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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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              EN-AU" lang="DE">Dates 14. - 15. Juni 2018,</span><span
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              Norway</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">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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              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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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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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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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>
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              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
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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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              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>
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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">Jozina Vander Klok, University of Oslo</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">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 Roman";
                mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">References</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">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
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              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
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              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>
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            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
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              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>
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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
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              EN-AU">François, Alexandre. 2005. A typological overview
              of Mwotlap, an Oceanic language of Vanuatu. Linguistic
              Typology 9. 115–146.</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
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              EN-AU">Himmelmann, Nikolaus. P. 1996. Demonstratives in
              narrative discourse: a taxonomy of universal uses. </span><span
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              Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
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              mso-ansi-language:DE;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU" lang="DE">In
              Fox ed., Studies in Anaphora, 205-254. Amsterdam: John
              Benjamins.</span></p>
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            style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
            line-height:normal"><span
              style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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              EN-AU" lang="DE">Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 1997. Deiktikon,
              Artikel, Nominalphrase: zur Emergenz syntaktischer
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              mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Tübingen:
              Niemeyer.</span></p>
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              style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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              EN-AU">Kratochvíl, František. 2011.  Discourse-structuring
              functions of Abui demonstratives. In Foong Ha Yap, Karen
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              Asian languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives,
              757–788. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.</span></p>
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            line-height:normal"><span
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              Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
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              EN-AU">Reesink, Ger P. 1987. Structures and their
              functions in Usan. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins
              Publishing Company.</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">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>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
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Anna Margetts
Linguistics Program, LCL
PO Box 11A
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Monash University
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Australia

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