<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hello everyone,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I just thought I'd spread this message below, in case there was anyone who hadn't seen it. It sounds most interesting and I wish I could go, but unfortunately I think that wouldn't be possible.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Best<br>Hedvig<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br>
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From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Sebastian Fedden</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:s.fedden@surrey.ac.uk" target="_blank">s.fedden@surrey.ac.uk</a>></span><br>
Date: 2014-09-02 14:37 GMT+02:00<br>
Subject: Non-canonical gender systems - Workshop<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Non-canonical gender systems -
Workshop</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Gender is famously "the most puzzling
of the grammatical categories" (Corbett 1991: 1), yet
gender systems across the world's languages share a
number of characteristics. Some of these are
definitional. For example, since gender is defined as a
morphosyntactic feature, the presence of agreement is a
necessary condition – the gender of a noun must be
marked on at least one element other than the noun
itself.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Other properties, by contrast, are
expected rather than required. Canonically, a gender
system conforms to the following expectations:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p>
<span style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">any noun
belongs to at least one gender</span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">each noun
only belongs to exactly one gender</span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">the number
of genders in a language is small and finite</span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">the gender
system has a semantic core, typically based on the
conceptual features
<span style="font-variant:small-caps">sex, humanness</span>
or <span style="font-variant:small-caps">
animacy</span></span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">gender is
marked on more than one lexical category</span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">gender is
marked in more than one syntactic domain</span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">markers that
express gender are morphologically bound</span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">given the
same noun, all gender markers are consistent across
target categories and utterances.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For this workshop, we are looking for
gender systems that are non-canonical in that they
violate one or more of these expectations. This could,
for example, include systems with unusually numerous or
highly variable genders, or with exceptionally sparse
agreement systems. In particular, we are looking for
languages in which gender appears to shade into other
feature systems, like number or classifier systems, or
strategies of diminuation and augmentation. Examples are
the system of Miraña (Seifart 2005), which is
intermediate between a gender and a classifier system
and the diminutive/gender markers in Walman (Brown &
Dryer 2008). Abstracts addressing such phenomena are
particularly welcome.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We invite presentations elucidating
data from individual languages and discussing the
analytical and theoretical difficulties. The scientific
aim of the workshop is to chart the outer limits of a
fascinating phenomenon and its place within the family
of grammatical features.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Selected abstracts will be
submitted as part of a workshop proposal to the
Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), to be held at the
'48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica
Europaea (SLE 2015)' in Leiden, 2-5 September 2015.
</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Keynote speaker will be Professor
Greville G. Corbett (University of Surrey).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The convenors of the workshop are
Jenny Audring (University of Amsterdam) and Sebastian
Fedden (University of Surrey).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">People
wishing to present a paper at the workshop are invited
to submit a one-page anonymous abstract in electronic
form (pdf or Word document) to Sebastian Fedden at the
following address:
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">s.fedden
AT <a href="http://surrey.ac.uk" target="_blank">surrey.ac.uk</a> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>Deadline
for submission of abstracts: 17 October 2014</b></p></div><br></div>
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