35.2853, Calls: ICHL27 Workshop – Multiple Source Explanation in Syntactic Change

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Subject: 35.2853, Calls: ICHL27 Workshop – Multiple Source Explanation in Syntactic Change

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Date: 13-Oct-2024
From: Tine Breban [tine.breban at manchester.ac.uk]
Subject: ICHL27 Workshop – Multiple Source Explanation in Syntactic Change


Full Title: ICHL27 Workshop – Multiple Source Explanation in Syntactic
Change

Date: 18-Aug-2025 - 22-Aug-2025
Location: Santiago de Chile, Chile
Contact Person: Tine Breban
Meeting Email: tine.breban at manchester.ac.uk
Web Site: https://ichl27santiago.cl

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Syntax

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2024

Meeting Description:

In a workshop convened at the 2010 conference of the Societas
Linguistica Europaea, the concept of ‘multiple source construction’ as
an explanatory factor in language change was introduced (De Smet et
al. 2015). Traditionally, language change is discussed in terms of one
element or construction developing into a new element or construction,
even when it is recognised that the linguistic context must be taken
into account (Lehmann 1992: 406, Bybee et al. 1994: 11, Traugott 2003:
266-267). Multiple source accounts, on the other hand, recognise that
more than one source may have contributed to the outcome of the
change, in short, it is assumed that A > B does not capture the
change, but rather A + B > C. In many cases, multiple sources explain
elements that are synchronically odd or unexpected in a language or
diachronic developments that have eluded explanation. The aim of the
2010 workshop was to show that multiple source accounts have
explanatory force in all domains of language: phonology, lexicon,
semantics, morphology and syntax, and this was exemplified with a
broad range of phenomena, including phonological mergers, lexical
blends, suppletion, syncretism and syntactic amalgams.

Multiple source explanations are less well-explored in syntax, so now,
ten years after De Smet et al. (2015) was published, the time seems
right to pull together work done in this area. We are particularly
interested in cases where some other dimension of linguistic
information plays a role. Examples of well-worked analyses in which
both syntax and semantics play a role, such as Trousdale (2015) and
Fanego (2015), describe very different types of change, suggesting
considerable and interesting diversity in multiple source
explanations. One aim of the workshop is to expand the inventory and
typology of multiple source explanations in syntactic change. We
therefore invite papers which provide a multiple source account of a
syntactic change, and we are especially interested in cases where, for
instance, the semantics or phonology of the sources play a role in the
analysis. We also welcome papers that deal at a more abstract level
with the nature of multiple source construction as an explanatory
factor in syntactic change. Particular questions to consider, at the
level of individual case studies or at a more abstract level, include:
 • How do the source constructions contribute to and combine in
multiple source explanations?
 • How can the interaction of dimensions of linguistic information be
accounted for in terms of multiple source explanations?
 • How does the concept of multiple source explanation enhance our
understanding of (this) syntactic change?
 • How do multiple source explanations relate to well-established
mechanisms of (syntactic) change such as reanalysis and analogy (see
De Smet 2013 on the latter)?
 • What are the conditions for and constraints on multiple source
explanations?

Workshop convenors: Tine Breban and Kersti Börjars

Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts for talks in the workshop. Abstracts of no more
than 500 words (excl. references) should be sent to Tine Breban
(tine.breban at manchester.ac.uk) by 1 November 2024 (Word or PDF
format).



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