24.3384, Calls: Typology, General Linguistics/UK

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Subject: 24.3384, Calls: Typology, General Linguistics/UK

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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 10:13:20
From: Sebastian Fedden [s.fedden at surrey.ac.uk]
Subject: Gender and Classifiers: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives

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Full Title: Gender and Classifiers: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives 

Date: 17-Jan-2014 - 17-Jan-2014
Location: Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Sebastian Fedden
Meeting Email: s.fedden at surrey.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2013 

Meeting Description:

Dissemination workshop 
Gender and classifiers: cross-linguistic perspectives

Gender and classifiers are usually thought of as mutually exclusive systems
of noun categorization. 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 together,
yielding overlapping and interacting systems of classification. This is an
exciting and new area of enquiry which promises to expand our understanding
of the semantics and morphology of classification, and of cognitive
categories in general. 

Date: 17 January 2014
Organized by the Surrey Morphology Group at the University of Surrey,
Guildford, UK

Invited Speakers: 

Professor Maria Polinsky (Harvard University)
Professor Gunter Senft (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)

Call for Papers:

The main questions guiding this workshop are:

(i) which types of gender/classifier system can be found together in a
single language and 
(ii) where systems combine are they each going to be close to canonical
examples of their type or are they required to be principled deviations
from the ideal. 

Given our interest in both types of system, we also welcome papers on the
typology of noun categorization more generally.

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
Sebastian Fedden at the following address: s.fedden at surrey.ac.uk.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 October 2013

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