29.213, Calls: Gen Ling, Morphology, Pragmatics, Syntax, Typology/Norway

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Subject: 29.213, Calls: Gen Ling, Morphology, Pragmatics, Syntax, Typology/Norway

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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 18:17:45
From: Yvonne Treis [demonstratives2018 at iln.uio.no]
Subject: Workshop on Discourse Functions of Demonstratives

 
Full Title: Workshop on Discourse Functions of Demonstratives 

Date: 14-Jun-2018 - 15-Jun-2018
Location: Oslo, Norway 
Contact Person: Åshild Næss
Meeting Email: demonstratives2018 at iln.uio.no
Web Site: http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/forskning/aktuelt/arrangementer/konferanser/2018/discourse-functions-of-demonstratives/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Morphology; Pragmatics; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

The class of forms referred to as 'demonstratives' is large and varied, both
crosslinguistically and often within individual languages. Traditional
classifications of demonstrative forms (e.g. Diessel 1999, Dixon 2003) focus
especially on the deictic distinctions made in demonstrative systems, and the
morphology, syntax and grammaticalisation of demonstrative forms. Apart from
being used in exophoric function, it is also well established that
demonstratives often show endophoric functions. Himmelmann (1996), among
others, discusses the use of demonstratives in introducing, identifying and
tracking referents in discourse. 

Beyond reference-tracking and discourse deixis, there is evidence that
demonstratives are linked to a range of further discourse functions which have
not been generally acknowledged in the typological literature (see e.g.
functions discussed by Reesink 1987, de Vries 1995, François 2001, 2005,
Schapper and San Roque 2011, Kratochvil 2011). Furthermore, despite extensive
research over the last decades on demonstrative systems cross-linguistically
and within individual languages, we know surprisingly little about markedness
distinctions in demonstrative paradigms (Himmelmann 1997), i.e. about which
member is the unmarked choice in a particular type of use and which member
(and in which use) has the tendency to further grammaticalise into which
target domain.

This two-day workshop focuses on the functions of demonstratives and related
forms as discourse-structuring devices beyond their already well-described
reference tracking and discourse-deictic uses. We are interested in functions
including the foregrounding or backgrounding of information (e.g. referents,
events, stretches of discourse), marking presupposed or asserted information,
marking discourse topics, marking stretches of discourse as forming a unit,
clause-linking and subordination-like functions, as well as functions relating
to information structure (i.e. clause-level topic/focus relations).

We are further interested in how the structure of a demonstrative paradigm
interacts with discourse functions. That is, does the type of system
(person-based vs. distance-based) and/or the number of contrasts within the
system (two-term, three-term, larger systems) have any impact on which
member(s) of the paradigm take on specific functions? 

We are interested in little-studied discourse functions of demonstratives
referring to persons, places and objects, but also in demonstratives
expressing other ontological categories (e.g. manner, quality, degree,
quantity), as well as in contributions on the discourse function of
presentative demonstratives.


2nd Call for Papers: 

We invite abstracts for 20-minute presentations to be submitted by 31 January
2018. Abstracts should be maximum one page in 12-point font, including
examples and references. Please submit your abstract to
demonstratives2018 at iln.uio.no. Notification of acceptance: 28 February 2018.




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