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for abstracts: <br>
</span></b></p>
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mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Discourse
Functions of Demonstratives </span></b></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">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>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;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">Dates 14. - 15. Juni 2018,</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"
lang="DE"> </span><span
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Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Oslo,
Norway</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">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"
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">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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line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:3"><b><span
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mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Workshop</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">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>
<ul type="disc">
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36.0pt"><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">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>
</ul>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"
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36.0pt"><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">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>
</ul>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"
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36.0pt"><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">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>
</ul>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Submission
of Abstracts</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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line-height:normal"><span
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Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">We
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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Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";color:blue;mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"
lang="EN-AU">demonstratives2018@iln.uio.no</span></a></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"><br>
Notification of acceptance: 28 February 2018.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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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">Organising
committee</span></b></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">Åshild
Næss, University of Oslo</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">Jozina
Vander Klok, University of Oslo</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">Anna
Margetts, Monash University</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">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"
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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
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mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">References</span></b></p>
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line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Diessel,
Holger. 1999. Demonstratives: Form, function, and
grammaticalization. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.</span></p>
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line-height:normal"><span
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Vries, Lourens. 1995. Demonstratives, referent identification
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line-height:normal"><span
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R.M.W. 2003. Demonstratives: a cross-linguistic typology. </span><span
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lang="FR">Studies in Language 27:1, 61-112.</span></p>
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lang="FR">François, Alexandre. 2001. Contraintes de structures
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mwotlap, langue océanienne du Vanuatu. </span><span
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taxonomy of universal uses. </span><span
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Niemeyer.</span></p>
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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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