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Dans le cadre des programmes de la Fédération "Typologie et
universaux linguistiques", le LLACAN (UMR 8135) est heureux
d'accueillir le professeur<br>
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<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>Wolfgang
Schulze<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>de
l'Institut de linguistique et typologie<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>de
l'Université Ludwig-Maximilian de Munich<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>Web:
<a href="http://www.ats.uni-muenchen.de/wschulze" eudora="autourl"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.ats.uni-muenchen.de/wschulze</a><br>
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</u></font><x-tab> </x-tab>pour
sa conférence, <b>LUNDI 14 JUIN à 14 heures<br>
</b><x-tab> </x-tab>à la
salle des conférences du centre A-G. Haudricourt,<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>campus
CNRS de Villejuif (Métro Villejuif- Paul Vaillant-Couturier)<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Bâtiment D
- rez-de-chaussée<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Plan
d'accès:
<a href="http://www.vjf.cnrs.fr/clt/DocHtml/EnLigne/el3-1.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.vjf.cnrs.fr/clt/DocHtml/EnLigne/el3-1.htm</a><br>
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<b>Grammar and Metaphor: <br>
The dynamics of case semantics in two East Caucasian languages<br>
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</b>It is a central claim of Cognitive Typology (Schulze 1998, 2000,
2001) that cognitive procedures of metaphorization represent a major
aspect of the ontology of language. Accordingly, any world stimulus
(non-verbal or verbal) first undergoes a mirroring process mapping
experienced (and construed) gestalt features onto memory segments and
prelinguistic routines of verbal communication. This process conditions
the 'reduction' of properties given in the stimulus (<i>diaresis</i> in
terms of Cognitive Typology). In a second (nevertheless parallel)
procedure, the diaresis output can undergo different degrees of
metaphorization allowing to apply the ontologically restricted system of
linguistic knowledge to variations within the construction of world
stimuli. In Cognitive Typology, metaphorization is seen as a necessary
condition of conceptualization, not confined to 'lexical words', but
present in any kind of conceptual representation, be it lexical,
morphological, structural (or: constructional), or positional.
Accordingly, metaphorization shows up as a procedural continuum that
emcompasses both metonymic and metaphorical output types (in the strict
sense). It can be modeled in terms of a 'Mirror Hypthesis' which claims
that metaphorization represents an entrenched cognitive
(experience-based) mirroring routine that is characterized by
fractal-like processes of inflation in language production and deflation
processes in language comprehension. <br>
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In my talk, I will illustrate the Mirror Hypothesis with the help of data
from two autochthonous languages of the Eastern Caucasus, namely Aghul
and Udi. For both languages, I will describe some aspects the semantics
of (basically locative) case markers in order to show how the Mirror
Hypothesis can account for both synchronic types of metaphorization (e.g.
<i>possession</i> is <i>behind</i>, <i>instrument</i> is <i>onto</i>
etc.) and diachronic processes of ongoing grammaticalization (e.g. <i>possession </i>is <i>motion from source</i> > genitive, <i>a/effection</i> is <i>motion towards goal</i> > objective marker/dative). Most importantly, the concept of metaphorization will be extended towards a preliminary cognitive theory of inference that adds the relation <i>as if</i> to that of <i>is</i> (e.g. objective <i>as if</i> agentive etc.). <br>
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