29.1772, Calls: General Linguistics, Linguistic Theories/Belgium

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Subject: 29.1772, Calls: General Linguistics, Linguistic Theories/Belgium

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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:03:20
From: Renata Enghels [renata.enghels at ugent.be]
Subject: Constructional approaches to discourse-level phenomena

 
Full Title: Constructional approaches to discourse-level phenomena 

Date: 13-Dec-2018 - 14-Dec-2018
Location: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium 
Contact Person: Renata Enghels
Meeting Email: renata.enghels at ugent.be

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories 

Call Deadline: 15-May-2018 

Meeting Description:

Conveners:

Renata Enghels (Ghent University)
María Sol Sansiñena (University of Leuven)

The central theme of this theme session squares with the recent and growing
interest in applying constructional models and insights to the study of
discourse-level phenomena. Until the beginning of this century, the focus of
Construction Grammar (CxG) was mainly on argument structure constructions, but
more recently, lower levels (i.e. morphology and phonology) as well as higher
discourse levels have been more explicitly integrated into the model. This
development is completely in line with the all-inclusive principle of CxG,
which declines to distinguish between core, peripheral, or even ungrammatical
patterns (Brinton 2008). Also non-propositional material typically found in
spoken discourse, such as particles (Fried and Östman 2005), pragmatic markers
(Traugott in press), parentheticals (Hilpert 2013), and comment clauses
(Kaltenböck 2013; Van Bogaert 2009, 2010), has been argued to be part of
grammar and of a speaker's constructional knowledge. The central idea is that
different expressions with analogous and overlapping functions and formal
characteristics are instances of an overarching construction. Thus one of the
main advantages of the CxG approach is that it reveals generalizations across
particular items. 

However, a number of methodological, theoretical (and terminological)
questions remain unanswered. This theme session aims at contributing to a
better understanding of how constructional models can be applied to
discourse-level phenomena, and wants to address, among others, the following
issues:

- It has been argued that at least part of a speaker's understanding of
context is conventional. Against this background, how can we corroborate which
contextual specifications are built into linguistic forms? In this line: what
aspects of prosody, such as intonational contour, should we include as form
features of constructions? 
- It has been put forward that dialogic exchanges can be understood as
multi-sentential constructions with conventional makeup? How can we explain
their syntax? How can we account for variation at this level?
- Whereas the idea of a constructional approach to discourse-level phenomena
is in itself perhaps not so novel, to date not much work has been done on the
diachronic evolutions of discourse-level phenomena within the constructional
change framework. How can the diagnostics of constructional change, such as
increasing productivity or decreasing compositionality be empirically
operationalized for the analysis of discourse-level phenomena? How can we
explain the productivity of such a phenomenon? What is its type frequency? How
can its degree of compositionality and formal reduction be accounted for?


Call for Papers:

We invite the submission of abstracts for full papers. Abstracts for an oral
presentation (20' + discussion time) must not exceed 500 words, including
references, and should mention the main research question(s), methodology,
data and (expected) results. Abstracts will have to be submitted individually
and will be reviewed anonymously. 

Please submit via Easychair through
https://cogling2018.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/ and add the theme session
title to the paper title. You will be required to paste your abstract in the
text box and to upload a pdf of your abstract. Abstracts should also be
submitted in pdf-format by email to mariasol.sansinena at kuleuven.be . 

The conference languages are English, Dutch and French.

Submission deadline abstracts: 15 May 2018
Notification of acceptance: 2 July 2018




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