29.3742, Calls: Historical Linguistics/Australia
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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 02:39:00
From: Manuel Delicado Cantero [manuel.delicado at anu.edu.au]
Subject: Multiple Causation in Language Change: Mechanisms under the Magnifying Glass
Full Title: Multiple Causation in Language Change: Mechanisms under the Magnifying Glass
Date: 01-Jul-2019 - 05-Jul-2019
Location: Canberra, Australia
Contact Person: Manuel Delicado Cantero
Meeting Email: manuel.delicado at anu.edu.au
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Call Deadline: 12-Oct-2018
Meeting Description:
(Workshop at the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics)
Multiple Causation in Language Change: Mechanisms under the Magnifying Glass
Manuel Delicado Cantero (Australian National University) & Patrícia Amaral
(Indiana University)
This workshop aims to explore the interaction of different causes in the
development of specific changes in a variety of languages. Causes here is
intended to encompass the effects of different factors in change, not only the
well-known differentiation between social vs language-internal factors (the
traditional debate on external and internal factors, cf. Malkiel 1983;
Thomason 2008, among others). In particular, we intend to invite discussion on
the interaction of otherwise well-studied mechanisms of change such as
reanalysis, analogy, and borrowing/contact (Harris and Campbell 1995; Wanner
2006; De Smet 2009, 2014; Fischer 2013), multiple source changes (Fischer
2013; De Smet et al. 2015) and multiple effects of different linguistic levels
(semantics, syntax, phonology, etc.; Lightfoot 2002; Brinton and Traugott
2017) in the outcome of any one change.
This workshop builds on several publications which have explicitly debated the
role of multiple causation in change. Interest in external vs internal causes
for change have long been present in the historical literature, but the
interaction between social factors and intra-linguistic motivations continues
to be an open question, including modern instantiations of the old debate as
in the interaction between E-language and I-language within historical
generative/Chomskyan literature (Matthews 2003). Lightfoot (2002) is devoted
to the role of morphological change as a motivation for syntactic change from
a generative/Chomskyan perspective. Several mechanisms may interact or, in
fact, may be considered to be epiphenomena (cf. Campbell’s 2001 and Joseph’s
2001 discussion of grammaticalisation, and De Smet’s 2009 criticism of
reanalysis). More recently, De Smet et al. (2015) have remarked the adequacy
of paying attention to multiple source constructions in change, especially in
cases where one new construction may be traced back to (at least) two others.
In this book, Joseph (2015: 207) remarks that “from a methodological
standpoint, identifying multiple sources is often good historical linguistic
practice”.
Building on this previous scholarship, our workshop aims to bring together
scholars interested in the interaction between multiple levels, multiple
mechanism, in short, multiple causation in language change in any one change.
We welcome research on any natural language and from any theoretical
framework.
A thorough examination of the nature of multiple causation, as understood in
this workshop, is a most pertinent topic for a conference such as ICHL and,
furthermore, aims to contribute to the ultimate question in historical
linguistics and language change: how did change X come about? We also aim to
encourage a cross-framework dialogue.
Call for Papers:
This workshop invites presentations providing current approaches either to
previously explored data or to new data in any natural language, from any
relevant theoretical framework –including integrative approaches and
interdisciplinary research. We encourage presentations devoted to (but not
exclusively) any of the following general research topics:
1. Internal and external factors in language change; e.g., interaction between
social and language-internal factors, E-language and I-language.
2. The interaction between well-known mechanisms such as reanalysis, analogy
and contact/borrowing; fine-grained studies of mechanisms of change with
particular attention to the effects of other mechanisms; discussion on
so-called epiphenomenal mechanisms.
3. Multiple levels in change, i.e., semantic change influencing syntactic
reanalysis and analogy.
References
Brinton, L. J. and E. C. Traugott. 2017. “Non-syntactic Sources and Triggers
of Syntactic Change”. In A. Ledgeway and I. Roberts (eds.). The Cambridge
Handbook of Historical Syntax, pp. 556-577. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Campbell, L. 2001. “What's wrong with grammaticalization?” Language Sciences
23: 113-161.
De Smet, H. 2009. “Analysing reanalysis”. Lingua 119: 1728-1755.
De Smet, H. 2014. “Does innovation need reanalysis?” In E. Coussé and F. von
Mengden (eds.), Usage-based Approaches to Language Change, pp. 23-48.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
De Smet, H. et al. (eds.) 2015. On Multiple Source Constructions in Language
Change. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Fischer, O. 2013. “An inquiry into unidirectionality as a foundational element
of grammaticalization. On the role played by analogy and the synchronic
grammar system in processed of language change”. Studies in Language 37.3:
515-533.
Harris, A. C. and Campbell, L. 1995. Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic
Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Joseph, B. 2001. “Is there such a thing as ‘grammaticalization’?'” Language
Sciences 23: 163-186.
Joseph, B. 2015. “Multiple sources and multiple causes multiply explored”. In
H. De Smet et al. (eds.), On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change,
pp. 205-221. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Lightfoot, D. W. 2002. Syntactic Effects of Morphological Change. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Malkiel, Y. 1983. “Multiple versus simple causation in linguistic change”. In
Y. Malkiel, From Particular to General Linguistics. Selected Essays 1965-1978,
pp. 251-268. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Matthews, P. 2003. “On change in ‘E-language’”. In R. Hickey (ed.), Motives
for Language Change, pp. 7-17. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Thomason, S. G. 2008. “Social and linguistic factors as predictors of
contact-induced change”, Journal of Language Contact 2.1: 42-56.
Wanner, D. 2006. The Power of Analogy. An Essay on Historical Linguistics.
Berlin: De Gruyter.
Abstract Submission:
Abstracts should be no more than one page with 12pt font, and can include a
second page for references. Scholars may submit a maximum of two papers,
whether sole authored or co-authored. Authors submitting an abstract should
indicate that they would like to be considered for presentation at this
workshop. Acceptance of abstracts will be announced by mid-November 2018.
Abstracts should be submitted via the conference web page:
http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/ichl24/call-for-papers/ .
For more information: http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/ichl24/workshops/
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