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<div style="margin:0;" align="justify"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;" lang="en-US"><strong>Call for abstracts - Workshop
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<div style="margin:0;" align="justify"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;" lang="en-US"><strong>GENDER AND CLASSIFIERS: AREAL AND GENEALOGICAL PERSPECTIVES</strong></span></font></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin:0;" align="justify"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;" lang="en-US">Following our highly successful dissemination workshop “Gender and classifiers: Cross-linguistic
perspectives” on the typology of nominal classification systems in 2014, this time we want to look more closely at the areal and genealogical distribution of gender and classifiers in the languages of the world.</span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;" align="justify"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;" lang="en-US"> Certain types of classification system are typically associated with a language
family or a linguistic area and we are interested in evidence which confirms or contradicts these tendencies.</span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="text-indent:14.2pt;margin:0;" align="justify"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;" lang="en-US">Many Indo-European languages have a two-term or three-term gender system
with a masculine-feminine distinction, where a subset of the nouns are allotted to their genders based on biological sex. In Africa the situation is different. While Afroasiatic languages (e.g. Arabic, Somali, Berber) have two-term gender systems build on
a masculine-feminine contrast, in Niger-Congo languages (e.g. Swahili, Chichewa, Eegimaa) larger systems are prevalent including a gender for either humans or animates.</span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="text-indent:14.2pt;margin:0;" align="justify"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;" lang="en-US">Southeast Asian languages (e.g. Chinese, Burmese, Vietnamese) typically
have numeral classifiers, which essentially specify counting units. The usual Australian gender system has four distinctions, one of them being a gender for vegetables. If Australian languages have classifiers, they tend to be noun classifiers rather than
numeral classifiers. Many languages in the Amazon area (e.g. Miraņa, Tucano, Tariana) have been reported to have complex nominal classification systems mid-way between gender and classifiers.</span></font></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin:0;" align="justify"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;" lang="en-US">We welcome contributions which address the morphology, morphosyntax, syntax or semantics
of nominal classification systems from an areal or a genealogical perspective. We are especially interested in languages, language families and areas in which gender and classifiers occur in combination. Abstracts dealing with such languages, language families
or areas are particularly welcome.</span></font></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin:0;" align="justify"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;" lang="en-US">Date: 26-27 January 2015</span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;" align="justify"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;" lang="en-US">Venue: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands</span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;" align="justify"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;" lang="en-US">Organized by the Surrey Morphology Group and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.</span></font></span></font></div>
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<div style="text-indent:-99.4pt;margin:0 0 0 99.4pt;" align="justify"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;" lang="en-US">Invited speakers: Professor Gunter Senft (Max Planck
Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)</span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="text-indent:14.2pt;margin:0 0 0 85.2pt;" align="justify"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;" lang="en-US">Professor Maria Polinsky (Harvard University)</span></font></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin:0;" align="justify"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;" lang="en-US">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:
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<div style="margin:0;" align="justify"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;" lang="en-US">s.fedden AT surrey.ac.uk
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<div style="margin:0;" align="justify"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;" lang="en-US">Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 October 2014</span></font></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin:0;"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;" lang="en-US">Further information about the workshop will be posted at
</span></font><a href="http://www.surrey.ac.uk/englishandlanguages/research/smg/researchprojects/gender_and_classifiers_areal_and_genealogical_perspectives.htm" target="_blank"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;" lang="en-US">http://www.surrey.ac.uk/englishandlanguages/research/smg/researchprojects/gender_and_classifiers_areal_and_genealogical_perspectives.htm</span></font></a></span></font></div>
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