32.3780, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 32.3780, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2021 23:30:05
From: Katharina Paul [katharina.paul at uni-goettingen.de]
Subject: Adverbs and Adverbials at the Form-meaning Interface: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives

Full Title: Adverbs and Adverbials at the Form-meaning Interface: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives 
Short Title: AAFMI 2022 

Date: 18-May-2022 - 20-May-2022
Location: Göttingen, Germany 
Contact Person: Katharina Paul
Meeting Email: katharina.paul at uni-goettingen.de

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

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2022 

Meeting Description:

The conference deals with all questions around the classification,
distribution and historical development of adverbs, adverbials and - related
to them - similar word classes, such as modal particles. Theoretical
approaches are welcome, as are studies and papers with an empirical (corpus
and/or psycholinguistic) focus.

Call for Papers:

Adverbs and adverbials at the form-meaning interface: 
diachronic and synchronic perspectives (AAFMI 2022)

Date: 18-20 May 2022
Location: Göttingen

Invited speaker:

Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Katrin Axel-Tober (University of Tübingen)
Karin Pittner (Ruhr University Bochum)

Organizers:

Katharina Paul
Marco Coniglio
Markus Steinbach

Description:

Adverbs and adverbials are known to be of the most controversial topics in
linguistics. They are often referred to as a residual grammatical class
(Restlasse; Geuder 2019). Nevertheless – or just because of that –, in recent
years, adverbs and adverbials have become the focus of research in various
fields of linguistics and, moreover, several studies on the morpho-syntactic
and semantic features of adverbs, the adjective-adverb distinction and the
grammaticalization of adverbs have been carried out (cf. Alexiadou 1997;
Axel-Tober & Müller 2017; Cinque 1999; Frey & Pittner 1998; Pittner, Elsner &
Barteld 2015 among others). 
The aim of this conference is to bring together recent empirical and
theoretical investigations on the classification, distribution and historical
development of adverbs, adverbials, and related word classes, e. g. modal
particles. For this, the conference is attractive to descriptive, historical,
theoretical, typological as well as experimental linguists. Questions to be
addressed include – but are not limited to – the following: 

- How can we develop a uniform theory for adverbs and adverbials at the
form-meaning interface?
- What are the (synchronic as well as diachronic) core properties of adverbs
from a typological perspective?
- How were adverbial functions expressed grammatically in the history of
Germanic languages?
- How do different kinds of adverbs grammaticalize? And how do they develop
into discourse or modal particles? 
- What can experimental studies on the acquisition, grammaticalization and
processing of adverbs and adverbials tell us about their properties and/or
distribution?

The conference language is English. We are confident that the conference can
take place in person. If not, we will opt for an online or hybrid format. The
conference, organised by the German Department of the University of Göttingen
as part of the network Linguistics in Göttingen, is associated with the RTG
2636: Form-meaning mismatches.

References:

Alexiadou, A. 1997. Adverb placement. A case study in antisymmetric Syntax.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Axel-Tober, K. & K. Müller. 2017. Evidential adverbs in German. Diachronic
development and present-day meaning. Journal of Historical Linguistics 7(1-2),
9–47.
Cinque, G. 1999. Adverbs and Functional Heads: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective.
New York: Oxford University Press.
Frey, W. & Pittner, K. 1998. Zur Positionierung der Adverbiale im deutschen
Mittelfeld. Linguistische Berichte 176, 489–534.
Geuder, W. 2019. Eine Art Wortart: Das Adverb im Deutschen. Zeitschrift für
Sprachwissenschaft 38(2), 191–242.
Pittner, K., Elsner, D. & Barteld, F. (eds.). 2015. Adverbs: functional and
diachronic aspects. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Abstract Submission:

We invite submissions for a presentation (35 minutes + 10 minutes for
questions) or a poster. Abstracts must not be longer than 500 words in length,
plus references. Please submit your anonymous abstract via EasyChair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aafmi2022

Deadline for submission: 31 January 2022
Notification of acceptance: 28 February 2022

For further information, please contact: katharina.paul at uni-goettingen.de

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