33.3087, Calls: Linguistic Theories/Germany

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Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2022 05:58:13
From: Thomas Li [thomasli at buaa.edu.cn]
Subject: A Diachronic Cross-linguistic Study of the Macro-event Hypothesis (session at ICLC16)

 
Full Title: A Diachronic Cross-linguistic Study of the Macro-event Hypothesis (session at ICLC16) 

Date: 07-Aug-2023 - 11-Aug-2023
Location: Düsseldorf, Germany 
Contact Person: Thomas Li
Meeting Email: thomasli at buaa.edu.cn

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories 

Call Deadline: 25-Oct-2022 

Meeting Description:

Call for papers for a theme session at ICLC16, August 7-11, 2023, Heinrich
Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany, https://iclc16.phil.hhu.de/call/ 

A Diachronic Cross-linguistic Study of the Macro-event Hypothesis

Fuyin (Thomas) Li
Beihang University, Beijing
thomasli at buaa.edu.cn; thomaslifuyin at hotmail.com


Call for Papers:

Call for participation in a theme session at ICLC16

A Diachronic Cross-linguistic Study of the Macro-event Hypothesis

Several prominent theoretical models in Cognitive Linguistics are based on a
systematic study of the form-meaning mapping between the syntactic and
semantic levels. Thus, the two-way typology studies the mapping of the
semantic element PATH onto its formal expression as the verb or satellite
(Talmy 1985, 1991, 2000). The manner/result complementarity hypothesis is
based on the distribution of MANNER and RESULT in the verb (Levin & Rappaport
Hovav 1991). And English resultative constructions are studied at the
syntactic level over a clause (Goldberg & Jackendoff 2004). 
The size of a semantic element tends to vary with the size of its
corresponding syntactic element -- a correspondence of granularity. Thus, the
concept of PATH is finer grained than that of EVENT at the semantic level.
And, correlatively at the syntactic level, the former may correspond to a
lexical form and the latter to a clause. Similarly, a verb is syntactically
finer-grained than a clause. It seems that few, if any, of the models cited
above include a diachronic perspective of the macro-event at the semantic
level. The Macro-event Hypothesis has been proposed at the level of semantics
to reflect the evolutionary trend of a language (Li 2020, 2022). Simply put,
languages may generally fall into two broad categories, macro-event type
languages and non-macro-event type languages, which then might be further
divided into four distinctive types, respectively: steady state macro-event
languages (language steadily using macro-event expression throughout of its
history) versus conflated macro-event languages (language gradually forming
macro-event expression by event integration, or clause combination), and
steady state non-macro-event languages (language steadily using
non-macro-event expression throughout of its history) versus deconflated
non-macro-event languages (language steadily decomposing macro-event
expression to non-macro-event expression throughout of its history). Recent
literature (Li 2018, 2019) indicates that Mandarin is a conflated Macro-event
language. The Macro-event Hypothesis requires both empirical and
cross-linguistic support. Papers on any aspect of it are welcome.

Requirement: Send the following to the theme session organizer Thomas
(thomasli at buaa.edu.cn ; thomaslifuyin at hotmail.com ) before the deadline of Oct
25, 2022. Paper title, author(s) name, institution, e-mail, and an abstract of
no more than 100 words in English.
Issues to be explored: Patterns, rules and regularities exhibited in the
evolutionary pathway of semantic elements at different granularities
---including PATH, MANNER, CAUSE, EVENT, RESULTATIVE, MACRO-EVENT, etc.---
should be explored, in connection with their linguistic forms ---including
verb, satellite, preposition, directional, complement, verb complex, serial
verb, etc.

Notification regarding acceptance of the theme session proposal will take
place by Nov 15, 2022. Then submit your full abstract to the ICLC16 website
before December 15, 2022.
https://easychair.org/account/signin?l=9DfeV1tNcYWlFQaWn84rCs




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