Workshop Papers:
WS1: Workshop Hundt, Mollin & Pfenninger
The Changing English Language: Psycholinguistic Perspectives
Sunday, 24/Aug/2014, 2:00pm-4:00pm; Location: KOL-G-201
- Hundt, Marianne (1); Sandra, Mollin (2); Simone, Pfenninger (1): Introduction: Language history meets psychology
- Baayen, Rolf Harald; Ramscar, Michael: Language, usage, and lifelong learning
- Hilpert, Martin: Diachronic corpus linguistics: calling all frequencies!
- Ellis, Nick C: Salience in Language Usage, Learning, and Change
- Traugott, Elizabeth Closs: Pragmatic salience as an enabling factor in morphosyntactic change
Monday, 25/Aug/2014, 10:30am-12:30pm; Location: KOL-G-201
- Ellis, Nick C: Chunking in Language Usage, Learning, and Change
- Bybee, Joan (1); Moder, Carol Lynn (2): Chunking and Changes in Analyzability in Context
- Bock, JKathryn: Some Grimm reflections on the functional role of structural persistence in language change
- Mair, Christian: From priming and processing to frequency effects and grammaticalisation? Contracted semi-modals in present-day English
Monday, 25/Aug/2014, 2:00pm-4:00pm; Location: KOL-G-201
- Behrens, Heike: The role of analogy in language acquisition
- De Smet, Hendrik (1); Fischer, Olga (2): The role of analogy in language change
- Felser, Claudia: Syntactic ambiguity in real-time language processing and diachronic change
- Denison, David: Ambiguity and vagueness in historical change
Monday, 25/Aug/2014, 5:00pm-6:00pm; Location: KOL-G-201
- Lieven, Elena: Developing language from usage
- López-Couso, María José: Transferring insights from language acquisition to diachronic change: Some examples from English
WS2: Workshop Schubert & Volkmann
Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse: Linguistics and Literature
Monday, 25/Aug/2014, 2:00pm-4:00pm; Location: KOL-F-118
- Sanchez-Stockhammer, Christina: Introduction to Workshop "Building bridges into the future: Can we predict linguistic change?"
- Volkmann, Laurenz H: Said/Not Said: Discursive Strategies of Othering in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace
- Schubert, Christoph: Politeness in Postcolonial Drama: Conversational Routines and Speech Acts
- Albers, Carsten: Between Politeness, Irony, and Subversion: The Linguistic Representation of Social Changes in Post-Apartheid South-African Literature
Monday, 25/Aug/2014, 10:30am-12:30pm; Location: KOL-F-118
- Kamdem, Hector Fonkoua: Codeswitching / Codemixing and Iconicity in the Cameroonian Francophone and Anglophone Novel
- Heyd, Theresa: Big big grammar! The metacommunicative lexicon of Nigerian Pidgin – from corpus data to literary discourse
- Anchimbe, Eric A.: The use of kinship terms in the refusal of offers: A postcolonial pragmatics perspective
WS3: Workshop Bolander & Mostowlansky
Traversing super-, trans-, and inter-: Central and South Asia revisited
Tuesday, 26/Aug/2014, 10:30am-12:30pm; Location: KOL-G-217
- Bolander, Brook (1); Mostowlansky, Till (2): Introduction to Workshop "Traversing super-, trans-, and inter-: Central and South Asia revisited"
- Bharadwaj, Vasudha: Patriotism, power, and practicality: regionalism, linguistic conflict, and English in 1960s India
- Zipp, Lena: Code-switching in the media: Identity negotiations in a Gujarati diaspora radio programme
- Rahman, Tariq: The Modernization of Names in Pakistan
Tuesday, 26/Aug/2014, 2:00pm-4:00pm; Location: KOL-G-217
- Bolander, Brook: English, mobility and the discursive construction of the transnational Ismaili community: Case studies from Northern Pakistan and Eastern Tajikistan
- Mostowlansky, Till: Building bridges across the Oxus: The (re)connection of two regions and the language of development
- Kreutzmann, Hermann Josef: Language variegation across the Pamirs - perceptions and mobilities
- Britain, David: Discussant of the Workshop “Traversing super-, trans-, and inter-: Central and South Asia revisited”.
WS4: Workshop Cappelle & Depraetere
Modal meaning in Construction Grammar
Tuesday, 26/Aug/2014, 10:30am-12:30pm; Location: KOL-F-118
- Cappelle, Bert; Depraetere, Ilse: Modal meaning in Construction Grammar: introduction
- Bergs, Alexander: Modals in Construction Grammar: Constructing a constructicon
- Boogaart, Ronny: Modal versus temporal readings of auxiliaries: a constructionist view
- Cappelle, Bert; Depraetere, Ilse: Implicated modal meaning in Construction Grammar
Tuesday, 26/Aug/2014, 2:00am-4:00pm; Location: KOL-F-118
- Hilpert, Martin: Recent change in modal meanings: Evidence from collocational shifts
- Traugott, Elizabeth Closs: Do semantic modal maps have a role in a constructionalization approach to modals?
- Salkie, Raphael: English modals and Construction Grammar: rethinking monosemy
- Wärnsby, Anna: Testing modal constructions
- Cappelle, Bert; Depraetere, Ilse: Modal meaning in Construction Grammar: concluding remarks
WS5: Workshop Sanchez-Stockhammer
Building bridges into the future: Can we predict linguistic change?
Tuesday, 26/Aug/2014, 10:30am-12:30pm; Location: KOL-G-201
- Sanchez-Stockhammer, Christina: Can we predict linguistic change? An introduction
- Nevalainen, Terttu: The predictive potential of empirical historical research and the S-curve model of change
- Rütten, Tanja: For whom the bell tolls, or: why we predicted the death of the English subjunctive
Tuesday, 26/Aug/2014, 2:00pm-4:00pm; Location: KOL-G-201
- Bauer, Laurie: Four current changes and a crystal ball
- Dorgeloh, Heidrun (1); Kunter, Gero (2): Modelling non-locative inversion as an instance of functional specialization
- Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt: On the sorts of changes that linguists can(not) predict
- Tagliamonte, Sali A.: Using the architecture of variable systems to predict language change
- Sanchez-Stockhammer, Christina: Closing discussion