32.1592, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax / Linguistics Vanguard (Jrnl)

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Subject: 32.1592, Calls:  Historical Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax / Linguistics Vanguard (Jrnl)

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Date: Fri, 07 May 2021 13:40:05
From: Constanze Fleczoreck [constanze.fleczoreck at germanistik.uni-hannover.de]
Subject: Historical Linguistics, Semantics, Syntax / Linguistics Vanguard (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Linguistics Vanguard 


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

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2021 

Call for papers: 

virtual special issue in Linguistics Vanguard on ''Causal clauses and their
diachronic suitability for processes of language change''

Subordinate clauses usually emerge either from a main clause or from another
subordinate clause. A well-known case study concerns the emergence conditions
of complement clauses headed by a declarative complementizer. In West-Germanic
languages they are supposed to have emerged out of relative clauses
(Axel-Tober 2009, 2017), however, in many of the Kwa languages of West Africa,
verbs of saying occurring in the matrix clause grammaticalized into a
complementizer introducing complement clauses (Lord 1993). Less well known is
how adverbial clauses come into being and to what extent they can develop into
another subordinate clause. The main aim of this virtual special issue is
therefore to elaborate on these two questions with the focus on causal clauses
and their diachronic suitability for processes of language change. Main
questions addressed in the special issue include, but are not limited to, the
following issues:

- What is the semantic content of causal clauses giving rise to the input, or
the output, of a language change process?

- What is the logical relation between the meanings of causal clauses and
other subordinate (adverbial) clauses such that a language change may exist
between them?

- What are necessary and sufficient conditions for the origin, or a semantic
shift, of causal clauses?

The target of length of each article is 3000-4000 words, according to the
journal’s general policy. We are therefore looking for short, concise reports.
Accordingly, we expect a short turnaround from submission to publication.
Submissions are possible immediately, until September 30th, 2021 at the
latest. Each submission is subject to a double-blind peer-review process.

The special issue is guest-edited by Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of
Cologne) & Constanze Fleczoreck (Leibniz University Hannover).

If you are interested in contributing to this special issue, you are kindly
requested to send a brief description (approx. 150 words) of the topic to
Constanze Fleczoreck (constanze.fleczoreck at germanistik.uni-hannover.de) before
submitting the paper.

Linguistics Vanguard is an online, multimodal journal published by De Gruyter
Mouton. Because the journal is only published online, special collections
serve as “virtual special issues” and are linked by shared keywords. Details
about the journal can be found at www.degruyter.com/lingvan. Linguistics
Vanguard strives for a very quick turn around time from submission to
publication.

Inclusion of multimodal content designed to integrate interactive content
(including, but not limited to audio and video, images, maps, software code,
raw data, hyperlinks to external databases and any other media enhancing the
traditional written word) is particularly encouraged. Special collections
contributors should follow general submission guidelines for the journal:
https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/lingvan/lingvan-overview.xml#callForPa
persHeader

Authors will have free access to the entire special collection. There are no
publication costs. All authors may post a pdf on their personal website and/or
institutional repository a year after publication. In addition, the
introduction, which contains a summary of each article, will be fully freely
accessible.




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