32.2230, FYI: Online Talk: The Emergence of Conjunctions and Phrasal Coordination in Khanty by Lena Borise and Katalin É. Kiss

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Subject: 32.2230, FYI: Online Talk: The Emergence of Conjunctions and Phrasal Coordination in Khanty by Lena Borise and Katalin É. Kiss

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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 22:56:17
From: Éva Dékány [dekany.eva at nytud.hu]
Subject: Online Talk: The Emergence of Conjunctions and Phrasal Coordination in Khanty by Lena Borise and Katalin É. Kiss

 
The Uralic Information Centre, hosted by the Hungarian Research Centre for
Linguistics (Budapest), is launching an online talk series on Uralic
languages. The first talk will be held at 2pm Central European Time on June
30.

title: The emergence of conjunctions and phrasal coordination in Khanty
presenters: Lena Borise - Katalin É. Kiss

abstract: Prior to widespread contact with Russian, Khanty (Uralic;
Finno-Ugric) did not have overt conjunctions or phrasal coordination. Instead,
Khanty texts from late 19th-early 20th centuries only include examples of
conjunction-less clausal juxtaposition, which was used for both clausal and
phrasal coordination. By comparing Khanty texts over the 20th century, we
trace the emergence of overt conjunctions and coordination of phrasal
constituents. We show that overt conjunctions  
first appear in the context of clausal coordination; then, coordination of
smaller phrases with overt conjunctions became  
possible. Based on novel elicitation data, we demonstrate that, in
contemporary Khanty, (i) overt conjunctions are commonplace, and (ii)
coordination of sub-clausal phrases is derived via phrasal coordination, as
opposed to clausal coordination followed by conjunction reduction. We also
show that ellipsis in Khanty is generally quite restricted. Based on this
diachronic picture, we conclude that coordination of phrasal constituents only
emerged in Khanty once overt conjunctions became available. We derive this
correlation from the principle of Economy as expressed in the theoretical
literature (Haiman 1983; 1985; Chomsky 1995; Hawkins 2004) as well as
processing studies (Koornneef & Reuland 2016): a structure with higher
processing cost is avoided in favor of a structure with lower processing cost.

Zoom-link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87489219747

Further planned dates and titles can be found at
http://www.nytud.hu/depts/fu/uic/talk_series.html

We are looking forward to meeting you virtually.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Uralic





 



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