28.5355, Calls: Historical Ling, Ling Theories, Morphology/UK

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Subject: 28.5355, Calls: Historical Ling, Ling Theories, Morphology/UK

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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 23:26:15
From: Matthias Eitelmann [eitelman at uni-mainz.de]
Subject: Extravagant Morphology

 
Full Title: Extravagant Morphology 

Date: 17-Jul-2018 - 17-Jul-2018
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Matthias Eitelmann
Meeting Email: eitelman at uni-mainz.de

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Morphology 

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2018 

Meeting Description:

Workshop convened by Matthias Eitelmann (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz,
Germany) & Dagmar Haumann (University of Bergen, Norway)

The maxim of extravagance, as coined by Haspelmath (1999: 1055) in his account
of the unidirectionality typical of grammaticalization processes, essentially
picks up one of Keller’s dynamic maxims, namely ''Talk in such a way that you
are noticed'', which is active in the workings of the  invisible hand in
language change (1994: 101). Thus, speakers, in their intent to be “socially
successful with their speech” (Haspelmath 1999: 1057f.), may not only be
particularly expressive but deviate noticeably and considerably from
established language norms by using an expression in an innovative sense, in
an “imaginative and vivid” way (ibid.), or any other clearly
attention-attracting fashion. Extravagance may therefore be regarded as a
crucial trigger for language variation and change, with such ostensibly
deviating and non-conforming language use ultimately initiating the formation
of new patterns. It also shows considerable overlap with the notion of
linguistic creativity, i.e. “the native speaker’s ability to extend the
language system in a motivated, but unpredictable (non-rule-governed) way”
(Bauer 1983: 63). At the same time, extravagance goes beyond creativity in
that it is conceptualized as an integral part of language change processes.

Against this backdrop, the workshop seeks to re-address the notion of
extravagance in an attempt to operationalise the concept to a larger degree,
investigate extravagant phenomena empirically and shed further theoretical
light on the role of extravagance in language variation and change. Understood
literally in the sense of the underlying Latin etymon extra-vagans ‘wandering
outside, out of bounds’, extravagance in the present context refers to
morphological phenomena that display divergent tendencies, with a specific
interest in the following:

(1) Word-formation processes that straddle boundaries and turn extravagant in
that innovative formations violate alleged or actual constraints
(2) Phenomena situated at the interface between morphology and syntax or
morphology and semantics/pragmatics, thus extravagantly straying over various
linguistic levels
(3) Borderline phenomena that are not easily reconcilable with traditional
postulates of morphological accounts.


Call for Papers:

Abstracts should be submitted by February 15, 2018 via the EasyAbs tool
(http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/extravagance). For any questions, please do
not hesitate to contact the workshop organisers Matthias Eitelmann
(eitelman at uni-mainz.de) or Dagmar Haumann (dagmar.haumann at uib.no).




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