29.2403, Confs: Historical Linguistics, Semantics, Typology/Belgium

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Subject: 29.2403, Confs: Historical Linguistics, Semantics, Typology/Belgium

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Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 11:04:54
From: Thanasis Georgakopoulos [athanasios.georgakopoulos at uliege.be]
Subject: Semantic Maps: Where do we stand and where are we going?

Semantic Maps: Where do we stand and where are we going? 

Date: 26-Jun-2018 - 28-Jun-2018 
Location: Liege, Wallonia, Belgium 
Contact: Thanasis Georgakopoulos 
Contact Email: athanasios.georgakopoulos at uliege.be 
Meeting URL: http://web.philo.ulg.ac.be/lediasema/workshop/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Semantics; Typology 

Meeting Description: 

In the framework of the Marie Curie BeIPD Cofund postdoctoral project “Le
Diasema: Lexical Diachronic Semantic Maps: representing and explaining meaning
extension”, the Department of Classical and Oriental Studies of the University
of Liège (in collaboration with the research center in linguistics) organizes
a two-day workshop entitled “Semantic maps: where do we stand and where are we
going?”. 
The workshop aims to foster dialogue between experts in Typology, Areal
Semantics, Historical Linguistics, and Computational Linguistics. The topics
that will be discussed are the following:

1. Methodological issues related to the semantic map model (including
visualization techniques and tools).
2. Semantic maps and diachrony
a. How to integrate information about diachrony (beyond oriented vectors)?
b. How to exploit synchronic material to produce meaningful inferences about
diachrony?
c. How to account for contact-induced semantic changes with semantic maps?
3. Lexical semantic maps
4. Areal typology of lexico-semantics
5. Comparison between comparative approaches relying on large databases and
micro-scale studies

- Organizers: Thanasis Georgakopoulos (University of Liège); Stéphane Polis
(University of Liège/ F.R.S.-FNRS) 
- Venue: Liège, Belgium, University of Liège 
- Host Institute: The Department of Classical and Oriental Studies of the
University of Liège (in collaboration with the research center in linguistics)
- No registration fee 

Program:

June 26 – Salle des Professeurs (A1, 1st floor)

18:00 – 19:30:
Public lecture by William Croft, University of New Mexico
What an evolutionary model can tell us about mechanisms of language change 

June 27 – Salle lumière (A1, 2nd floor)

Johan van der Auwera, University of Antwerp: 
Discussant during the whole workshop

09:00 – 09:15:
Jean Winand, University of Liège 
Opening address 

09:15 – 09:30:
Thanasis Georgakopoulos & Stéphane Polis, University of Liège & F.R.S.-FNRS 
The semantic map model(s): An overview

09:30 – 10:30:
William Croft, University of New Mexico 
Using quantitative methods for semantic maps 

10.30 – 11.00:
– Break – 

11:00 – 12:00:
Natalia Levshina, Leipzig University 
Semantic maps of causative constructions: Data types and methods in contrast 

12:00 – 13:00:
Andrej Malchukov, University of Mainz 
Semantic maps, attractor networks and typological hierarchies 

13.00 – 14.30: Lunch (Catering) and Poster session 

14:30 – 15:30:
Silvia Luraghi, University of Pavia 
Incorporating diachronic information in semantic maps: pros and cons 

15:30 – 16:30:
Alexandre François, Lacito (CNRS), A.N.U.
Lexical travel maps: A spatial view of semantic change 

16:30 – 17.00:
– Break – 

17.00 – 18:00:
Johann Mattis List, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History,
Jena 
CLICS 2.0: A computer-assisted framework for the investigation of lexical
motivation patterns 

18:00 – 19:00: Wine reception 

June 28 – Salle lumière (A1, 2nd floor)

09:00 – 10:00:
Ekaterina Rakhilina & Daria Ryzhova, National Research University, Higher
School of Economics, Moscow 
Lexical semantic maps in the Moscow Lexical Typology Group 

10:00 – 11:00:
Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm & Volker Gast, Stockholm University & Friedrich
Schiller University Jena 
Areality in colexification patterns 

11:00 – 11.30:
– Break –

11:30 – 12.30:
Thanasis Georgakopoulos & Stéphane Polis, University of Liège & F.R.S.-FNRS 
LExical DIAchronic SEmantic MAps (Le Diasema):
>From simple networks to mixed multi-edge graphs

12:30 – 13:30:
Martine Vanhove, LLACAN (CNRS), INaLCO, USPC 
A semantic map of the so-called “Optative negative” in Beja 

13:30 - 15.00: Lunch  

15:00 – 16:00:
Loic-Michel Perrin, INaLCO (CNRS)
Cultural representations and semantic connections: the model of temperature
terms in French and Wolof 

16:00 – 17:00:
Tatiana Nikitina LLACAN (CNRS) 
Building an amphichronic semantic map for closely related languages: Insights
from Southeastern Mande 

17:00 – 17.30:
Closing remarks 

19:00: Workshop dinner 

Poster Session:

Sergey Bragin, Sergei Obiedkov, & Daria Ryzhova (National Research University
Higher School of Economics)
Formal Concept Lattices as Semantic Maps

Gaëlle Chantrain (Charles University, Prague)
Mapping the ‘unbounded time’ domain in Ancient Egyptian: a diachronic approach

Hajnalka Dimény (Babeș–Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
Some meticulous senses and the lessons drawn

Diana Forker (Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena)
Comparing semantic maps for the dative domain: Evidence from Nakh-Daghestanian

Elena Karagjosova (Free University of Berlin)
A diachronic semantic map of temporal, causal and conditional relations

So Miyagawa  (University of Göttingen and Kyoto University) & Amir Zeldes
(Georgetown University)
A semantic map of the Coptic complementizer če- based on corpus analysis:
Grammaticalization and areal typology in Africa

Natalia Perkova (Stockholm University)
Revisiting semantic maps: the case of comitatives

Anna Smirnitskaya (Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow)
The Catalogue of semantic shifts as а way to represent semantic variability

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