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Date: 28-Jan-2016 – 29-Jan-2016</div>
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Following two previous workshops – 'Gender and Classifiers: Cross-linguistic perspectives' in 2014 and 'Gender and Classifiers: Areal and genealogical perspectives' in 2015 – for our third workshop we want to take a closer look at gender and classifiers from
the perspective of both diachronic and synchronic variation.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Doulos SIL';" class="">Gender and classifiers are usually thought of as two distinct, yet mutually exclusive, systems of noun categorisation. 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. But recent research has turned up more and more languages (mostly Papuan, South American, and Australian) in which the two co-occur, yielding overlapping and interacting systems
of classification.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Doulos SIL';" class="">The role that diachronic and synchronic variation play in languages which exhibit both systems is an exciting and new area of enquiry which promises to expand our understanding of
the relation between the two systems, particularly in light of the fact that they are often involved in processes of grammaticalisation (e.g. gender systems which develop from classifier systems).</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Doulos SIL';" class="">This workshop is part of the research project “Combining Gender and Classifiers in Natural Language” funded by the AHRC (UK).</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Doulos SIL';" class="">Invited Speaker:</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Doulos SIL';" class="">Professor Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland)</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Doulos SIL';" class="">Language tutorial:</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Doulos SIL';" class="">As a special part of this workshop, Professor Gunter Senft (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) has kindly agreed to give a language tutorial on the system of classifiers
in Kilivila, the Austronesian language of the Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Doulos SIL';" class="">Call for Papers:</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Doulos SIL';" class="">The main questions guiding this workshop are:</div>
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(i) Are languages with both gender and classifiers more susceptible to synchronic variation than languages with only one system?</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Doulos SIL';" class="">(ii) What can variation tell us about the interaction between the two systems?</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Doulos SIL';" class="">(ii) How do dual-systems of categorisation arise and what is the historical relation between their constituent parts?</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Doulos SIL';" class="">While we shall favour abstracts that address these issues directly, we will also consider abstracts that address more general issues of gender and classifiers.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Doulos SIL';" class="">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 Tim Feist at the following address:
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Doulos SIL';" class="">Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 October 2015</div>
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