28.485, Calls: Germanic, Romance, Cog Sci, Historical Ling, Pragmatics, Syntax/France

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Subject: 28.485, Calls: Germanic, Romance, Cog Sci, Historical Ling, Pragmatics, Syntax/France

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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 13:51:26
From: Pierre Larrivee [Pierre.Larrivee at Unicaen.fr]
Subject: Information Structure and Language Change

Full Title: Information Structure and Language Change 
Short Title: Informchange 

Date: 03-Apr-2018 - 05-Apr-2018
Location: Caen, France 
Contact Person: Pierre Larrivee
Meeting Email: Pierre.Larrivee at Unicaen.fr
Web Site: http://www.crisco.unicaen.fr/Information-Structure-and-Language.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Syntax 

Language Family(ies): Germanic; Romance 

Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2017 

Meeting Description:

Research into language change has identified a number of determinant factors.
There is a growing body of evidence that change affecting major syntactic
phenomena like word order involves an informational dimension at some stage(s)
of the process. This has been claimed to apply to the prototypical syntactic
marking of speech-acts (in situ partial interrogatives, loss of inversion for
total interrogatives in French), V2 loss (e.g. work by A. van Kemenade & B.
Los for English), increasing contextual restriction of OV order (e.g. Taylor &
Pintzuk 2012 for English) and Stylistic Fronting (work by Fischer i.a.). While
local correlations between word-order change and information structure have
been observed, conditions of interface between the two orders of
representation remain to be established. The idea that configurations satisfy
informational requirements when they lose syntactic currency seems
conceptually appealing in explaining how such configurations become marked (on
a recent approach to marked and default word order, see e.g. Biberauer 2016).
Whether a characterised informational value is the cause or the consequence of
change in syntactic currency remains to be empirically assessed however,
requiring a robust diagnostic of informational value in historical resources
that reliably reflect effective change.

Keynote Speakers: Adam Ledgeway (Cambridge)

Confirmed interest: Patricia Amaral (Indiana), Andreas Dufter (Munich),
Maj-Britt Hansen (Manchester), Véronique Lagae (Valenciennes), Manuel Leonetti
(Alcalá), Ans van Kemenade (Radboud), Cecilia Poletto (Frankfurt/Pavia),
Sophie Prévost (ENS), Malte Rosemeyer (Leuven), Ioanna Sitaridou (Cambridge),
Rosanna Sornicola (Naples), Elisabeth Stark (Zurich), George Walkden
(Manchester), Sam Wolfe (Oxford)

Organiser: Pierre Larrivée (Pierre.Larrivee at Unicaen.fr)

Programme committee: Theresa Biberauer (Stellenbosch/Cambridge), Susann
Fischer (Hamburg), Chiara Gianollo (Bologna), Adam Ledgeway (Cambridge),
Bettelou Los (Edinburgh), Scott Schwenter (Ohio), Graeme Trousdale
(Edinburgh), Marit Westergaard (Tromsø)

Call for Papers: 

The purpose of this conference is to advance the current understanding of the
general role(s) of Information Structure for language change. The focus is on
word order evolution in Germanic and Romance. Proposals are invited, spelling
out the research problem and background, the notions and criteria, the method
and data, the key findings and their relevance for the meeting. Irrespective
of theoretical persuasion, abstracts are expected to spell out an explanatory
dimension with a strong empirical support. The two-page anonymous abstract is
to be submitted in the Sciencesconf.org page of the conference
(https://informchange.sciencesconf.org/); an indication should be provided of
whether a poster presentation could be considered. A notification of the
programme committee decision will be sent at the beginning of December 2017,
and the draft versions of papers will be expected before the conference, for
distribution among participants. A selection of papers is expected to be
published.

Calendar:

October 1 2017: Deadline for abstract submission 
December 1 2017: Notification from Programme Committee 
December 15 2017: Publication of programme 
March 15 2018: Deadline for reception of draft papers for circulation 
April 3-5 2018: Conference

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