34.2258, Calls: Challenging Construction Grammar: New Insights from Morphology

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Subject: 34.2258, Calls: Challenging Construction Grammar: New Insights from Morphology

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Date: 17-Jul-2023
From: Elena Smirnova [elena.smirnova at unine.ch]
Subject: Challenging Construction Grammar: New Insights from Morphology


Full Title: Challenging Construction Grammar: New insights from
morphology

Date: 08-Apr-2024 - 12-Apr-2024
Location: Ascona, Monte Verità, Switzerland
Contact Person: Elena Smirnova
Meeting Email: elena.smirnova at unine.ch
Web Site: https://www.elenasmirnova.de/workshop-challenging-constructi
on-grammar-new-insights-from-morphology.html

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics;
Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2023

Meeting Description:

The workshop will critically address the assumptions and research
practices of Construction Grammar (Hoffmann and Trousdale 2013), a
theory of language that has become one of the major theoretical
frameworks in linguistics. Recent years have seen an increasing
interest in constructionist approaches to morphological issues, both
from a synchronic (e.g. Booij 2010, Jackendoff & Audring 2020) and a
dia-chronic point of view (Hartmann 2019, Van Goethem & Norde 2020,
Norde forth.).
As construction morphology is still a very recent branch of research
within the framework of Construction Grammar, the coverage of
mor-phological phenomena and the theoretical issues they raise is far
from complete. A fundamental question is what special challenges
mor-phology brings to the table, and whether the framework –
originally developed for syntax, but with the explicit aim to account
for language as a whole – requires adjustments or extensions to
account for morphological patterns.

Call for Papers:

Research questions of this workshop include, but are by no means
limited to the following:
- What challenges do morphological phenomena present to the
constructionist framework and how can the theory be refined in
re-sponse to them?
- How can construction grammar account for phenomena that straddle the
boundary between morphology and syntax?
- How do connections between constructions differ between morphology
and syntax?
- How do morphological and syntactic constructions differ in the way
they form constructional networks?
- How can we capture morphology-specific distinctions, such as for
example the distinction between inflection and derivation, in
con-structionist terms?
- In what ways does productivity differ across morphology and syntax?
- Does (non-)compositionality apply in the same way to morphology and
to syntax?
- How can morphological change be modelled in the constructional
framework?

Confirmed invited speakers:
Muriel Norde (HU Berlin)
Francesca Masini (Università di Bologna)
Livio Gaeta (Università di Torino)
Kristel Van Goethem (UCLouvain)
Steffen Höder (Universität Kiel)

The workshops will host two practical sessions on statistical methods
by:
Stefan Hartmann (Universität Düsseldorf)
Bodo Winter (University of Birmingham)

We invite young and early career researchers (PhD students and
postdocs) to submit a paper dealing with one or more questions of the
workshop. Presentations will last 20 minutes, with 10 min. for
discussion.

Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (including examples, excluding
references); they should clearly state the research questions,
ap-proach, method, data and (expected) results. Please indicate your
status (PhD student or PostDoc) in the abstract. Abstracts will be
re-viewed anonymously by two referees.

Please submit your abstract to elena.smirnova at unine.ch

The deadline for receipt of abstracts: September 15, 2023

Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2023

If you have questions about the submission process, please email them
to: elena.smirnova at unine.ch



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