primary</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">aim</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> of the current conference is to thoroughly explore the grammaticalization clines and sources in the languages of Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran-Mesopotamia from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives, with a </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">particular emphasis on capturing the areal dimension as comprehensively as possible. Potential discussion topics may include, but are not limited to, the evolution of:</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Adpositions into cases,</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Verbs transforming into auxiliary verbs,</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Information structure in regard with grammaticalization,</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Differential object/subject marking,</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Preverbs,</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Determiners and pronouns,</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Periphrastic constructions,</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Relative clauses,</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Subordinate clauses, etc.</span></p><p style="margin:6pt 0cm;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Furthermore, proposals are encouraged on broader topics within the current study of grammaticalization that offer relevant empirical/analytical insights</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">. These might include </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">the inferences from frequency in the realm of the empirical turn in linguistics, or the delimitation between grammaticalization</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> and other types of language change </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">(e.g. reanalysis, metaphoric transfer, metonymic transfer etc.).</span></p><p style="margin:12pt 0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(46,116,181)">Submission</span></b></p><p style="margin:6pt 0cm;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Proposals</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> must</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">:</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">contain at most 1000 words for 30 minute talks, examples</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> included, references excluded,</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">be formatted as a PDF,</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">include (1) the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">proposal</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> title and (2) three or four keywords describing the topics of the paper</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> a</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">t the top of the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">proposal,</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">be in English or in French,</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(47,46,46)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">submitted </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">via </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Linguist List</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> at the following link:</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(47,46,46)"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 35.7pt;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/LACIM2024/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/LACIM2024/</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(47,46,46);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(47,46,46)"></span></p><p style="margin:6pt 0cm;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Submissions are limited to 1 individual and 1 joint abstract per author, or 2 joint abstracts per author.</span></p><p style="margin:6pt 0cm;text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Please direct questions/concerns to </span><a href="mailto:lacim.conference2024@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">lacim.conference2024@gmail.com</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">.</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(46,116,181)">Timelines</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(46,116,181)"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Submission deadline: </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;background:rgb(253,252,250)">June</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;background:rgb(253,252,250)"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;background:rgb(253,252,250)">10</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;background:rgb(253,252,250)">, 202</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;background:rgb(253,252,250)">4</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Notification of acceptance: </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;background:rgb(253,252,250)">July</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;background:rgb(253,252,250)"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;background:rgb(253,252,250)">10</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;background:rgb(253,252,250)">, 202</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;background:rgb(253,252,250)">4</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Conference</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;background:rgb(253,252,250)">: </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;background:rgb(253,252,250)">December 4-5</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;background:rgb(253,252,250)">, 202</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;background:rgb(253,252,250)">4</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(46,116,181)">Organizing</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(46,116,181)"> Committee</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Victoria Khurshudyan, Inalco, SeDyL, CNRS, IRD</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Matteo De Chiara, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Inalco, CERMI, CNRS</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Samuel Chakmakjian, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Inalco, SeDyL, CNRS, IRD</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Davide Scarfagna, Inalco, CERMI, CNRS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Milad Shariatmadari, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, LATTICE, CNRS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(46,116,181);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Scientific</span></b><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(46,116,181);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> Committee</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(46,116,181)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Anaid Donabedian (Paris)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Geoffrey Haig (Bamberg)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Katherine Hodgson (Cambridge)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Agnès Lenepveu-Hotz (Strasbourg)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Geoffrey Khan (Cambridge)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Stefano Manfredi (Paris)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Pollet Samvelian (Paris)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Stavros Skopeteas (Göttingen)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Nina Sumbatova (Moscow)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(46,116,181);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Keynote speakers:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black;background:rgb(253,252,250)">TBA</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(46,116,181);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(46,116,181);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br clear="all" style="break-before:page"></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(46,116,181);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(46,116,181);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">References:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(47,46,46);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">1.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">Bisang, Walter and Malchukov, Andrej (eds.). 2020. Grammaticalization Scenarios from Europe and Asia, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, v. 1.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(59,61,63);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></p><p style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(59,61,63)">2.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;color:black">Bisang, Walter and Malchukov, Andrej (eds.). 2020. Grammaticalization Scenarios from Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, v. 2.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(59,61,63)"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(59,61,63)"></span></p><p style="margin:6pt 0cm 6pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">3.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">Bisang, Walter, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Björn Wiemer (eds.). 2004. What makes grammaticalization? A look from its components and its fringes. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.</span></p><p style="margin:6pt 0cm 6pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">4.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">Bybee, Joan, William Pagliuca & Revere D. Perkins. 1994. The evolution of grammar. Tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.</span></p><p style="margin:6pt 0cm 6pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">5.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">Givón, Talmy. 1979 [2018]. On understanding grammar [1979. Academic Press (revised edition). Benjamins.]</span></p><p style="margin:6pt 0cm 6pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">6.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">Haspelmath, Martin. 1998. Does grammaticalization need reanalysis? Studies in Language 22. 315–351.</span></p><p style="margin:6pt 0cm 6pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">7.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">Haspelmath, Martin. 1999. Why is grammaticalization irreversible? Linguistics, vol. 37, no. 6. pp. 1043-1068.</span></p><p style="margin:6pt 0cm 6pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">8.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-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