35.2325, Calls: Marginal Grammar At The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface (Workshop At DGFS 2025)

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Subject: 35.2325, Calls: Marginal Grammar At The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface (Workshop At DGFS 2025)

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Date: 23-Aug-2024
From: Rita Finkbeiner [finkbeiner at uni-mainz.de]
Subject: None

Full Title: Marginal Grammar At The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
(Workshop At DGFS 2025)

Date: 05-Mar-2025 - 07-Mar-2025
Location: University of Mainz, Germany
Contact Person: Rita Finkbeiner
Meeting Email: finkbeiner at uni-mainz.de
Web Site: http://dgfs.uni-mainz.de

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics;
Syntax

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2024

Meeting Description:

Since the notion of marginal grammar (“Randgrammatik”) was first
introduced by Fries (1987), the interest in infinite, verbless,
insubordinate (Evans 2007), or otherwise “non-canonical” syntactic
patterns with an own speech act potential – including notions such as
“Minor clause types” (Siemund 2018), “Non-sentences” (Stainton 2004),
and “Block language” (Aarts 2014) – has considerably increased,
particularly within functional frameworks such as Construction Grammar
(e.g., Lambrecht 1990, Kay & Fillmore 1999). A basic insight from
functional approaches is that the particular grammatical properties of
marginal syntactic patterns can be motivated by their specialized
discoursal functions (e.g., Östman 2005, Auer 2010).

However, the guiding principles and the systematics behind these
highly specific form-function correlations are still not fully
understood. On the one hand, as marginal patterns often are
syntactically reduced and semantically underdetermined, a great deal
of their interpretation must reside in pragmatics. On the other hand,
it is a matter of controversial debate which aspects of meaning belong
to semantics and which to pragmatics (Finkbeiner 2019). From a
semantics-pragmatics interface perspective, it is crucial to take into
account not only conventional semantics and conversational pragmatics,
but also borderline areas such as “truth-conditional pragmatics”
(Recanati 2010) and “use-conditional semantics” (Gutzmann 2015) in
order to comprehensively account for the form-function correlations in
marginal constructions. However, there is a significant lack of
comprehensive empirical work that both covers the broad variety of
marginal phenomena in various languages and systematically relates
them to specific kinds of interpretational processes at the
semantics-pragmatics interface.

This workshop aims at filling this gap by encouraging and bringing
together different strands of research on marginal phenomena across
languages and discourse types. Relevant functional areas include,
e.g., instructional, expressive, appellative, and regulative action
types, usage manuals, public signs, internet memes, billboards,
advertisements, headlines, exclamations, interjections, swearing, and
many more.

Questions to be addressed at the workshop include, but are not limited
to:
 - Which particular marginal patterns, or minor clause types, can we
distinguish in various languages, and how can we systematize them?
What are their specific syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties?
 - How are particular marginal patterns related to particular speech
act types, discourse types, or genres? Are these relations
conventional or context-dependent, or something in-between?
 - Which different kinds of conventional and inferential meaning
aspects, to be located within which (borderline) areas of the
semantics/pragmatics interface, are involved in the interpretation of
different marginal patterns?
 - Which functional areas or activity types are especially prone to
attract marginal patterns, which aren’t, and why? Which role do
multimodal aspects play for the meaning constitution of marginal
patterns?

Organization:
Rita Finkbeiner (University of Mainz, Germany)
Charlotte Eisenrauch (University of Mainz, Germany)

Invited Speaker: Peter Siemund (University of Hamburg)

Final Call for Papers:

We invite contributions on theoretical and empirical aspects of
marginal grammar phenomena and the interpretational processes related
to them, addressing any of the topics listed in the workshop
description and beyond. Studies exploring new marginal patterns,
testing new methodologies, or refining existing theoretical notions of
meaning with respect to these patterns are very welcome, as are
studies from the perspectives of multimodality, language change,
language acquisition, contrastive linguistics, corpus linguistics, and
experimental linguistics.

 - Please submit your abstract by August 31, 2024 to
finkbeiner at uni-mainz.de
 - Abstracts should not exceed one page (DIN A4, 2.5 margins, 12pt
font)
 - Examples, graphics or references may appear on a second page

Important workshop information:
The workshop is part of the 47th annual meeting of the German
Linguistic Society (DGfS 2025) to be hosted by Johannes Gutenberg
University Mainz, which will take place between 5-7 March 2025. Please
note that the regulations of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) do
not allow workshop participants to present two or more papers in
different workshops (although their name can appear as a co-author of
talk at another workshop). Participants must register for the DGfS
conference and pay the conference fee. There are no additional fees
for the workshop. For more information on the DGfS conference, see the
conference website http://dgfs.uni-mainz.de.

Important dates:
Deadline for abstract submission: August 31, 2024
Notification of acceptance: September 2024
Workshop: March 5-7, 2025

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