Final CFP: From ideational to interpersonal: Perspectives from grammaticalization

[Hubert Cuyckens]

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
FROM IDEATIONAL TO INTERPERSONAL: PERSPECTIVES FROM GRAMMATICALIZATION
(FITIGRA)
Leuven (Belgium), 10-12 February 2005

Conference website: http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/fitigra

EXTENSION OF DEADLINE
Please note that the deadline for submission of abstracts has been
extended to November 10, 2004.

MEETING DESCRIPTION
This conference is devoted to the study of semantic-pragmatic change
in grammaticalization.  Its purpose is to bring together papers that
examine various aspects of grammaticalization within the framework of
the clines ideational > textual > interpersonal and/or propositional >
textual > expressive. As such, we welcome contributions addressing (by
now) familiar issues in grammaticalization such as:

* auxiliarization, the development of discourse markers, etc.
* the importance of pragmatic strengthening/invited
inferencing/subjectification, as they occur in the cognitive-
functional context of speaker-hearer interaction.

Furthermore, we encourage contributions which, within the framework
outlined above, take up newer issue that may necessitate a broader
definition of grammaticalization. These include:

* the study of shifts such as those from head to modifier (Denison
2002) or modifier to intensifier (Adamson 2000) in the NP, a
grammatical environment which has hitherto been relatively neglected
in grammaticalization theory;
* the interplay between grammaticalization and lexicalization, with
the latter understood as the formation of a new lexical item by the
combination of two formerly distinct lexical items (Fischer &
Rosenbach 2000; Lehmann 2002; Van der Auwera 2002 )
* the question whether grammaticalization processes can be predicted
to follow certain structurally determined paths, such as center-to-
periphery directionality in the NP (Rijkhoff 2002);
* the role played in the lexicogrammatical re-organization
accompanying grammaticalization by syntagmatic relations between
lexical items such as collocation (Sinclair 1991), semantic feature
copying (Bublitz 1996), semantic prosody (Stubbs 1995), and pragmatic
feature copying.

Finally, we also seek contributions that highlight the importance of
such usage-based factors as frequency and entrenchment for
grammaticalization, and that, in general, give attention to
quantitative data in support of grammaticalization processes.


GUEST SPEAKERS
Teresa Fanego (University of Santiago de Compostela), Olga Fischer
(University of Amsterdam), Manfred Krug (Freiburg University), and
Elizabeth Closs Traugott (Stanford University) have confirmed their
participation as keynote speakers.


PUBLICATION OF PAPERS
It is the organizers' intention to publish a selection of the
conference papers.


INFORMATION on the submission of abstracts, registration,
accommodation, social programme, and travel information can be found
on the conference website
http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/fitigra