36.177, Calls: General Linguistics / France

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Subject: 36.177, Calls: General Linguistics / France

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Date: 15-Jan-2025
From: Juliette Thuilier [juliette.thuilier at univ-tlse2.fr]
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

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2025

2nd Call for Papers:
The workshop proposal "Empirical studies on syntactic alternation
across languages and theoretical frameworks" for SLE 2025 has been
accepted! The call for paper is open until January 15th.
Please submit a 500-words abstract, according to SLE’s general
abstract submission guidelines. As a WS participant, you should select
WS5 “Empirical studies on syntactic alternation across languages and
theoretical frameworks” upon submitting your abstract. The deadline
for abstract submission in EasyChair is January 15th.
Note that only SLE members may submit an abstract. For SLE membership,
go to https://societaslinguistica.eu/membership . You will also find
the link for abstract submission there. Payment can take some time to
process, so please consider becoming a SLE member quickly to avoid
problems at the time of abstract submission.
Workshop 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 is downloadable on SLE website:
https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2025/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/01/Empirical-studies-on-syntactic-alternation_updated.pdf



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