27.4558, Calls: Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Subject: 27.4558, Calls: Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2016 15:34:31
From: Alena Kolyaseva [alyona.kolyaseva at gmail.com]
Subject: A Multifaceted Approach to Type Noun Constructions

Full Title: A Multifaceted Approach to Type Noun Constructions 

Date: 10-Sep-2017 - 13-Sep-2017
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Alena Kolyaseva
Meeting Email: a.kolyaseva at ulg.ac.be

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 20-Nov-2016 

Meeting Description:

Title: A multifaceted approach to type noun constructions: comparison,
discourse and diachrony

Workshop organizers:

Alena Kolyaseva (University of Liege)
Lot Brems (University of Liege)
Kristin Davidse (University of Leuven)

Recent studies have shown that nouns with the meaning ‘a class of people or
objects that have particular features in common’, henceforth referred to as
‘type nouns’, have developed a number of new functions, associated mainly with
grammaticalized constructions, both within and beyond the NP. Languages for
which the new uses have been surveyed include English (Denison 2002, Keizer
2007, De Smedt, Brems & Davidse 2007), Swedish (Rosenkvist & Skärlund 2013),
French (Rosier 2002, Fleischmann & Yaguello 2004), Italian (Voghera 2012),
Spanish (Mihatsch 2007, 2016), Portuguese (Bittencourt 2000) and Russian
(Daiber 2010, Kolyaseva & Davidse 2016). Generally recognized grammaticalized
uses are: 

- Qualifying uses, which, rather than identifying subtypes, hedge
categorizations (Denison 2002, Keizer 2007)
- Prepositions and conjunctive adverbials (Voghera 2012)
- Particles with discourse marker, filler and quotative functions (Aijmer
2002).

The state of the art on type noun constructions raises fundamental questions,
central to our understanding of grammatical constructions, contrastive
analysis, grammaticalization and its embedding in usage and discourse. Another
avenue to descriptive solidification lies in investigation of the different
discourse contexts and varieties in which type noun constructions are
attested. For instance, complex determiner constructions have been observed to
involve phoric relations to the co-text. A study of the cohesive links
different types of type noun-constructions have to their co-text might be very
informative. Likewise, some type noun constructions have been shown to have
distinct links with specific dialectal, sociolectal and diatypic variaties,
such as the greater frequency of grammaticalized 'kind of' and 'sort of' in
American and British English respectively, and the frequency of the quotative
use in the language of younger speakers and on fora such as the Internet. More
systematic variational studies might throw further light on both this
correlation and features of the new linguistic signs.

Finally, the similarity of new functions acquired by type nouns
crosslinguistically raises the obvious question of whether they are the result
of certain intrinsic properties of type nouns or of language contact.
Reconstructing and comparing the diachronic paths of type nouns in different
languages may shed light on this question.

The questions to be addressed include but are not restricted to:

- the distribution of type nouns in various languages (interchangeability,
constructions they are part of, etc.), grammatical functions developed or
potential to do so;
- the discourse contexts and discourse functions of type noun-constructions;
- reconstruction of the diachronic development of type noun constructions and
the evolution of meanings;
- the mechanisms and motivation of change within the type noun group, extra-
and intralinguistic factors, language-specific constraints and preconditions;
- sociolinguistic and variational studies of type noun-constructions.

Call for Papers:

We especially welcome papers on languages that have not yet been discussed
extensively with regard to the evolution of type nouns. An important goal of
the workshop is the publication of a thematic volume or a journal issue.

The workshop is intended to form part of the 50th Annual Meeting of the
Societas Linguistica Europea (SLE) to be held in Zürich, 10-13 September 2017.
For our workshop proposal, we are soliciting preliminary abstracts of max. 300
words (excluding references). Abstracts should be emailed to the workshop
organizers. Upon acceptance of the workshop proposal by the SLE by 25 December
2016, we will invite all interested workshop participants to submit their full
abstracts of max. 500 words by 15 January 2017.

Important Dates:

20 November 2016: Deadline for submission of preliminary 300-word abstracts to
the workshop organizers
25 December 2016: Notification of workshop proposal acceptance from SLE 
15 January 2017: Deadline for submission of full abstracts to SLE 
31 March 2017: Notification of paper acceptance

References:

Aijmer, K. 2002. English Discourse Particles: Evidence from a Corpus.
Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Bittencourt, Vanda de Oliveira. 2000. Tipo (Assim) como Delimitador de
‛Unidades de Informação’. Estudos Lingüísticos 29: 264–269.
Daiber, Th., 2010. Quotativmarker im Russischen (tipo/tipa). Zeitschrift für
Slawistik 55: 69–89.
Dehé, N. & Stathi, K., Forthc. Grammaticalization and prosody: the case of
English sort/kind/type of constructions. Language 92(4).
Denison, D., 2002. History of the sort of construction family. Paper presented
at the Second International conference on Construction Grammar, Helsinki,
September 6–28, 2002.
De Smedt, L., Brems, L., Davidse, K., 2007. NP-internal functions and extended
uses of the 'type' nouns kind, sort, and type: towards a comprehensive,
corpus-based description. In: Fachinetti R. (eds.), Corpus linguistics 25
years on. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 225-255.
Fleischmann, S., Yaguello, M. 2004. Discourse markers across languages:
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Discourse across Languages and Cultures. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 129–148.
Keizer, E., 2007. Sort/kind/type-constructions. In: The English Noun Phrase.
The Nature of Linguistic Categorization. Cambridge: Cambridge University
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Kolyaseva, A., Davidse, K., 2016. A typology of lexical and grammatical uses
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Martin, J., 2008. Text Grammar. Course notes. Linguistics Department.
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Mihatsch, W., 2007. The construction of vagueness. “Sort of” expressions in
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(eds.), Aspects of Meaning Constructing Meaning. From Concepts to Utterances.
Amsterdam: Benjamins. 225–245.
Mihatsch, W., 2016. Type-noun binominals in four romance languages, Language
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Rosier, L., 2002. Genre: Le Nuancier de sa grammaticalisation. Travaux de
Linguistique 44: 79–88. 
Rosenkvist, H., Skärlund, S., 2013. Grammaticalization in the present: the
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Traugott, E., 2010. (Inter)subjectivity and (inter)subjectification: A
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Voghera, M., 2013. A case study on the relationship between grammatical change
and synchronic variation: the emergence of tipo[−N] in Italian In: Giacalone
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