35.2590, Calls: Possession and its Expressions: Corpus Linguistics, Specialised Languages, Translation, Acquisition/Learning

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Subject: 35.2590, Calls: Possession and its Expressions: Corpus Linguistics, Specialised Languages, Translation, Acquisition/Learning

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Date: 23-Sep-2024
From: Vassil Mostrov [vassil.mostrov at uphf.fr]
Subject: Possession and its Expressions: Corpus Linguistics, Specialised Languages, Translation, Acquisition/Learning


Full Title: Possession and its Expressions: Corpus Linguistics,
Specialised Languages, Translation, Acquisition/Learning

Date: 03-Dec-2025 - 05-Dec-2025
Location: Valenciennes, France
Contact Person: Vassil Mostrov
Meeting Email: vassil.mostrov at uphf.fr
Web Site: https://possession.sciencesconf.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Semantics; Syntax;
Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation

Call Deadline: 12-Jan-2025

Meeting Description:

The aim of this conference is to examine the notion of possession and
its various forms (alienable/inalienable possession, part-whole
relationships), with a focus on corpus linguistics. Given the advent
of the theoretical framework of Construction Grammar (Goldberg 1995),
and in the era of digital humanities, new statistical methods
(calculations of sparsity, density of occurrences, productivity,
visualisations with decision trees, etc.) have emerged (cf. among
others Van Wettere 2018; Goldberg 2019). This enables multifactorial
analyses to be proposed on the basis of large amounts of data. It’s a
fact that there are many studies about the notion of possession and
its derivatives (for an overview, see, among others, Heine 1997;
Herslund & Baron 2001; McGregor 2009; Dixon 2010), which have
addressed fundamental questions such as the ‘conceptual’ or
‘linguistic’ nature of possessive relations, their (lack of) unity,
and the diversity of strategies used to express them (genitive
structures, prepositions, the verb to have and related verbs, etc.),
whether from a monolingual, comparative or typological perspective.
Yet, few studies are based on quantified corpus data. One of the main
aims of the conference is precisely to fill this gap, by inviting
contributions that put to the test the assertions made in the existing
literature (which are based mostly on introspection) regarding actual
use of the various mechanisms encoding possessive relations (in the
broad sense). Studies – in synchrony or diachrony – on one, two or
more languages, either of the same family or of different families,
will be welcome. These may approach possessive and partitive relations
from different theoretical points of view or fields ((formal) syntax,
semantics, morphology, cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, etc., and
their intersections), and focus on one or more linguistic
manifestations (adnominal / predicative / external possessive
constructions, morphological (non) marking of inalienable possessive
relations, genitives, suffixation, so-called ‘possessive’ verbs,
etc.). Studies in descriptive linguistics which are not based on
corpus data (Godard 1986; Zribi-Hertz 2003) will also be evaluated,
provided that they either address new questions on the subject or
‘classic’ questions treated from an original angle.

Furthermore, contrastive approaches, using data from parallel corpora,
may address problems specific to the field of translation (including
machine translation): how, in the target language, are structures
encoding (in)alienable possession and part-whole relations (including
meronymy, cf. Cruse 1986) translated from the source language? What is
the degree of (lexical) overlap between structures in different
languages that have superficially the same syntax (Van Peteghem 2006)?

While the main interest of the conference lies in the use and analysis
of corpus data, these may present, at the socio-cultural level,
diastratic or diatopic differences that are interesting to examine, or
come from specialised languages, such as law (but not exclusively).
Legal corpora – legislation or case law – in one language or in a
cross-linguistic perspective can provide interesting data on the
linguistic expression of possession in the legal sense.

Finally, papers on the acquisition of possessive structures or the way
in which language disorders can affect their use and comprehension
(psycholinguistic dimension) will be welcome, as well as papers in the
field of didactics, addressing issues specific to the acquiring of
possessive structures in a foreign language (such as French as a
foreign language: Fabricius-Hansen et al. 2017) or in the native
language (Chiss & David 2018). Submissions on the expression of
possession in sign language will also be considered.

Call for Papers:

Languages spoken at the conference: French and English

Submission procedures:
Your proposal must not exceed 2000 words (excluding bibliography) and
must be submitted on the symposium website (see “My Submissions” tab):
https://possession.sciencesconf.org/

Provisional timetable:
- 1st call: September 23, 2024
- deadline for receipt of proposals: January 12, 2025
- notification of authors: end of June 2025
- programme & registration: September 2025
- Conference: December 3, 4 and 5, 2025


Organising committee:
Angelina Aleksandrova (Université Paris-Cité)
Véronique Lagae (Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France)
Vassil Mostrov (Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France)
Fayssal Tayalati (Université de Lille)

Plenary lectures (to be completed):
Peter Lauwers

Scientific committee (to be completed):
Anne Abeillé, Artemis Alexiadou, Denis Creissels, Peter Lauwers, Fabio
Montermini, Catherine Schnedecker, Elena Soare, Sandra Benazzo,
Guillaume Desagulier, Nicolas Quint, Mathilde Salles



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