34.204, Calls: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Pragmatics/United Kingdom

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Subject: 34.204, Calls: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Pragmatics/United Kingdom

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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 04:34:36
From: Richard Waltereit [richard.waltereit at hu-berlin.de]
Subject: Colloquium on ''Cyclicity and the theory of language change''

 
Full Title: Colloquium on "Cyclicity and the theory of language change" 

Date: 17-Jul-2023 - 18-Jul-2023
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
Meeting Email: Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk
Web Site: https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/pragmatics-in-cyclicity/home/conference/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 16-Apr-2023 

Meeting Description:

This colloquium will be held at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
It is the concluding event of the AHRC Research Network The role of pragmatics
in cyclic language change.


Call for Papers:

Cyclicity has long been assumed to be an important and recurrent pattern in
language change. However, the precise characteristics, distribution, and
possible reasons of cyclical change – and the justification of its assumption
in the first place - have not yet been investigated thoroughly. 
In this conference, we would like to bring together diachronic research on
languages from a variety of language families from different periods, with the
intention to reflect on its importance for the theory of language change. Some
of the questions on which we invite contributions include:

- What kinds of pattern in language change do we accept as instances of a
cycle?
- How do we empirically establish the assumption of a cycle in language
change?
- To what extent can other patterns in language change be related to cycles?
- To what extent can the assumption of cycles be motivated by pragmatic
factors such as implicatures and inferencing, politeness,  register, as well
as constraints of discourse genres (discourse traditions)?
- To what extent does the assumption of cycles relate to proposals made in
theories of language change such as grammaticalization or construction
grammar?
- In what notional domains of grammar (e.g., tense, aspect, deixis, pronouns,
discourse markers) do phenomena of cyclicity concentrate?
- Are there cycles outside morphology, syntax, and the evolution of pragmatic
markers, e.g., in lexical change or in phonology?
- Do we find cycles in all language families and all periods, or are there
specific restrictions?

Anonymized abstracts for 30- or 45-minute presentations (max 500 words; please
indicate clearly whether you’d like 30 or 45 minutes) should be sent to: 
Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk and richard.waltereit at hu-berlin.de 
Deadline for proposals: 16 April 2023

Registration fee: GBP50.00 (includes lunch and morning/afternoon coffee breaks
on both days)




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