33.1836, Calls: Historical Ling, Morphology, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/Germany

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Subject: 33.1836, Calls: Historical Ling, Morphology, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/Germany

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Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 19:59:19
From: Stefan Hartmann [hartmast at hhu.de]
Subject: Futures of the Past: The diachrony of Future Constructions across Languages

 
Full Title: Futures of the Past: The diachrony of Future Constructions across Languages 

Date: 06-Mar-2023 - 07-Mar-2023
Location: HHU Düsseldorf, Haus der Universität, Germany 
Contact Person: Stefan Hartmann
Meeting Email: hartmast at hhu.de

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 15-Jul-2022 

Meeting Description:

Languages differ in the ways in which they mark future time reference, and in
the extent to which speakers can choose between future tense forms and the
so-called futurate present when referring to future events (see e.g. Dahl &
Velupillai 2013). In addition, future constructions differ in their
grammaticalization paths: While some derive from modal verbs (e.g. English
will/shall), others recruit change-of-state verbs (e.g. German werden
‘become’) or forms of come and go (e.g. English BE going to; -ya ‘go’, Bambara
nà ‘come’, among many others, see Heine & Kuteva 2002) as future auxiliaries.
The goal of this workshop is to take a contrastive perspective on the
evolution of future constructions by bringing together scholars working on
different languages and language families. In particular, we want to address
the following questions:

- Which cross-linguistic tendencies can be observed in the grammaticalization
of future constructions? 
- To what extent can we compare the grammaticalization paths of future
constructions with different origins?
- How do different future constructions compete in different languages, and
can these patterns of competition be compared cross-linguistically?
- Which cognitive implications (see e.g. Fleischman 1982) do findings on the
diachronic development of future constructions entail?


Call for Papers:

Languages differ in the ways in which they mark future time reference, and in
the extent to which speakers can choose between future tense forms and the
so-called futurate present when referring to future events (see e.g. Dahl &
Velupillai 2013). In addition, future constructions differ in their
grammaticalization paths: While some derive from modal verbs (e.g. English
will/shall), others recruit change-of-state verbs (e.g. German werden
‘become’) or forms of come and go (e.g. English BE going to; -ya ‘go’, Bambara
nà ‘come’, among many others, see Heine & Kuteva 2002) as future auxiliaries.
The goal of this workshop is to take a contrastive perspective on the
evolution of future constructions by bringing together scholars working on
different languages and language families. In particular, we want to address
the following questions:

- Which cross-linguistic tendencies can be observed in the grammaticalization
of future constructions? 
- To what extent can we compare the grammaticalization paths of future
constructions with different origins?
- How do different future constructions compete in different languages, and
can these patterns of competition be compared cross-linguistically?
- Which cognitive implications (see e.g. Fleischman 1982) do findings on the
diachronic development of future constructions entail?

We invite papers on these and related questions from all linguistic
disciplines. All authors of accepted papers will be invited to contribute to a
peer-reviewed edited volume on the topic, which we plan to submit to the
newly-established book series “Advances in Historical Linguistics” at Language
Science Press. 

Please send your abstract to Lena Schnee (lena.schnee at hhu.de) and Stefan
Hartmann (hartmast at hhu.de) until Friday, July 15, 2022. Notifications of
acceptance/rejection will be sent in early August.




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