35.2315, Confs: "Bridging contexts in semantic change", as part of the ERC-founded Project EXREAN (Experimental Replication of Historical Reanalysis Processes)

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Subject: 35.2315, Confs: "Bridging contexts in semantic change", as part of the ERC-founded Project EXREAN (Experimental Replication of Historical Reanalysis Processes)

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Date: 20-Aug-2024
From: Silvina Espíndola Moschner [silvina.em at fu-berlin.de]
Subject: "Bridging contexts in semantic change", as part of the ERC-founded Project EXREAN (Experimental Replication of Historical Reanalysis Processes)


"Bridging contexts in semantic change", as part of the ERC-founded
Project EXREAN (Experimental Replication of Historical Reanalysis
Processes)

Date: 19-Sep-2024 - 20-Sep-2024
Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Contact: Silvina Espíndola Moschner
Contact Email: silvina.em at fu-berlin.de
Meeting URL: https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/v/exrea
n/news/Exrean-Workshop_-Bridging-contexts-in-semantic-changes.html

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Pragmatics;
Semantics; Syntax

Meeting Description:

The concept of bridging context is central to the study of semantic
change. It is well known that the transition from meaning A to B
always involves a phase of polysemy, in which both meanings coexist in
one form. Bridging contexts, partly corresponding to what Diewald
(2002) terms critical contexts, are contexts that allow for an
interpretation in terms of either the original meaning or a new
meaning (cf. Evans & Wilkins 2000, Heine 2002). Such contextual
settings are regarded as “the places where extended meanings commonly
have their genesis” (Evans & Wilkins 2000: 550).

Specific topics addressed by the talks in this workshop are the role
of bridging contexts as the locus for reanalysis, inferential
mechanisms leading to semantic reinterpretation, challenges in
determining what rate of use of a given item in specific contextual
settings can be taken as an indicator of language change, and the
study of synchronic variation as a starting point for inferring
diachronic processes.

References:
Diewald, G. (2002). A model for relevant types of contexts in
grammaticalization. New reflections on grammaticalization, 103-120.
Evans, N., & Wilkins, D. (2000). In the mind's ear: The semantic
extensions of perception verbs in Australian languages. Language,
546-592.
Heine, B. (2002). On the role of context in grammaticalization. New
reflections on grammaticalization, 49, 83-101.

The program and the abstracts of the talks can be found on this
website: https://osf.io/uhq3y/



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