[Lingtyp] LACIM 2024 International Conference on Grammaticalization in Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran-Mesopotamia area, Paris, December 4-5

Thu Apr 4 13:30:33 UTC 2024

Dear colleagues,

Please, find below the call for papers for LACIM 2024
<https://en.lacim.net/post/call-for-papers-lacim-2024-international-conference>
International
Conference on Grammaticalization
in Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran-Mesopotamia area, to be held in Paris, December
4-5.

Best,

Victoria

*Victoria KHURSHUDYAN*
<http://www.inalco.fr/enseignant-chercheur/victoria-khurshudyan>
Maître de conférences, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations
Orientales | www.inalco.fr <https://webmail.inalco.fr/www.inalco.fr>

Membre à SeDyL, Structure et Dynamique des Langues UMR8202 CNRS - INALCO -
IRD/UMR135 | http://sedyl.cnrs.fr

Membre associé à ERTIM, Équipe de recherche : textes, informatique,
multilinguisme

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*Call for Papers*
                                               LACIM 2024
    International
Conference

*Grammaticalization in Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran-Mesopotamia area*

Paris, December 4-5, 2024

The second international conference organized by the European network on
linguistics and languages of the Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran-Mesopotamia area
(LACIM) <https://en.lacim.net/> will be held in Paris from 4 to 5 December,
2024. It will be dedicated to grammaticalization in Anatolia-
Caucasus-Iran-Mesopotamia area.

LACIM is a European network of linguists engaged in research on the
languages of Anatolia, the Caucasus, Iran and Mesopotamia. We are primarily
interested in the interplay of contact and heritage that has shaped the
region's current linguistic ecology, through millennia of interaction. As
such, our research program transcends the boundaries of the different
language families that are present in the region and pursues an
interdisciplinary approach.

Grammaticalization is often defined as “ … a process which turns lexemes
into grammatical formatives and makes grammatical formatives still more
grammatical...". (Lehmann 2002 [1985]:ix). While grammaticalization is
commonly viewed as a type of language change, its extent can vary across
different studies and theoretical frameworks. Over the past four
decades, research
on grammaticalization has expanded to include various cross-linguistic
theoretical perspectives (Lehmann 1985 [2015], Traugott and Heine 1991,
Heine & Hünnemeyer 1991, Bybee et al. 1994, Newmeyer 1998, Haspelmath 1998,
1999, Bisang et al. 2004, Narrog & Heine 2011, Heiko & Heine 2018, Kuteva
et al. 2019), as well as to deepen its language-specific description and
analysis (Narrog & Heine 2018, Bisang & Malchukov 2020).

The primary aim of the current conference is to thoroughly explore the
grammaticalization clines and sources in the languages
of Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran-Mesopotamia from both diachronic and synchronic
perspectives, with a particular emphasis on capturing the areal dimension
as comprehensively as possible. Potential discussion topics may include,
but are not limited to, the evolution of:

·       Adpositions into cases,

·       Verbs transforming into auxiliary verbs,

·       Information structure in regard with grammaticalization,

·       Differential object/subject marking,

·       Preverbs,

·       Determiners and pronouns,

·       Periphrastic constructions,

·       Relative clauses,

·       Subordinate clauses, etc.

Furthermore, proposals are encouraged on broader topics within the current
study of grammaticalization that offer relevant empirical/analytical
insights. These might include the inferences from frequency in the realm of
the empirical turn in linguistics, or the delimitation between
grammaticalization and other types of language change (e.g. reanalysis,
metaphoric transfer, metonymic transfer etc.).

*Submission*

Proposals must:

·       contain at most 1000 words for 30 minute talks, examples included,
references excluded,

·       be formatted as a PDF,

·       include (1) the proposal title and (2) three or four keywords
describing the topics of the paper at the top of the proposal,

·       be in English or in French,

·       submitted via Linguist List at the following link:

https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/LACIM2024/

Submissions are limited to 1 individual and 1 joint abstract per author, or
2 joint abstracts per author.

Please direct questions/concerns to lacim.conference2024 at gmail.com.

*Timelines*

Submission deadline: *June* *10**, 202**4*

Notification of acceptance: *July* *10**, 202**4*

Conference: *December 4-5**, 202**4*

*Organizing** Committee*

Victoria Khurshudyan, Inalco, SeDyL, CNRS, IRD

Matteo De Chiara, Inalco, CERMI, CNRS

Samuel Chakmakjian, Inalco, SeDyL, CNRS, IRD

Davide Scarfagna, Inalco, CERMI, CNRS

Milad Shariatmadari, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, LATTICE, CNRS

*Scientific** Committee*

Anaid Donabedian (Paris)

Geoffrey Haig (Bamberg)

Katherine Hodgson (Cambridge)

Agnès Lenepveu-Hotz (Strasbourg)

Geoffrey Khan (Cambridge)

Stefano Manfredi (Paris)

Pollet Samvelian (Paris)

Stavros Skopeteas (Göttingen)

Nina Sumbatova (Moscow)

*Keynote speakers:*

*TBA*

*References:*

1.     Bisang, Walter and Malchukov, Andrej (eds.). 2020.
Grammaticalization Scenarios from Europe and Asia, Berlin, Boston: De
Gruyter Mouton, v. 1.

2.     Bisang, Walter and Malchukov, Andrej (eds.). 2020.
Grammaticalization Scenarios from Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific,
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, v. 2.

3.     Bisang, Walter, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Björn Wiemer (eds.). 2004.
What makes grammaticalization? A look from its components and its fringes.
Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

4.     Bybee, Joan, William Pagliuca & Revere D. Perkins. 1994. The
evolution of grammar. Tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the
World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

5.     Givón, Talmy. 1979 [2018]. On understanding grammar [1979. Academic
Press (revised edition). Benjamins.]

6.     Haspelmath, Martin. 1998. Does grammaticalization need reanalysis?
Studies in Language 22. 315–351.

7.     Haspelmath, Martin. 1999. Why is grammaticalization
irreversible? Linguistics, vol. 37, no. 6. pp. 1043-1068.

8.     Heiko Narrog & Bernd Heine (eds.). 2018. Grammaticalization from a
typological perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

9.     Heine, Bernd, Ulrike Claudi &Friederike Hünnemeyer. 1991.
Grammaticalization: A Conceptual Framework. University of Chicago Press.

10.   Kuteva, Tania, Bernd Heine, Bo Hong, Haiping Long, Heiko Narrog &
Seongha Rhee. 2019. World, lexicon of grammaticalization (2nd revised
edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

11.   Lehmann, Christian. 1985 [2015]. Grammaticalization: Synchronic
variation and diachronic change. Lingua e Stile 20. 303-18. [3rd
edition. (Classics
in Linguistics 1). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI:
10.5281/zenodo.7520796]

12.   Narrog, Heiko & Bernd Heine (eds.). 2011. The Oxford handbook of
grammaticalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

13.   Newmeyer, Frederick J. 1998. Language Form and Language Function.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

14.   Traugott, Elizabeth & Bernd, Heine (eds.). 1991. Approaches to
Grammaticalization. V.1-2. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
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