LINGUIST List 21.4295 Thu Oct 28 2010 Calls: Historical Linguistics, Syntax/Spain Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Jenneke van der Wal , Come and Go Off the Beaten Grammaticalisation Path Message 1: Come and Go Off the Beaten Grammaticalisation Path Date: 26-Oct-2010 From: Jenneke van der Wal <jenneke.van.der.walafricamuseum.be> Subject: Come and Go Off the Beaten Grammaticalisation Path E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Come and Go Off the Beaten Grammaticalisation Path Date: 08-Sep-2011 - 11-Sep-2011 Location: Logroño (La Rioja), Spain Contact Person: Jenneke van der Wal Meeting Email: jenneke.van.der.walafricamuseum.be Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Syntax Call Deadline: 12-Nov-2010 Meeting Description: Workshop organisers: Maud Devos Jenneke van der Wal It is often presented as a well-known fact that the deictic motion verbs 'come' and 'go' develop into tense-aspect markers, expressing e.g. anterior, andative or future. However, the lexical semantics and pragmatics of verbs like 'come' and 'go' are not identical cross-linguistically, as remarked by Wilkins and Hill (1995). Moreover, recent studies show that the grammatical functions to which they develop are much more diverse than just tense- aspect markers. The Bantu language Shangaci exemplifies both the lexical diversity of 'go' and its development to a function other than tense-aspect. In Shangaci, there are two verbs that can be translated as 'to go'. For one verb the motion is inherently salient, whereas the other focuses on the goal. Only the latter has grammaticalised to become an inflectional prefix that expresses verb focus (Devos and Van der Wal 2010). This shows that the lexical semantics of 'come' and 'go' cannot be taken for granted and that the grammaticalisation paths can be fairly unusual. We intend to organise a workshop focussing on the lesser known targets of 'come' and 'go' verbs, taking into account the lexical semantics that form the input to grammaticalisation. The questions we would like to discuss include, but are not limited to, the following: 1. Which different uses do 'come' and 'go' verbs have? What is the range of targets in grammaticalisation that have 'come' and 'go' verbs as their source? Apart from tense-aspect markers (see e.g. Bybee et al. 1994, Bybee and Dahl 1989, Heine and Kuteva 2002), 'come' and 'go' verbs can also develop functions as discourse connectors (Ebert 2003), textual connectivity (Bourdin 2008), and subjectivity and social deixis (Nicolle 2002). 2. How do the discourse-related uses of grammaticalised 'come' and 'go' verbs fit into the cline propositional > textual > expressive, which is usually associated with discourse markers (Traugott 1995, Brinton 1996)? 3. In how far is the grammaticalisation path, and hence the target, determined and/or constrained by the original meaning of 'come' or 'go'? That is, can we account for the various developments by reference to their persistent original lexical semantics (Hopper 1991)? 4. In which respects do various expressions for 'come' and for 'go' differ, within a language as well as cross-linguistically? Factors associated with motion verbs include SOURCE, GOAL, PATH, and MANNER (Talmy 1975), but further research can show whether these are the only relevant properties and also whether there are properties related to all 'come' and 'go' verbs. Botne (2005) shows for Ndali that the relative saliency of these components should also be taken into account, and Wilkins and Hill (1995) demonstrate that 'come' and 'go' verbs are not universally deictic. The aim of the workshop is thus to bring together linguists working on typologically different languages to broaden our view on the semantics as well as the formal and functional developments of these motion verbs; aspects that are too often assumed to be known or standard. Call For Papers We invite potential participants to send a provisional title and a short abstract (100-200 words) before 12 November 2010. Please send the e- mail expressing your interest in the workshop to Jenneke van der Wal (jenneke.van.der.walafricamuseum.be) and Maud Devos (maud.devosafricamuseum.be). We need to submit the workshop proposal by the 15th of November to the SLE Scientific Committee for evaluation. If the workshop proposal is accepted, full abstracts will have to be submitted by 15 January 2011. 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