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<p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';font-size: 21px;"><b><i>Grammatical categories in macro- and microcomparative linguistics</i></b> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';font-size: 21px;">(</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Workshop
at the DGfS Annual Meeting 2014, March 5-7, University of Marburg</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';font-size: 21px;">)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";"><font color="#e32400">Workshop coordinators:<o></o></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";">Aria Adli (Humboldt University Berlin)<o></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";">Andreas Dufter (LMU Munich)<o></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";">Martin Haspelmath (MPI-EVA Leipzig)<o></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';color: red;">Site d'internet:<o></o></span></p><div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/2014_DGfS/">http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/2014_DGfS/</a></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:red;">Invited speaker:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";">Balthasar Bickel (U Zurich)<o></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:red;">Description:</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";">This workshop will address the question which categories can be used to
compare languages. The older practice of describing all languages with the
categories of European languages has been discredited since the early 20th
century: We know that languages have very different categories, and Boas (1911)
urged linguists to describe each language in its own terms, i.e. with its own
categories. This view was widespread in the structuralist period around the
middle of the 20th century (e.g. Glinz 1952), but it also meant that is was no
longer clear how to compare languages if each has different categories.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";">With the advent of generative grammar, the prevailing view since the
1960s came to be that the categories of different languages are after all much
more similar than claimed by the structuralists, and it was often assumed
without discussion that categories like verb, noun, determiner, complementizer,
3rd person, plural, subject, specifier, wh-element, anaphor (or the features
that constitute these categories) are universal or universally available. At
the same time, successes in empirical world-wide comparison such as Greenberg
(1963), Keenan & Comrie (1977) and Dahl (1985) seemed to confirm that
languages again and again show the same categories.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";">But the last years have seen a resurgence of the controversy: While
Newmeyer (2007) defends the standard view of generative grammar, others such as
Dryer (1997), Croft (2001) and Haspelmath (2007, 2010) returned to the Boasian
view that each language has its own categories, so that language comparison
must make use of a special set of comparative concepts. These can be
typological grammatical concepts (such as S, A, P for the ergative-accusative
distinction), or nonverbal stimuli like pictures and videos which are often
used in lexical typology.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";">We welcome both presentations that argue in favour of the universalist
position and presentations favouring a distinction between language-specific
categories and comparative concepts. Furthermore, we invite presentations that
discuss the implications of this debate on other linguistic subfields, such as
sociolinguistics (the comparison of 'similar' variation phenomena in different
languages), language contact, dialectology/microtypology, bilingual language
acquisition, or language teaching.<o></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:red;">References</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";">Boas, Franz. 1911. Introduction. In Franz Boas (ed.), <i>Handbook of American Indian Languages</i>,
1–83. Washington, DC: Bureau of American Ethnology.<o></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";">Croft, William. 2001. <i>Radical
construction grammar: syntactic theory in typological perspective.</i> Oxford:
Oxford University Press.<o></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";">Dahl, Östen. 1985. <i>Tense and
aspect systems</i>. Oxford: Blackwell.<o></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";">Dryer, Matthew S. 1997. Are grammatical relations universal? In Joan L.
Bybee, John Haiman & Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), <i>Essays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to T. Givón</i>,
115–143. Amsterdam: Benjamins.<o></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";">Glinz, Hans. 1952. <i>Die innere Form
des Deutschen: eine neue deutsche Grammatik</i>. Bern: Francke.<o></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";">Greenberg, Joseph H. 1963. Some universals of grammar with particular
reference to the order of meaningful elements. In Joseph H. Greenberg (ed.), <i>Universals of language</i>, 73–113.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.<o></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";">Haspelmath, Martin. 2007. Pre-established categories don’t exist:
consequences for language description and typology. <i>Linguistic Typology</i> 11. 119 – 132.<o></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";">Haspelmath, Martin. 2010. Comparative concepts and descriptive
categories in crosslinguistic studies. <i>Language</i>
86(3). 663–687.<o></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";">Keenan, Edward Louis & Bernard Comrie. 1977. Noun phrase
accessibility and universal grammar. <i>Linguistic
Inquiry </i>8. 63–99.<o></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";">Newmeyer, Frederick J. 2007. Linguistic typology requires
crosslinguistic formal categories. <i>Linguistic
Typology </i>11. 133–157.<o></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:red;">Call for abstracts</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></p>
<pre><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";">Please send an anonymous one-page abstract for a 30-minute presentation to </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:categories_dgfs2014@gmx.de"><span style="color:blue;">categories_dgfs2014@gmx.de</span></a> (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";">as a PDF attachment).</span><span lang="EN-US"><o></o></span></pre><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:red;">Important
Dates: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";">Deadline for submission:
August 31, 2013 <o></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";">Notification of acceptance:
September 15, 2013 <o></o></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";">Workshop: March 5-7, 2014<o></o></span></p>
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