32.2017, Calls: Hist Ling, Morphology, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 32.2017, Calls: Hist Ling, Morphology, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 13:44:38
From: Tanja Ackermann [tanja.ackermann at fu-berlin.de]
Subject: The diachrony of word class peripheries (DGfS 2022)

 
Full Title: The diachrony of word class peripheries (DGfS 2022) 

Date: 23-Feb-2022 - 25-Feb-2022
Location: Tübingen, Germany 
Contact Person: Tanja Ackermann
Meeting Email: histling at zedat.fu-berlin.de

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2021 

Meeting Description:

Workshop at the 44th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS)

Workshop organisers: Tanja Ackermann, Linnéa C. Weitkamp & Christian Zimmer
(Freie Universität Berlin)     
Invited speakers: Antje Dammel (WWU Münster), Hendrik De Smet (KU Leuven)

Word classes of a language are usually not homogeneous groups of lexemes that
share the same morphological and syntactic properties completely. Rather,
lexemes are usually grouped together that have some basic commonalities but
may differ in detail, e.g., regarding their inflectional behaviour. In many
cases, one can identify within a word class a large number of lexemes that
conform to a certain morphological or syntactic pattern (often referred to as
''core members'') whilst there is only a comparatively small number of
deviants (''peripheral members''). Examples abound: borrowings (in several
word classes) may differ grammatically from native words, some complex verbs
evade certain syntactic slots (such as verb-second position in German), mass
and proper nouns differ grammatically from (other) nouns, the existence of
small inflection classes, etc. Some such phenomena have already been studied
in depth from a synchronic perspective (see, e.g., Döring & Geilfuß-Wolfgang
2017). Moreover, there is an ongoing debate on whether to assume more or less
separate systems (core grammar vs. periphery) or one comprehensive system per
language (see, e.g., Simon & Wiese 2011, Boas & Ziem 2018). 

In this workshop, we focus on the diachrony of such phenomena assuming that
the study of change and stability can be particularly helpful in furthering
our understanding of the diversity within word classes concerning, for
example, the motivation for divergent grammatical properties. 


Call for Papers: 

Our aim is to bring together researchers with different theoretical
backgrounds to study morphological and/or syntactic properties of peripheral
word class members (in a single language or contrastively) from a diachronic
perspective. Studies on recent/ongoing change and apparent-time phenomena are
welcome, as are studies with a long-term perspective.

Questions to be addressed include (but are not limited to) the following: 
 - Which factors support the stability of a deviant pattern? 
 - What counts as peripheral from a diachronic perspective, and do we need
this concept at all? 
 - Can specific paths in the convergence towards the core be identified (e.g.:
which paradigmatic slots lead the change?)? 
 - How do morphology and syntax interact and which role do semantics and
phonology play?
 - Etc. 

We invite abstracts for 20-minute talks (+ 10 minutes discussion). Abstracts
should be anonymous and approximately 400 words in length, plus references.
Please send your abstracts to histling at zedat.fu-berlin.de, and include your
name, affiliation, and the title of the abstract in the body of the e-mail.

Deadline for submission of abstracts:  01 September 2021
Notification of acceptance:   30 September 2021

For further information please contact: histling at zedat.fu-berlin.de

References: 
Boas, Hans C. & Alexander Ziem. 2018. Approaching German syntax from a
constructionist perspective. In Hans C. Boas & Alexander Ziem (eds.),
Constructional Approaches to Argument Structure in German, 1−44. Berlin &
Boston: Mouton de Gruyter. 
Döring, Sandra & Jochen Geilfuß-Wolfgang (eds.). 2017. Probleme der
syntaktischen Kategorisierung. Tübingen: Stauffenburg. 
Simon, Horst J. & Heike Wiese (eds.). 2011. Expecting the Unexpected:
Exceptions in Grammar. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.




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