35.2923, Calls: SLE Workshop: Empirical Studies on Syntactic Alternation Across Languages and Theoretical Frameworks

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Subject: 35.2923, Calls: SLE Workshop: Empirical Studies on Syntactic Alternation Across Languages and Theoretical Frameworks

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Date: 18-Oct-2024
From: Pegah Faghiri [p.faghiri at uva.nl]
Subject: SLE Workshop: Empirical Studies on Syntactic Alternation Across Languages and Theoretical Frameworks


Full Title: SLE Workshop: Empirical Studies on Syntactic Alternation
Across Languages and Theoretical Frameworks
Short Title: (ESoSA)

Date: 26-Aug-2025 - 29-Aug-2025
Location: http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/sle2025, France
Contact Person: Juliette Thuilier
Meeting Email: juliette.thuilier at univ-tlse2.fr
Web Site: https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2025/workshop-proposals/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Meeting Description:

Twenty years ago, Bresnan and her colleagues introduced a new dynamic
to the study of syntactic alternations (Bresnan, 2007; Bresnan et al.,
2007). Using quantitative data drawn from systematic corpus and
experimental studies, they showed that the English dative alternation
obeys multifactorial and probabilistic constraints (involving e.g.
argument length, animacy, verb semantics), which called into question
hitherto accepted introspective descriptions but also categorical
models of grammatical competence. These new theoretical and
methodological contributions have been followed by many studies:
genitive and particle placement alternations (Szmrecsanyi et al.,
2016), active/passive alternation (Hundt et al., 2018), word order
alternations more broadly (Thuilier, 2012; Faghiri, 2016) as well as
various other syntactic alternation phenomena in a wide array of
languages (McDonnell, 2016; Riesberg et al., 2022; Just &
Witzlack-Makarevich, 2022; Gregersen, 2023; Walker et al., 2023). At
twenty years of research, we may well ask to what extent we have
succeeded in gaining a better understanding of syntactic alternation
(Pijpops et al. 2024) and if we have reached a common ground for
defining syntactic alternation across languages.

With this workshop we aim to broaden the empirical basis of studies on
syntactic alternation by bringing together researchers from different
theoretical frameworks working on syntactic alternations in different
languages and/or using a variety of methods.  We are particularly
interested in:
 • studies investigating alternation phenomena never addressed as
such,
 • studies of syntactic alternations in understudied or low-resource
languages,
 • studies exploring complex cases, e.g. involving more than two
competing constructions and/or constructions with partially
overlapping uses,
 • studies exploring new methods, either quantitative or qualitative,
or a combination of methods with consistent or divergent results,
 • theoretical studies using empirical arguments to support or
disprove a given theoretical hypothesis,
 • studies with (theoretical) contributions to other fields of
research (e.g. psycholinguistics, language evolution, language
acquisition, sociolinguistics).

The full workshop proposal will be available on SLE Website linked
above.

Call for Papers:

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Please send a title and a short abstract (300 words) no later than
November 10th 2024, to yanis.da-cunha at uni-graz.at, p.faghiri at uva.nl
and juliette.thuilier at univ-tlse2.fr

If the workshop proposal is accepted, there will be a general call for
abstract submission according to SLE guidelines: abstract length: 500
words, deadline: January 15th, 2025.



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