26.3913, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Lang Documentation, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Denmark

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Subject: 26.3913, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Lang Documentation, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Denmark

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Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 12:10:39
From: Ditte Boeg Thomsen [ditte.boeg at hum.ku.dk]
Subject: Geographic Grounding: Place, Direction and Landscape in the Grammars of the World

Full Title: Geographic Grounding: Place, Direction and Landscape in the Grammars of the World 
Short Title: GeoGram 

Date: 30-May-2016 - 31-May-2016
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark 
Contact Person: Ditte Boeg Thomsen
Meeting Email: geogram2016 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://inss.ku.dk/english/calendar/geogram/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation; Semantics; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 03-Jan-2016 

Meeting Description:

The languages of the world offer their speakers different means of encoding location information and of grounding utterances spatially by pointing to the surrounding landscape. Languages vary both in the spatial concepts they require speakers to hold and in the degree of routine attention to landscape they demand. There is a now a wealth of findings from different spatial linguistic subsystems in many languages (Frames of Reference, topological relation markers, locative predicates, landscape terms, toponyms), and one aim of this seminar is to investigate cross-linguistic tendencies in the ways such spatial subsystems play together within single languages. Another aim is to examine the usefulness of the ethnophysiographic model suggested for landscape terminology when applied to other aspects of spatial language, such as spatial conjugations.

We invite contributions addressing the following three themes: The theme Coding strategies covers cross-linguistic variation and preferences in presenting place and direction information as either foreground or background information (lexical vs. grammatical), as core or periphery (argument vs. adjunct) and as independent or fused with other types of meanings (dedicated morphemes vs. portmanteaus). The theme Dependencies across subsystems explores the ways different parts of grammar and lexicon expressing location and direction either reinforce each other (supporting similar concepts and distinctions across scales and domains) or supplement each other (division of labour). The theme Place-marking systems as parts of ecological and cultural niches zooms out to the relationships between linguistic strategies for spatial reference and grounding, the landscapes these strategies are used in and the speech communities they serve, asking also whether their underpinning by traditional landba
 sed practices makes them especially vulnerable in language endangerment contexts.

Invited Speakers:

Niclas Burenhult
Michael Fortescue
Gabriela Pérez Báez

Call for Papers:

Please see this page for a more elaborate presentation of the three themes as well as questions to address them with:

http://inss.ku.dk/english/calendar/geogram/themes-and-questions/

Subjects:

We encourage proposals including, but not limited to the following subjects:

Grammatical vs. lexical expression of spatial information
Location and direction in portmanteau morphemes
Associated motion/path
Location in micro- vs. macroscale
Endangered location-marking systems
Location-marking systems in revitalization contexts
Direction use in translocated languages
Shifted directions and migrations
Non-linguistic conceptualization of landscape
Acquisition of location markers
Semplates
Toponyms and landscape terms
Positionals
Ethnosyntax

Important Dates:

Deadline for abstract submission: 3 January 2016
Notification of acceptance: 29 February 2016
Seminar: 30-31 May 2016

Abstract Submission:

Anonymous abstracts of 200-300 words must be submitted via email to geogram2016 at gmail.com as an attachment (Word or PDF). In the subject field of the email enter “Abstract submission”. In the body of the email, include the following information:

1) Title of the paper
2) Name(s) of the presenter(s)
3) Department and affiliation 
4) Email address for each speaker

Organizers:

Ditte Boeg Thomsen, Uni. Copenhagen, ditte.boeg at hum.ku.dk
Jan Heegård Petersen, Uni. Copenhagen, janhp at hum.ku.dk
Steffen-Haurholm Larsen, Uni. Bern, steffen.haurholm-larsen at isw.unibe.ch

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