26.1069, Calls: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics/Japan

[The LINGUIST List via LINGUIST]

LINGUIST List: Vol-26-1069. Tue Feb 24 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.1069, Calls: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics/Japan

Moderators: linguist at linguistlist.org (Damir Cavar, Malgorzata E. Cavar)
Reviews: reviews at linguistlist.org (Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry, Sara Couture)
Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Editor for this issue: Anna White <awhite at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 18:28:59
From: Heiko Narrog [narrog at gmail.com]
Subject: Grammaticalization in Japanese and Across Languages

 
Full Title: Grammaticalization in Japanese and Across Languages 

Date: 03-Jul-2015 - 05-Jul-2015
Location: Tokyo, Japan 
Contact Person: Yasunari Imamura
Meeting Email: grammaticalization-sympo at ninjal.ac.jp

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2015 

Meeting Description:

Grammaticalization theory has been one of the most powerful frameworks of
non-formal grammar in the past two decades internationally and has also
increasingly engendered research in Japan in the past 10 or so years. Yet,
despite the exponential increase in published research, and a strong research
impetus originally coming from the study of African languages, main stream
understanding of grammaticalization processes is still tightly bound to
knowledge obtained from a very limited number of languages. However, studies
on grammaticalization in less-studied languages give us good reason to believe
that there are considerable differences in different types of languages
especially with respect to formal aspects of grammaticalization. At this
juncture, where grammaticalization research has greatly matured in general,
the opportunity is ripe to investigate this issue in more depth.


Call for Poster Presentations:

We invite presentations dealing with either (a) grammaticalization in Japanese, or (b) grammaticalization in other languages from a typological perspective, addressing the question what is specific about grammaticalization in the language(s) investigated.

Each presenter may submit maximally one single-authored and one co-authored abstract. Abstracts must not exceed 1 page of A4 (including title, data, figures and references), and should be formatted in the following way. Please use 12 point Times New Roman font, single-spaced and set margins of at least 2.2cm all around. Only a limited number of abstracts can be accepted, and therefore abstracts will be subject to review by the organizing committee.  Please include a list of five keywords that describe the research at the top of the abstract to assist the reviewing process.

On the second page please provide: (1) name(s) of author(s); (2) affiliation(s); and (3) email address.




----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-26-1069	
----------------------------------------------------------
Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated
from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:
          http://multitree.org/