33.3792, Calls: Germanic; Discourse Analysis, Ling & Literature/Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-3792. Sat Dec 10 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.3792, Calls: Germanic; Discourse Analysis, Ling & Literature/Germany

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Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 11:19:09
From: Barthe Bloom [bloom at uni-potsdam.de]
Subject: Discourse Structure and Narration: A Diachronic View from Germanic

Full Title: Discourse Structure and Narration: A Diachronic View from Germanic 

Date: 04-May-2023 - 05-May-2023
Location: Potsdam, Germany 
Contact Person: Barthe Bloom
Meeting Email: dina.diager at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature 

Language Family(ies): Germanic 

Call Deadline: 30-Jan-2023 

Meeting Description:

Discourse Structure and Narration: A Diachronic View from Germanic will be a
two-day workshop on the diachronic developments of grammatical realization of
discourse and narrative structure, focusing on the patterns exhibited by the
Germanic languages. The intent is to publish a collected volume with the
papers following the workshop.

The organization of the workshop and the following volume is related to the
DFG project Wortstellung und Diskursstruktur in der Frühen Neuzeit, which is
concerned with the impact of discourse structure on Early New High German word
order in narratives.

We invite abstracts for papers that deal with the relation between grammatical
patterns and the structure of discourse and narration from a diachronic and
Germanic perspective.

Confirmed Speakers:

- Jordan Chark, ZAS Berlin
- Anna Cichosz, Łódź
- Bettelou Los, Edinburgh
- Pierre-Yves Modicom, Lyon
- Sonja Zeman, Augsburg

Call for Papers:

Characteristic of narratives is the double-layered nature of the structure,
with on the one hand the descriptive content and on the other hand the
representation of the content (Chatman 1980), and thus lends itself well for
shifting viewpoints (Dancygier & Sweetser 2012). This is particularly
interesting as perspective taking interacts with the use of tense and aspect
(Fleischmann 1985, Sanders & Van Krieken 2019), but also with the use of
complement clauses (Verhagen 2005) and the position and integration of
adverbial clauses (Csipak 2019).

Narratives may be structured around the temporal sequence of events or
centered on topics, which is reflected in the grammatical devices used to link
elements to previous discourse and continue the narration (Carroll, Von
Stutterheim & Nuese 2004). Consequently, a change in narrative structure
should be correlated with changes in the use and productivity of grammatical
patterns. Think for example of the changes and variation regarding the
realization of the preverbal slot(s) in declarative sentences (Axel 2004, Frey
2005, Bohnacker & Rosén 2007, Bech & Salvesen 2012, Walkden 2017, Larsson &
Kinn 2022) or regarding the position of the finite verb (Hinterhölzl & Petrova
2010, Los 2012, Demske 2018, Booth & Beck 2021).

How and to which degree changes in grammatical patterns correlate or are
affected by changes in discourse and narrative structure, how the two layers
interact with each other and affect each other, and how such issues can be
operationalized are still understudied. Therefore, we invite papers that deal
with such issues.

Abstracts of max. 400 words (excl. references) should be emailed as a PDF-file
to DiNa.DiaGer at gmail.com by Jan. 30th, 2023. Notification of acceptance will
be provided by Feb. 27th, 2023. Please indicate whether you would be
interested in contributing a full paper. Further information on the volume
will follow upon acceptance or by request.

References
Axel, K. 2004. “The Syntactic Integration of Preposed Adverbial Clauses on the
German Left Periphery: A Diachronic Perspective.” In The Syntax and Semantics
of the Left Periphery, ed. by H. Lohnstein & S. Trissler, 23–58. Berlin: De
Gruyter.
Bohnacker, U. & C. Rosén. 2007. “How to Start a V2 Declarative Clause:
Transfer of Syntax vs. Information Structure in L2 German.” Nordlyd 34 (3):
29–56.
Booth, H., and C. Beck. 2021. “Verb-Second and Verb-First in the History of
Icelandic.” Journal of Historical Syntax 5 (28): 1–53.
Carroll, M., C. Von Stutterheim & R. Nuese. 2011. “The Language and Thought
Debate: A Psycholinguistic Approach.” Multidisciplinary Approaches to Language
Production, 183–218.
Chatman, S. 1978. Story and Discourse. Narrative Structure in Fiction and
Film. Ithaca: CUP.
Csipak, E. 2019. “Adverbial Clauses and V3.” Linguistics Vanguard 5: 1–11.
Demske, U. 2018. “Syntax and Discourse Structure: Verb-Final Main Clauses in
German.” Linguistische Berichte 25: 135–59.
Fleischman, S. 1985. “Discourse Functions of Tense-Aspect Oppositions in
Narrative: Toward a Theory of Grounding.” Linguistics 23 (6): 851–82.
Hinterhölzl, R. & S. Petrova. 2010. “From V1 to V2 in West Germanic.” Lingua
120 (2): 315–28.
Larsson, I. & K. Kinn, 2022. “Stability and Change in the C-Domain in American
Swedish.” Languages 7 (4): 256.
Los, B. 2012. “The Loss of Verb-Second and the Switch from Bounded to
Unbounded Systems.” In Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the
History of English, ed. by A. Meurman-Solin, M. J. López-Couso & B. Los,
21–46. Oxford: OUP.
Sanders, J. & K. Van Krieken. 2019. “Traveling through Narrative Time: How
Tense and Temporal Deixis Guide the Representation of Time and Viewpoint in
News Narratives.” Cognitive Linguistics 30 (2): 281–304.
Verhagen, A. 2005. Constructions of Intersubjectivity. Discourse, Syntax, and
Cognition. Oxford: OUP
Walkden, G. 2017. “Language Contact and V3 in Germanic Varieties New and Old.”
Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 20 (1): 48-81.

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