31.3088, Calls: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax / Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus

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Subject: 31.3088, Calls:  General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax / Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 16:26:37
From: Kate Huddlestone [katevg at sun.ac.za]
Subject: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax / Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus

 
Full Title: Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus 


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

Call Deadline: 01-May-2021 

Call for Papers: 
The rise and fall of serial verb constructions

Special issue of Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics (SPIL) PLUS
https://spilplus.journals.ac.za/pub

Determining the origins of serial verbs is a strenuous task [... since for] no
language family in the world do we have enough historical evidence to
confidently trace the roots and the development of [these types of]
constructions – concludes Alexandra Aikhenvald in her 2018 book Serial Verbs. 

Despite this dearth of direct diachronic evidence, a number of generalizations
related to the ORIGIN of SVCs and the tendencies governing the gradual
development of their sources towards more canonical serializing structures
have been proposed, mostly through comparative methods and typological
research: (a) SVCs result from clause fusion, verbal modification, or
concurrent grammaticalization; (b) while the first two scenarios account for
the development of both symmetrical and asymmetrical SVCs, the third scenario
is limited to the emergence of asymmetrical SVCs; (c) asymmetrical SVCs that
express direction/orientation, aspect, extent, and change of state develop
faster than modal, valency-increasing, and argument-adding SVCs, with SVCs
used for comparative, valency-decreasing, and other purposes developing
lastly; (d) the emergence of two-segment SVCs precedes the development of more
elaborated structures; (e) symmetrical SVCs evolve only once asymmetrical SVCs
have been developed; (f) the emergence of SVCs compensates for the reductive
processes affecting inflectional morphology, thus being correlated with the
expansion of analytical strategies; (g) the development of SVCs is motivated
by language contact.

Evidence related to the development of SVCs after reaching the stage of a
canonical SVC, and thus their DEMISE, is slightly more abundant although the
generalizations proposed also rely heavily on comparative and typological
research rather than direct diachronic data: (a) the fate of post-canonical
asymmetrical SVCs is different from that of symmetrical SVCs: asymmetrical
SVCs undergo grammaticalization, while symmetrical ones undergo
lexicalization; (b) minor verbs in asymmetrical SVCs are decategorized: they
evolve into auxiliaries, adpositions, particles, conjunctions,
complementizers, and a range of bound morphemes, eventually losing their
verbal status entirely; (c) functionally, minor verbs in asymmetrical SVCs
tend to evolve into markers of tense, aspect, and modality, including
evidentiality, as well as expressions of directional, locative, comparative,
and superlative domains; (d) symmetrical SVCs develop into lexical units,
ultimately contributing to the expansion of the verbal lexicon of a language;
(e) all the above changes are gradual and give rise to fuzzy cases
characterized by categorial ambiguity.

Alexander Andrason & Alexandra Aikhenvald invite scholars working in the area
of SVCs to contribute to the volume that aspires to advance our knowledge of
the evolutionary dynamics of SVCs, in particular their rise and fall. We aim
to test the above generalizations put forward by Alexandra Aikhenvald (2018)
on a large and diverse language sample and provide a new body of evidence that
shows how SVCs are dynamically related to other categories, whether
pre-canonical (from which they derive) or post-canonical (into which they
evolve). We welcome diachronic, comparative, and typological studies (of max.
8.000 words) dedicated to the emergence and demise of SVCs conducted from
empirical and/or theoretical perspectives.
Important dates

Submission: 1 May 2021
Decision: 1 August 2021
Final manuscript: 1 October 2021
Publication: December 2021

Contact:
Guest editor - Alexander Andrason (andrason at sun.ac.za)




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