Workshop, 1–2 June 2023, online
Organizers: Steffen Höder, Sabrina Goll, Anna Hagel
Diasystematic Construction Grammar (DCxG) is a usage-based construction grammar approach to language contact and multilingualism. Since the publication of the first DCxG paper eleven years ago (Höder 2012), the framework has enjoyed increasing popularity among scholars working on topics related to language contact from a usage-based perspective, ranging from language change and multilingual practices to additional language acquisition, from Germanic languages to Malayalam and American Sign Language, and from syntax to phonology (cf. the contributions in Boas & Höder 2018, 2021; for a DCxG bibliography, cf. steffenhoeder.de/dcxg-bibliography).
This online workshop aims to provide an opportunity for linguists working on or interested in DCxG to meet, present their current work, and discuss challenges for the further development of the approach.
Programme (updated 1 June)
All times are in Central European Summer Time (UTC+2).
Thursday, 1 June 2023
14:00
Opening remarks: Where it all started …
Steffen Höder (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
14:30
Pro-diasystematic convergence of CONJ X constructions in Czech, Dutch, English, and German
Martin Konvička (Freie Universität Berlin)
15:00
Pragmatic constructions in Finnish and Finland-Swedish from a DCxG perspective
Camilla Wide (Turun yliopisto/Åbo universitet) & Jan Lindström (Helsingin yliopisto/Helsingfors universitet)
15:30
Coffee break
15:45
Danish and German ditransitive constructions in contact: an insight into South Schleswig Danish argument structure
Sabrina Goll (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
16:15
The constructional behaviour of ditransitive verbs in Finland Swedish – an archaism or a case of pro-diasystematic change?
Fredrik Valdeson (Södertörns högskola)
16:45
Coffee break
17:00
Phonological schematicity across closely related languages: A case study about sound correspondences in Interscandinavian semicommunication
Anna Hagel (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
17:30
Language contact in translations from Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS) to written Portuguese: analysis, description and functioning of the multilingual constructicon
Ruan Diniz, Roberto Freitas Junior (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
Friday, 2 June 2023
14:00
Word formation with the -orama libfix in English and Norwegian: A Diasystematic Construction Grammar approach
Urd Vindenes (Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge) & Torodd Kinn (Universitetet i Bergen)
14:30
False friends in (not so closely) related languages
Lande Botha, Adri Breed, Anneke Butler, Maristi Partridge (North-West University/Noordwes-Universiteit/Yunibesiti ya Bokone-Bophirima), Suléne Pilon (Universiteit van Pretoria/University of Pretoria/Yunibesithi ya Pretoria), Monique Rabé & Gerhard van Huyssteen (North-West University/Noordwes-Universiteit/Yunibesiti ya Bokone-Bophirima)
15:00
Discussion: … and where we’re heading
everybody
15:30
Coffee break
15:45
Diasystematic Construction Grammar meets Diachronic Construction Grammar meets constructicography: Towards a digital Afrikaans taboo constructicon
Monique Rabé & Gerhard van Huyssteen (North-West University/Noordwes-Universiteit/Yunibesiti ya Bokone-Bophirima)
16:15
Effects on the entrenchment of time constructions in German and Japanese learners of Swedish as a foreign language
Julia Prentice (Göteborgs universitet), Joel Olofsson (Högskolan Väst), Gerlof Bouma (Göteborgs universitet)
16:45
Coffee break
17:00
Evidence of cognitive representations in diasystematic grammar: the case of [(Spec) N] in the multilingual constructicon of English-speaking Brazilian Portuguese learners
João Paulo Nascimento, Roberto Freitas Junior & Lia Soares Antunes (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
17:30
Conclusion