International Forum on Linguistic Cognitive Science: Forum 2010
Research Center for Linguistic Cognitive and Brain Sciences (RCLCBS) is to hold the International Forum on Linguistic Cognitive Science annually, which takes the form of a series of (normally) ten lectures on a particular subject of research by one or two world famous linguists. The title of the first forum, Forum 2010, is "Constructionalization: An approach to diachronic morphosyntactic change", with Elizabeth Traugott as the main speaker. The specific topics for her ten lectures are:
1. Apr 11 Introduction: grammaticalization, lexicalization, constructionalization.
2. Apr 12 Mechanisms of change: reanalysis, analogy.
3. Apr 13 Unidirectionality, macro- and micro-changes; gradience, gradualness.
4. Apr. 14 Mismatch, partialness of analogization, coercion.
5. Apr 15 Motivations; internal and external views.
6. Apr 17 Two examples: Transitivization, Partitive/Measure Constructions.
7. Apr 18 Thinking about contexts for change.
8. Apr 19 The lexicalization-grammaticalization continuum; idiomatization.
9. Apr 20 Part I: Pragmaticalization.
Part II: Degrammaticalization in a constructionalization framework.
10.Apr 21 Wrap-up. Potentials of constructionalization; a challenge: polysemy.