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<P class=msonospacing style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Workshop
on ‘The diachrony of gender marking’ at ICHL 19 (<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns
= "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Nijmegen</st1:place></st1:City>, August 10-15, 2009)<?xml:namespace
prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
/><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=msonospacing style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Despite
several decades of research, our understanding of grammatical gender systems is
still relatively poor in comparison to other parts of grammar. The present
workshop aims at taking stock of current developments in the
field.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=msonospacing style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=msonospacing style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">The
workshop on gender will address questions including, but not restricted to, the
following:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">-
Patterns of change in gender systems: can we find any regularity in changes that
gender systems can undergo? And to what extent can we derive answers from such
patterns with regard to more fundamental questions such as the quest for
triggers in gender change (deflection, language contact), the function of
grammatical gender, or the structure of gender systems?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=msonospacing style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">-
Loss or renewal of grammatical gender: in Indo-European languages, most ongoing
changes concern the loss of aspects of the gender system, such as the decrease
of the number of genders or the loss of gender agreement from parts of the
grammar (although there are exceptions, such as the emergence of a ‘neo-neuter’
in varieties of Italian (Haase 2000). Are there language families where the
reverse is observed, i.e. frequent changes towards more genders or towards more
gender agreement? In addition, to what extent do these innovations match alleged
universal pathways such as the one proposed by Greenberg
(1978).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=msonospacing style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=msonospacing style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">- The
global distribution of grammatical gender: it appears that gender systems are
quite widespread in the world, but not universal (cf. the WALS). Are there any
linguistic properties that facilitate or inhibit the presence of grammatical
gender? And how can such correlations be explained?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=msonospacing style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=msonospacing style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">- Grammatical
gender and theories of language change: recent data, e.g. from Dutch, have shown
substantial differences in the way grammatical gender is acquired in L1 and L2.
Hence data on gender change can be shed some light over the ongoing debate on
the role of L1 vs. L2 speakers in language change.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=msonospacing style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=msonospacing style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Conveners:
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=msonospacing style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Gunther
De Vogelaer (Flemish Research Foundation / <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Ghent</st1:place></st1:City>)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=msonospacing style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Mark
Janse (<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Ghent</st1:place></st1:City>)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=msonospacing style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=msonospacing style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Keynote
speakers:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=msonospacing style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Alexandra
Aikhenvald (La Trobe)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=msonospacing style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Brian
Joseph (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Ohio</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">State</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=msonospacing style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Peter
Siemund (<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Hamburg</st1:place></st1:State>)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=msonospacing style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=msonospacing style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Abstracts:
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=msonospacing style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">The
workshop is part of the ICHL-19 conference, which takes place 10-15 August 2009,
at the Radboud University Nijmegen (the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Netherlands</st1:place></st1:country-region>). Abstracts should be
submitted via the ICHL-19 website: <A
href="http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/">http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/</A>. Deadline
is 10 January 2009.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=msonospacing style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: -27pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">More
information:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=msonospacing style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 27pt; TEXT-INDENT: -27pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">please
contact <A
href="mailto:gunther.devogelaer@ugent.be">gunther.devogelaer@ugent.be</A> or <A
href="mailto:mark.janse@ugent.be">mark.janse@ugent.be</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>