Organisé par Eric Mélac, Ann Coady, Florence Floquet et Pascale Leclercq, en partenariat avec le LATTICE, ALAES et la MSH
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Présentation du colloque :
‘Grammaticalization’ (a term introduced by Meillet in 1912) has been the subject of numerous studies, which have highlighted regularities in the emergence of grammatical forms across typologically diverse languages. Grammaticalization refers both to a type of change (and sometimes its result) and to a framework for analysing such change. As a type of change, many of the definitions that have been proposed can be formulated as follows: the evolution of a form from a lexical status to a grammatical status, or from a grammatical status to a more grammatical status (Kuryɬowicz [1965] 1976). However, several broader definitions exist, such as Lehmann’s (2024: 1) ‘subjection of a linguistic construction or schema or of a linguistic operation to the rule of grammar’. Such definitional extensions affect a) the scope of this concept and b) the notion of unidirectionality (Prévost 2003, Haspelmath 2004, Norde 2009, Fischer 2013). The term ‘grammaticalization’ also refers to an analytical framework, or even a theory, built from observations of regularities of such processes. This framework expanded considerably in the latter half of the 20th century, notably through the work of Kuryɬowicz (1976), Benveniste (1968), and Givón (1979). Among the key publications are Lehmann ([1982] 1995), Hopper & Traugott (2003), Hopper (1991), Traugott & Heine (1991), Heine (1993, 1997), and Heine & Kuteva (2005, 2007).
Around the turn of the 21st century, Construction Grammar developed rapidly. Much early research drew inspiration from Goldberg (1995), who defined a construction as a ‘form-meaning pair’ (1995: 4). Constructions are acquired individually because they are partly unpredictable, yet they are organized into a hierarchical network – the constructicon – that represents a speaker’s linguistic knowledge (Diessel 2023). In this network, lower-level constructions inherit properties from higher-level ones, and these vertical relations have been extensively studied. More elusive are the horizontal relations that link constructions at the same level, whether schematic or specific (e.g. He broke the vase / The vase broke). Diachronic Construction Grammar (a term first used by Ziegeler 2004; see Noël 2013) brings together work investigating how constructions evolve and how such changes are integrated into the constructicon (Barðdal et al. 2015, Smirnova & Sommerer 2020 inter alia)...