34.2154, Calls: 2nd Workshop on Charting Honorifics and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes

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Subject: 34.2154, Calls: 2nd Workshop on Charting Honorifics and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes

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Date: 07-Jul-2023
From: Gurmeet Kaur [gurmeet.kaur at uni-goettingen.de]
Subject: 2nd Workshop on Charting Honorifics and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes


Full Title: 2nd Workshop on Charting Honorifics and Addressee
Morphosyntactic Processes
Short Title: CHAMP2

Date: 01-Feb-2024 - 02-Feb-2024
Location: University of Göttingen, Germany
Contact Person: Gurmeet Kaur
Meeting Email: champ.goettingen at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories;
Morphology; Pragmatics; Syntax

Call Deadline: 03-Sep-2023

Meeting Description:

We are glad to announce that the second instalment of the workshop
"Charting Honorifics and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes", first
hosted at UCL in January 2023, will take place on February 1-2, 2024
at the University of Göttingen.

Invited speakers:
Suzanne Aalberse (University of Amsterdam)
Tran Truong (The Pennsylvania State University)
Martina Wiltschko (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Honorifics are grammaticalized forms that encode the social relation
between the speaker and the addressee/a 3rd person. A well-known
instance comes from honorific pronouns such as vous in French and te
in Finnish. Honorifics were generally treated as a socio-pragmatic
phenomenon, located outside narrow syntax. Consequently, earlier work
on honorifics focuses either on their typology (Comrie 1975, 1976,
Joseph 1987, Helmbrecht 2005, a.o), or their pragmatics/use (Lakoff
1973, Brown & Levinson 1978, Matsumoto 1988, Ide 1989 a.o.). Recently,
however, proposals arguing for a syntactic treatment of honorifics
have become available (e.g. Macaulay 2015, Ackema & Neeleman 2018,
Portner, Pak & Zanuttini 2019, Ritter & Wiltschko 2019, Alok & Baker
2022, Ikawa 2022, Kaur & Yamada 2022, Kumari 2023). This shift, which
(sometimes) capitalizes on a more general renewed interest in the
syntacticization of discourse (in the sense of Speas & Tenny 2003), is
motivated by novel data on honorifics, which shows that not all
reflexes of honorificity are amenable to a purely pragmatic treatment.
For instance, languages such as Hindi-Urdu, Punjabi and Marathi have
honorific nouns, which display distinct morphosyntactic behaviour
(concord, nominal inflection, agreement) as compared to regular nouns
(Bhatt & Davis 2022, Kaur 2023, Sinha 2023). Similarly, in the
verbal/clausal domain, various phenomena which underlie syntactic
agreement relations also exhibit honorific distinctions. Take, for
instance, imperatives in Dutch (Bennis 2006) and Korean (Zanuttini,
Pak & Portner 2012), as well as allocutive agreement in Basque
(Haddican 2018), Japanese (Miyagawa 2012, Yamada 2019) and Magahi
(Alok 2021), among others.

Accompanying this shift, there has been some very important but
(mostly) separate research on the meaning and morphology of
honorifics. With respect to the former, there has been substantial
recent research, all of which appears to take honorifics to introduce
expressive meaning (Potts & Kawahara 2004, Kim & Sells 2007, McCready
2010, 2014). On the morphological front, the honorific (and humilific)
verb forms in Japanese and Korean raise a range of issues relating to
root suppletion, morphological contiguity/*ABA configurations,
dissociated morpheme insertion, among others, which have been
addressed in serious detail (e.g. Chung 2007, Thompson 2011, Choi &
Harley 2019, Truong 2022). Additionally, morphological research has
attempted principled grammatical accounts of both the emergence of
honorific forms in pronominal paradigms as well as the (rarer
instances of) loss of non-honorific forms (e.g. Simon 2003, Aalberse &
Stoop 2015, Wang 2023).

Despite important progress, many fundamental issues relating to the
grammar of honorifics, as listed below, remain open:
--Given varied honorific phenomena, what is the status of the
honorific feature in grammar? To what extent is a unified account
possible?
--What are the various diachronic paths to (dedicated/recycled)
honorification across nominal and verbal domains? How do they inform
the investigation of synchronic processes associated with honorifics?
--What is the extent to which standard criteria of expressivity apply
across different types of honorifics? Relatedly, how does the claim
that honorifics have expressive meaning reconcile with instances of
syntactic honorific agreement (i.e., morphological but not semantic
doubling)?
--What explains variation in the embeddability of clausal
addressee-oriented honorifics (allocutive agreement, speech style
particles etc.) across languages?

Call for Papers:

With a view to bring together researchers working on different aspects
of honorificity, we invite contributions that discuss novel empirical
facts (across modalities) on honorifics and/or explore theoretical
approaches to honorifics. The aforementioned issues do not constitute
an exhaustive list of potential topics.

This 2-day workshop will be funded by the DFG project "Addressee in
syntax".

Submission Guidelines:
-- Each author may submit no more than one single-authored and one
co-authored abstract.
-- Abstracts should fit two A4 pages, including examples and
references.
-- Please use 1-inch margins on all sides, and a 12-point font.
-- Abstract submission webpage:
https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/CHAMP2

Important Dates:
Deadline for submissions: September 3, 2023
Notification of acceptance: October 5, 2023
Conference dates: February 1-2, 2024



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