33.3305, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Syntax/Greece

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Subject: 33.3305, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Syntax/Greece

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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 03:01:27
From: Matthias Klumm [matthias.klumm at uni-a.de]
Subject: Left and right peripheries in discourse: Theoretical and empirical perspectives across languages

 
Full Title: Left and right peripheries in discourse: Theoretical and empirical perspectives across languages 

Date: 29-Aug-2023 - 01-Sep-2023
Location: Athens, Greece 
Contact Person: Matthias Klumm
Meeting Email: matthias.klumm at uni-a.de

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 08-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

The goal of this workshop is to investigate the left and right peripheries in
spoken and written discourse across languages, focusing on their internal
structure from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.

The left and right peripheries of discourse units have received considerable
scholarly attention across languages over the past few decades. While
peripheries have been largely ignored in traditional accounts of grammar,
recent discourse-oriented approaches to grammar acknowledge the important role
that the left periphery (LP) and the right periphery (RP) play for the
structuring of discourse. Research on LP and RP has so far focused on various
issues from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, including
considerations as to the nature of the unit in relation to which LP and RP can
be defined (see, e.g., Degand & Crible 2021), as well as investigations of
specific linguistic elements occurring in LP and/or RP and the various
discourse functions that these elements (have come to) fulfil across languages
(see, e.g., Beeching & Detges 2014; Van Olmen & Šinkūnienė 2021).

There is general agreement among scholars that the peripheries of discourse
units can be occupied by a wide range of linguistic categories such as
discourse markers, comment clauses, vocatives, question tags, dislocations
etc. These peripheral elements have been characterized by a number of formal
and functional features, including prosodic and syntactic non-integration,
positional mobility, semantic non-restrictiveness and non-truth
conditionality. However, numerous studies across languages have shown that not
all characteristic features apply to all peripheral elements to the same
extent, which leads to the assumptions that (i) some linguistic elements
occurring in LP/RP are more peripheral than others, and (ii) the boundary
between peripheral elements and elements belonging to the ‘core’ of discourse
units is fuzzy (see also Traugott 2015). One aim of this workshop is to test
these assumptions on the basis of empirical data within and across languages.

While the internal structure of LP and RP has been modelled in different ways
in various languages such as German (e.g. Vinckel-Roisin 2015), French (e.g.
Degand 2014) or Dutch (Van der Wouden & Foolen 2015), the co-occurrence of
peripheral elements and their sequencing behaviour within LP and/or RP have
received relatively little attention in the literature (see, e.g., Crible &
Degand 2021; Haselow 2019; Lohmann & Koops 2016). Therefore, a second aim of
this workshop is to provide more insight into the sequential ordering of
left-peripheral and right-peripheral elements (and the effects thereof) across
languages.


2nd Call for Papers:

This is a CfP for a workshop proposal for the 56th Annual Meeting of the
Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2023), Athens, 29 August - 1 September
2023.

We invite submissions that may address, but are not limited to, the following
questions relating to the internal structure of LP and RP within and across
languages:
- According to which formal and functional criteria can linguistic elements
occurring in LP and/or RP be classified?
- To what extent can some elements occurring in LP and/or RP be conceptualized
as being more peripheral than others?
- How can the boundary between ‘core’ and ‘periphery’ be defined and
conceptualized?
- Which structural slots do LP and RP consist of?
- To what extent does the internal structure of LP and the internal structure
of RP differ from one another?
- How can the co-occurrence and sequential ordering of elements in LP and/or
RP be conceptualized?
- To what extent is the sequential ordering of elements in LP and/or RP
constrained by different factors?

We invite submissions adopting theoretical and/or empirical (e.g. experimental
and/or corpus-based) approaches. Any of the questions mentioned above may be
addressed by investigating one specific language or by comparing several
languages, and by taking into consideration possible variation in terms of the
internal structure of LP and/or RP across spoken and written discourse as well
as across discourse genres.

Abstracts (max. 300 words, excl. references) should be sent to the workshop
convenors by 8 November 2022:
Matthias Klumm: matthias.klumm at uni-a.de
Augustin Speyer: a.speyer at mx.uni-saarland.de

Feedback on abstracts will be provided by 15 November 2022, and the workshop
proposal will be submitted to the organizers of SLE 2023 by 20 November 2022.

We will be notified by 15 December 2022 if our workshop proposal for SLE 2023
has been accepted. If approved, authors must submit a revised and extended
abstract of 500 words (excluding references) according to the SLE guidelines
by 15 January 2023.

References:
Beeching, Kate & Ulrich Detges (eds.). 2014. Discourse functions at the left
and right periphery: Crosslinguistic investigations of language use and
language change. Leiden: Brill.
Crible, Ludivine & Liesbeth Degand. 2021. Co-occurrence and ordering of
discourse markers in sequences: A multifactorial study in spoken French.
Journal of Pragmatics 177. 18-28.
Degand, Liesbeth. 2014. ‘So very fast then’ discourse markers at left and
right periphery in spoken French. In Kate Beeching & Ulrich Detges (eds.),
Discourse functions at the left and right periphery: Crosslinguistic
investigations of language use and language change, 151-178. Leiden: Brill.
Degand, Liesbeth & Ludivine Crible. 2021. Discourse markers at the peripheries
of syntax, intonation and turns: Towards a cognitive-functional unit of
segmentation. In Daniël Van Olmen & Jolanta Šinkūnienė (eds.), Pragmatic
markers and peripheries, 19-48. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Haselow, Alexander. 2019. Discourse marker sequences: Insights into the serial
order of communicative tasks in real-time turn production. Journal of
Pragmatics 146. 1-18.
Lohmann, Arne & Christian Koops. 2016. Aspects of discourse marker sequencing:
Empirical challenges and theoretical implications. In Gunther Kaltenböck,
Evelien Keizer & Arne Lohmann (eds.), Outside the clause: Form and function of
extra-clausal constituents, 417--446. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Traugott, Elizabeth Closs. 2015. Investigating “periphery” from a
functionalist perspective. Linguistics Vanguard 1(1). 119-130.
Van der Wouden, Ton & Ad Foolen. 2015. Dutch particles in the right periphery.
In Sylvie Hancil, Alexander Haselow & Margje Post (eds.), Final particles,
221-247. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Van Olmen, Daniël & Jolanta Šinkūnienė (eds.). 2021. Pragmatic markers and
peripheries. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Vinckel-Roisin, Hélène (ed.). 2015. Das Nachfeld im Deutschen: Theorie und
Empirie. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.




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