36.815, Confs: Workshop: Experimental Approaches to Construction Grammar (LLcD 2025) (France)

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Subject: 36.815, Confs: Workshop: Experimental Approaches to Construction Grammar (LLcD 2025) (France)

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Date: 07-Mar-2025
From: Megane Lesuisse [megane.lesuisse at univ-paris8.fr]
Subject: Workshop: Experimental Approaches to Construction Grammar (LLcD 2025)


Workshop: Experimental Approaches to Construction Grammar (LLcD 2025)

Date: 01-Sep-2025 - 03-Sep-2025
Location: Univ. Lille, France
Meeting URL:
https://llcd2025.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Experimental_Approaches_to_Construction_Grammar_Workshop.pdf

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics

Convenors:
Mégane Lesuisse (Université Paris 8) - megane.lesuisse at univ-paris8.fr
Benoît Leclercq (Université de Lille) - benoit.leclercq at univ-lille.fr
Full workshop description:
https://llcd2025.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Experimental_Approaches_to_Construction_Grammar_Workshop.pdf
Full details for abstract submission:
https://llcd2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/7
Key words: experimental methods; construction grammar; usage-based
models; applied cognitive linguistics; second language acquisition
This workshop aims to promote more systematic interactions between
usage-based Construction Grammar and experimental approaches to
linguistic modelling. Construction Grammar encompasses a range of
theoretical models (Hoffmann and Trousdale 2013: 109-252) which share
a number of core assumptions, including: constructions (i.e.,
form-meaning pairs) are the basic building blocks of language and they
are organised in a structured network, linguistic knowledge emerges
from domain-general processes and is non-modular, so a strict
lexicon/syntax dichotomy is rejected, and there are no
transformational or derivational rules (Goldberg 2013: 15).
Construction Grammarians have been and remain very attentive to the
ways in which these claims can be tested and potentially falsified
(Cappelle 2024). To do so, corpus-based methods have been widely used
and developed, to the point that we are now “drowning in an
unmanageable number of interesting and methodologically extremely
diverse studies” (Gries 2025: 173). By comparison though, experimental
approaches have been drawn upon to a relatively lesser degree. Yet
experimental methods offer crucial complementary insights into how
constructions are processed, acquired, and represented in the mind,
facilitating a more nuanced understanding of language as a cognitive
and communicative system. With this workshop, we therefore hope to
rekindle Kortmann's (2021: 1220) incentive to “use a dual-approach or
multi-method design” when making claims about cognition.
Particular attention is taken not to focus on native speakers of
English only. This workshop not only aims at discussing research
questions that relate to monolingual cognition, it also expands to
issues relevant to Second Language Acquisition (hence, SLA) with the
consideration of Applied Cognitive Linguistics (Llopis-García 2024)
and Applied/Pedagogical Construction grammar (De Knop & Gilquin 2016,
Höder et al 2021, Boas 2022) and of what has been referred to as
Diasystematic Construction Grammar (DCxG) (Höder 2018, 2019; i.e., the
constructionist framework to SLA and multilingual practices).
Experimental work on languages other than English will be particularly
welcome.
- deadline for abstracts: 30 March 2025
- notification of acceptance/rejection: Early May 2025
Abstracts must clearly state the title, the research questions,
approach, method, (expected) results as well as the name of the
workshop. They must be anonymous: not only must they not contain the
presenters' names, affiliations or addresses, but they must avoid any
other information that might reveal their author(s). They should not
exceed 500 words (including examples, but excluding bibliographical
references).
For more information, please visit the conference website.



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