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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Workshop proposal, 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Tallinn August 29-September 1, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Cyclicity in Semantic-Pragmatic Change<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Convenor: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, The University of Manchester<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">**NB! Prospective contributors are requested to submit a
<b>short abstract (300 words)</b> to the workshop convenor <b>no later than November 14</b>.**<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Description<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">It has been known at least since Jespersen (1917) that certain types of linguistic items or constructions tend to evolve in a cyclic fashion across languages.
Thus, van Gelderen (2011) identifies a total of seven well-documented diachronic cycles pertaining to (morpho-)syntactic items and constructions across a wide variety of languages. Similar cyclic developments have been discovered in the domain of phonology
(e.g. Bermudez-Otero & Trousdale 2012). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This workshop will investigate the nature and cross-linguistic importance of cyclicity at a third level of linguistic description, i.e. that of semantics and
pragmatics, aiming to contribute potentially very significantly to current theoretical debates about the nature of language change more generally.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The idea that there might be cyclic movements at the level of semantics and pragmatics was first proposed by Hansen (2014), as well as (independently) by Ghezzi/Molinelli
(2014). In subsequent work, Hansen (fc) adduces a range of examples of semantic/pragmatic cyclicity from across various Romance languages. Although the phenomenon appears manifest, its existence thus constitutes a very recent discovery, which promises to
be of descriptive and theoretical significance, but whose scope and cross-linguistic importance need to be more systematically investigated. Such investigation necessitates a concerted team effort involving semantics/pragmatics specialists with expertise
across a range of languages. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The proposed workshop is exploratory in nature. It constitutes a follow-up to a recent conference panel (IPrA 2017), its aim being to present a series of further
case studies of semantic/pragmatic cyclicity. Contributions should identify and analyze examples of semantic/pragmatic cycles in one or more languages, focusing either on the evolution of pragmatic markers from propositional source items and constructions,
or on the role of semantic/pragmatic cyclicity in language-specific instances of (morpho)syntactic cycles.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In addition, contributions may, for instance, aim to (i) assess the degree to which individual stages of a given semantic/pragmatic cycle constitute directly
linked changes, and whether push- or drag-chains are involved; (ii) assess the role played by the larger linguistic system in semantic/pragmatic cycles; (iii) determine whether some semantic/pragmatic fields (e.g. temporality) are more prone to exhibit cyclicity
than others. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">For the sake of comparability, and due to the comparative wealth of documentation available, contributors may wish, but are in no way obliged, to focus on the
major European language families. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">References</span></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;text-indent:-21.3pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Bermudez-Otero, Ricardo & Graeme Trousdale. 2012. Cycles and continua: on unidirectionality and gradualness in language change. In Terttu
Nevalainen & Elizabeth Closs Traugott, eds., <i>The Oxford Handbook of the History of English</i>. Oxford: OUP, 691-720.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;text-indent:-21.3pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">van Gelderen, Elly. 2011.
<i>The Linguistic Cycle.</i> Oxford: OUP.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;text-indent:-21.3pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Ghezzi, Chiara & Piera Molinelli. 2014. Deverbal pragmatic markers from Latin to Italian (Lat.
<i>quaeso</i> and It. <i>prego</i>): the cyclic nature of functional developments. In Chiara Ghezzi & Piera Molinelli, eds.,
<i>Discourse and Pragmatic Markers from Latin to the Romance Languages. </i>Oxford: OUP, 61-85.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;text-indent:-21.3pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Hansen, Maj-Britt Mosegaard. 2014. Cyclicity in semantic-pragmatic change: Old French
<i>ja</i> between Latin <span style="font-variant:small-caps">iam</span> and Modern French
<i>déjà</i>. In Chiara Ghezzi & Piera Molinelli, eds., <i>Pragmatic Markers from Latin to Romance</i>. Oxford: OUP, 139-165.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-21.3pt">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Hansen, Maj-Britt Mosegaard. Forthcoming. Cyclic phenomena in the evolution of pragmatic markers. Examples from Romance. In Oscar Loureda and Salvador Pons Bordería, eds.
<i>Discourse Pragmatic Change in Romance</i>. Leiden: Brill.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;text-indent:-21.3pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">IPrA. 2017. Cyclicity in Semantic/Pragmatic Change. Thematic panel,
<i>15<sup>th</sup> International Pragmatics Conference</i>, Belfast, 16-21 July.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:21.3pt;text-indent:-21.3pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Jespersen, Otto. 1917.
<i>Negation in English and Other Languages.</i> </span><span lang="DA" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Copenhagen: Høst & Søn.</span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">__________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Professor, PhD, dr.phil.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Linguistics and English Language<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of Arts, Languages and Cultures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The University of Manchester<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Oxford Road<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Manchester M13 9PL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">United Kingdom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.research.manchester.ac.uk_portal_Maj-2DBritt.MosegaardHansen.html&d=DwMFAw&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=xWgwnXzyLjTDtEN1jkc-sliD_cd49k7fc7XSMi_8aeo&m=8Is1t0C_qhuT_9c4E7q_fzFQZSESFwnz_-wWJZf_K4o&s=JDA97lO8tp5eQbeJI0YCSfahF0pxpocZp4CK5vrU-g4&e=">Academic profile</a><u><span style="color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Elected Fellow of the
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.royalacademy.dk_&d=DwMFAw&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=xWgwnXzyLjTDtEN1jkc-sliD_cd49k7fc7XSMi_8aeo&m=8Is1t0C_qhuT_9c4E7q_fzFQZSESFwnz_-wWJZf_K4o&s=FBEQCEXo7slaTZBSg42BTdgzx7N61m2FDTzcRxHdcKw&e=">Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Editor of <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.brill.com_publications_studies-2Dpragmatics&d=DwMFAw&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=xWgwnXzyLjTDtEN1jkc-sliD_cd49k7fc7XSMi_8aeo&m=8Is1t0C_qhuT_9c4E7q_fzFQZSESFwnz_-wWJZf_K4o&s=rVwnU9w5IRZTOOkNzrzzsQ67Secss9AY49zdf12u-DQ&e=">
Studies in Pragmatics</a>; Member of the editorial board of <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.revues.armand-2Dcolin.com_lettres-2Dlangue_langue-2Dfrancaise&d=DwMFAw&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=xWgwnXzyLjTDtEN1jkc-sliD_cd49k7fc7XSMi_8aeo&m=8Is1t0C_qhuT_9c4E7q_fzFQZSESFwnz_-wWJZf_K4o&s=nNDQ_TUYgfO5xMnjfLgBF1ItEccOnql11PCHW0t7BrY&e=">
Langue française</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Recent books and special issues:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__benjamins.com_-23catalog_journals_ps.7.4_main&d=DwMFAw&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=xWgwnXzyLjTDtEN1jkc-sliD_cd49k7fc7XSMi_8aeo&m=8Is1t0C_qhuT_9c4E7q_fzFQZSESFwnz_-wWJZf_K4o&s=RH96B7IJNHP85Anb-s6br8NuNJLbMngrf_0WQPlQqOs&e=">The (Co-)Construction of Interpersonally Sensitive Activities Acrosss Institutional Settings</a>. (Eds. Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen &
Rosina Marquez Reiter.) Pragmatics & Society 7(4), 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ukcatalogue.oup.com_product_9780198723745.do&d=DwMFAw&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=xWgwnXzyLjTDtEN1jkc-sliD_cd49k7fc7XSMi_8aeo&m=8Is1t0C_qhuT_9c4E7q_fzFQZSESFwnz_-wWJZf_K4o&s=rdt-gndl_pOPsns43eWeVzc_B9h_5w_KmQKnGnOPOTs&e=">The Structure of Modern Standard French. A Student Grammar</a>. OUP 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__benjamins.com_-23catalog_books_slcs.160_main&d=DwMFAw&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=xWgwnXzyLjTDtEN1jkc-sliD_cd49k7fc7XSMi_8aeo&m=8Is1t0C_qhuT_9c4E7q_fzFQZSESFwnz_-wWJZf_K4o&s=KptVLDnvQzU0KeNX1XoWTiyWp8mthMB1-jJsOyR8YTY&e=">The Diachrony of Negation</a>. (Eds. M.-B. Mosegaard Hansen & Jacqueline Visconti.) John Benjamins 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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