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mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Discourse
Functions of Demonstratives </span></b></p>
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line-height:normal"><span
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Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:
EN-AU">This two-day workshop focuses on the functions of
demonstratives and related forms as discourse-structuring
devices beyond their already well-described reference
tracking and discourse-deictic uses.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";mso-ansi-language:DE;mso-fareast-language:
EN-AU" lang="DE">Dates 14. - 15. Juni 2018,</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New
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mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"
lang="DE"> </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Oslo,
Norway</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:
EN-AU">The class of forms referred to as ‘demonstratives’ is
large and varied, both crosslinguistically and often within
individual languages. Traditional classifications of
demonstrative forms (e.g. Diessel 1999, Dixon 2003) focus
especially on the deictic distinctions made in demonstrative
systems, and the morphology, syntax and grammaticalisation
of demonstrative forms. Apart from being used in exophoric
function, it is also well established that demonstratives
often show endophoric functions. Himmelmann (1996), among
others, discusses the use of demonstratives in introducing,
identifying and tracking referents in discourse.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:
EN-AU">Beyond reference-tracking and discourse deixis, there
is evidence that demonstratives are linked to a range of
further discourse functions which have not been generally
acknowledged in the typological literature (see e.g.
functions discussed by Reesink 1987, de Vries 1995, François
2001, 2005, Schapper and San Roque 2011, Kratochvil 2011).
Furthermore, despite extensive research over the last
decades on demonstrative systems cross-linguistically and
within individual languages, we know surprisingly little
about markedness distinctions in demonstrative paradigms
(Himmelmann 1997), i.e. about which member is the unmarked
choice in a particular type of use and which member (and in
which use) has the tendency to further grammaticalise into
which target domain.</span></p>
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line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:3"><b><span
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mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Workshop</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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line-height:normal"><span
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Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:
EN-AU">This two-day workshop focuses on the functions of
demonstratives and related forms as discourse-structuring
devices beyond their already well-described reference
tracking and discourse-deictic uses.<br>
<br>
We are interested in</span></p>
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Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">functions
including the foregrounding or backgrounding of
information (e.g. referents, events, stretches of
discourse), marking presupposed or asserted information,
marking discourse topics, marking stretches of discourse
as forming a unit, clause-linking and subordination-like
functions, as well as functions relating to information
structure (i.e. clause-level topic/focus relations).</span></li>
</ul>
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36.0pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">how the
structure of a demonstrative paradigm interacts with
discourse functions. That is, does the type of system
(person-based vs. distance-based) and/or the number of
contrasts within the system (two-term, three-term, larger
systems) have any impact on which member(s) of the
paradigm take on specific functions?</span></li>
</ul>
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36.0pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">little-studied
discourse functions of demonstratives referring to
persons, places and objects, but also in demonstratives
expressing other ontological categories (e.g. manner,
quality, degree, quantity), as well as contributions on
the discourse function of presentative demonstratives.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:3"><b><span
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mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Submission
of Abstracts</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:
EN-AU">We invite abstracts for 20-minute presentations to be
submitted by 31 January 2018. Abstract should be maximum one
page in 12-point font, including examples and references.
Please submit your abstract to </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a
href="mailto:demonstratives2018@iln.uio.no"
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lang="EN-AU">demonstratives2018@iln.uio.no</span></a></span><span
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Notification of acceptance: 28 February 2018.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:3"><b><span
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mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Organising
committee</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:
EN-AU">Åshild Næss, University of Oslo</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:
EN-AU">Jozina Vander Klok, University of Oslo</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:
EN-AU">Anna Margetts, Monash University</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:
EN-AU">Yvonne Treis, CNRS-LLACAN</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:
EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:3"><b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
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mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">References</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:
EN-AU">Diessel, Holger. 1999. Demonstratives: Form,
function, and grammaticalization. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.</span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span
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Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:
EN-AU">De Vries, Lourens. 1995. Demonstratives, referent
identification and topicality in Wambon and some other
Papuan languages. Journal of Pragmatics 24(5). 513–533.</span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span
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Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:
EN-AU">Dixon, R.M.W. 2003. Demonstratives: a
cross-linguistic typology. </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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lang="FR">Studies in Language 27:1, 61-112.</span></p>
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line-height:normal"><span
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Roman";mso-ansi-language:FR;mso-fareast-language:
EN-AU" lang="FR">François, Alexandre. 2001. Contraintes de
structures et liberté dans l’organisation du discours: une
description du mwotlap, langue océanienne du Vanuatu. </span><span
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narrative discourse: a taxonomy of universal uses. </span><span
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mso-ansi-language:DE;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU" lang="DE">In
Fox ed., Studies in Anaphora, 205-254. Amsterdam: John
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Artikel, Nominalphrase: zur Emergenz syntaktischer Struktur.
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mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Tübingen:
Niemeyer.</span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span
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Language 35:2, 380-408.</span></p>
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