33.3787, Calls: Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing, Syntax, Typology/Germany

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Subject: 33.3787, Calls: Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing, Syntax, Typology/Germany

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Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 06:28:51
From: Karin Madlener-Charpentier [madl at zhaw.ch]
Subject: Theme Session ''Constructional perspectives on motion event encoding : language typology, usage, and acquisition'' at ICLC16, 2023

 
Full Title: Theme Session "Constructional perspectives on motion event encoding : language typology, usage, and acquisition" at ICLC16, 2023 

Date: 07-Aug-2023 - 11-Aug-2023
Location: Düsseldorf, Germany 
Contact Person: Karin Madlener-Charpentier
Meeting Email: madl at zhaw.ch
Web Site: https://iclc16.phil.hhu.de/call/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2023 

Meeting Description:

Theme session ''Constructional perspectives on motion event encoding :
language typology, usage, and acquisition'' accepted for ICLC16 (16th
International Cognitive Linguistics Conference).

Cross-linguistic variation is well documented in the spatial language domain
(Slobin 2004). Language-specific encoding preferences have been described in
terms of lexicalization or conceptualization patterns (Talmy 1985;
Treffers-Daller/Tidball 2016) and degrees of manner/path salience (Slobin
2004). For spontaneous motion, a major distinction is typically made between
verb-framed (V) and satellite-framed (S) languages (Talmy 1985). In
V-languages, path is expressed in the main verb, whereas manner is only
expressed if highly salient; V-languages have smaller lexicons of
manner-of-motion verbs (Slobin, 2004) and V-language speakers encode manner of
motion less frequently than users of S-languages (Treffers-Daller/Tidball
2016). In S-languages, the root of the finite verb typically (although not
necessarily) encodes manner of motion, while path is expressed in different
types of satellites, e.g., directional adverbs, verbal prefixes/particles,
prepositional phrases (Madlener-Charpentier/Liste Lamas 2022), with more than
one satellite being possibly attached to one motion verb, resulting in
complex/dense path descriptions (Zlatev et al. 2021). 
   More detailed research has shown substantial amounts of intra-typological
and language-internal variation (e.g., Hijazo-Gascón 2020; Pavlenko/Volynsky
2015; Lewandowski 2020). The distinction between V- and S-languages is thus
not categorical; rather, languages can be situated, on a cline between
“typical” V-languages and “typical” S-languages (Slobin 2004). The main
categories of analysis can also be applied to other spatial constructions,
e.g., caused motion (e.g., Harr/Hickmann 2016), fictive motion; further links
can be established with neighboring constructions (e.g., resultatives, cf.
Gallez 2020).
   In language acquisition, the language(s) speakers are growing into early in
their life shape(s) these speakers’ information processing routine and their
attention to particular components of event construal (Slobin, 1996). Children
have been shown to respect and apply the main lexicalization patterns for
localization and motion of their L1 from early on (cf. Harr/Hickmann 2016).
Processing routines established and entrenched in the L1 may be difficult to
restructure when learning additional languages (L2) later in life. Speakers of
V-languages learning an S-framed L2 may thus struggle with adapting to higher
degrees of manner salience (De Knop/Gallez 2011).
   This theme session discusses research in the domain of motion event
encoding from a cognitive linguistic, constructionist, or usage-based
perspective. It brings together research investigating (1) language-specific
patterns and constructions (spontaneous, caused, and fictive motion),
including gesture, (2) typological and cross-linguistic variation (with
respect to information packaging/focus/locus, constructional preferences/v
ariability, …), (3) the acquisition of constructional patterns in first,
bilingual, and second/foreign languages, including cross-linguistic influences
in language and cognition, and implications for teaching.


Call for Papers:

Call for further submissions to the theme session:

The ICLC16 conference call is open until January 15, 2023.

For submissions, please follow the general ICLC16 instructions:
https://iclc16.phil.hhu.de/call/

NOTE: If you want to submit a contribution to the theme session, please make
sure to note the title of the theme session at the top of your abstract.




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