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          Functions of Demonstratives </span></b></p>
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        Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">This
        two-day workshop focuses on the functions of demonstratives and
        related forms as discourse-structuring devices beyond their
        already well-described reference tracking and discourse-deictic
        uses.</span></p>
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        lang="DE">Dates 14. - 15. Juni 2018,</span><span
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        Norway</span></p>
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        Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">The
        class of forms referred to as ‘demonstratives’ is large and
        varied, both crosslinguistically and often within individual
        languages. Traditional classifications of demonstrative forms
        (e.g. Diessel 1999, Dixon 2003) focus especially on the deictic
        distinctions made in demonstrative systems, and the morphology,
        syntax and grammaticalisation of demonstrative forms. Apart from
        being used in exophoric function, it is also well established
        that demonstratives often show endophoric functions. Himmelmann
        (1996), among others, discusses the use of demonstratives in
        introducing, identifying and tracking referents in discourse.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
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        Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
        Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Beyond
        reference-tracking and discourse deixis, there is evidence that
        demonstratives are linked to a range of further discourse
        functions which have not been generally acknowledged in the
        typological literature (see e.g. functions discussed by Reesink
        1987, de Vries 1995, François 2001, 2005, Schapper and San Roque
        2011, Kratochvil 2011). Furthermore, despite extensive research
        over the last decades on demonstrative systems
        cross-linguistically and within individual languages, we know
        surprisingly little about markedness distinctions in
        demonstrative paradigms (Himmelmann 1997), i.e. about which
        member is the unmarked choice in a particular type of use and
        which member (and in which use) has the tendency to further
        grammaticalise into which target domain.</span></p>
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        style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
        Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
        Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">This
        two-day workshop focuses on the functions of demonstratives and
        related forms as discourse-structuring devices beyond their
        already well-described reference tracking and discourse-deictic
        uses.<br>
        <br>
        We are interested in</span></p>
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          New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">functions
          including the foregrounding or backgrounding of information
          (e.g. referents, events, stretches of discourse), marking
          presupposed or asserted information, marking discourse topics,
          marking stretches of discourse as forming a unit,
          clause-linking and subordination-like functions, as well as
          functions relating to information structure (i.e. clause-level
          topic/focus relations).</span></li>
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          New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">how the
          structure of a demonstrative paradigm interacts with discourse
          functions. That is, does the type of system (person-based vs.
          distance-based) and/or the number of contrasts within the
          system (two-term, three-term, larger systems) have any impact
          on which member(s) of the paradigm take on specific functions?</span></li>
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          New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">little-studied
          discourse functions of demonstratives referring to persons,
          places and objects, but also in demonstratives expressing
          other ontological categories (e.g. manner, quality, degree,
          quantity), as well as contributions on the discourse function
          of presentative demonstratives.</span></li>
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          mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Submission
          of Abstracts</span></b></p>
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        invite abstracts for 20-minute presentations to be submitted by
        31 January 2018. Abstract should be maximum one page in 12-point
        font, including examples and references. Please submit your
        abstract to </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a
          href="mailto:demonstratives2018@iln.uio.no"><span
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            lang="EN-AU">demonstratives2018@iln.uio.no</span></a></span><span
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        Notification of acceptance: 28 February 2018.</span></p>
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          mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Organising
          committee</span></b></p>
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        Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
        Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Åshild
        Næss, University of Oslo</span></p>
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        Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
        Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Jozina
        Vander Klok, University of Oslo</span></p>
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      line-height:normal"><span
        style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
        Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
        Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Anna
        Margetts, Monash University</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
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      line-height:normal"><span
        style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
        Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
        Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Yvonne
        Treis, CNRS-LLACAN</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
      line-height:normal"><span
        style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
        Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
        Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
      line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:3"><b><span
          style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Times New
          Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
          Roman";
          mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">References</span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
      line-height:normal"><span
        style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
        Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
        Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Diessel,
        Holger. 1999. Demonstratives: Form, function, and
        grammaticalization. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
      line-height:normal"><span
        style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
        Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
        Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">De
        Vries, Lourens. 1995. Demonstratives, referent identification
        and topicality in Wambon and some other Papuan languages.
        Journal of Pragmatics 24(5). 513–533.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
      line-height:normal"><span
        style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
        Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
        Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Dixon,
        R.M.W. 2003. Demonstratives: a cross-linguistic typology. </span><span
        style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
        Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
        Roman";mso-ansi-language:FR;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"
        lang="FR">Studies in Language 27:1, 61-112.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
      line-height:normal"><span
        style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
        Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
        Roman";mso-ansi-language:FR;mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"
        lang="FR">François, Alexandre. 2001. Contraintes de structures
        et liberté dans l’organisation du discours: une description du
        mwotlap, langue océanienne du Vanuatu. </span><span
        style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
        Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
        Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Univ.
        Paris.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
      line-height:normal"><span
        style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
        Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
        Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">François,
        Alexandre. 2005. A typological overview of Mwotlap, an Oceanic
        language of Vanuatu. Linguistic Typology 9. 115–146.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
      line-height:normal"><span
        style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
        Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
        Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Himmelmann,
        Nikolaus. P. 1996. Demonstratives in narrative discourse: a
        taxonomy of universal uses. </span><span
        style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New
        Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
        Roman"; mso-ansi-language:DE;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"
        lang="DE">In Fox ed., Studies in Anaphora, 205-254. Amsterdam:
        John Benjamins.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
      line-height:normal"><span
        style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
        Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
        Roman";mso-ansi-language:DE;mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"
        lang="DE">Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 1997. Deiktikon, Artikel,
        Nominalphrase: zur Emergenz syntaktischer Struktur. </span><span
        style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New
        Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
        Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Tübingen:
        Niemeyer.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
      line-height:normal"><span
        style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
        Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
        Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Kratochvíl,
        František. 2011.  Discourse-structuring functions of Abui
        demonstratives. In Foong Ha Yap, Karen Grunow-Hårsta and Janick
        Wrona (eds.), Nominalization in Asian languages: Diachronic and
        typological perspectives, 757–788. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John
        Benjamins.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
      line-height:normal"><span
        style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
        Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
        Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Reesink,
        Ger P. 1987. Structures and their functions in Usan.
        Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
      line-height:normal"><span
        style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
        Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
        Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Schapper,
        Antoinette, and Lila San Roque. 2011. Demonstratives and
        non-embedded nominalisations in three Papuan languages of the
        Timor-Alor-Pantar family. Studies in Language 35:2, 380-408.</span></p>
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Anna Margetts
Linguistics Program, LCL
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Monash University
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