From luraghi at unipv.it Fri Jun 3 20:08:11 2011 From: luraghi at unipv.it (Silvia Luraghi) Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 22:08:11 +0200 Subject: Reminder - Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics 19-25 September 2011 Message-ID: (Apologies for cross-posting) Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics Pavia (Italy) 19-25 September 2011 Application deadline: 30 June 2011 General Description: The Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics will be held from September 19 to September 25 at the University of Pavia. It will feature four courses, a lab on the use of corpora in historical linguistics and issues connected with annotation, a poster session in which students will be able to present their research, and will end with the International Conference “Historical-Comparative Linguistics in the 21st century” (see attached program). Attendance is limited to 20 participants. Courses and instructors: Course 1 = Sanskrit (Leonid Kulikov, Leiden; introduced by Silvia Luraghi, Pavia) Course 2 = Celtic (Ranko Matasovic, Zagreb; introduced by Elisa Roma, Pavia) Course 3 = Baltic (Daniel Petit, École Normale Supérieure Paris; introduced by Maria Cristina Bragone, Pavia) Course 4 = Tocharian (Gerd Carling, Uppsala; introduced by Pierluigi Cuzzolin, Bergamo) Lab (Dag Haug, Oslo; introduced by Elisabetta Jezek, Pavia) Preliminary Schedule: http://attach.matita.net/silvialuraghi/file/Bando%20Summer%20School.pdf Admission: We invite PhD students, as well as Postdocs and other young researchers to send us their application. Advanced MA students can also be considered for admission, based on a written statement of their motivation for attending the school. Applications will be examined by an international scientific committee, which will assign them a score. Participants will be admitted based on the score up to a maximum of 20. PhD students will be given precedence. As all courses are taught in English, a good knowledge of English is a basic requirement. Application deadline: June 30, 2011 ECTS: Participation in the Summer School, including active participation in the Poster Session and attendance of the International Conference, stands for 3 ECTS. At the end of the Summer School, every participant will receive a certificate, which will indicate the amount of awarded ECTS credits. Fees: Attendance to the Summer School is free of charge. We have reserved single rooms for participants at the Collegio Volta for the nights from Sunday 18 Sept (arrival) to Sunday 25 Sept (departure) at the total price of 350 Euros, which also includes lunch at the cafeteria (Mensa Fraccaro), one-week pass for public transportation, and invitation to all social events featured at the Conference. Scientific Committee: Marina Benedetti Pierluigi Cuzzolin Rosemarie Lühr Silvia Luraghi Ranko Matasovic Contact: Practical information and housing: Giorgio Iemmolo giorgio.iemmolo at unipv.it Erica Pinelli ericapinelli at alice.it Poster session: Alessandra Caviglia alessandra.caviglia at gmail.com Please send applications to: silvia.luraghi at unipv.it ################################################################################ International Conference Historical-Comparative Linguistics in the 21st Century Preliminary program http://attach.matita.net/silvialuraghi/file/Humboldt%20Kolleg%20Program.pdf Silvia Luraghi Dipartimento di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata Università di Pavia Strada Nuova 65 I-27100 Pavia telef.: +39-0382-984685 fax: +39-0382-984487 silvia.luraghi at unipv.it http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=68 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Joseph (Ohio State University) Already the two classical definitions of ‘grammaticalization’, by Meillet (1912) (“[l’]attribution du caractère grammatical à un mot jadis autonome”) and Kuryłowicz (1965) (“Grammaticalization consists in the increase of the range of a morpheme advancing from a lexical to a grammatical or from less grammatical to a more grammatical status […].”), vary considerably in scope. Even more so today, the label grammaticalization is used for a great array of phenomena; it seems in fact that the term has come to be used to refer to virtually anything that concerns the change or replacement of grammatical forms or constructions. While this broad scope of the notion makes ‘grammaticalization’ a widely discussed phenomenon in linguistics, the notion has necessarily become fuzzy: it has become difficult (perhaps impossible?) to find a consensus in ascribing any defining property to grammaticalization. In this two-day workshop, we want to take stock of the various conceptualizations and try to re-focus our notion of grammaticalization in light of the empirical findings and the theoretical developments in recent years. This is motivated by our belief that most controversies concerning the properties and the status of grammaticalization have their origin in the fact that the notion has become inconsistent or even ill-defined. A further consequence is that a plethora of new Izations in the study of (grammatical) change have emerged, but no harmonious terminology – not to speak of a consistent model of the emergence and the change of grammatical forms. On the assumption that a loose use of the term grammaticalization does not contribute any longer to our understanding of the mechanisms involved in the emergence of grammatical forms and constructions, furthermore on the assumption that what Meillet originally had in mind – the emergence of grammatical forms – is a relevant cross-linguistic phenomenon, we would like to raise the question of how to refine the notion ‘grammaticalization’ in a way that is beneficial for our understanding of language change. Questions for discussion at the workshop include, but are not restricted to: · To what extent do additional concepts (X-izations) like pragmaticalization, discoursization, (inter)subjectification etc., which were born out of the context of grammaticalization studies but which are themselves not defined unanimously, need to be included into (or excluded from) a framework for the study of changes in grammatical forms. · What is their relation with grammaticalization – in Meillet’s sense or in a wider sense? · What status have past and present attempts to model changes of grammatical forms, such as the traditional parameters, clines and others? · Are there characteristic features that can be observed in all instances of grammaticalization processes – whether in a wider or in a more narrow sense – and can therefore be considered definitory of grammaticalization? We would like to invite linguists interested in language change to contribute to a discussion which aims at refining the notion of ‘grammaticalization’ and, ultimately, at overcoming the current terminological fuzziness. Please send an anonymous abstract of no more than 500 words, excluding references, to grz2012 at zedat.fu-berlin.de. There will be 40-minute slots, including discussion time. Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 August 2011. Notification of acceptance: Early October 2011 A conference website will be available soon. For further information please contact: grz2012 at zedat.fu-berlin.de ____________________ Horst Simon Ferdinand von Mengden Freie Universität Berlin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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SYMPOSIUM SHARED GRAMMATICALIZATION IN THE TRANSEURASIAN LANGUAGES University of Leuven, Belgium September 21-23, 2011 Organizers Martine Robbeets (University of Leuven & University of Mainz) Martine_robbeets at hotmail.com Hubert Cuyckens (University of Leuven) Hubert.cuyckens at arts.kuleuven.be Symposium website: http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/gramm/ MEETING DESCRIPTION Shared grammaticalization refers to the state whereby two or more languages have the input and the output of a grammaticalization process in common. The shared grammaticalization may have arisen independently in each of them by universal principles of grammatical change, it may have been induced by language contact, or it may have been inherited, either from the ancestral language, when the languages were one and the same or through "parallel drift", after the languages were disconnected. Universal principles are at work, for instance, in the shared grammaticalization of a verb 'go' into a future marker by genealogically and areally unrelatable languages such as English in Europe, Zulu in Africa, Quechua in South America and Tamil in Asia. A classical example of contact-induced grammaticalization is the copying of aspectual meanings on certain originally independent verbs, such as the copying of progressive aspect on the verb eraman 'to carry' in southern Basque under influence of the grammaticalized progressive meaning of the Spanish verb llevar 'to carry' (Jendraschek 2007: 157). A prototypical case of inheritance is the shared grammaticalization of the Romance future markers; Romance languages globally share a root for the verb 'have' such as French avoir, Spanish haber, Portuguese haver and Italian avere as well as the grammaticalized future marker as in French chante-rons, Spanish canta-ré, Portuguese canta-rei and Italian cante-rémo 'we will sing', reflecting a process of grammaticalization that took place in the ancestral language. The approaches taken by the speakers will be either theoretical, reflecting upon shared grammaticalization in a cross-linguistic sample of languages, or experimental, investigating shared grammaticalization between two or more Transeurasian languages or between a Transeurasian language and unrelated languages. We use Transeurasian in reference to a large group of geographically adjacent languages, traditionally known as "Altaic". They share a significant number of linguistic properties and include at most five different linguistic families: Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic. The goal of the workshop is to shed light on instances of shared grammaticalization and the factors triggering them, with a special focus on the Transeurasian languages. Specific issues to be addressed include, among others: - Is it possible to distinguish between the different determinants of shared grammaticalization: universals, contact or inheritance? - What is the exact impact of language contact and common ancestorship on the grammaticalisation process? - Is it possible to borrow grammaticalization per se, as a historical process? - Heine and Kuteva (2005) delimit their description of contact-induced grammaticalization to selective semantic copying, in their terms "replication", but are there examples of globally copied grammaticalization? - Where do instances of so-called "grammatical accomodation" (Aikhenvald 2002: 5, 239; 2007: 24), namely the development of a native morpheme on the model of the syntactic function of a phonetically similar morpheme in the model language, fit in? Are these cases of contact-induced grammaticalization? - Do we find examples of "parallel drift" (Sapir 1921: 157-182, LaPolla 1994) in the Transeurasian languages or beyond? Is there evidence to support this specific type of grammaticalization in genealogical units whereby under influence of a common origin the same grammaticalization processes occur repeatedly but independently in each of the languages? PRESENTATIONS Areal diffusion and parallelism in drift: shared grammaticalization patterns Alexandra Aikhenvald (Cairns) On Contact-Induced Grammaticalization: Internally or Externally Induced? Bernd Heine (Cologne) Shared grammaticalization in isomorphic processes Lars Johanson (Mainz) Demystifying 'Drift' - A Variationist Account Brian Joseph (Columbus, OH) On the diachrony of 'even' constructions Volker Gast (Jena) & Johan van der Auwera (Antwerp) Contact and parallel developments in Cape York Peninsula, Australia Jean-Christophe Verstraete (Leuven) Temporalization of Turkic aspectual systems Hendrik Boeschoten (Mainz) Growing apart in shared grammaticalization Éva Csató (Uppsala) Biverbal constructions in Altaic Irina Nevskaya (Frankfurt) The indefinite article in the Qinghai-Gansu Sprachbund Hans Nugteren (Amsterdam) Personal Pronouns in "Core Altaic". Juha Janhunen (Helsinki) Origin and development of possessive suffixes and predicative personal endings in some Mongolic languages Béla Kempf (Budapest) Grammaticalization of a purpose clause marker in ?ven - contact or independent innovation? Brigitte Pakendorf (Leipzig) Verbalization and insubordination in Siberian languages Andrej Malchukov (Mainz) Emphatic reduplication in Korean, Kalkha Mongolian and other Altaic languages Jaehoon Yeon (London) Comparative grammaticalization in Japanese and Korean Heiko Narrog & Seongha Rhee (Sendai & Seoul) Inherited grammaticalization and Sapirian drift in the Transeurasian family Martine Robbeets (Leuven / Mainz) Japanese hypotheticals, conditionals, and provisionals: a cautionary tale Jim Unger (Columbus, OH) To REGISTER, please complete the REGISTRATION FORM, available from the registration page on the symposium website http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/gramm/ Deadline for registration: 11 September 2011 A detailed program, information on payment, as well as Information on Travel and Accommodation can be found on the symposium website http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/gramm/. Please contact Martine Robbeets martine_robbeets at hotmail.com or hubert.cuyckens at arts.kuleuven.be for any additional information. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From wmb1001 at cam.ac.uk Mon Jun 13 20:07:27 2011 From: wmb1001 at cam.ac.uk (Professor Wendy Bennett) Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:07:27 +0100 Subject: Inscription Colloque SIDF Nancy 6-8 septembre 2011 Message-ID: Colloque SIDF: L'Histoire du français: État des lieux et perspectives Nancy, 6-8 septembre 2011 Colloque organisé avec la collaboration du laboratoire ATILF / CNRS Le premier colloque de la SIDF aura lieu à Nancy le 6-8 septembre 2011, immédiatement avant le colloque de l'"Assocation for French Language Studies". Nous aurons le plaisir d'accueillir Peter Koch (Tübingen), Andres Kristol (Neuchâtel) et Jean-Yves Mollier (Versailles Saint-Quentin) qui seront nos conférenciers invités. Inscription Pour vous inscrire au colloque, veuillez remplir le formulaire d'inscription en ligne avant le 30 juin. Programme Le programme du colloque est désormais disponsible en format pdf sur le site de la Société : http://www.sidf.group.cam.ac.uk/colloque_nancy.html Conférenciers invités « Peter Koch (Tübingen) « Andres Kristol (Neuchâtel) « Jean-Yves Mollier (Versailles Saint-Quentin) Tables rondes I : Corpus pour l'étude de l'histoire de la langue française : histoire, état des lieux, perspectives Avec la participation de Céline Guillot (ENS-Lyon), France Martineau (Montréal), Véronique Montémont et Pascale Bernard (ATILF Nancy), Sophie Prévost (ENS-Paris) II : Cartographie de la zone préverbale en français Avec la participation de Paola Benincà (Padova), Bernard Combettes (Nancy), Corinne Rossari (Fribourg) _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From luraghi at unipv.it Mon Jun 20 08:23:15 2011 From: luraghi at unipv.it (Silvia Luraghi) Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:23:15 +0200 Subject: LAST REMINDER - Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics 19-25 September 2011 Message-ID: (Apologies for cross-posting) Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics Pavia (Italy) 19-25 September 2011 Application deadline: 30 June 2011 General Description: The Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics will be held from September 19 to September 25 at the University of Pavia. It will feature four courses, a lab on the use of corpora in historical linguistics and issues connected with annotation, a poster session in which students will be able to present their research, and will end with the International Conference “Historical-Comparative Linguistics in the 21st century” (see attached program). Attendance is limited to 20 participants. Courses and instructors: Course 1 = Sanskrit (Leonid Kulikov, Leiden; introduced by Silvia Luraghi, Pavia) Course 2 = Celtic (Ranko Matasovic, Zagreb; introduced by Elisa Roma, Pavia) Course 3 = Baltic (Daniel Petit, École Normale Supérieure Paris; introduced by Maria Cristina Bragone, Pavia) Course 4 = Tocharian (Gerd Carling, Uppsala; introduced by Pierluigi Cuzzolin, Bergamo) Lab (Dag Haug, Oslo; introduced by Elisabetta Jezek, Pavia) Preliminary Schedule: http://attach.matita.net/silvialuraghi/file/Bando%20Summer%20School.pdf Admission: We invite PhD students, as well as Postdocs and other young researchers to send us their application. Advanced MA students can also be considered for admission, based on a written statement of their motivation for attending the school. Applications will be examined by an international scientific committee, which will assign them a score. Participants will be admitted based on the score up to a maximum of 20. PhD students will be given precedence. As all courses are taught in English, a good knowledge of English is a basic requirement. Application deadline: June 30, 2011 ECTS: Participation in the Summer School, including active participation in the Poster Session and attendance of the International Conference, stands for 3 ECTS. At the end of the Summer School, every participant will receive a certificate, which will indicate the amount of awarded ECTS credits. Fees: Attendance to the Summer School is free of charge. We have reserved single rooms for participants at the Collegio Volta for the nights from Sunday 18 Sept (arrival) to Sunday 25 Sept (departure) at the total price of 350 Euros, which also includes lunch at the cafeteria (Mensa Fraccaro), one-week pass for public transportation, and invitation to all social events featured at the Conference. Scientific Committee: Marina Benedetti Pierluigi Cuzzolin Rosemarie Lühr Silvia Luraghi Ranko Matasovic Contact: Practical information and housing: Giorgio Iemmolo giorgio.iemmolo at unipv.it Erica Pinelli ericapinelli at alice.it Poster session: Alessandra Caviglia alessandra.caviglia at gmail.com Please send applications to: silvia.luraghi at unipv.it ################################################################################ International Conference Historical-Comparative Linguistics in the 21st Century Preliminary program http://attach.matita.net/silvialuraghi/file/Humboldt%20Kolleg%20Program.pdf Silvia Luraghi Dipartimento di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata Università di Pavia Strada Nuova 65 I-27100 Pavia telef.: +39-0382-984685 fax: +39-0382-984487 silvia.luraghi at unipv.it http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=68 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It will feature four courses, a lab on the use of corpora in historical linguistics and issues connected with annotation, a poster session in which students will be able to present their research, and will end with the International Conference ?Historical-Comparative Linguistics in the 21st century? (see attached program). Attendance is limited to 20 participants. Courses and instructors: Course 1 = Sanskrit (Leonid Kulikov, Leiden; introduced by Silvia Luraghi, Pavia) Course 2 = Celtic (Ranko Matasovic, Zagreb; introduced by Elisa Roma, Pavia) Course 3 = Baltic (Daniel Petit, ?cole Normale Sup?rieure Paris; introduced by Maria Cristina Bragone, Pavia) Course 4 = Tocharian (Gerd Carling, Uppsala; introduced by Pierluigi Cuzzolin, Bergamo) Lab (Dag Haug, Oslo; introduced by Elisabetta Jezek, Pavia) Preliminary Schedule: http://attach.matita.net/silvialuraghi/file/Bando%20Summer%20School.pdf Admission: We invite PhD students, as well as Postdocs and other young researchers to send us their application. Advanced MA students can also be considered for admission, based on a written statement of their motivation for attending the school. Applications will be examined by an international scientific committee, which will assign them a score. Participants will be admitted based on the score up to a maximum of 20. PhD students will be given precedence. As all courses are taught in English, a good knowledge of English is a basic requirement. Application deadline: June 30, 2011 ECTS: Participation in the Summer School, including active participation in the Poster Session and attendance of the International Conference, stands for 3 ECTS. At the end of the Summer School, every participant will receive a certificate, which will indicate the amount of awarded ECTS credits. Fees: Attendance to the Summer School is free of charge. We have reserved single rooms for participants at the Collegio Volta for the nights from Sunday 18 Sept (arrival) to Sunday 25 Sept (departure) at the total price of 350 Euros, which also includes lunch at the cafeteria (Mensa Fraccaro), one-week pass for public transportation, and invitation to all social events featured at the Conference. Scientific Committee: Marina Benedetti Pierluigi Cuzzolin Rosemarie L?hr Silvia Luraghi Ranko Matasovic Contact: Practical information and housing: Giorgio Iemmolo giorgio.iemmolo at unipv.it Erica Pinelli ericapinelli at alice.it Poster session: Alessandra Caviglia alessandra.caviglia at gmail.com Please send applications to: silvia.luraghi at unipv.it ################################################################################ International Conference Historical-Comparative Linguistics in the 21st Century Preliminary program http://attach.matita.net/silvialuraghi/file/Humboldt%20Kolleg%20Program.pdf Silvia Luraghi Dipartimento di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata Universit? di Pavia Strada Nuova 65 I-27100 Pavia telef.: +39-0382-984685 fax: +39-0382-984487 silvia.luraghi at unipv.it http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=68 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Joseph (Ohio State University) Already the two classical definitions of ?grammaticalization?, by Meillet (1912) (?[l?]attribution du caract?re grammatical ? un mot jadis autonome?) and Kury?owicz (1965) (?Grammaticalization consists in the increase of the range of a morpheme advancing from a lexical to a grammatical or from less grammatical to a more grammatical status [?].?), vary considerably in scope. Even more so today, the label grammaticalization is used for a great array of phenomena; it seems in fact that the term has come to be used to refer to virtually anything that concerns the change or replacement of grammatical forms or constructions. While this broad scope of the notion makes ?grammaticalization? a widely discussed phenomenon in linguistics, the notion has necessarily become fuzzy: it has become difficult (perhaps impossible?) to find a consensus in ascribing any defining property to grammaticalization. In this two-day workshop, we want to take stock of the various conceptualizations and try to re-focus our notion of grammaticalization in light of the empirical findings and the theoretical developments in recent years. This is motivated by our belief that most controversies concerning the properties and the status of grammaticalization have their origin in the fact that the notion has become inconsistent or even ill-defined. A further consequence is that a plethora of new Izations in the study of (grammatical) change have emerged, but no harmonious terminology ? not to speak of a consistent model of the emergence and the change of grammatical forms. On the assumption that a loose use of the term grammaticalization does not contribute any longer to our understanding of the mechanisms involved in the emergence of grammatical forms and constructions, furthermore on the assumption that what Meillet originally had in mind ? the emergence of grammatical forms ? is a relevant cross-linguistic phenomenon, we would like to raise the question of how to refine the notion ?grammaticalization? in a way that is beneficial for our understanding of language change. Questions for discussion at the workshop include, but are not restricted to: ? To what extent do additional concepts (X-izations) like pragmaticalization, discoursization, (inter)subjectification etc., which were born out of the context of grammaticalization studies but which are themselves not defined unanimously, need to be included into (or excluded from) a framework for the study of changes in grammatical forms. ? What is their relation with grammaticalization ? in Meillet?s sense or in a wider sense? ? What status have past and present attempts to model changes of grammatical forms, such as the traditional parameters, clines and others? ? Are there characteristic features that can be observed in all instances of grammaticalization processes ? whether in a wider or in a more narrow sense ? and can therefore be considered definitory of grammaticalization? We would like to invite linguists interested in language change to contribute to a discussion which aims at refining the notion of ?grammaticalization? and, ultimately, at overcoming the current terminological fuzziness. Please send an anonymous abstract of no more than 500 words, excluding references, to grz2012 at zedat.fu-berlin.de. There will be 40-minute slots, including discussion time. Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 August 2011. Notification of acceptance: Early October 2011 A conference website will be available soon. For further information please contact: grz2012 at zedat.fu-berlin.de ____________________ Horst Simon Ferdinand von Mengden Freie Universit?t Berlin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From Hubert.Cuyckens at arts.kuleuven.be Sun Jun 12 15:31:29 2011 From: Hubert.Cuyckens at arts.kuleuven.be (Hubert Cuyckens) Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:31:29 +0200 Subject: Conference announcement: Shared grammaticalization in the Transeurasian languages Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-postings] We are pleased to announce the programme of the symposium on Shared grammaticalization in the Transeurasian languages, dedicated to Lars Johanson's 75th birthday. SYMPOSIUM SHARED GRAMMATICALIZATION IN THE TRANSEURASIAN LANGUAGES University of Leuven, Belgium September 21-23, 2011 Organizers Martine Robbeets (University of Leuven & University of Mainz) Martine_robbeets at hotmail.com Hubert Cuyckens (University of Leuven) Hubert.cuyckens at arts.kuleuven.be Symposium website: http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/gramm/ MEETING DESCRIPTION Shared grammaticalization refers to the state whereby two or more languages have the input and the output of a grammaticalization process in common. The shared grammaticalization may have arisen independently in each of them by universal principles of grammatical change, it may have been induced by language contact, or it may have been inherited, either from the ancestral language, when the languages were one and the same or through "parallel drift", after the languages were disconnected. Universal principles are at work, for instance, in the shared grammaticalization of a verb 'go' into a future marker by genealogically and areally unrelatable languages such as English in Europe, Zulu in Africa, Quechua in South America and Tamil in Asia. A classical example of contact-induced grammaticalization is the copying of aspectual meanings on certain originally independent verbs, such as the copying of progressive aspect on the verb eraman 'to carry' in southern Basque under influence of the grammaticalized progressive meaning of the Spanish verb llevar 'to carry' (Jendraschek 2007: 157). A prototypical case of inheritance is the shared grammaticalization of the Romance future markers; Romance languages globally share a root for the verb 'have' such as French avoir, Spanish haber, Portuguese haver and Italian avere as well as the grammaticalized future marker as in French chante-rons, Spanish canta-r?, Portuguese canta-rei and Italian cante-r?mo 'we will sing', reflecting a process of grammaticalization that took place in the ancestral language. The approaches taken by the speakers will be either theoretical, reflecting upon shared grammaticalization in a cross-linguistic sample of languages, or experimental, investigating shared grammaticalization between two or more Transeurasian languages or between a Transeurasian language and unrelated languages. We use Transeurasian in reference to a large group of geographically adjacent languages, traditionally known as "Altaic". They share a significant number of linguistic properties and include at most five different linguistic families: Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic. The goal of the workshop is to shed light on instances of shared grammaticalization and the factors triggering them, with a special focus on the Transeurasian languages. Specific issues to be addressed include, among others: - Is it possible to distinguish between the different determinants of shared grammaticalization: universals, contact or inheritance? - What is the exact impact of language contact and common ancestorship on the grammaticalisation process? - Is it possible to borrow grammaticalization per se, as a historical process? - Heine and Kuteva (2005) delimit their description of contact-induced grammaticalization to selective semantic copying, in their terms "replication", but are there examples of globally copied grammaticalization? - Where do instances of so-called "grammatical accomodation" (Aikhenvald 2002: 5, 239; 2007: 24), namely the development of a native morpheme on the model of the syntactic function of a phonetically similar morpheme in the model language, fit in? Are these cases of contact-induced grammaticalization? - Do we find examples of "parallel drift" (Sapir 1921: 157-182, LaPolla 1994) in the Transeurasian languages or beyond? Is there evidence to support this specific type of grammaticalization in genealogical units whereby under influence of a common origin the same grammaticalization processes occur repeatedly but independently in each of the languages? PRESENTATIONS Areal diffusion and parallelism in drift: shared grammaticalization patterns Alexandra Aikhenvald (Cairns) On Contact-Induced Grammaticalization: Internally or Externally Induced? Bernd Heine (Cologne) Shared grammaticalization in isomorphic processes Lars Johanson (Mainz) Demystifying 'Drift' - A Variationist Account Brian Joseph (Columbus, OH) On the diachrony of 'even' constructions Volker Gast (Jena) & Johan van der Auwera (Antwerp) Contact and parallel developments in Cape York Peninsula, Australia Jean-Christophe Verstraete (Leuven) Temporalization of Turkic aspectual systems Hendrik Boeschoten (Mainz) Growing apart in shared grammaticalization ?va Csat? (Uppsala) Biverbal constructions in Altaic Irina Nevskaya (Frankfurt) The indefinite article in the Qinghai-Gansu Sprachbund Hans Nugteren (Amsterdam) Personal Pronouns in "Core Altaic". Juha Janhunen (Helsinki) Origin and development of possessive suffixes and predicative personal endings in some Mongolic languages B?la Kempf (Budapest) Grammaticalization of a purpose clause marker in ?ven - contact or independent innovation? Brigitte Pakendorf (Leipzig) Verbalization and insubordination in Siberian languages Andrej Malchukov (Mainz) Emphatic reduplication in Korean, Kalkha Mongolian and other Altaic languages Jaehoon Yeon (London) Comparative grammaticalization in Japanese and Korean Heiko Narrog & Seongha Rhee (Sendai & Seoul) Inherited grammaticalization and Sapirian drift in the Transeurasian family Martine Robbeets (Leuven / Mainz) Japanese hypotheticals, conditionals, and provisionals: a cautionary tale Jim Unger (Columbus, OH) To REGISTER, please complete the REGISTRATION FORM, available from the registration page on the symposium website http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/gramm/ Deadline for registration: 11 September 2011 A detailed program, information on payment, as well as Information on Travel and Accommodation can be found on the symposium website http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/gramm/. Please contact Martine Robbeets martine_robbeets at hotmail.com or hubert.cuyckens at arts.kuleuven.be for any additional information. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From wmb1001 at cam.ac.uk Mon Jun 13 20:07:27 2011 From: wmb1001 at cam.ac.uk (Professor Wendy Bennett) Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 21:07:27 +0100 Subject: Inscription Colloque SIDF Nancy 6-8 septembre 2011 Message-ID: Colloque SIDF: L'Histoire du fran?ais: ?tat des lieux et perspectives Nancy, 6-8 septembre 2011 Colloque organis? avec la collaboration du laboratoire ATILF / CNRS Le premier colloque de la SIDF aura lieu ? Nancy le 6-8 septembre 2011, imm?diatement avant le colloque de l'"Assocation for French Language Studies". Nous aurons le plaisir d'accueillir Peter Koch (T?bingen), Andres Kristol (Neuch?tel) et Jean-Yves Mollier (Versailles Saint-Quentin) qui seront nos conf?renciers invit?s. Inscription Pour vous inscrire au colloque, veuillez remplir le formulaire d'inscription en ligne avant le 30 juin. Programme Le programme du colloque est d?sormais disponsible en format pdf sur le site de la Soci?t? : http://www.sidf.group.cam.ac.uk/colloque_nancy.html Conf?renciers invit?s ? Peter Koch (T?bingen) ? Andres Kristol (Neuch?tel) ? Jean-Yves Mollier (Versailles Saint-Quentin) Tables rondes I : Corpus pour l'?tude de l'histoire de la langue fran?aise : histoire, ?tat des lieux, perspectives Avec la participation de C?line Guillot (ENS-Lyon), France Martineau (Montr?al), V?ronique Mont?mont et Pascale Bernard (ATILF Nancy), Sophie Pr?vost (ENS-Paris) II : Cartographie de la zone pr?verbale en fran?ais Avec la participation de Paola Beninc? 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It will feature four courses, a lab on the use of corpora in historical linguistics and issues connected with annotation, a poster session in which students will be able to present their research, and will end with the International Conference ?Historical-Comparative Linguistics in the 21st century? (see attached program). Attendance is limited to 20 participants. Courses and instructors: Course 1 = Sanskrit (Leonid Kulikov, Leiden; introduced by Silvia Luraghi, Pavia) Course 2 = Celtic (Ranko Matasovic, Zagreb; introduced by Elisa Roma, Pavia) Course 3 = Baltic (Daniel Petit, ?cole Normale Sup?rieure Paris; introduced by Maria Cristina Bragone, Pavia) Course 4 = Tocharian (Gerd Carling, Uppsala; introduced by Pierluigi Cuzzolin, Bergamo) Lab (Dag Haug, Oslo; introduced by Elisabetta Jezek, Pavia) Preliminary Schedule: http://attach.matita.net/silvialuraghi/file/Bando%20Summer%20School.pdf Admission: We invite PhD students, as well as Postdocs and other young researchers to send us their application. Advanced MA students can also be considered for admission, based on a written statement of their motivation for attending the school. Applications will be examined by an international scientific committee, which will assign them a score. Participants will be admitted based on the score up to a maximum of 20. PhD students will be given precedence. As all courses are taught in English, a good knowledge of English is a basic requirement. Application deadline: June 30, 2011 ECTS: Participation in the Summer School, including active participation in the Poster Session and attendance of the International Conference, stands for 3 ECTS. At the end of the Summer School, every participant will receive a certificate, which will indicate the amount of awarded ECTS credits. Fees: Attendance to the Summer School is free of charge. We have reserved single rooms for participants at the Collegio Volta for the nights from Sunday 18 Sept (arrival) to Sunday 25 Sept (departure) at the total price of 350 Euros, which also includes lunch at the cafeteria (Mensa Fraccaro), one-week pass for public transportation, and invitation to all social events featured at the Conference. Scientific Committee: Marina Benedetti Pierluigi Cuzzolin Rosemarie L?hr Silvia Luraghi Ranko Matasovic Contact: Practical information and housing: Giorgio Iemmolo giorgio.iemmolo at unipv.it Erica Pinelli ericapinelli at alice.it Poster session: Alessandra Caviglia alessandra.caviglia at gmail.com Please send applications to: silvia.luraghi at unipv.it ################################################################################ International Conference Historical-Comparative Linguistics in the 21st Century Preliminary program http://attach.matita.net/silvialuraghi/file/Humboldt%20Kolleg%20Program.pdf Silvia Luraghi Dipartimento di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata Universit? di Pavia Strada Nuova 65 I-27100 Pavia telef.: +39-0382-984685 fax: +39-0382-984487 silvia.luraghi at unipv.it http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=68 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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