27.3357, Calls: Historical Linguistics/USA

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Subject: 27.3357, Calls: Historical Linguistics/USA

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Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 14:57:24
From: Marianne Mithun [mithun at linguistics.ucsb.edu]
Subject: Atomizing Linguistic Change and the Nuclear Step

 
Full Title: Atomizing Linguistic Change and the Nuclear Step 
Short Title: AtLingCh 

Date: 04-Aug-2017 - 04-Aug-2017
Location: San Antonio, Texas, USA 
Contact Person: Dieter Stein
Meeting Email: stein at phil.hhu.de

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2016 

Meeting Description:

Traditional approaches to language change have often taken as a point of
departure a ‘systems-based’ view of language: properties and tendencies are
ascribed to abstracted structural entities that are not reducible to the
properties and tendencies of individuals, manifested in individual acts of
physical realization. It is as if the abstracted entity had a life of its own:
if the “system” wants to become more analytic, how is this “tendency”
(teleological or not) also represented in the individual act?

The workshop hopes to feature talks that address the following basic issues:

1. What  makes  speakers deviate in the  individual  speech act  and  produce 
speaker innovations?
2. What makes other speakers reproduce the innovations, so that change
ultimately results? (Does this take us in a second big direction?)
3. How can individual emergence phenomena be explained at the level of 
speaker innovations and from there onwards?


Call for Papers:

Abstracts should be a maximum of two pages in length, including references,
and should be submitted via the conference Easy Chair link
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ichl23).  (If you have problems using
Easy Chair, please contact the ICHL organizers at ichl23 at utsa.edu.) Authors
may present a maximum of two papers at ICHL23, whether single-authored or
co-authored. Please note that abstracts submitted for this workshop but not
accepted there will be automatically considered for inclusion in the general
session.




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