33.2112, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Phonology, Syntax/United Kingdom

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-2112. Thu Jun 23 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.2112, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Phonology, Syntax/United Kingdom

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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 06:26:01
From: Patrick Honeybone [patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk]
Subject: 3rd AMC Symposium - Change in syntax and phonology: the same or different?

 
Full Title: 3rd AMC Symposium - Change in syntax and phonology: the same or different? 

Date: 05-Dec-2022 - 07-Dec-2022
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Patrick Honeybone
Meeting Email: amc-sympo at mlist.is.ed.ac.uk
Web Site: https://www.amc.lel.ed.ac.uk/amc-symposium/third-amc-symposium-2022/ 

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

Call Deadline: 01-Aug-2022 

Meeting Description:

What is the locus of linguistic change? Is it the same in syntax and in
phonology? Does language acquisition have a crucial role in change? Or does
change happen in adults? Are speakers and hearers equally important in change?
Is reanalysis and restructuring always fundamental in implementing change? Is
change fed by exogenous or endogenous factors (or both)? Should we expect the
answers to these questions to be the same across the grammar, or are there
reasons to expect that phonology and syntax will behave differently? These
fundamental questions are often overlooked in historical linguistics as we
strive to understand particular changes or types of change from specific
languages or from only one linguistic level. This symposium intends to offer a
space for their discussion by bringing together (historically interested)
specialists from both syntax and phonology (and related fields) and by
inviting engagement with them. We do not expect to answer all of these
questions, but we hope to make progress in understanding them.

Invited speakers:

* Ailís Cournane (New York University)
* William Croft (University of New Mexico)
* Ans van Kemenade (Radboud University Nijmegen)
* Marc van Oostendorp (Radboud University Nijmegen)
* Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
* Meredith Tamminga (University of Pennsylvania)
* David Willis (University of Oxford)


Call for Papers:

The seven invited speakers at the symposium have all been invited to address
issues from the perspective of both phonology and syntax, in one-hour speaking
slots. We are now also inviting abstracts for regular (half-hour) talks from
anyone else who would like to participate in the symposium. We would welcome
abstracts that deal with any aspect of historical syntax or historical
phonology, but we especially encourage abstracts that engage in some way with
questions like the following:

* What are the mechanisms through which change occurs in syntax and/or in
phonology? To what extent can the mechanisms of change identified at one
linguistic level be generalised to account for change at the other?

* What age are the speaker-hearers who lead change? Should we expect the
answer to this question to be the same for phonology and syntax?

* What is the relative importance of reanalysis and gradual change during a
lifespan in linguistic change?

* To what extent is change fed by exogenous or endogenous factors? And how do
such factors feed into acquisition? Do exogenous and endogenous factors play
the same roles in phonological and syntactic change?

While the invited speakers have been asked to address the issues from the
perspective of both phonology and syntax, we would welcome abstracts for
regular talks which focus on either phonology and syntax.

Abstract Submission

Please submit abstracts* of up to 400 words (excluding references) via the
EasyAbs link below (deadline: 1 August 2022). Submissions will be subjected to
a double-blind peer-review process. Please make sure that submitted files
(.doc, .pdf, .txt, or .odt) are fully anonymised.

Notification of acceptance will be sent out by 22 August 2022.

*No more than one individual and one co-authored paper per participant.

The EasyAbs abstract submission page for the symposium is here: 

https://edin.ac/3HJMpr1




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