27.3965, Calls: General Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Psycholinguistics,Typology/Switzerland

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Subject: 27.3965, Calls: General Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Psycholinguistics,Typology/Switzerland

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Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 14:48:23
From: Evangelia Adamou [evangelia.adamou at cnrs.fr]
Subject: Confronting Codeswitching Theories with Corpus and Experimental Data

Full Title: Confronting Codeswitching Theories with Corpus and Experimental Data 

Date: 10-Sep-2017 - 13-Sep-2017
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Evangelia Adamou
Meeting Email: evangelia.adamou at cnrs.fr

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Psycholinguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 11-Nov-2016 

Meeting Description:

Various theoretical frameworks have made a number of generalizations and
predictions about the patterns found in intraclausal codeswitching across a
variety of bi/multilingual settings. Although many cross-linguistic patterns
have been observed and successfully predicted by these theories, increasing
amounts of corpus and experimental data are providing challenges to the
explanatory power of these theories. The aim of this workshop is to gather
specialists of bilingualism and language contact who will bring new corpus and
experimental data to competing theories of codeswitching. 

Different approaches have been taken to predict potential switch-sites in
intraclausal codeswitching. Some utilize existing formal syntactic theories
(DiSciullo & Muysken 1986; McSwan 1999), and others base predictions on
theory-specific morphological types, most notably the 4-M model of
codeswitching (Myers-Scotton 1993, 2002; Myers-Scotton & Jake 2016; Deuchar
2006). Many predictions made by these models, particularly the 4-M model, are
also reflected in the borrowing literature (e.g. Weinreich (1974 [1953];
Thomason & Kaufman 1988; Gardani 2008). Where aberrant cases of switches
occur, the typological congruence of the languages in contact is often claimed
to trump these universal constraints (Muysken 2000; Sebba 1998; Meakins 2014;
Meakins & O’Shannessy 2012). These approaches have stressed that switch points
are largely determined by absolute typological constraints, as well as by the
typological match of the languages in contact. Despite the relative success of
these approaches, counter-examples exist in the literature (Adamou & Granqvist
2015; Adamou 2016; Meakins 2011).

More recent formal approaches are attempting to link bilingual data to
linguistic theory (Muysken 2012; Benmamoun, Montrul & Polinsky 2013a, 2013b).
For example, the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace 2011) predicts that bilingualism
is more likely to affect linguistic structures made up of more than one
component, namely external interfaces involving syntax and pragmatics.
Nonetheless, it appears that the Interface Hypothesis alone cannot account for
a variety of datasets, and more criteria need to be (re-)introduced, such as
structural complexity and memory capacity (Laleko & Polinsky in press).

In contrast, probabilistic approaches to codeswitching predict that higher
levels of abstraction are shaped by language practices. Such studies have a
long tradition in the variationist framework (Poplack 1980; Poplack & Dion
2012; Torres Cacoullos & Travis 2015, 2016) and more recently in usage-based
approaches (Backus 2015). Finally, Matras (2009) offers an approach that
combines language processing requirements, communication goals, and
community-level practices.

Conveners:

Evangelia Adamou (CNRS, France)
Felicity Meakins (U-Queensland, Australia)

Call for Papers: 

This workshop is planned as part of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas
Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2017), to be held in Zurich, 10–13 September 2017.
We invite submissions of 300-word abstracts (excluding references) relevant to
the topic of the workshop proposal. Please send your abstract by e-mail to
Evangelia Adamou evangelia.adamou at cnrs.fr and Felicity Meakins
f.meakins at uq.edu.au.

In particular, we call for papers addressing any of the following questions:

- How can bilingual data inform linguistic theory?
- Code-switched clauses & bilinguals: one grammar or two?
- Are specific linguistic categories more vulnerable to interactional pressure
and processing constraints?
- What is the role of typological and structural constraints?
- How does frequency and exposure interact with abstract rules and processing?

Important Dates:

11 November 2016: Deadline for abstract submission to workshop conveners
18 November 2016: Notification of acceptance by the workshop conveners
25 November 2016: Submission of the workshop proposal to SLE 
25 December 2016: Notification of acceptance of workshop proposal from SLE 
15 January 2017: Deadline for submission of abstracts to SLE for review
31 March 2017: Notification of paper acceptance
10–13 September 2017: SLE conference http://www.societaslinguistica.eu

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