30.3960, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Romania

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Subject: 30.3960, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Romania

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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 18:06:05
From: Caroline Gentens [caroline.gentens at english.su.se]
Subject: The Grammaticalization of Manner Expressions into Complementizers

Full Title: The Grammaticalization of Manner Expressions into Complementizers 

Date: 26-Aug-2020 - 29-Aug-2020
Location: Bucharest, Romania 
Contact Person: Caroline Gentens
Meeting Email: caroline.gentens at english.su.se

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Semantics; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 10-Nov-2019 

Meeting Description:

(Workshop at 53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea)

Saxena (1995) drew attention to the cross-linguistic polyfunctionality and
grammaticalization of manner deictics such as 'thus' or 'so' into
complementizers or quotative markers. She suggested a unidirectional pathway
whereby manner expressions first develop a function as quotative markers,
which then gives them the potential to acquire the same range of functions as
verbs of speaking that grammaticalized into complementizers.
In later work, the specific aptitude for manner expressions to develop into
quotatives or complementizers has been confirmed to be widespread (Heine &
Kuteva 2002: 274, 258; Güldemann 2008: 317-328; König 2015; Boye & Kehayov
2016; Treis & Vanhove 2017). The studies show that the quotative stage is not
required, and that similar developments into the domain of complex sentences
apply to manner demonstratives, manner question words, manner nouns, manner
affixes, and to closely related similative verbs or similative prepositions,
which we therefore all include under ''manner expressions''.
The grammaticalization of manner expressions remains understudied, however.
This has been attributed to their semantic and syntactic versatility (e.g.
König 2015: 39-40), and to problems associated with making distinctions
between markers of manner ''proper'', similarity, comparison, instrument, and
means (Kortmann 1997: 81, 84, 146; Hengeveld & Mackenzie 2008: 263-265). In
this workshop, we want to draw on the recent surge in descriptive studies to
refine existing distinctive criteria, to document the ways in which manner
expressions acquire grammatical functions in complex sentences, and to examine
their relevance to the cross-linguistic study of the semantics of
complementation.
This last question relates to the functional specialization of the manner
expression that introduces a complement clause in the broad sense. Some
grammaticalized manner expressions are specialized for non-presupposed
complement types in the domain of direct and indirect speech and thought
reporting, for instance into quotative, i.e. direct speech-related, uses (e.g.
quotative 'so' and 'be like'), or indirect speech-related uses (e.g. 'so' as a
propositional anaphor in 'He said so'). Others specialize for so-called
presupposed, ''factive'', propositions (e.g. complementizer-‘how’ ≈ ‘that’))
rather than illocutions (Legate 2010, Nye 2013, Gentens 2016, Boye & Kehayov
2016). Yet another type occurs specifically with counterfactual, so-called
''mistaken belief'' complements (e.g. Evans 1995: 379).

The goal of this workshop is thus to bring together papers documenting the
synchronic and diachronic multifunctionality and functional specialization of
manner expressions that have come to function as propositional complementizers
or as quotatives, both in English and beyond. We would like the contributions
to explore one or more of the following questions:

- which empirical criteria allow you to distinguish between closely related
uses (e.g. manner and similative uses) or complement types (e.g. between
presupposed, interrogative, and exclamative how-complements, cf. Nye 2013)? 
- how do different uses of the same marker relate to the distinction between
states of affairs, propositions, and illocutions (see e.g. Lyons 1977, Boye
2012)?
- does the complementizer/quotative use specialize for factive propositions,
for non-presupposed complements in the directly and indirectly reported
domain, or for mistaken belief contexts?
- does this semantic specialization show in a restriction on the set of main
clause predicates? Is the marker also used in cases of (semi-)insubordination?
- how does this semantic clause type relate to the larger system of
complementation in the language?
- which source construction(s)/mechanism(s) of change underlie the
development?

Call for Papers:

We invite 300-word abstracts (excluding references) related to the questions
outlined above, for 20 min.-presentations (+ 10 min. discussion time).
Abstracts should be submitted by 10 November 2019 to
caroline.gentens at english.su.se and boye at hum.ku.dk, and should mention the
author’s name and affiliation. 

If the workshop is accepted (notification of acceptance will follow around 15
December), authors will be invited to submit a 500-word abstract before 15
January 2020, which will be reviewed by the SLE scientific committee.

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