20.645, Confs: Historical Linguistics, Typology, Chinese/Taiwan

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Subject: 20.645, Confs: Historical Linguistics, Typology, Chinese/Taiwan

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Date: 24-Feb-2009
From: Grace Huang < conf at sinica.edu.tw >
Subject: Workshop on Chinese Directionals
 

	
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Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:44:01
From: Grace Huang [conf at sinica.edu.tw]
Subject: Workshop on Chinese Directionals

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Workshop on Chinese Directionals 

Date: 26-Aug-2009 - 27-Aug-2009 
Location: Taipei, Taiwan 
Contact: Grace Huang 
Contact Email: conf at sinica.edu.tw 
Meeting URL: http://www.ling.sinica.edu.tw/english/v1_news_review.asp-UID=184.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Typology 

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)

Meeting Description: 

Workshop on Chinese Directionals: History and Dialectal Variation, in 
conjunction with the 6th Cross-Strait Conference on Chinese Historical Grammar

Conference Venue: 
Conf. Rm 2, 3rd Floor, Building for Humanities and Social Science(BHSS)

Host:
Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Directionals are forms like sh\ang ?, xi\a ? and l|ai  ?, q\u ? that 
frequently occur in Chinese to complement main verbs in a V+DIR structure. 
Stemming from motions verbs evolving into verbal complements, they sometimes 
grammaticalize into functional markers with further depleted lexical meaning. 
Across modern Chinese dialects, directionals vary with respect to differing co-
occurrence restrictions with main verbs, and disparate functions in signaling 
spatial and aspectual relations.

This two-day workshop aims to provide an informal arena for international 
colleagues interested in linguistic issues related to directionals in Chinese 
to freely exchange relevant data, ideas, and research expertise. By 
incorporating the dimension of cross-dialectal typological variations, it will 
be the objective of this workshop to pursue a deeper understanding of the 
nature and evolution of directionals, as well as of their place in linguistic 
typology.







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