29.2215, Calls: Historical Ling, Ling Theories, Phonology, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Subject: 29.2215, Calls: Historical Ling, Ling Theories, Phonology, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling/Germany

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Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 11:25:42
From: Nicholas Catasso [catasso at uni-wuppertal.de]
Subject: Language Change at the Interfaces: On the Interaction between Syntax, Prosody and Information Structure (at 41st DGfS)

 
Full Title: Language Change at the Interfaces: On the Interaction between Syntax, Prosody and Information Structure (AG at the 41st DGfS Annual Meeting in Bremen) 

Date: 06-Mar-2019 - 08-Mar-2019
Location: Bremen, Germany 
Contact Person: Nicholas Catasso Chiara De Bastiani
Meeting Email: chiara.debastiani at unive.it

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Phonology; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Jul-2018 

Meeting Description:

In recent years, a lively scientific debate has uncovered a (relative)
interdependency between the encoding of different information-structural (IS)
categories and syntactic reordering in the diachrony of Germanic and Romance,
thereby laying the ground for a novel approach to language change at least in
part based on language-internal mechanisms at the interface with syntax and
prosody. Diachronic change can, indeed, be described as a change in the way IS
categories are displayed in the grammar, e.g. through LF or PF conditions. Cf.
for instance the loss of V2 in Middle English (van Kemenade & Westergaard
2012) and Old Italian (Poletto 2014), the loss of IS-triggered leftward
movements in Old Spanish and Old Portuguese (Eide & Sitaridou 2014) or the
impact of IS on the OV/VO alternation in Old High German (Petrova 2009,
Hinterhölzl & Petrova 2018) or in Old Icelandic (Hróarsdóttir 2009), the
alternation between V2 and V3 in older West Germanic (Walkden 2015).

The aim of this workshop is to bring together linguists of different
theoretical persuasions with original contributions on the intricate relation
between syntax, prosody and IS from a diachronic and synchronic perspective.
Specifically, the topics we would like to address include (but are not limited
to) the following questions:

- In what way does the encoding of IS categories such as Topic and Focus,
referential givenness/newness, contrast etc. contribute to parametric
resetting in diachronic syntax? What factors determine this change and how can
we model it in a (non-)cartographic framework?
- What is the role of discourse-structural strategies (such as discourse
particles or the anaphoric properties of demonstratives) in IS-induced
syntactic change?
- From a broader cross-linguistic perspective, what kind of insights do other
languages provide in which a diachronic switch from information-structurally
to syntactically triggered configurations is observed (in the spirit of van
Kemenade & Westergaard 2012)?
- How can we improve the methodology in order to effectively ascertain IS and
prosodic phenomena? Can paratextual elements constitute reliable evidence for
the individuation of intonational patterns?

Organisation: 

Nicholas Catasso (Bergische Universität Wuppertal), Marco Coniglio
(Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), Chiara De Bastiani (Università Ca'
Foscari di Venezia), Roland Hinterhölzl (Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia)

Invited speaker: 

George Walkden (Universität Konstanz)


Call for Papers:

Anonymous abstracts for 20-minute presentations (plus 10 minutes discussion)
must be submitted in .doc and in PDF format. They should not exceed one page
in length (excluding references), in a font size no less than 12pt, and with
margins of 1 inch/2.5cm. Every author can submit at most one single-authored
abstract and one co-authored abstract. 

Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2018.

Abstracts are to be submitted via e-mail no later than July 1, 2018 to:

catasso at uni-wuppertal.de 
chiara.debastiani at unive.it 

Contact persons:

Nicholas Catasso (catasso at uni-wuppertal.de)
Chiara De Bastiani (chiara.debastiani at unive.it)




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