33.2449, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Ling Theories, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 33.2449, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Ling Theories, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 23:43:45
From: Marco Coniglio [marco.coniglio at phil.uni-goettingen.de]
Subject: 45th DGfS Conference AG7: Economy, routine and creativity in syntactic change

 
Full Title: 45th DGfS Conference AG7: Economy, routine and creativity in syntactic change 

Date: 08-Mar-2023 - 10-Mar-2023
Location: Cologne, Germany 
Contact Person: Marco Coniglio
Meeting Email: marco.coniglio at phil.uni-goettingen.de

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

Call Deadline: 21-Aug-2022 

Meeting Description:

Economy has been argued to play a fundamental role in many linguistic fields,
including diachronic syntax. For example, it is well known to be of relevance
for grammaticalization processes, cyclical changes, specific principles
underlying language change (such as the Head Preference Principle and Late
Merge; cf. van Gelderen 2021) etc. In particular, economy is often associated
with routine since it seems to ensure regularity in diachronic processes. In
contrast, creativity – often identified with extravagance, innovation, renewal
etc. – is unpredictable (cf. van Gelderen 2021: 35) and could be considered
not to be governed by economy. 

However, economy can also lead to innovations in a language. For example, the
grammaticalization of the Old High German relative pronoun thaz ‘that’ (cf.
Axel 2009: 37) results in the emergence of a new complementizer (via Head
Preference Principle). On the other hand, creativity sometimes feeds cyclical
processes as in the case of the post-verbal negation particle (cf. Jäger 2008;
Breitbarth 2014). This interaction between economy and creativity vs. routine
has been less investigated so far.

Invited speakers:
Ian Roberts (Cambridge University)
Dalina Kallulli (University of Vienna)

Organizers:
Marco Coniglio (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
Sophia Oppermann (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
Katharina Paul (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)


Call for Papers:

The aim of this workshop is to bring together linguists from different areas
of syntax and its interfaces who are interested in exploring the interplay of
economy with both creativity and routine in syntactic change. The workshop
will focus on (but will not be restricted to) the following topics:

- To what extent are language change processes influenced by economy? 
- What can be identified as universal economy principles, cycles and
grammaticalization processes (see e.g., syntactic climbing, Roberts & Roussou
2003; or Rebracketing, cf. Weiß 2019)?
- What is the role of economy in different syntactic approaches, e.g.,
Labeling (cf. Kallulli & Roberts 2022; van Gelderen 2021), 
- Are linguistic routines always driven by economy, as commonly assumed?
Conversely, can creativity always be seen as “uneconomic”? 

For this workshop, we welcome papers on syntactic change that address these
and related issues both from a theoretical and empirical perspective.
Anonymous abstracts for 20-minute presentations (plus 10 minutes discussion)
must be submitted in .doc and in PDF format. They should not exceed one page
in length (excluding examples and references), in a font size no less than
12pt.

Abstracts are to be submitted via EasyChair no later than August 21, 2022:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgfs2023-ag7

 
References: Axel, Katrin. 2009. Die Entstehung des dass-Satzes – ein neues
Szenario. LB Sonderheft 16. 21–41. Breitbarth, Anne. 2014. The history of Low
German negation. Oxford: UVP. Van Gelderen, Elly. 2021. Third factors in
language variation and change. Cambridge: UVP. Jäger, Agnes. 2008. History of
German negation. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Roberts, Ian & Kallulli, Dalina. 2022.
Defectivity and auxiliary syncretism: diachronic aspects. Talk at DiGS2023,
NYU. Roberts, Ian & Roussou, Anna. 2003. Syntactic change: a minimalist
approach to grammaticalization. Cambridge: UVP. Weiß, Helmut. 2019.
Rebracketing (Gliederungsverschiebung) and the Early Merge Principle.
Diachronica 36(4). 509–545.




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