33.3374, Calls: Historical Linguistics/France

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-3374. Tue Nov 01 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.3374, Calls: Historical Linguistics/France

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Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 07:42:30
From: Pierre Larrivée [pierre.larrivee at unicaen.fr]
Subject: Tracing the Curve of Evolution: Syntactic change through Text Types

Full Title: Tracing the Curve of Evolution: Syntactic change through Text Types 

Date: 28-Mar-2024 - 30-Mar-2024
Location: Caen, France 
Contact Person: Pierre Larrivée
Meeting Email: pierre.larrivee at unicaen.fr

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2023 

Meeting Description:

This conference seeks to establish how investigations calibrated by text types
support the understanding of syntactic change and their causes

Call for Papers:

Conference ''Tracing the Curve of evolution: Syntactic change through text
types''
Université de Caen Normandie, March 28-30 2024

With the support of the CRISCO research center, the Agence nationale de la
recherche and the Institut universitaire de France

Why
To establish how investigations calibrated by text types support the
understanding of syntactic change and their causes

Who
Keynote speakers: 
Wendy Ayres-Bennett (Cambridge) 
Johannes Kabatek (Zurich)

Interest in principle:
Kristin Bech (Oslo)
Anne Breitbarth (Ghent)
Andreas Dufter (München)
Charlotte Galves (Unicamp)
Adam Ledgeway (Cambridge) 
France Martineau (Ottawa)
Terttu Nevalainen (Helsinki)
Álvaro S. Octavio de Toledo (Madrid)
Lene Schøsler (København) 
Barbara Vance (Indiana)

Scientific committee: Brian Donaldson (Santa Cruz), Chiara De Bastiani
(Venezia), Chiara Gianollo (Bologna), Mathieu Goux (Caen), Álvaro S. Octavio
de Toledo (Madrid), Gabriella Parussa (Sorbonne), Afra Pujol i Campeny
(Oxford), Tara Struik (Mannheim), David Willis (Oxford)

Organising committee: Natalia Romanova (Caen), Myriam Bergeron-Maguire (Paris
3), Corinne Denoyelle (Grenoble)

What
Research into patterns of evolution and their causes has enjoyed renewed
interest with the development of digital corpora. The construction and
analysis of such corpora has brought to the fore the question of text types.
Calibrating resources by texts types allows to maximise the stability and
comparability of the results. Comparing text types and how they document
syntactic change has been done to achieve different objectives
i. Get closer to the effective evolution in the immediate competence of
speakers. Studies have noted the impact of text-type in documenting evolving
syntactic phenomena through time (Wanner 1987, Laroche Wilson 2012,
Wolfsgruber 2017, Donaldson 2018, McLaughlin 2018, Farasyn et al 2018,
Schøsler & Glessgen 2018, Amatuzzi et al 2020). One of the ways in which this
has been explored is through comparing direct speech and narrative passages in
literary sources (Vance 1997: 245-246, Schosler 2002, Rodriguez Somolinos
2003, Denoyelle 2010, Dufter 2010, Guillot et al. 2015, Parussa  et al 2020),
that tend to  show that direct speech is generally less conservative than
narration (Glikman et al 2014, 2019), although this is not always the case
(Pujol 2018,  Imel 2019); one may also wonder whether the speech/narration
divide is comparable to text type distinctions. The representativeness of
literary direct speech is difficult to assess given  the scarcity of
non-fictional dialogue (Lio Mazor, Anglo-Norman Year Books, Old Bailey Corpus
and the Salem Witch Trial).
ii. Situate the role of  register in the evolution of variants (Ayres-Bennett
2020, Wright 1991). It has been found that systematic register differences
characterise subtypes of legal texts (Ingham 2016, Larrivée 2022), although
these may evolve through time. Different text types have also been found to
play a role in the dissemination of new variants (Pountain 2006). 
iii. Understand the historical development of text types and of their salient
grammatical features (Halliday 1988, Nevalainen 1991, Biber 1995, Kohnen 2012,
Taavitsainen 2001).

How
A two-page anonymous abstract about the significance of investigations
calibrated by text-types for the understanding of syntactic change. 
The abstract is expected to outline the research question and background, the
notions and criteria, the method and data, the key findings and their
relevance for the meeting. A comparative dimension across registers,
text-types and/or languages, as well as an explanatory dimension for the
investigated phenomena, are highly desirable. Please indicate preference for 
an oral or poster presentation.
To be sent to pierre.larrivee at unicaen.fr
By October 1st, 2023.

Accepted authors will be encouraged to share a draft version of their talk
before the conference.

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