32.3111, Calls: Historical Linguistics/United Kingdom

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Subject: 32.3111, Calls: Historical Linguistics/United Kingdom

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Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2021 13:35:21
From: Mathilde Bru [mathilde.bru.20 at ucl.ac.uk]
Subject: Choosing your Words: Lexicalisation and Grammaticalisation in Greek and Latin

 
Full Title: Choosing your Words: Lexicalisation and Grammaticalisation in Greek and Latin 

Date: 01-Apr-2022 - 02-Apr-2022
Location: University College London, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Mathilde Bru
Meeting Email: chooseyourwords22 at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 10-Jan-2022 

Meeting Description:

The UCL Department of Greek and Latin is pleased to announce an International
Conference held at University College London on the 1st-2nd April 2022. 

The aim of this conference is to examine changes in the lexicon and the
constructions of Greek and Latin. The traditionally strong separation between
lexicon and constructions of languages might warrant a closer examination. The
English expression “who knows” can, for instance, function at the same time as
an interrogative as well as an adverb, the latter being traditionally
represented by a lexeme. A similar situation can be observed in Aristophanes’
μὰ τὸν Δία or the Plautine ita me di ament, etc. Examining the variation and
evolution of the language of the literary and documentary corpus can help us
develop different or more thorough interpretations of these texts. This
continuum between constructions and the lexicon is an area where traditional
boundaries between lexicon, morphology, syntax and semantics may be unhelpful
in understanding how and why changes occur. This is symptomatic of a more
systematic issue with terminology: compounds, for example, are the result of a
lexicalisation process by which all of these factors interact with each other.
We hope that case studies from the history of Greek and Latin, underpinned by
a range of theoretical approaches, will help us to develop better frameworks
for the analysis and explanation of linguistic innovation, a field in which
current terminological constraints can make it hard to describe the phenomena
clearly.

Topics might include, but are not limited to:

- Lexicon and constructions: can we understand them as separate categories or
part of a whole?
- Can we understand the reasons (language contact, phonological,
morphological, semantic, pragmatic...) for innovation and change in the
lexicon? 
- Motivations for grammatical change: insights from functional, cognitive,
pragmatic, discourse approaches, etc.
- How can the reasons behind compounding be explained, and why is it sometimes
favoured over other lexicalisation processes? 
- The use of classical texts in examining linguistic change and variation.
- The use of theories of linguistic change and variation in interpreting
classical texts.
- How cognitive approaches to language and ancient texts can inform our
understanding of linguistic change and variation.

A dedicated webpage will appear shortly on the website of the Department of
Greek and Latin, UCL. We are delighted to announce that speakers will include:

Prof. James Clackson (University of Cambridge)
Dr. Evert van Emde Boas (Aarhus University)
Prof. Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute)
Prof. Silvia Luraghi (University of Pavia)


Call for Papers:

We welcome proposals for 30 minute papers (followed by 15 minutes of
discussion) from established scholars, early career researchers and PhD
students. Please send proposals or abstracts as an email attachment (Word or
PDF, max. 3000 characters) to chooseyourwords22 at gmail.com by 10th January
2022. Speakers will be notified by 31st January 2022. Online access for
participants who cannot travel to London will be also enabled. The conference
convenors are Mathilde Bru (PhD student, UCL), Baihui Cheng (PhD student,
UCL), Prof. Stephen Colvin (UCL), and Tomaž Potočnik (PhD student, UCL).




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