28.2710, Confs: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Morphology, Syntax

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-2710. Fri Jun 16 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.2710, Confs: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Morphology, Syntax

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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 13:47:24
From: Svenja Kranich [skranich at uni-bonn.de]
Subject: Lost in change (DGfS 2018 Workshop)

 
Lost in change (DGfS 2018 Workshop) 

Date: 07-Mar-2018 - 09-Mar-2018 
Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany 
Contact: Svenja Kranich 
Contact Email: skranich at uni-bonn.de 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

Lost in change: Causes and processes in the loss of grammatical constructions
and categories

Studies in language change have taken great steps in uncovering how new
grammatical constructions and categories come into being and explaining why
they emerge. Comparatively little is known about the ‘negative end’ of change.
While some general concepts have been put forward (e.g. Givón’s (1979) cline
from discourse > syntax > morphology > morphophonemics > zero) and individual
cases been discussed (e.g. loss of V2 in English), neither the possible
motivations nor the typical steps constructions and categories undergo ‘on
their way out’ have been systematically investigated on a broad
cross-linguistic basis. The aim of this workshop is to close this gap. 

More detailed information is provided in the Call for Papers.
 






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