33.1487, Calls: General Linguistics, History of Linguistics, Linguistic Theories/France

Wed Apr 27 01:56:40 UTC 2022

LINGUIST List: Vol-33-1487. Tue Apr 26 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.1487, Calls: General Linguistics, History of Linguistics, Linguistic Theories/France

Moderator: Malgorzata E. Cavar (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Student Moderator: Billy Dickson
Managing Editor: Lauren Perkins
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Everett Green, Sarah Goldfinch, Nils Hjortnaes,
      Joshua Sims, Billy Dickson, Amalia Robinson, Matthew Fort
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everett at linguistlist.org>
================================================================

Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2022 21:55:34
From: James McElvenny [james.mcelvenny at mailbox.org]
Subject: New Historical and Diachronic Perspectives on Grammaticalization

Full Title: New Historical and Diachronic Perspectives on Grammaticalization 

Date: 12-Jan-2023 - 13-Jan-2023
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: James McElvenny
Meeting Email: james.mcelvenny at mailbox.org
Web Site: https://shesl.org/index.php/en/conference-2023/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; History of Linguistics; Linguistic Theories 

Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2022 

Meeting Description:

The field of grammaticalization has been flowering for over half a century.
Grammaticalization phenomena have been investigated from various perspectives:
language-specific and typological, synchronic and diachronic, linguistic and
psycholinguistic, morpho-syntactic and semantic, etc. The definition and,
indeed, the very existence of grammaticalization have been called into
question (Roberts 1993, Newmeyer 1998: 263-275, Roberts & Roussou 1999,
Campbell & Janda 2000, Janda 2000), apparently to no avail. However, this
might partly explain why so much effort has been put into defining the
phenomenon of grammaticalization (Ramat & Hopper 1998, Lehmann 2015, Hopper &
Traugott 2003), and investigating the grey areas in which it seems to overlap
with other phenomena, mainly lexicalization (Cabrera 1998, Wischer 2000,
Lehmann 2002), pragmaticalization (Diewald 2011, Heine 2013, Degand &
Evers-Vermeul 2015) and constructionalization (Mauri & Sansò 2011, Trousdale
2014, Traugott 2015, Smirnova 2015).

In the large body of work on grammaticalization which has resulted from these
efforts, comparatively little attention has been devoted to the origin and
shaping of the concept in past centuries. While few authors believe they have
invented the term and the concept (Fagard 2019), many rightly credit Meillet
(1912) for inventing the term, but for the greater part the literature on
grammaticalization ignores earlier work on the emergence of grammar from
lexical items. There are a few exceptions, and the importance of Gabelentz
(2016 [1891]) as a precursor is also recognized by various authors (Lehmann
1982: 1–9, Heine et al 1991: 5-23, Hopper & Traugott 1993: 19–38). However, a
full picture would need to include other precursors, such as Schiller
(1960[1795]), Whitney (1875), Darmesteter (1877), Bréal (1887), Bally
(1965[1913]) and others (see Plank 1992, Christy 1999, McElvenny 2016ab).

More than a century after Meillet’s now famous paper, with tens of thousands
of papers and volumes on grammaticalization,[1] it seems appropriate to take
the time to pause and think about what the future and past of
grammaticalization have in common. We invite colleagues specialized in
diachrony and epistemology to exchange their views on the matter, focusing for
instance on the following issues, looking both back at past centuries of
research on language and languages, and ahead at what can be done to further
our understanding of the concept:

- What are the most important steps in bringing to light the phenomenon of
grammaticalization?
- How has the concept evolved from 18th and 19th-century ideas on the nature
and development of grammar to the 20th-century notion of grammaticalization?
How does this relate to modern views on the topic?
- In what ways are the conceptualization of language and its diachronic
development influenced by the broader intellectual context of each age, e.g.
by uniformitarianism in geology, systems theory in sociology, holistic notions
of the organism in biology, and aesthetics in art history and theory?
- How crucial are diachronic corpus studies and typological perspectives to an
accurate analysis of grammaticalization phenomena?
- How important to a discussion of grammaticalization are concepts such as
lexicalization, pragmaticalization and constructionalization?

[1] A query on ‘grammaticalization’, on Google scholar, December 22nd, 2021,
yielded “About 57,200 results”.

Call for Papers:

SHESL Conference 2023
New historical and diachronic perspectives on grammaticalization

Paris, 12–13 January 2023

The Société d’histoire et d’épistémologie des sciences du langage (SHESL)
invites abstracts for the 2023 annual conference on the topic “New historical
and diachronic perspectives on grammaticalization”.

This conference is intended as an opportunity to present and discuss
contributions for a projected edited volume on the historical background and
epistemological foundations of grammaticalization research. For this reason,
the conference will consist of a small number of one-hour sessions, each with
a 45-minute presentation and 15-minute question time.

Please send abstracts for contributions by 15 August 2022 to
grammaticalisation at ens.psl.eu
Abstracts should be around 250 words long and include a bibliography.

References:

Bally, Charles. 1965[1913]. Le langage et la vie. Genève: Droz.

Bréal, Michel. L’histoire des mots. Vol. 43. C. Delagrave, 1887.

Cabrera, Juan C. Moreno. On the relationships between grammaticalization and
lexicalization. The limits of grammaticalization (1998): 211–227.

Campbell, Lyle, and Richard Janda. “Introduction: conceptions of
grammaticalization and their problems.” Language sciences 23.2-3 (2000):
93–112.

Christy, Craig. 2002. Tooke’s “abbreviation” and Bréal’s “latent ideas” – a
new perspective on grammaticalization. History

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

***************************    LINGUIST List Support    ***************************
 The 2020 Fund Drive is under way! Please visit https://funddrive.linguistlist.org
  to find out how to donate and check how your university, country or discipline
     ranks in the fund drive challenges. Or go directly to the donation site:
                   https://crowdfunding.iu.edu/the-linguist-list

                        Let's make this a short fund drive!
                Please feel free to share the link to our campaign:
                    https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-33-1487	
----------------------------------------------------------