29.3844, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Ling Theories, Morphology/Germany

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Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 05:44:04
From: Matthias Eitelmann [eitelman at uni-mainz.de]
Subject: Extravagant Morphology

 
Full Title: Extravagant Morphology 

Date: 21-Aug-2019 - 24-Aug-2019
Location: Leipzig, Germany 
Contact Person: Matthias Eitelmann
Meeting Email: eitelman at uni-mainz.de

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

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2018 

Meeting Description:

(Session of 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea)

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 shed light on the workings and
impact of extravagance in morphological variation and change. It aims 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. With its particular focus on morphology, the notion of
extravagance also allows for re-assessing the empirical adequacy of
established or alleged morphological rules and principles and challenging
their relative robustness or rather violability.

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.

We invite experts in variational morphology and/or morphological theory to
share and advance knowledge of extravagance, i.e. speakers' deliberate
deviation from established language norms.

For a full workshop description, please be referred to
https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Dagmar.Haumann#uib-tabs-workshop-proposal-sle-52
-extravagant-morphology


Call for Papers:

Potential participants are invited to contact the workshop organizers with an
expression of interest: eitelman at uni-mainz.de and dagmar.haumann at uib.no

The final date for the submission of an abstract (max. 300 words) is 1
November 2018. Submission at this stage is non-anonymous.

Important Dates
- Deadline for submission of abstracts to workshop convenors: 1 November 2018
- Notification of inclusion of abstract in the workshop proposal: 20 November
2018
- Notification of acceptance/rejection of the workshop proposal by the SLE
organizers: 15 December 2018
- If our workshop proposal is accepted, submission of full abstracts to SLE by
the participants: 15 January 2018




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