21.4295, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Syntax/Spain

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Subject: 21.4295, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Syntax/Spain

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Date: 26-Oct-2010
From: Jenneke van der Wal [jenneke.van.der.wal at africamuseum.be]
Subject: Come and Go Off the Beaten Grammaticalisation Path
 

	
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:55:23
From: Jenneke van der Wal [jenneke.van.der.wal at africamuseum.be]
Subject: Come and Go Off the Beaten Grammaticalisation Path

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Full Title: Come and Go Off the Beaten Grammaticalisation Path 

Date: 08-Sep-2011 - 11-Sep-2011
Location: Logroño (La Rioja), Spain 
Contact Person: Jenneke van der Wal
Meeting Email: jenneke.van.der.wal at africamuseum.be

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 12-Nov-2010 

Meeting Description:

Workshop organisers:
Maud Devos
Jenneke van der Wal

It is often presented as a well-known fact that the deictic motion verbs 
'come' and 'go' develop into tense-aspect markers, expressing e.g. anterior, 
andative or future. However, the lexical semantics and pragmatics of verbs 
like 'come' and 'go' are not identical cross-linguistically, as remarked by 
Wilkins and Hill (1995). Moreover, recent studies show that the grammatical 
functions to which they develop are much more diverse than just tense-
aspect markers. The Bantu language Shangaci exemplifies both the lexical 
diversity of 'go' and its development to a function other than tense-aspect. 
In Shangaci, there are two verbs that can be translated as 'to go'. For one 
verb the motion is inherently salient, whereas the other focuses on the goal. 
Only the latter has grammaticalised to become an inflectional prefix that 
expresses verb focus (Devos and Van der Wal 2010). This shows that the 
lexical semantics of 'come' and 'go' cannot be taken for granted and that the 
grammaticalisation paths can be fairly unusual.

We intend to organise a workshop focussing on the lesser known targets 
of 'come' and 'go' verbs, taking into account the lexical semantics that form 
the input to grammaticalisation. The questions we would like to discuss 
include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Which different uses do 'come' and 'go' verbs have? What is the range 
of targets in grammaticalisation that have 'come' and 'go' verbs as their 
source? Apart from tense-aspect markers (see e.g. Bybee et al. 1994, 
Bybee and Dahl 1989, Heine and Kuteva 2002), 'come' and 'go' verbs can 
also develop functions as discourse connectors (Ebert 2003), textual 
connectivity (Bourdin 2008), and subjectivity and social deixis (Nicolle 
2002).

2. How do the discourse-related uses of grammaticalised 'come' and 'go' 
verbs fit into the cline propositional > textual > expressive, which is usually 
associated with discourse markers (Traugott 1995, Brinton 1996)?

3. In how far is the grammaticalisation path, and hence the target, 
determined and/or constrained by the original meaning of 'come' or 'go'? 
That is, can we account for the various developments by reference to their 
persistent original lexical semantics (Hopper 1991)?

4. In which respects do various expressions for 'come' and for 'go'  differ, 
within a language as well as cross-linguistically? Factors associated  with 
motion verbs include SOURCE, GOAL, PATH, and MANNER (Talmy  1975), 
but further research can show whether these are the only relevant  
properties and also whether there are properties related to all 'come' and 
'go'  verbs. Botne (2005) shows for Ndali that the relative saliency of these 
components should also be taken into account, and Wilkins and Hill (1995) 
demonstrate that 'come' and 'go' verbs are not universally deictic.

The aim of the workshop is thus to bring together linguists working on 
typologically different languages to broaden our view on the semantics as  
well as the formal and functional developments of these motion verbs;  
aspects that are too often assumed to be known or standard. 

Call For Papers

We invite potential participants to send a provisional title and a short 
abstract (100-200 words) before 12 November 2010. Please send the e-
mail expressing your interest in the workshop to Jenneke van der Wal 
(jenneke.van.der.wal at africamuseum.be) and Maud Devos 
(maud.devos at africamuseum.be).

We need to submit the workshop proposal by the 15th of November to the 
SLE Scientific Committee for evaluation. If the workshop proposal is 
accepted, full abstracts will have to be submitted by 15 January 2011.





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