[Dgkl] CfP: DGKL/GCLA Yearbook "Diachronic Cognitive Linguistics"

[Stefan Hartmann]

Dear colleagues,

This year's Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 
will be a thematic volume on "Diachronic Cognitive Linguistics". While 
the volume will largely consist of invited papers, there are a few open 
slots to fill. We therefore invite expressions of interest for further 
contributions (which can be work-in-progress-reports, see 
http://www.dgkl-gcla.de/yearbook/) to the Yearbook that are relevant to 
the topic of Diachronic Cognitive Linguistics (including Diachronic 
Construction Grammar). If you are interested in contributing a paper, 
please send me an expression of interest (ideally with a preliminary 
title and a short description of the proposed paper, not necessarily a 
fully worked-out abstract) as soon as possible. Please note the tight 
deadline (May 15th!). Early career researchers are particularly invited 
to apply. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch!

Best wishes,

Stefan


*Diachronic Cognitive Linguistics*


Cognitive linguistics and the study of language change have 
cross-fertilized each other in a number of ways in recent years and 
decades. For one thing, many researchers in the field of 
grammaticalization, which has been highly influential in historical 
linguistics, have adopted a cognitive-functionalist view of language 
(e.g. Hopper & Traugott 2003). Also, it has been shown that 
cognitive-linguistic theories like Cognitive Grammar can be fruitfully 
applied to the study of language change (e.g. Winters 2020). 
Furthermore, constructionist approaches have become increasingly popular 
in historical linguistics (see e.g. Hilpert 2013, Traugott & Trousdale 
2013, Barðdal et al. 2015, Coussé et al. 2018). And cognitive 
linguistics in general has come to adopt a view of language as a dynamic 
system, which entails an increased focus on synchronic variation and 
diachronic change.

For this volume, we invite contributions that investigate diachronic 
phenomena from a cognitive-linguistic perspective and/or reflect on the 
relationship between cognitive linguistics and historical linguistics. 
Questions that can be addressed include, but are not limited to:

·What, if anything, can language change tell us about the cognitive 
organization of language?

·How can theoretical concepts from cognitive linguistics be 
operationalized for the empirical investigation of diachronic phenomena?

·How does a cognitive-linguistic perspective on language change differ 
from other theoretical approaches? Which predictions does it make, and 
how can they be tested empirically?

In line with the empirical outlook of previous DGKL/GCLA Yearbooks, we 
particularly invite papers that take a corpus-based perspective on 
diachronic linguistics. Also in line with previous Yearbooks, we invite 
work-in-progress papers that are, however, subject to the same standards 
of peer-review as papers reporting on completed work (see 
http://www.dgkl-gcla.de/yearbook/ for more information on the Yearbook 
in general).

If you are interested in contributing a paper, please send a short 
expression of interest to the volume editor, Stefan Hartmann, as soon as 
possible, ideally until March 20 (Email: hartmast at hhu.de). The deadline 
for manuscript submission is *May 15, 2021*. Full papers should be 
submitted in an editable format and should be no longer than 5000 words. 
References should be formatted according to the Unified Style Sheet for 
Linguistics 
(https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/unified-style-sheet, CSL 
style available at 
https://www.zotero.org/styles/unified-style-sheet-for-linguistics).

-- 
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Hartmann
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Abteilung für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft
Universitätsstraße 1
40225 Düsseldorf
Gebäude: 24.53
Etage/Raum: U1.94
Tel.: +49 211 81-13684

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