Full Title: Challenging Construction Grammar: New Insights from Morphology

Date: 08-Apr-2024 - 12-Apr-2024
Location: Ascona, Monte Verità, Switzerland
Contact Person: Elena Smirnova
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://www.elenasmirnova.de/workshop-challenging-construction-grammar-new-insights-from-morphology.html

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Morphology; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2023

Meeting Description:

The workshop will critically address the assumptions and research practices of Construction Grammar (Hoffmann and Trousdale 2013), a theory of language that has become one of the major theoretical frameworks in linguistics. Recent years have seen an increasing interest in constructionist approaches to morphological issues, both from a synchronic (e.g. Booij 2010, Jackendoff & Audring 2020) and a dia-chronic point of view (Hartmann 2019, Van Goethem & Norde 2020, Norde forth.).
As construction morphology is still a very recent branch of research within the framework of Construction Grammar, the coverage of mor-phological phenomena and the theoretical issues they raise is far from complete. A fundamental question is what special challenges mor-phology brings to the table, and whether the framework – originally developed for syntax, but with the explicit aim to account for language as a whole – requires adjustments or extensions to account for morphological patterns.

2nd Call for Papers:

Extended Deadline

Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (including examples, excluding references); they should clearly state the research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. Please indicate your status (PhD student or PostDoc) in the abstract. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by two referees.

Please submit your abstract to [email protected]

Extended Deadline: October 1, 2023

Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2023