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Workshop on Constructions and variation
| What | Workshop |
|---|---|
| When |
20.10.2008 08:30
to 21.10.2008 18:00 |
| Where | Albertstr. 19, Seminarraum |
| Contact Name | Javier Caro |
| Contact Email | javier.caro.reina@germanistik.uni-freiburg.de |
| Attendees | nach Anmeldung |
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Organized at FRIAS by Jan-Ola Östman & Peter Auer
The aim of the workshop is to approach variation and variability in language from different perspectives, and in particular to look in detail at the feasibility of understanding language change and variability through reference to grammatical, interactional and discourse constructions. Put bluntly: What does it mean for grammarians and discourse analysts to say that the only thing constant about language is constant change?
The specific line of thinking for the purpose of the workshop is to bring together scholars and research findings from constructional approaches, from sociolinguistic and interactional studies, and from corpus studies (spoken and written).
The workshop seeks concrete suggestions for the direction in which constructional approaches to language have to move in order to be able to account not only for different types of regularities, but also for tendencies and for the emergence of constructions in language.
Program
Monday, October 20, 2008
8:30 Peter Auer & Jan-Ola Östman
Introduction
9:15 Martin Hilpert
Constructions in time: Modeling linguistic variation with diachronic corpus data
10:00 Dirk Geeraerts
Taking Schuchardt into the 21st century: How systematic is the system if variation is rampant?
10:45 Coffee break
11:00 Mirjam Fried
Constructions and frames: The division of labor in capturing variation and change
11:45 Jan-Ola Östman
There are constructions, and then there are prototypical constructions
12:30 Monday session ends
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
9:00 Rolf Kailuweit
Constructions in Role and Reference Grammar
9:45 Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
Genitive variation after Early Modern English: A quantitative approach
10:30 Claus Pusch
Phrasal discourse markers as emerging constructions: Examples from French and other Romance languages
11:15 Coffee break
11:30 Raphael Berthele
Sociolinguistic perspectives on usage-basedness
12:15 Ayse Seza Dogruoz
Turkish-Dutch contact situation and the influence of Dutch on Turkish structures
13-14 Lunch
14:30 Paul Hopper
Take “take”
15:15 Stefan Pfänder
Emergent constructions in French
16:00 Jan Lindström
Verb-first constructions in Swedish: An interactional-constructional approach to functional variation
16:45 Coffee break
17:00 General discussion
Jan-Ola Östman, moderator
18:00 Workshop ends
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