LINGUIST List 25.2329
Tue
May 27 2014
Calls: Morphology,
Pragmatics, Semantics, Typology, Text/Corpus
Ling/Hungary
Editor for this issue:
Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 27-May-2014
From: Bálint Tanos
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Subject: Construal and
Grounding
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Full Title: Construal and Grounding
Date: 16-Oct-2014 - 17-Oct-2014
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Contact Person: András Imrényi
Meeting Email:
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Web Site:
http://www.diagram.elte.hu
Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Pragmatics;
Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics;
Typology
Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2014
Meeting Description:
Construal and Grounding
International conference, due to take place in
Budapest, 16–17 October 2014, organized by
DiAGram Research group in functional
linguistics at Eötvös Loránd University
(Budapest,
http://www.diagram.elte.hu)
The activation of archetypical concepts (of
things, relations) and their integration in
higher-order conceptualizations (e.g. of
scenes) are mediated by schematic relational
concepts, anchored to the ground in the
conceived current discourse space.
Grammatically speaking, the construal of nouns
and verbs in the clause is effected by the use
of grammatical elements, via grounding, in
context. The main goal of the conference is to
investigate, from a functional cognitive
perspective, the semantic structure of
grammatical elements and their combination with
lexical elements in the clause; more generally,
the constructional functions, pragmatic and
discourse relations of grammatical and lexical
elements.
The theme of the conference allows both a
function-to-form and a form-to-function
approach, the former taking the conceptual
structures to be expressed and the latter the
morphosyntactic grammatical elements as its
point of departure.
The conference aims to provide a forum for
sharing novel results of cognitive,
constructional research on construal and
grounding, with special regard to languages
with rich inflectional and derivational
morphology.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Frank Brisard (Universiteit Antwerpen):
Epistemic issues in the interaction between
tense and aspect
Tuomas Huumo (Turun yliopisto): Time, blending,
and metaphors of motion
Laura Janda (Universitetet i Tromsø):
Possession in North Saami: Rich Morphology in
Competition with an Analytic Construction
Péter Pelyvás (Debreceni Egyetem): The theory
of epistemic grounding and Hungarian
Registration fee, general: EUR 90,00, students:
EUR 60,00, payable by bank transfer. The
registration fee covers admission to the
programme, conference materials, coffee breaks,
lunches and the welcome reception.
Call for Papers:
The DiAGram Research group in functional
linguistics at Eötvös Loránd University
(Budapest,
http://www.diagram.elte.hu)
is inviting linguists to the international
conference ‘Construal and Grounding’, due to
take place in Budapest, 16–17 October 2014.
Key topics include definiteness, case,
modality, person/number, and tense, the
relevant inflectional, derivational and other
grammatical elements, and their combination
with lexical and (semi)grammatical elements
(e.g. auxiliary, preposition, preverb). Within
the central topic, issues of particular
interest include:
- The semantic structure of grammatical
elements, their conceptual scope, nature, and
language specific system
- Grammatical imagery, specificity,
generalization and polysemy in the functioning
of grammatical elements
- Complex grammatical elements as linguistic
units
- The interaction of grammatical elements: the
scopes of diverse conceptual domains and their
compatibility
- Linear order
- Stem + affix relations (morphological
composite structures): how the semantic
structure of lexical elements is influenced by
derivational and inflectional elements (e.g. by
metonymic attention shift),
- Types of grounding (e.g. with regard to
conceptual domains)
- Schema and instantiation in grammatical
elements, with clausal, sentential and
discourse scopes; the motivational, contextual
and situational factors of selecting a given
variant; the interaction between cognitive
representations and direct contextual
factors
- Perspective, objectification, and
subjectification in composite structures,
- Deixis and grounding
- Methods of data collection and processing;
collostructional analysis
- Activation patterns, emergence
- Acquisition, learning
- Typological variation
- Tendencies in language change
Descriptions of typologically rich (e.g.
Uralic, Turkic and Slavic etc.) languages are
especially, but by no means exclusively,
welcome.
The deadline for abstract submission is 15 June
2014. Abstracts are to be submitted in English,
not exceeding 500 words (excluding data, tables
and references). Please send your abstract as
an email attachement (in both .doc and .pdf
formats) to the address of the organizing
committee: diagram
btk.elte.hu. Indicate clearly
whether your abstract is intended for poster or
paper presentation. The abstracts will be
evaluated by the organizing committee, and the
authors notified about acceptance by 15 July
2014.
Abstract Submission:
The body of your e-mail should include the
following information (preferably in this
order):
1) Name of participant
2) Title of presentation
3) Affiliation
4) Email address
5) Choice of paper or poster presentation
Contact person: András Imrényi
The book of abstracts will be published on the
web page of the conference (
http://www.diagram.elte.hu).
The organizing committee at Eötvös Loránd
University:
Gábor Tolcsvai Nagy
Szilárd Tátrai
Mária Ladányi
Nóra Kugler
Krisztina Laczkó
András Imrényi
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