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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Call for abstracts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dissemination workshop <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>GENDER AND CLASSIFIERS: CROSS-LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVES<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Gender and classifiers are usually thought of as mutually exclusive systems of noun categorization. In a gender system, as for example in Italian or German, nouns are assigned one or more genders on a semantic or formal basis, and the genders of the language can be defined by sets of markers on agreement targets. In a classifier system, as we find it in Chinese or Vietnamese for instance, a noun appears with a semantically compatible classifier in certain contexts, e.g. quantification with a numeral.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:14.2pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>But recent research has turned up more and more languages (mostly Papuan, South American, and Australian) in which the two co-occur together, yielding overlapping and interacting systems of classification. This is an exciting and new area of enquiry which promises to expand our understanding of the semantics and morphology of classification, and of cognitive categories in general. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:14.2pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>The main questions guiding this workshop are:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:14.2pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>(i) which types of system can be found together in a single language and <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.2pt;text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>(ii) where systems combine are they each going to be close to canonical examples of their type or are they required to be principled deviations from the ideal. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Given our interest in both types of system, we also welcome papers on the typology of noun categorization more generally. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Date: 17 January 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Organized by the Surrey Morphology Group at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Invited speakers: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Professor Maria Polinsky (Harvard University)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Professor Gunter Senft (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>People wishing to present a paper at the workshop are invited to submit a one-page anonymous abstract in electronic form (pdf or Word document) to Sebastian Fedden at the following address: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>s.fedden AT surrey.ac.uk <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 October 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>-------------------------</span><span style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Dr Sebastian Fedden</span><span style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Surrey Morphology Group</span><span style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>School of English and Languages</span><span style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>University of Surrey</span><span style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH</span><span style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>United Kingdom</span><span style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><a href="http://www.surrey.ac.uk/englishandlanguages/staff_list/complete_staff_list/sebastian_fedden/index.htm"><span style='color:blue'>Personal website</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>AHRC Project:</span><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> <a href="http://www.surrey.ac.uk/englishandlanguages/research/smg/researchprojects/combining_gender_and_classifiers_in_natural_language.htm"><span style='color:blue'>Combining Gender and Classifiers in Natural Language (grant AH/K003194/1)</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>AHRC/ESF(EuroBabel) Project:</span><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> <a href="http://www.alor-pantar.surrey.ac.uk/"><span style='color:blue'>Alor-Pantar languages: origins and theoretical impact (grant AH/H500251/1)</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-US style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>A Grammar of Mian. </span></i><span style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Winner of the 2013 ALT Gabelentz Award<i>. </i></span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Available through all good bookshops, or direct from</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> <a href="http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/179274?rskey=8aql8G&result=1&q=fedden"><span style='color:blue'>De Gruyter Mouton</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>