21.719, Qs: Stimuli for Eliciting Argument Structure

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Subject: 21.719, Qs: Stimuli for Eliciting Argument Structure

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Date: 10-Feb-2010
From: Kofi Yakpo < kofi.yakpo at gmail.com >
Subject: Stimuli for Eliciting Argument Structure
 

	
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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:24:17
From: Kofi Yakpo [kofi.yakpo at gmail.com]
Subject: Stimuli for Eliciting Argument Structure

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Our project "Traces of Contact" (Univ. of Nijmegen, Netherlands) on 
language contact and historical linguistics is putting together an 
elicitation kit on argument realisation. We are looking for visual stimuli 
(picture tasks and video clips) to add to our elicitation kit in order to 
elicit: 

- Semantic roles and grammatical relations
- Valency and valency adjustments and other argument structure 
related phenomena

Additonal elicitation material and any hints as to where to get stimuli will 
be greatly appreciated. The source of elicitation material will, of course, 
be duly acknowledged!

Project Description:
"Traces of Contact" is a five year project that aims at establishing 
criteria by which results from language contact studies can be used to 
strengthen the field of historical linguistics. The aim is to formulate 
criteria that can allow us to observe with greater accuracy whether a 
language undergoes changes due to outside influence or whether 
these changes result from the dynamics of the language itself. 

A number of multilingual contact situations with differring time depth 
and geographical extent are looked at in detail: the languages of the 
Amazonian fringe (thousands of years of contact), the multilingual 
society of Suriname (five hundred years of contact), the multilingual, 
post-migration society of The Netherlands (fifty years of contact), and 
specific groups of young bi-/multilinguals in an experimental setting (ten 
to twenty years of contact). 

The same two grammatical phenomena are being analysed with new 
techniques in these four contact settings: tense-mood-aspect (TMA) 
and evidentiality marking and argument realisation. 

Linguistic Field(s): Genetic Classification
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Typology




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