34.2929, Confs: Pathways to Insubordination

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Date: 07-Oct-2023
From: Ezra  la Roi [ezra.laroi at ugent.be]
Subject: Pathways to Insubordination


Pathways to insubordination

Date: 21-Aug-2024 - 24-Aug-2024
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Contact: Ezra la Roi
Contact Email: ezra.laroi at ugent.be

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Pathways to insubordination

Convenors: Ezra la Roi (Ghent University), María Sol Sansiñena
(University of Leuven), An Van linden (University of Liège)

Keywords: insubordination, subordination, mechanisms of change, corpus
linguistics, clause patterns and clause linkage


Description
This workshop focuses on the diachrony of insubordination, a
phenomenon defined by Evans (2007: 377) as “the conventionalized
independent use of a formally subordinate clause”. An example is a
clause introduced by the complementizer que (‘that’) that is used to
express a wish in Spanish, as in (1).

Nati:     Bueno, chicos, me voy a acostar.
Rafael: Chau,   que     descans-e-s.
                     COMP       rest-PRS.SBJV-2SG
‘Nati: OK, guys, I’m going to bed.
Rafael: Bye, have a good rest.’
[CREA Teatro, El hijo de la novia, Argentina, example from Sansiñena
2015]

Over the past two decades insubordination has witnessed an increase in
scholarly attention (e.g. Verstraete et al. 2012; Brinton 2014; Narrog
2016; Gras & Sansiñena 2017; D’Hertefelt 2018, and the articles in
Evans & Watanabe (2016) and Beijering et al. (2019)), mostly from a
synchronic perspective, while the diachronic perspective has so far
“received comparatively less attention” (Cristofaro 2016: 395), and
few studies have been carried out on the basis of historical corpus
data (see e.g. Gras & Estellés 2012; Van linden & Van de Velde 2014;
la Roi 2021, 2022). This workshop seeks to investigate the
developmental pathways leading to independent clauses that are
structurally similar to subordinate ones, like the que-clause in (1).
It has been argued that “patterns that are superficially identical on
the level of contemporary languages, may turn out as the results of
radically different diachronic processes” (Wiemer 2019: 157) and that
insubordinate constructions “can emerge from a variety of sources via
a variety of mechanisms” (Mithun 2019: 31; see also Cristofaro 2016),
such as ellipsis of a main clause (Evans 2007), extension of
dependency (Mithun 2008, 2016), dependency shift (D'Hertefelt &
Verstraete 2014), hypoanalysis (Van linden & Van de Velde 2014),
cooptation (Heine, Kaltenbock & Kuteva 2016), and clausal
disengagement (Cristofaro 2016). The available evidence thus imposes
the need to study the development of such clause structures on a
case-by-case basis. Against this backdrop, this workshop seeks to look
deeper into the diachrony of insubordinate constructions along
multiple pathways of change.

Aims of the workshop
The workshop will bring together linguists working on insubordinate
clause patterns, their sources and the mechanisms by which they
developed, either on the basis of historical corpus data for languages
with written records or based on first-hand data collected in the
field for those languages that do not have historical data. We invite
language-specific contributions, as well as cross-linguistic or areal
studies. More specifically, the topics and questions to be addressed
include, but are not limited to, the following:

-Considering the wide range of functions of insubordinate
constructions, how can we relate them to their respective sources and
developmental pathways?
-What are the methodological challenges in tracing the diachrony of
insubordinate structures in historical data?
-What can interactional approaches to insubordination and the study of
prosody contribute to diachronic hypotheses?
-In the absence of spoken data, what information on the diachrony of
insubordination can be gleaned from dialogical text types? What
proxies can be used for prosodic information?

Invited speakers: Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa
Barbara) and Björn Wiemer (Mainz University)

Discussant: Sonia Cristofaro (Sorbonne University)

Please send provisional abstracts of up to 300 words (excl.
references) in PDF by 10 November 2023 to Ezra.laRoi at UGent.be. If the
workshop is approved, we ask authors to submit 500-word abstracts
before 15 January 2024



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