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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DA">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The University of Manchester (UK) will be hosting a colloquium on “Cyclicity and the Theory of Language Change”, on 17-18 July this year.
<span lang="EN-US">This colloquium is the concluding event of the AHRC Research Network
</span><a href="https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/pragmatics-in-cyclicity/"><i><span lang="EN-US">The role of pragmatics in cyclic language change</span></i></a><span lang="EN-US">.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Call for papers:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Cyclicity has long been assumed to be an important and recurrent pattern in language change. However, the precise characteristics, distribution, and possible reasons of cyclical change – and the justification of its assumption
in the first place - have not yet been investigated thoroughly. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In this conference, we would like to bring together diachronic research on languages from a variety of language families from different periods, with the intention to reflect on its importance for the theory of language
change. Some of the questions on which we invite contributions include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">What kinds of pattern in language change do we accept as instances of a
<i>cycle</i>?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">How do we empirically establish the assumption of a cycle in language change?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">To what extent can other patterns in language change be related to cycles?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">To what extent can the assumption of cycles be motivated by pragmatic factors such as implicatures and inferencing, politeness, register, as well as constraints of discourse genres (discourse traditions)?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">To what extent does the assumption of cycles relate to proposals made in theories of language change such as grammaticalization or construction grammar?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">In what notional domains of grammar (e.g., tense, aspect, deixis, pronouns, discourse markers) do phenomena of cyclicity concentrate?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Are there cycles outside morphology, syntax, and the evolution of pragmatic markers, e.g., in lexical change or in phonology?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Do we find cycles in all language families and all periods, or are there specific restrictions?<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Anonymized abstracts for 30- or 45-minute presentations (max 500 words; please indicate clearly whether you’d like 30 or 45 minutes) should be sent to:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen@manchester.ac.uk"><span lang="EN-US">Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen@manchester.ac.uk</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> and
</span><a href="mailto:richard.waltereit@hu-berlin.de"><span lang="EN-US">richard.waltereit@hu-berlin.de</span></a>
<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Deadline for proposals: 16 April 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Registration fee: GBP50.00 (includes lunch and morning/afternoon coffee breaks on both days)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Meeting URL: <a href="https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/pragmatics-in-cyclicity/home/conference/">
https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/pragmatics-in-cyclicity/home/conference/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes, and Happy New Year,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen<o:p></o:p></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 lang="DA" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Professor, MAE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dept of Linguistics & English Language<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of Arts, Languages & 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"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/maj-britt.mosegaardhansen">Academic profile</a><u><span style="color:#0563C1"><o:p></o:p></span></u></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">AHRC-funded Research Network on
<i><a href="https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/pragmatics-in-cyclicity/">The Role of Pragmatics in Cyclic Language Change</a></i> (2021-23)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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