15.3134, Calls: Morphology/Semantics/Syntax/USA; Semantics/France

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1)
Date: 06-Nov-2004
From: Jóhanna Barðdal < johanna.barddal at nor.uib.no >
Subject: Diachrony of Morphological Case 

2)
Date: 07-Nov-2004
From: Gerard Joan Barcelo < colloquemonosemie at voila.fr >
Subject: From Language to Speech : Unity and Multiplicity in Grammatical Items 

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 23:55:35
From: Jóhanna Barðdal < johanna.barddal at nor.uib.no >
Subject: Diachrony of Morphological Case 

Full Title: Diachrony of Morphological Case 

Date: 31-Jul-2005 - 05-Aug-2005
Location: Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America 
Contact Person: Jóhanna Barðdal
Meeting Email: johanna.barddal at nor.uib.no/shobhana at unt.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Historical
Linguistics; Morphology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics;
Typology 

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2004 

Meeting Description:

Last call for papers:

Workshop on the diachrony of morphological case (at ICHL-XVII in Madison,
Wisconsin, 31 July-5 August 2005)

Morphological case has been extensively studied for a wide array of
languages from a synchronic perspective. On the other hand, the study of
morphological case marking from a diachronic perspective has received less
attention. The aim of this workshop is to establish greater awareness of the
semantic development of case and the implications such development has for
the syntax of languages with morphological case marking systems. Possible
research problems may include but need not be limited to the following:

- Changes in the form-meaning mapping of individual case markers.
- System-wide reanalysis of the form-meaning mapping of case markers.
- Changes to case marking in larger constructions such as comparatives or
argument structure constructions.
- The role of ''functional equivalence'' or ''grammatical synonymy'' for
changes in case marking, in particular mergers or loss of case.
- Discourse-based changes in the role and meaning of case markers.
- Pragmatically-based changes in the role and meaning of case markers.
- Genesis of case.

Please send your abstracts of 500 words or less to both Jóhanna Barðdal
(johanna.barddal at nor.uib.no) and Shobhana Chelliah (shobhana at unt.edu).
Abstracts should be sent no later than 15 November 2004, preferably in pdf-
format. Abstracts dealing with other aspects of the history of morphological
case may also be appropriate for this panel. Please email your queries to
Jóhanna Barðdal or Shobhana Chelliah. A response on abstracts will be sent
out no later than 15 January, 2005.

Jóhanna Barðdal
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature
Section of Scandinavian Linguistics
University of Bergen
Sydnesplassen 7
NO-5007 Bergen
Norway 
johanna.barddal at nor.uib.no

Phone +47-55582438 (work)
Phone +47-55201117 (home)
Fax   +47-55589660 (work)

http://www.hf.uib.no/i/Nordisk/ansatte/barddal

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 23:55:40
From: Gerard Joan Barcelo < colloquemonosemie at voila.fr >
Subject: From Language to Speech : Unity and Multiplicity in Grammatical Items 

Full Title: From Language to Speech : Unity and Multiplicity in Grammatical Items 

Date: 26-May-2005 - 27-May-2005
Location: Montpellier, France 
Contact Person: Gerard Joan Barcelo
Meeting Email: colloquemonosemie at voila.fr

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics 

Call Deadline: 10-Feb-2005 

Meeting Description:

Call for papers for 6th Conference of Young Researchers in Language Sciences
(Praxiling - Universitat Montpelhièr III) - From Language to Speech : Unity and
Multiplicity in Grammatical Items (Gen. Ling., Semantics). Call deadline :
10-Feb-2005. Meeting Dates : 26 and 27-MAY-2005

CALL FOR PAPERS

>From Language to Speech : Unity and Multiplicity in Grammatical Items

Paul Valery University - Montpellier III
26-27th May 2005

6th Conference of Young Researchers in Language Sciences
Praxiling FRE 2425 C.N.R.S. Paul Valery University - Montpellier III

The study of grammatical items poses the problem of their semantic unity and
multiplicity. For instance the French tense called imparfait is generally
considered to be a past tense with a secant aspect. If we can easily perceive
this semantic value in an utterance such as : Il neigeait, it is much more
difficult to detect in a hypothetical construction such as: S'il neigeait
demain, j'irais à la montagne, or in an optative form like : Si seulement il
pouvait neiger ! Thus we can observe the apparent existence of polysemy, at
least in speech. Does it mean at a more general level that we can grasp the
semantic unity of a grammatical signifier in the system of language only ? Thus
is this unity restricted to a pure abstraction which actualizes itself in
multiple meanings in speech ? Or does polysemy also exist in language, which
would go against the formal unity of the signifier ? Or maybe the variation we
may notice in speech is an illusion concealing an invariancy which works at the
level of language as well as speech. In which case, how can we account for the
multiplicity of meanings in speech ? Is it related to the action of the
co(n)text ? Does the co(n)text act as a filter that allows some of the features
of the base semantism and blocks others ? Or does the base semantism undergo
distortion/a series of distortions ? Neutralization(s) ? Complexification(s) ?
Or again does the impression of polysemy result from the interaction of the
elements of the co(n)text, which keep their individual semantisms ? What may be
the implications of the various theories accounting for these phenomena in the
field of applied linguistics ?
Such are the questions concerning grammatical items which will be debated at the
conference. Presentations may concern other languages than French. 

Submissions -in English or French- should  be sent by February 10th, 2005 to the
email address colloquemonosemie at voila.fr and include :
-	 in the email message : the author(s)'s names, the affiliation, snail mail and
e-mail addresses and the exact title of the paper,
-	 in attachment using Microsoft or Adobe Acrobat Reader file format : an
anonymous abstract in Times New Roman 12 points size letters and simple spacing
which should comprise the title of the paper and should not exceed two pages
(figures and references included).
Notification of acceptance of a paper by the Conference Scientific Committee
will be sent before March 10th, 2005.

Organising Committee
Gerard Joan BARCELO - Audrey LAUZE - Marjorie PASSEMARD - Adeline PATARD
Scientific Committee
Jeanne-Marie BARBÉRIS - Jacques BRES - Caroline DAVID - Hervé LIEUTARD -
Aleksandra NOWAKOWSKA - Sophie SARRAZIN - Paul SIBLOT

THE ACCEPTED PAPERS WILL BE PUBLISHED IN BOOK FORM.

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