28.4164, Calls: Historical Ling, Semantics, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling/Estonia

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Subject: 28.4164, Calls: Historical Ling, Semantics, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling/Estonia

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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:47:17
From: Olga Spevak [spevak at univ-tlse2.fr]
Subject: Variation and Grammaticalization of Verbal Construction

 
Full Title: Variation and Grammaticalization of Verbal Construction 
Short Title: VGVC 

Date: 29-Aug-2018 - 30-Aug-2018
Location: Tallinn, Estonia 
Contact Person: Volodymyr Dekalo
Meeting Email: volodymyr.dekalo at germanistik.uni-hannover.de

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Semantics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 05-Nov-2017 

Meeting Description:

The workshop sets out to explore how the constructionist approach can be
utilized for an integrative investigation and description of phenomena such as
lexicalization, idiomaticization and grammaticalization of verbal
constructions both diachronically and synchronically. In the past decades,
these topics have been investigated from several angles and with a number of
partially diverging intentions. Among the theoretical approaches, Construction
Grammar in particular has met with growing interest and meanwhile has proven
to be a suitable tool for tackling synchronic variation as well as diachronic
change. The following list assembles a selection of studies in major strands
of linguistic investigation relevant for this workshop. 

Grammaticalization Theory has accumulated enormous insight into the rise of
grammatical categories and formatives and their restructuring in general
(Diewald 1997, 1999, 2002, 2006, Hopper 1991, Hopper & Traugott 2003, Lehmann
2015), and into the development of verbal constructions, e.g. modal and other
auxiliaries, in particular (Bybee/Perkins/Pagliuca 1994, Diewald 1999, Kuteva
2001). Studies on mechanisms of change have elucidated the role of contexts,
e.g. Himmelmann's 2004 concept of context expansion on three different levels
(host-class, syntactic and semantic-pragmatic expansion). These efforts have
resulted in the identification of a great number of grammaticalization
(auxiliarization) path of verbal constructions.

Construction Grammar, represented by Cognitive Construction Grammar (Goldberg
2006), Radical Construction Grammar (Croft 2001) and Cognitive Grammar
(Langacker 2008), has been extremely inspiring in providing tools for
modelling gradience in variation and change. Verbal constructions have been
investigated within the paradigm of construction grammar from a number of
angles including idiomaticization processes as well as argument structure
constructions (Boas 2003, Engelberg 2009, Faulhaber 2011, Goldberg 1995,
Rostila 2007).

Usage-Based Approaches (Barlow & Kemmer 2000; Bybee & Hopper 2001; Bybee 2013;
Diessel 2015; Langacker 1988; Tomasello 2003) have pointed out that usage is
the place to look for variation and change.

Empirical/Corpus-based Approaches have introduced quantitative methods for
analyzing constructional functionality and variety synchronically
(Stefanowitsch & Gries 2003, Gries 2006, Glynn 2012) and diachronically
(Hilpert 2006). These techniques have given rise to detailed studies of verbal
constructions, lexicalization and idiomaticization, e.g. Gries 2006 with a
corpus-based investigation of the verb to run.

Possible topics and research questions to be addressed include 

- Detailed case studies of (sets of) verbal constructions under the
perspective of the workshop
- Determination of the factors (structural, functional, pragmatic ...) of
variation in the diverging directions of grammaticalization, lexicalization 
and idiomaticization respectively
- Identification of successive stages of change by their distinctive types of
contextual / constructional conditions, e.g. different types of context
expansion
- Elaboration of relevant constructional formats, including levels of
schematicity for particular types of variation and grammaticalization
- Investigating the types of connections between (productive) lexical,
idiomatic and grammatical meanings
- Establishing grammaticalization paths of verbal constructions as holistic
entities.


Call for Papers:

We invite submissions of provisional abstracts of max. 300 words (excluding
references) describing original, unpublished research related to the topics of
the workshop to the following address:

volodymyr.dekalo at germanistik.uni-hannover.de

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is November 5, 2017.

We welcome contributions inspired by this integrative perspective on variation
and grammaticalization of verbal constructions in Germanic languages. 

We will review the abstracts and select them for inclusion in our workshop
proposal, which will have to be submitted to the SLE by November 15.  We will
inform you on the inclusion of your abstract to our workshop submission.

The decision of acceptance by SLE will be made by December 15. In case our
workshop is accepted, you will have to provide a full abstract of your paper
and submit it in the regular submission procedure by January 15, 2018.




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