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Date: 24-Aug-2011
From: Ferdinand von Mengden [f.vm at fu-berlin.de]
Subject: Refining Grammaticalization
 

	
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Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:41:55
From: Ferdinand von Mengden [f.vm at fu-berlin.de]
Subject: Refining Grammaticalization

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Full Title: Refining Grammaticalization 
Short Title: GRZ 2012 

Date: 24-Feb-2012 - 25-Feb-2012
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact Person: Ferdinand von Mengden
Meeting Email: grz2012 at zedat.fu-berlin.de
Web Site: http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/v/Refining_Grammaticalization/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2012 

Meeting Description:

So, what is it then, this Grammaticalization? - Approaches to Refining the
Notion
Workshop at Freie Universität Berlin, 24/25 February 2012

Organizers: 

Horst Simon (FU Berlin)
Ferdinand von Mengden (FU Berlin)

Invited Speakers:

Ulrich Detges (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich)
Brian D. Joseph (Ohio State University)

Already the two classical definitions of 'grammaticalization', by Meillet
(1912) ('[l']attribution du caractère grammatical à un mot jadis autonome')
and Kury?owicz (1965) ('Grammaticalization consists in the increase of the
range of a morpheme advancing from a lexical to a grammatical or from less
grammatical to a more grammatical status [...].'), vary considerably in
scope. Even more so today, the label grammaticalization is used for a great
array of phenomena; it seems in fact that the term has come to be used to
refer to virtually anything that concerns the change or replacement of
grammatical forms or constructions. While this broad scope of the notion
makes 'grammaticalization' a widely discussed phenomenon in linguistics,
the notion has necessarily become fuzzy: it has become difficult (perhaps
impossible?) to find a consensus in ascribing any defining property to
grammaticalization.

In this two-day workshop, we want to take stock of the various
conceptualizations and try to re-focus our notion of grammaticalization in
light of the empirical findings and the theoretical developments in recent
years. This is motivated by our belief that most controversies concerning
the properties and the status of grammaticalization have their origin in
the fact that the notion has become inconsistent or even ill-defined. A
further consequence is that a plethora of new -izations in the study of
(grammatical) change have emerged, but no harmonious terminology - not to
speak of a consistent model of the emergence and the change of grammatical
forms.

On the assumption that a loose use of the term grammaticalization does not
contribute any longer to our understanding of the mechanisms involved in
the emergence of grammatical forms and constructions, furthermore on the
assumption that what Meillet originally had in mind - the emergence of
grammatical forms - is a relevant cross-linguistic phenomenon, we would
like to raise the question of how to refine the notion 'grammaticalization'
in a way that is beneficial for our understanding of language change.
Questions for discussion at the workshop include, but are not restricted to:

- To what extent do additional concepts (X-izations) like
pragmaticalization, discoursization, (inter)subjectification etc., which
were born out of the context of grammaticalization studies but which are
themselves not defined unanimously, need to be included into (or excluded
from) a framework for the study of changes in grammatical forms. 
- What is their relation with grammaticalization - in Meillet's sense or in
a wider sense? 
- What  status have past and present attempts to model changes of
grammatical forms, such as the traditional parameters, clines and others?
- Are there characteristic features that can be observed in all instances
of grammaticalization processes - whether in a wider or in a more narrow
sense - and can therefore be considered definitory of grammaticalization? 

Call for Papers: 

We would like to invite linguists interested in language change to
contribute to a discussion which aims at refining the notion of
'grammaticalization' and, ultimately, at overcoming the current
terminological fuzziness. 

Please send an anonymous abstract of no more than 500 words, excluding
references, to:

grz2012 at zedat.fu-berlin.de 

There will be 40-minute slots, including discussion time. 

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 August 2011
Notification of acceptance: early October 2011 

For further information please contact: grz2012 at zedat.fu-berlin.de







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