33.1860, Confs: English; Historical Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/France

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Subject: 33.1860, Confs: English; Historical Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/France

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Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 20:17:51
From: Carmelo Alessandro Basile [alessandro_basile at outlook.fr]
Subject: Variation, Contact and Modal Constructions in English

 
Variation, Contact and Modal Constructions in English 

Date: 08-Jul-2022 - 08-Jul-2022 
Location: Paris, France 
Contact: Agnès Celle 
Contact Email: agnes.celle at u-paris.fr 
Meeting URL: https://vcmce2022.wordpress.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description: 

This workshop is aimed to contribute to studies of modality in English by
taking into account the notion of variation in modal constructions, which has
received relatively little attention in past research. As a crucial condition
for the process of linguistic change, variation is an important characteristic
to model in diachronic approaches to modal constructions, which is a recent
development in the framework of Construction Grammar (Hilpert, Cappelle &
Depraetere 2021). From a synchronic perspective, further work is needed in the
study of social variation in the use of modal constructions, which has always
been of interest for sociolinguists and dialectologists (e.g. Trousdale 2000;
Smith et al. 2019), but would also be desirable for Construction Grammarians,
by warranting a more precise demarcation of semantic, pragmatic, and social
meaning, their respective roles in the structure of a construction, and the
consequences of social meaning for usage-based models of constructions and
networks of constructions (Ostman & Trousdale 2013).

This workshop also deals with the perspective that CxG can bring to
contact-language situations involving English, when the lexicon is derived
from one language and the syntax from another. Indeed, CxG has rarely been
applied to contact data in the literature – exceptions being Pietsch 2010,
Hölder 2014 and Ziegeler 2015. One important research question is how the
form-meaning relationship works in contact-situations where mixed construction
inventories are involved. Different theories have been proposed in the past
decades to account for such situations: from the concepts of ‘convergence’, or
pattern replication (Matras and Sakel 2007), to contact-grammaticalization
(Heine & Kuteva 2003, 2005 and Ziegeler 2014, 2017), but further research
applying CxG to modality in contact-language situations is needed on the
topic.
 

Program:

Dear colleagues, 

We are pleased to announce that the programme for the workshop « Variation,
Contact, and Modal Constructions in English », which will take place at Paris
Cité University (Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, room 830), on July 8th 2022, is
now available on the conference website (https://vcmce2022.wordpress.com/).

We do hope that you will be attending the Workshop and we look forward to
seeing you in Paris!

Best wishes,

Alessandro Basile, Agnès Celle et Cameron Morin

PROGRAMME:

09.45 – 10.00: Welcome coffee & opening remarks

10.00 – 11.00 : Invited speaker, Graeme Trousdale (University of Edinburgh):
On the structure of the language network: evidence from variation and change
in some English mirative constructions
11.00 – 11.45: Nadine Dietrich (University of Edinburgh):Explaining
specialisation and cross-meaning competition: the case of ‘command’ and
‘epistemic’ WILL and MUST

11h45– 12h30: Mingya Liu & Stephanie Rotter (Humboldt University of Berlin):
An experimental study of multiple modals and register effects in American and
British English

12h30 – 14h00 : Lunch break

14h00 – 14h45: Debra Ziegeler (University of Montpellier & Sorbonne-Nouvelle),
Alessandro Basile (University of Paris Cité) & Christophe Lenoble (University
of Sorbonne-Nouvelle):Retentionism and contact English varieties: the case of
BE HAVING TO

14h45 – 15h30: Leela Azorin (University of Aix-Marseille &
Paris-Cité):Breaking free from the BE going to/gonna dichotomy: a preliminary
study of variation in an emerging English modal

15h30 – 15h45: Coffee break

15h45 – 16h30: Ulrike Schneider (University of Mainz): What can can’t do that
can can’t?: A diachronic analysis of the constructionhood of negated modals

16h30 – concluding remarks





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