31.3298, Calls: Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/Greece

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Subject: 31.3298, Calls: Morphology, Semantics, Syntax/Greece

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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 20:22:45
From: María Sol Sansiñena [mariasol.sansinena at kuleuven.be]
Subject: Indexicality

 
Full Title: Indexicality 

Date: 31-Aug-2021 - 03-Sep-2021
Location: Athens, Greece 
Contact Person: María Sol Sansiñena
Meeting Email: mariasol.sansinena at kuleuven.be

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 13-Nov-2020 

Meeting Description:

The concept of indexicality – originating in the semiotics of C.S. Peirce and
his triad symbol, icon and index – has been applied in the description of a
broad range of linguistic phenomena, from the internal workings of phonology
and morphology via relations within syntactic constructions and lexical and
grammatical elements designed to hook on to features outside the clause, to
the choice of linguistic variants in social interaction.

The recent decades have seen a growing interest in the concept of indexicality
as a tool for analysis and explanation and as an important semiotic aspect of
the organization of linguistic structures. However, there is a number of
phenomena that have (typically) not been approached as instances of
indexicality but which present themselves as cases that would benefit from an
index analysis, including Insubordination and dependency relations,
disambiguation of polysemous lexemes by inflectional allomorphs, semiotic
shifts from indexical to symbolic function and the creation of
domain-straddling indexicality.
 
The aim of the workshop is bringing together linguists working with different
linguistic phenomena from diverse domains of language and linguistic analysis
to discuss how linguistic description/analysis may benefit from interpreting
those phenomena as instances of indexicality as a uniting property and a
general semiotic phenomenon.


Call for Papers: 

The workshop will encompass the following aspects of investigations into
indexicality:
 - Empirical cases of linguistic indexicality that further our understanding
of what an index may be
 - Analysis of different types of indexical function (e.g. indexing of a
morphosyntactic feature, of a semantic property, etc.), of what they have in
common, how they differ and what the full range of possible types of
linguistic indexing may be
 - Examinations of the role of indexes and indexicality in synchronic accounts
and in diachronic processes of change
 - Theoretical discussions of how indexical function fits into the larger
picture of linguistic meaning and the semiotics of linguistic phenomena

Of particular interest are the following topics:
 - Indexical functions that straddle different linguistic domains (e.g.
morphology/syntax, utterance-internal/extra-linguistic) and their motivations
 - Changes in indexical functions whereby the domain of the indexical relation
is changed (e.g. extension of what is indexed to include extra-linguistic
situational features, or replacement of that which is indexed) 
 - Semiotic shifts whereby elements change from having indexical to symbolic
function, or vice versa and the role these shifts play in diachronic changes 

Important dates: 
 - November 13, 2020: deadline for submission of short abstracts to the
convenors of the workshop (300 words without references) – please submit
abstracts to mariasol.sansinena at kuleuven.be   
 - January 15, 2021: deadline for submission of individual “long” abstracts by
the participants (500 words without references)
 - March 31, 2021: notification of acceptance/rejection of individual “long”
abstracts.

Workshop convenors:
Peter Juul Nielsen (University of Southern Denmark) 
María Sol Sansiñena (University of Leuven)




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