27.818, Calls: Cog Sci, Historical Ling, Lang Acq, Psycholing, Socioling/Germany

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Subject: 27.818, Calls: Cog Sci, Historical Ling, Lang Acq, Psycholing, Socioling/Germany

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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 17:12:37
From: Aleksander Wiatr [aleksander.wiatr at lmu.de]
Subject: 23rd LIPP Symposium - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Grammaticalisation

Full Title: 23rd LIPP Symposium - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Grammaticalisation 

Date: 06-Jul-2016 - 08-Jul-2016
Location: Munich, Germany 
Contact Person: Aleksander Wiatr
Meeting Email: symposium2016 at lipp.uni-muenchen.de
Web Site: http://www.gk.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Genetic Classification; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 10-Apr-2016 

Meeting Description:

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Grammaticalisation

Researchers have long presumed that grammatical signs diachronically arise
from lexemes. Although a common understanding of the constitutive mechanisms
of grammaticalisation and their interactions has been achieved and recurring
patterns in the form of grammaticalisation paths have been recognized, many
questions regarding the factors that control and cause the process of
grammaticalisation remain unanswered. A stronger interdisciplinary network
would provide a promising approach to answering these questions.

Exemplary research questions for such an approach might include:

- In language acquisition, a transition from unanalysed units to grammatical
constructions can be observed; in grammaticalisation, one refers to the
diachronic transition from lexemes to grammatical signs. Are these processes
based on comparable mechanisms?
- Whether and how grammaticalisation takes place is closely linked to the
linguistic areas. Can the relevant factors be traced with methods of
linguistic geography?
- Speech communities are usually linguistically heterogeneous due to their
social structure. Which socio-linguistic factors are relevant to
grammaticalisation in individual languages or in general? What contribution
can such a perspective make to the field of variety linguistics?

The inclusion of cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics,
language typology, linguistic geography, neurolinguistics, and additional
disciplines would crucially enrich the theories of grammaticalisation through
an expansion of its research perspectives. The 23rd LIPP-Symposium therefore
calls for contributions from all linguistic disciplines so that the potential
of an interdisciplinary network to address grammaticalisation theory may be
gauged.

Call for Papers:

- Submission deadline: April 10, 2016
- Presentation: 20 minute talk + 15 minute discussion
- Abstract length: (300-500 word without bibliography)
- File format: PDF
- Language of the presentation: English or German
- Submission via the online-application or via email to
symposium2016 at lipp.uni-muenchen.de
- Feedback will be given by May 8, 2016
- Event timeframe: July 6 to 8, 2016
- Seidlvilla, Nikolaiplatz 1b, 80802 Munich
- Keynote speaker (confirmed)
- Patronage & Organising Committee

Presenters will be invited to submit a manuscript version of their talk for
online publication in JournaLIPP.

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