33.2005, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Doc, Phonetics, Typology/France

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Subject: 33.2005, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Doc, Phonetics, Typology/France

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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 21:27:03
From: Julie Marsa [julie.marsault at inalco.fr]
Subject: Consonant and Vowel Symbolism in Native North American Languages (Workshop)

Full Title: Consonant and Vowel Symbolism in Native North American Languages (Workshop) 

Date: 08-Dec-2022 - 09-Dec-2022
Location: Paris (and online), France 
Contact Person: Julie Marsault
Meeting Email: julie.marsault at inalco.fr

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Documentation; Phonetics; Typology 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 01-Jul-2022 

Meeting Description:

This two-days workshop aims at investigating the areal and typological
investigation of symbolic consonant and vowel shifts in Native languages of
North America, with the following possible research questions: 
- How similar are the sound symbolic alternations attested across different
areas and families? In their structure? In their semantics ?
- How well do they map onto known universal tendencies of sound symbolism? 
- Are there other documented cases of areal diffusion of sound symbolism? Does
areal diffusion concern the structure, the semantics, or both? Does it
coincide with the diffusion of other linguistic traits? 
- Is there a word class that could be called “ideophones” in the languages
displaying sound symbolism? Are consonant/vowel symbolism and ideophones
related in some ways? (e.g., does the first frequently affect ideophones?)

Call for Papers:

Sound symbolism has been a growing research subject for the last few decades
(e.g. Hinton et al. 1994; Nuckolls 1999; Johansson et al. 2020), and so have
ideophones (e.g. Voeltz & Kilian-Hatz 2001; Dingemanse 2012, 2017, 2019;
Dingemanse et al. 2016; McLean 2020; Akita & Prashant 2019), which can be
viewed as lexicalized, language-specific instances of sound symbolism. North
American languages often are underrepresented in these works (with the
exception of Hinton et al. 1994 and large typological surveys such as Alderete
& Kochetov 2017; Johansson et al. 2020), even though many Native languages of
this continent possess a specific type of sound symbolism, where consonant
(and sometimes vowel) shifts express augmentation/diminution or various
degrees of intensity (Mithun 1999).
Consonant symbolism was described as early as the 1890s for the Siouan
languages (Dorsey 1892) and the 1910s for Wishram (Sapir 1911), and has since
been the object of numerous investigations on individual languages (e.g., Aoki
(1994) for Nez Perce, Boas & Deloria (1941) for Dakota, Melnychuk (2003) for
Cree), as well as on families or proto-languages (e.g., Tarpent (2002) for the
Penutian Phylum, Pentland (1974) for Algonquian, Langdon (1971) for Yuman,
Rankin (1998) for Siouan-Yuchi) and areas (e.g., Nichols (1971) for the
western region).

Symbolic consonant shifts can spread by language contact. Hinton (1991)
describes how several Uto-Aztecan languages developed diminutive consonant
symbolism by contact with Yuman languages in California. It is also one of the
few linguistic traits that have passed from one language family to another in
the Plains area (from Siouan to the Caddoan language Arikara; Hollow & Parks
1980). It can be considered one of the areal features of several regions or
sub-regions, including the Northwest Coast, the Plateau, and Northern
California (Sherzer 1968, 1976; Nichols 1971; Campbell 1997). Nichols (1971)
lists and studies its presence in more than 25 languages in the western part
of the continent, with several clusters of specific types of shift.
With this workshop, we wish to resume the areal and typological investigation
of symbolic consonant and vowel shifts in Native languages of North America.
We encourage presentations on consonant or vowel gradation phenomena in
individual languages and language families, if possible with an areal
perspective. The following questions may be a relevant starting point:

- How similar are the sound symbolic alternations attested across different
areas and families?
* In their structure: which kind of contrasts are used (cf. Nichols 1971)? How
much of the phonemic inventory is involved in these contrasts? Are the shifts
restricted to one or a few word classes?
* In their semantics: what do the symbolic shifts express in each language?
- How well do they map onto known universal tendencies of sound symbolism (cf.
Ultan 1978; Alderete & Kochetov 2017; Johansson et al. 2020)?
- Are there other documented cases of areal diffusion of sound symbolism? Does
areal diffusion concern the structure, the semantics, or both? Does it
coincide with the diffusion of other linguistic traits?
- Is there a word class that could be called “ideophones” in the languages
displaying sound symbolism? Are consonant/vowel symbolism and ideophones
related in some ways? (e.g., does the first frequently affect ideophones?)

The workshop is organized within the framework of the “Ideophones and
Interjections in a typological, areal and diachronic perspective” research
program funded by the Empirical Foundations of Linguistics Labex, Paris. It
will be held in Paris and online on the 8th and 9th of December, and will
involve two half-day sessions at the hours most convenient for participants in
Paris and online.

Schedule:
Deadline for abstracts: July 1st 2022
Abstracts are to be sent at Julie Marsault: julie.marsault at inalco.fr
Notifications of acceptance: July 14th 2022
Workshop: December 8th and 9th, 2022.
Organizer: Julie Marsault
Scientific Committee: Guillaume Jacques, Aimée Lahaussois, Marc-Antoine
Mahieu, Julie Marsault, Yvonne Treis. 

References:
Akita, Kimi & Pardeshi, Prashant. 2019. Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives.
John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Alderete, John & Kotchekov, Alexei. 2017. Integrating sound symbolism with
core grammar: the case of expressing palatalization. In Language 93. 731-766.
Aoki, Haruo. 1994. Symbolism in Nez Perce. In Hinton et al. (eds), Sound
Symbolism, Cambridge University Press, 15-22.
Boas, Franz & Deloria, Ella. 1941. Dakota Grammar. Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office, 22
Campbell, Lyle. 1997. American Indian Languages. The historical linguistics of
Native America. Oxford University Press.
Dingemanse, Mark. 2012. Advances in the Cross-Linguistic Study of Ideophones.
Language and Linguistics Compass, 654-672.
Dingemanse, Mark. 2017. Expressiveness and system integration: On the typology
of ideophones, with special reference to Siwu. Language Typology and
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Dingemanse, Mark. 2019. ‘Ideophone’ as a comparative concept. In Akita, K. &
Pardeshi, P. (eds), Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives. John Benjamins
Publishing Company. 13-34
Dingemanse, Mark; Schuerman, Will; Reinisch, Eva; Tufvesson, Sylvia &
Mitterer, Holger. 2016. What sound symbolism can and cannot do: Testing the
iconicity of ideophones from five languages. In Language 92. 117-133.
Dorsey, James O. 1892. Siouan Onomatopes. American Anthropologist 5, 1-8.
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Hinton, Leanne, Nichols, Johanna & Ohala, John J. (eds.). 1994. Sound
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Hollow, Robert C. & Parks, Douglas. 1980. Studies in Plains linguistics: a
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Langdon, Margaret. 1971. Sound Symbolism in Yuman Languages. In Sawyer, J.
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McLean, Bonnie. 2021. Revising an implicational hierarchy for the meanings of
ideophones, with special reference to Japonic. In Linguistic Typology 25(3).
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