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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>20<sup>th</sup> International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, 2011<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Workshop proposal:<b> <o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b>The Diachrony of Negation<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Organizers: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen & Jacqueline Visconti<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:14.2pt;text-autospace:none'>This workshop aims to bring together scholars working on the genesis and evolution of negative constructions in a wide spectrum of both related and unrelated languages. The adoption of different theoretical and methodological approaches, both functional and formal, will provide new insights into the nature and function of negation, which will be investigated from a variety of mutually complementary angles. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:14.2pt;text-autospace:none'>The workshop is expected to make a significant contribution to current theorizing on (i) the typology, structure, and development of negative constructions; (ii) the nature of “Jespersen Cycle”, a well-known and cross-linguistically instantiated pattern whereby <span style='font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"'>elements that were introduced into negative clauses to reinforce negation are reanalysed as negative markers</span>; (iii) the different pace and form of grammaticalization of negative markers in closely related languages; (iv) the role of language contact in negation renewal phenomena; (v) the nature and causes of grammatical change/models of language change in general. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:14.2pt;text-autospace:none'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>References</b>:<o:p></o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Breitbarth, A., C. Lucas, D. Willis, eds. 2011. <i>The development of negation. The languages of Europe and the Mediterranean</i>, vols. I-II. Oxford: OUP.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=NL>van Gelderen, E., ed. 2009. <i>Cyclical change</i>. </span>Amsterdam: John Benjamins.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=FR>Ingham, R. & P. Larrivée, eds. </span>Fc. <i>Cycles of grammaticalization</i>. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Jespersen, O. 1917. <i>Negation in English and other languages</i>. Copenhagen: Høst og Søn. <o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Prospective participants (**Additional contributors are welcome!**):<o:p></o:p></b></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Theresa Biberauer (confirmed): TBA<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Anne Breitbarth (confirmed): The Quantifier Cycle in Low German from a cross-linguistic perspective<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Viviane Déprez & Sabine Ploux (to be confirmed): Historical evolution of semantic networks: the case of French negative terms, a computational approach.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Richard Ingham (confirmed): Split-scope readings and the syntax of NegP in Late Middle English.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Agnes Jäger (to be confirmed): TBA<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Pierre Larrivee (confirmed): Sociolinguistic pressures on language evolution – the case of negative doubling in French<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>France Martineau (confirmed): <i>Ne-</i>deletion in French<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=SV>Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (confirmed): TBA<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Ian Roberts (confirmed): TBA<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Scott Schwenter (to be confirmed): TBA<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Johan van der Auwera & Lauren van Alsenoy (confirmed): On negative indefinites.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span lang=ES>Johan van der Auwera & Frens Vossen (confirmed): On sentence negation<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Jacqueline Visconti (confirmed): TBA<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>David Willis (confirmed): TBA<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Phillip Wallage (confirmed): Quantitative evidence for the role of information structure in the Middle English Jespersen Cycle<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>__________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Professor of French Language and Linguistics<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, The University of Manchester<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tel.: +44(0)161 306-1733<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Web site: http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/french/staff/maj-britt-mosegaard-hansen/<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>