29.3712, Calls: Morphology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Germany

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Subject: 29.3712, Calls: Morphology, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Germany

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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 15:44:29
From: Yvonne Treis [yvonne.treis at cnrs.fr]
Subject: Ideophones and Interjections

 
Full Title: Ideophones and Interjections 

Date: 21-Aug-2019 - 24-Aug-2019
Location: Leipzig, Germany 
Contact Person: Yvonne Treis
Meeting Email: yvonne.treis at cnrs.fr

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax; Typology 

Call Deadline: 09-Nov-2018 

Meeting Description:

(Session of 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea)

Our workshop focusses on two word classes, ideophones (IDEO) and interjections
(INTJ), that have been faced with definitional problems of a rather different
nature than other word classes, in part because they are situated at the
boundary of arbitrary vs. “motivated” language. In this workshop we would like
to bring together scholars who study the semantics, morphology, syntax and
pragmatics of IDEO and INTJ from a typological, diachronic, areal and/or
multimodal perspective.

INTJ are on the whole defined, throughout history, in negative terms on
account of their phonological marginality, their non-participation in
morphological processes and their syntactic autonomy. IDEO are also difficult
to define notionally, on account of the great variety of IDEO lexemes in the
world’s languages, and many definitions, as with INTJ, highlight the
non-standard phonology found with this word class. We have decided to consider
INTJ and IDEO in the same workshop with the hope that setting them up in
opposition to each other will make us more efficient in searching for
consistent (and contrasting) definitions and in discussing issues of
methodology and analysis that are common to both. Considering that in many
languages, INTJ & IDEO do not participate in morphological processes, it is
reasonable to ask whether they should, or even can be, topics in grammars, and
if so, how they can be described (and not only listed). They express emotions
or reactions (INTJ) and sensory imagery (IDeO), in other words subjective
notions with great cultural variability. The difficulty in translating them
and accurately capturing their meaning makes describing them difficult,
marginalizing them even more compared to other word classes.

IDEO have been given cross-linguistic consideration, through work on sound
symbolism (Hinton et al 1994), and in typology and descriptive work (see
Voeltz & Kilian-Hatz 2001, Dingemanse 2011, Reiter 2011). In contrast, work on
INTJ has tended to be situated within the field of pragmatics (Ameka 1992,
Cram 2008, Poggi 2009) rather than being carried out from the perspective of
typology.

We invite abstracts addressing one or more of the following questions from the
perspective of language-specific and cross-linguistic analysis:

- Typology: How can one proceed from language-specific to cross-linguistic
definitions of “interjection” and “ideophone”? What formal, semantic and
pragmatic criteria can be used to compare INTJ & IDEO across languages?

- Categorization: Where are the boundaries between INTJ and IDEO, INTJ and
fixed expressions, INTJ and “imperativa tanta” etc.?

- Morphology: In which languages do we find productive processes for the
formation of INTJ & IDEO? Of which derivational processes can they themselves
be the input? 

- Semantics: What are the semantic domains expressed by INTJ and IDEO? When
INTJ and IDEO occur in grammars, it is often in the form of lists, divided
into semantic sub-classes: are other configurations for their description
possible?

- Diachrony: What are possible origins of INTJ and IDEO?

- Areality: How do INTJ and IDEO spread across language boundaries or within a
linguistic area? Are there phono-symbolic patterns that are characteristic of
specific linguistic areas? In which linguistic areas do we find similarly
elaborated systems?
- Multimodality: Which gestures are associated with INTJ and IDEO?

- Methodology / Tools: What types of linguistic data most frequently yield
INTJ and IDEO? Are there differences in frequency between certain linguistic
genres and everyday language? Which (non-)verbal stimuli can be used to
trigger their use and to help us capture their meaning?

- Histriography: How have INTJ and IDEO typically been defined and described
in research traditions of certain areas, language branches, families?


Call for Papers:

Potential participants are invited to contact the workshop organizers with an
expression of interest: aimee.lahaussois at cnrs.fr and yvonne.treis at cnrs.fr

The final date for the submission of an abstract for a 20-minute presentation
(max. 300 words, exclusive of references) is *9 November 2018*. Submission at
this stage is non-anonymous.

Important Dates
- Submission of abstracts to workshop convenors: 9 November 2018
- Notification of inclusion of abstract in the workshop proposal: 20 November
2018
- Notification of acceptance/rejection of the workshop proposal by the SLE
organizers: 15 December 2018
- If our workshop proposal is accepted, submission of full abstracts to SLE by
the participants: 15 January 2018

[For a list of references please contact the session convenors.]




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