Call: Workshop Grammaticalization in German

[Dammel, Antje]

Workshop: Grammaticalization in German – in the European context
(Deutscher Germanistentag 2010)
19-23 September 2010, Freiburg/Germany

Workshop URL: http://www.germanistenverband.de/hochschule/tagungen/deutscher-germanistentag.php
Organizers: Renata Szczepaniak, Mirjam Schmuck, Antje Dammel  (University of  Mainz)
Linguistic Field(s): language change, language contact, contrastive grammar
Conference language: German

Description: In the last decades, grammaticalization research has given rise to several functional as well as formal approaches to language change focusing on semantics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, and syntax. The aim of the section held at the Deutscher Germanistentag 2010 in Freiburg/Germany is to adopt or, if necessary, to refine the existing approaches and to apply them also from a contrastive perspective to grammaticalization processes in German. Going along with the main topic of the meeting "German language and literature in the European context", this workshop is also attempting to determine the influence of language contact and standardization processes on language change, especially of those relating to German.
The workshop will be held in German.

Scholarships: In order to support young scholars to participate in the conference, the Deutscher Germanistenverband (DGV) offers 20 scholarships in amount of 500 euro each (membership in the DGV is required, for the application form see http://www.germanistenverband.de/hochschule/mitglied-werden/anmeldung.php). We invite young researchers to send their abstract and a short, informal application to:
Geschäftsstelle der Gesellschaft für Hochschulgermanistik
im Deutschen Germanistenverband
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Br.
Platz der Universität 3
D-79098 Freiburg im Breisgau 
e-mail: buerohochschule at germanistenverband.de

Topics to be discussed may include: relativity and normativity of findings from the German-language studies, speech and writing, doubtful cases in present-day German, grammaticalization paths, the role of language contact/ grammaticalization and standardization  

Call for papers: We invite you to submit an abstract for a 20 minutes talk that should not exceed one page (including references) to:
Prof. Dr. Renata Szczepaniak, rszczepa at uni-mainz.de

Deadline of submission: September 7, 2009
Notification of acceptance: October 31, 2009
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