19.1541, FYI: Seminar Series at Aston U: Cycles of Grammaticalization

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Date: 12-May-2008
From: Pierre Larrivee < p.larrivee at aston.ac.uk >
Subject: Seminar Series at Aston U: Cycles of Grammaticalization

 

	
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Aston University and Birmingham City University are delighted to announce the following series of one-day seminars on Cycles of Grammaticalization, funded under the International Network programme by the Leverhulme Trust. The seminars will seek to elucidate and diagnose the complex series of factors that lead to grammatical change through time, with particular reference to the negation cycle in English, French and German. 

The research objectives are to establish: 
1. the definition of criteria for determining when a polarity item becomes a negative element, and 2. the means to recognise the presence of a negative phrase. The relation between formal and functional factors, reanalysis and language learning, dialect competition and language contact, as well as diachronic data closer to everyday usage will also be considered. Attendance is free of any charge and warmly invited.

Aston University, room G8, 14h-17h

Please visit the URL:  http://www.lhds.bcu.ac.uk/english/cycles-of-grammaticalization

June 7, 2008: 
Ian Roberts (Cambridge), Sentence Structure of the Negative Cycle in French. Discussant: Maj-Britt Mosegaard-Hansen (Manchester).

August 2, 2008:
France Martineau (Ottawa), Phrase Structure of the Negative Cycle in French. Discussant: Lene Schøsler (Copenhagen).

December 6, 2008: 
Viviane Déprez (Institut des Sciences Cognitives and Rutgers), N-word features in the Negative Cycle in French. Discussant: Pierre Larrivée (Aston).

Birmingham City University, room tbc, 14h-17h

April 4, 2009: 
Ans van Kemenade (Nijmegen), Sentence Structure of the Negative Cycle in English. Discussant: Paul Rowlett (Salford).

July 25, 2009:
Agnes Jäger (Frankfurt), Phrase Structure of the Negative Cycle in German. Discussant: Éric Haeberli (Geneva).

December 5, 2009: David Willis (Cambridge), N-word features in the Negative Cycle in English. Discussant: Richard Ingham (BCU). 



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