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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">REMINDER - Call for abstracts - Workshop
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">GENDER AND CLASSIFIERS: AREAL AND GENEALOGICAL PERSPECTIVES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Following our highly successful dissemination workshop “Gender and classifiers: Cross-linguistic perspectives” on the typology of nominal classification systems in 2014,
this time we want to look more closely at the areal and genealogical distribution of gender and classifiers in the languages of the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"> Certain types of classification system are typically associated with a language family or a linguistic area and we are interested in evidence which confirms
or contradicts these tendencies.<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">Many Indo-European languages have a two-term or three-term gender system with a masculine-feminine distinction, where a subset of the nouns are allotted
to their genders based on biological sex. In Africa the situation is different. While Afroasiatic languages (e.g. Arabic, Somali, Berber) have two-term gender systems build on a masculine-feminine contrast, in Niger-Congo languages (e.g. Swahili, Chichewa,
Eegimaa) larger systems are prevalent including a gender for either humans or animates.<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">Southeast Asian languages (e.g. Chinese, Burmese, Vietnamese) typically have numeral classifiers, which essentially specify counting units. The usual
Australian gender system has four distinctions, one of them being a gender for vegetables. If Australian languages have classifiers, they tend to be noun classifiers rather than numeral classifiers. Many languages in the Amazon area (e.g. Miraņa, Tucano, Tariana)
have been reported to have complex nominal classification systems mid-way between gender and classifiers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">We welcome contributions which address the morphology, morphosyntax, syntax or semantics of nominal classification systems from an areal or a genealogical perspective.
We are especially interested in languages, language families and areas in which gender and classifiers occur in combination. Abstracts dealing with such languages, language families or areas are particularly welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Date: 26-27 January 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Venue: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands<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 and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Invited speakers: Professor Gunter Senft (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Professor Maria Polinsky (Harvard University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">s.fedden AT surrey.ac.uk
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 October 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Further information about the workshop will be posted at
</span><a href="http://www.surrey.ac.uk/englishandlanguages/research/smg/researchprojects/gender_and_classifiers_areal_and_genealogical_perspectives.htm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">http://www.surrey.ac.uk/englishandlanguages/research/smg/researchprojects/gender_and_classifiers_areal_and_genealogical_perspectives.htm</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Just out (open access):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1D1D1D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Fedden, Sebastian and Dunstan P. Brown. 2014.
<a href="http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/22/7/179-1" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">Participant marking: corpus study and video elicitation</span></a>. In M. Klamer (ed.), <i>Alor-Pantar languages: History and typology.</i> Studies in Diversity
- Linguistics 3, Berlin: Language Science Press.</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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>
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