REMINDER: Call for Papers CALC workshop

[Alex Bergs]

REMINDER: APPROACHING DEADLINE!!! 

 

ICHL WORKSHOP 

Constructions and Language Change (CALC)

 

Conveners: 

Gabriele Diewald, Hannover University 

Alexander Bergs, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

 

Introduction

Studies in diachronic linguistics increasingly acknowledge that linguistic
change is highly context-dependent. Especially in its initial stages,
linguistic change is tied not only to particular text type or registers, but
to specific morphosyntactic and semantic environments, i.e. to specific
recurring patters of co-present linguistic features, that is to say
"constructions". 

This workshop investigates and highlights the role of “constructions” in
linguistic change. In doing so, the term “constructions” is deliberately
understood to have a broad extension, i.e. to include, but not be limited to
Construction Grammar proper. Thus, any constructional approach to language
and linguistic change is welcome. 

 

Suggestions for topics to be addressed in this workshop include:

 

-           The role of constructions as source(s) of linguistic change

-           The role of constructions as product(s) of linguistic change

-           Mechanisms of change within constructions

-           Constructions and grammaticalization

-           Constructions, frequency, and linguistic change

-           Cross-linguistic constructional phenomena in linguistic change

-           The definition and delimitation of the terms "construction",
"context" etc.

 

Call for Papers

We encourage abstract submission on any of the topics mentioned above.
Papers on other related issues are also welcome. Papers, no matter whether
theory or data-driven, need not take a construction grammar point of view,
but should explicitly employ a constructional approach to language. 

Presentations will have the usual 20 min + 10 min discussion format. We plan
to publish selected proceedings with an international publishing house. 

 

Abstracts of no more than 350 words should be sent as MS Word compatible
files to the following address: bergs at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de. Deadline
is March 1, 2005. Notification of acceptance will be send out April 1, 2005.

 

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Dr. Alexander Bergs, M.A.

Anglistik III (English Language and Linguistics) 

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf 

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