LINGUIST List 21.4416

Thu Nov 04 2010

Calls: Cognitive Science, Linguistic Theories/Spain

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        1.     Jiyoung Yoon , Construction Grammar beyond English
Message 1: Construction Grammar beyond English
Date: 02-Nov-2010
From: Jiyoung Yoon <jiyoung.yoonunt.edu>
Subject: Construction Grammar beyond English
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Full Title: Construction Grammar beyond English
Date: 08-Sep-2011 - 11-Sep-2011 Location: Logroño (La Rioja), Spain Contact Person: Jiyoung Yoon
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Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Linguistic Theories

Call Deadline: 12-Nov-2010

Meeting Description:

Workshop at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea(Logroño, Spain), 8-11 September 2011

Deadline: 12 November 2010 (for provisional abstracts)

Organizers:Jiyoung Yoon (University of North Texas)jiyoung.yoonlinguistics.ucsb.edu

This workshop is intended to bring together empirically-orientedConstruction Grammar approaches with the specific aims to (i) advancepromote interaction and cross-fertilization between researchers interestedin constructional approaches on languages other than English and (ii)further the growing trend towards multi-methodological research andconverging evidence from corpora, experimentation, and simulation.Proposals are invited on observational and/or experimental studies on anyaspect of constructions. Studies focusing on non-English data as well ascross linguistic analyses between other languages and English are welcome.

Call for Papers

The notion of constructions, understood as learned form-meaning parings ofnon-predictable as well as highly frequent predictable linguisticexpressions, has introduced a new perspective on language: grammaticalknowledge is not viewed as modular, but rather as knowledge of a highlystructured and interconnected network of symbolic units, which in turn isviewed as a lexico-semantic continuum, the so-called constructicon(Langacker 1987; Goldberg 1995, 2006). While an increasing number ofconstructional studies have been adopting the usage-based model ofconstructions in which it is assumed that grammar is shaped by usage(Goldberg 2006) and children learn a language in a bottom-up fashion(Tomasello 2003), the range of existing studies is narrower than it wouldideally be.

On the one hand, there is the usual predominance of work on English: withthe exception of Fried & Östman (2004) and Croft's typological work onRadical Construction Grammar (e.g., Croft 2001), there is as yetunsatisfactorily little construction-grammar work on different languages.On the other hand, even though Construction Grammarians have been embracingdifferent methodologies and sources of data, there is still a need for moremethodologically diverse and comprehensive studies, especially since whileall types of data can provide linguistic evidence to a certain degree,there is no single linguistic method that can cover and answer all types ofresearch questions (cf. Arppe et al. 2010).

Objectives

This workshop is intended to bring together empirically-orientedConstruction Grammar approaches with the specific aims to (i) advancepromote interaction and cross-fertilization between researchers interestedin constructional approaches on languages other than English and (ii)further the growing trend towards multi-methodological research andconverging evidence from corpora, experimentation, and simulation.Proposals are invited on observational and/or experimental studies on anyaspect of constructions. Studies focusing on non-English data as well ascross linguistic analyses between other languages and English are welcome.

Procedure

Proposals should be in English, and each presentation should be adjusted toa 30-minute slot (20 min. + 10 min. for discussion). Interested colleaguesare invited to send an e-mail to Jiyoung Yoon (jiyoung.yoonlinguistics.ucsb.edu), with their name,affiliation and a provisional abstract (max. 100 words) before 12 November2010.

Important Dates

-Deadline for submission of provisional abstract (max. 100 words):12 November 2010[Please submit in .txt, .rtf, or .doc (not .pdf.)]-Notification of acceptance for workshop proposals:20 December 2010-Submission of final full abstract (max. 500 words):12 January 2011[Please submit in .txt, .rtf, or .doc. (not .pdf.)].

References:

Arppe, A., Gilquin, G., Glynn, D., Hilpert, M., & Zeschel, A. 2010.Cognitive Corpus Linguistics: five points of debate on current theory andmethodology. Corpora 5(1). 1-27.

Croft, W. 2001. Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic Theory inTypological Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fried, Mirjam & Jan-Ola Östman (eds.). 2004. Construction Grammar in aCross-Language Perspective. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Goldberg, A.E. 1995. Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach toArgument Structure. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.

Goldberg, A.E. 2006. Constructions at Work: The Nature of Generalization inLanguage. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gonzálvez-García, F. & Butler, C. 2006. Mapping functional-cognitive space.Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 4. 39-96.

Langacker, R.W. 1987. Foundations of Cognitive Grammar. Vol. 1: TheoreticalPrerequisites. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Tomasello, M. 2003. Constructing a Language: A Usage-based Theory ofLanguage Acquisition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.


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