34.3176, Calls: Counterfactuals: Families of Constructions

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Subject: 34.3176, Calls: Counterfactuals: Families of Constructions

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Date: 25-Oct-2023
From: Tom Bossuyt [tom.bossuyt at ugent.be]
Subject: Counterfactuals: Families of Constructions


Full Title: Counterfactuals: Families of constructions

Date: 21-Aug-2024 - 24-Aug-2024
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Contact Person: Tom Bossuyt
Meeting Email: tom.bossuyt at ugent.be

Linguistic Field(s): Typology

Call Deadline: 10-Nov-2023

Call for Papers:

Counterfactuals: Families of constructions
Convenors: Jesus Olguín Martínez (Illinois State University), Tom
Bossuyt (Ghent University), Ellison Luk (KU Leuven)

Keywords: counterfactuals, usage-based, grammar network, family of
constructions, conditionals, insubordination, typology

Description
Counterfactual constructions convey the speaker’s belief that the
actualization of a situation was potential – possible, desirable,
imminent, or intended –, but that it did not take place, i.e. it did
not belong to the actual world. While counterfactuals have mostly been
studied in formal-semantic frameworks, few studies have explored
counterfactuals from a functional perspective (but see Olguín Martínez
& Lester 2021; Van linden & Verstraete 2008; Verstraete & Luk 2021).
The goal of this workshop is to help fill this gap.

Counterfactuals are typically associated with counterfactual
conditionals (e.g. If I had known that, I wouldn’t have appointed
him). However, they may show up in other guises as well, e.g.
hypothetical manner constructions. Apart from complex sentences,
counterfactuality can also be expressed by simple clauses, e.g.
clauses that are structurally similar to the main clause of a
counterfactual conditional or clauses that could be regarded as a
counterfactual conditional with an elided main clause.

The counterfactual constructions discussed above form a FAMILY OF
CONSTRUCTIONS. In recent years, this notion has established itself in
Construction Grammar as a label for sets of constructions with a
similar meaning or function, often despite striking differences of
form (Diessel 2019). Family resemblances should be considered a
synchronic reflection of the ongoing diachronic emergence of the
constructions in question. Analyzing families of constructions allows
us to hypothesize about existing schemas used to categorize novel
linguistic experiences, but also about the linear arrangement of
linguistic elements as well as connections between individual lexemes
and specific slots of constructional schemas.

Aims of the workshop
The workshop will bring together original research that contributes to
our understanding of the range and limits of crosslinguistic variation
of counterfactual constructions. Thanks to descriptions of the forms,
syntactic strategies, and semantic profiles of such constructions in a
given language, family, or macro-area, the workshop will pave the way
for a typology of counterfactuals. Potential contributions include,
but are not restricted to, the following:

1.      TAM values. What are the profiles of the TAM values that are
associated with counterfactual marking? If a language contains more
than one counterfactual construction, do they occur with the same TAM
values?
2.      Clause-linking markers. If a language has multi-word
counterfactual connectives, what are their building blocks? What
motivates their co-occurrence and linear order?
3.      Diachrony. What are the diachronic sources of grammatical
markers of counterfactuality?
4.      Language contact. Are counterfactuals prone to diffusion? What
are the mechanisms involved in the development of counterfactuals
through language contact?
5.      Filler-slot relations. In many languages, speakers can choose
to verbalize counterfactual thoughts/experiences in different ways
(e.g. If only she had gone! vs. I wish she had gone!). Do these
constructions correlate with the certain lexemes in a particular slot?
6.      Discourse functions. What discourse functions can
counterfactuals?

Please send provisional abstracts of no more than 300 words (excluding
references) in PDF format by November 10, 2023 to
jfolguinmartinez at gmail.com; tom.bossuyt at ugent.be;
ellisonluk at gmail.com. If the workshop is approved, authors will be
asked to submit revised 500-word abstracts according to the SLE
guidelines.

The full Call for Papers can be found at: https://societaslinguistica.
eu/sle2024/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/10/Counterfactuals_Families
-of-constructions.pdf



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