33.656, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Typology / Constructions and Frames (Jrnl)

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Subject: 33.656, Calls:  Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Typology / Constructions and Frames (Jrnl)

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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 14:59:24
From: Muriel Norde [muriel.norde at hu-berlin.de]
Subject: Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Typology / Constructions and Frames (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Constructions and Frames 


Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Typology 

Call Deadline: 04-Apr-2022 

Call for Papers:

Diachronic Construction Morphology
Special Issue, to appear in Constructions and Frames

Guest Editors:
Muriel Norde (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Graeme Trousdale (University of Edinburgh)

Recent years have seen an increasing interest in Diachronic Construction
Grammar (DCxG), a cognitive approach to language change that is concerned with
how form-meaning pairings, of various degrees of abstraction, come to be
conventionalised, adapted and lost in a linguistic community. Recently, there
has been particular interest in the ways in which constructions are organised
in networks (see, e.g., the papers in Barðdal et al. 2015, Sommerer & Smirnova
2015 or Diewald & Politt 2022). Within this approach, morphological change is
relatively understudied, in spite of advances in (synchronic) Construction
Morphology (e.g. Booij 2010), and despite the focus on morphology in
grammaticalization studies, which formed the basis of much earlier work in
DCxG. 

In a Special Issue in Constructions and Frames, we aim to explore how
Diachronic Construction Morphology (DCxM) can best provide a framework for
understanding morphological change. We are particularly interested in
understanding parallels between morphological change and change elsewhere in
the constructicon (e.g. in changes to argument structure constructions
[Zehentner and Traugott 2020], or the development of future constructions
[Hilpert 2008]), and in similarities and differences between inflectional and
derivational change from a constructional perspective. We invite both
theoretically and empirically oriented papers that focus on changes in
morphology in a broad sense (encompassing both inflection and word formation),
either in a single language or in more than one. As we aim for a typologically
diverse volume, contributions on non-Indo-European languages are particularly
welcome. Research questions include, but are by no means limited to the
following:

- How can morphological change be understood as changes in constructional
networks, e.g. network expansion (new constructions or schemas), network
reduction (loss) or network realignment (e.g. reorganisation of inflectional
classes)?
- What is the role of productivity in changes to morphological constructions?
- How does DCxM provide a suitable framework to account for (secondary)
grammaticalization and degrammaticalization?
- How do usage-based constructionist approaches to morphological change relate
to accounts of change in other frameworks?
- How does DCxM accommodate changes in typologically diverse languages?

Complementary workshop:
As a complement to this Special Issue, we will organise a “discontinuous
workshop”, i.e. a series of online meetings in which we discuss each other’s
drafts, to take place between September and November 2022. Details of this
workshop will be announced upon acceptance of the abstracts. 

Submission procedure:
If you are interested at presenting your work at the discontinuous workshop
and subsequently submitting the full paper for the Special Issue, please send
an abstract of 1000 words (excluding references) to muriel.norde at hu-berlin.de,
and Graeme.Trousdale at ed.ac.uk by April 4, 2022. Notification will be given by
the end of April. The deadline for submission of the full paper (8,000 words,
including references, tables and graphs) is December 1, 2022. Each paper will
be reviewed by two anonymous reviewers. The special issue of Constructions and
Frames is scheduled to appear in the second half of 2023.

Important dates:
Deadline for abstract submission: April 4, 2022
Notification of acceptance: April 29, 2022
Discontinuous Workshop: from September to November 2022
Deadline for manuscripts: December 1, 2022
Special Issue publication: Second half of 2023




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