33.2067, Calls: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Language Acquisition / Constructions (Jrnl)

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Subject: 33.2067, Calls:  General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Language Acquisition / Constructions (Jrnl)

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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 19:31:39
From: Lotte Sommerer [lotte.sommerer at anglistik.uni-freiburg.de]
Subject: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Language Acquisition / Constructions (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Constructions 


Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Linguistic Theories 

Call Deadline: 10-Jul-2022 

Call for Papers:

35 Years of Constructions
 
A language can associate semantic information with structures larger than
elementary lexical items and can associate semantic interpretation principles
with syntactic configurations larger and more complex than those definable by
means of single phrase structure rules.
(Fillmore, Kay & O’Connor 1988: 534)

The well-known conceptual metaphor ‘theories ARE buildings’ (Lakoff & Johnson,
1980) suggests that theories are developed, rather than born. As such, it is
impossible to pinpoint an exact point in time when a particular theory came to
life. Nevertheless, the publication of Lakoff’s There - study (1987) or
Fillmore, Kay & O’Connor’s Let alone - paper (1988) can be seen as two of the
key starting points of Construction Grammar, which has since grown into a
broad and diverse field of research (e.g. Hoffmann & Trousdale 2013; Boas
2021). The papers just mentioned already established a number of central ideas
that were later spelled out in more detail in Goldberg’s (1995) seminal
monograph, which arguably consolidated the field and helped establish it as a
major linguistic framework in its own right.

We want to use the 35th anniversary of Fillmore et al.’s paper as an
opportunity to discuss the current state-of-the-art in Construction Grammar by
engaging with constructional Classics (papers and monographs) that have shaped
the framework over the last decades (e.g. Michaelis and Lambrecht 1996; Israel
1996; Jackendoff 1997; Croft 2001; Tomasello 2003; Cappelle 2006; among many
others). We therefore invite authors to submit empirical studies as well as
non-empirical think-pieces which take a cue or concept from these early
influential papers and discuss to what extent the ideas hold up in more recent
approaches, especially in the light of new empirical evidence. The idea is
that the original arguments and ideas are briefly summarized after which the
authors present their own research (critically) reflecting on the concept(s)
highlighted and proposed in the key papers. It is also up to the contributors
to freely choose a ‘younger’ key paper for discussion and explain why they
consider their choice seminal. 

We invite expressions of interest via an abstract specifying the main topic,
the chosen key paper or monograph and the type of submission, i.e. short
think-piece (4000-6000 words) or empirical study (roughly 10.000 words).
Please send this information to constructions at hhu.de until July 10th, 2022.
Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent soon after.

After acceptance, the first draft should be submitted by January 31, 2023, via
the submission interface at constructions.journals.hhu.de. The accepted papers
will be published in a special issue of Constructions (tentative publication
date end of 2023) celebrating the success of CxG.

References
 
Boas, Hans C. 2021. Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics. In Xu Wen & John
R. Taylor (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, 43–77. New
York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351034708.
Capelle, Bert. 2006. Particle placement and the case for “allostructions”.
Constructions 1, 1-28. 
Croft, William. 2001. Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic Theory in
Typological Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
Israel, Michael. 1996. The way constructions grow. In Adele E. Goldberg (ed.),
Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language, 217-230. Stanford: Stanford
University Press.
Jackendoff, Ray. 1997. Twistin’ the night away. Language, 73, 532-559.
Lakoff, George & Mark Johnson. 1980. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: Chicago
University Press. 
Lakoff, George. 1987. Woman, Fire and Dangerous Things. What Categories Reveal
About the Mind. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Michaelis, Laura A & Knud Lambrecht. 1996.




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