Call for papers
We invite submission of abstracts for 30min talks (including discussion) dealing with the following questions (inter alia):
- Which patterns of polysemy can be observed in CEPs? Are there predictable/systematic patterns of polysemy?
- Are there cross-linguistic tendencies of co-lexification in CEPs? The CLICS data-base (http://clics.lingpy.org/), for instance, reveals that ‘ask’ often shows up with the two readings ‘question’ and ‘request’. Likewise, ‘believe’ and ‘think’ and ‘know’ and ‘understand’, respectively, are co-lexified in quite a number of languages.
- Which distributional properties of CEPs are affected by polysemy?
- Which coercion patterns yield CEPs or affect CEPs? Does the availability of coercion depend on general conflation patterns in the respective languages? Do CEPs resulting from coercion exhibit specific complementation patterns?
- How should the polysemy of CEPs be modeled?
- Are there specific diachronic processes that lead to the rise or loss of polysemy in CEPs? Does the emergence or disappearance of synonymous or semantically similar CEPs play a role? How does the rise or loss of polysemy relate to the complementation pattern of the respective predicates?
- Which role does the polysemy of CEPs play for their processing or acquisition?
- Which patterns of polysemy copying of CEPs can be observed in language contact?
Please submit a one-page abstract (single-spaced, 12pt; references and examples can be added on a second page) as pdf document to Marie-Luise Popp (marie_luise [dot] popp [at] uni-leipzig.de).
Deadline: August 15, 2016
Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2016
Please note that you have to register for the DGfS conference. According to the regulations of the DGfS you should only present at one workshop of the DGfS.