A Diacronia de Marcação de Gênero/The Diachrony of G ender Marking

[Simoni Valadares]

Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:46:50From: Gunther De Vogelaer [gunther.devogelaer at ugent.be]Subject: The Diachrony of Gender Marking E-mail this message to a friend:http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=19-3233.html&submissionid=194468&topicid=3&msgnumber=1  Full Title: The Diachrony of Gender Marking  Date: 10-Aug-2009 - 15-Aug-2009Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands Contact Person: Gunther De VogelaerMeeting Email: gunther.devogelaer at ugent.be Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics  Call Deadline: 10-Jan-2009  Meeting Description: Session at ICHL-19, Nijmegen (the Netherlands) Despite several decades of research, our understanding of grammatical gendersystems is still relatively poor in comparison to other parts of grammar. Thepresent workshop aims at taking stock of current developments in the field.  Call for Papers The workshop on gender aims at addressing questions including, but notrestricted to, the following: - Patterns of change in gender systems: can we find any regularity in changesthat gender systems can undergo? And to what extent can we derive answers fromsuch patterns with regard to more fundamental questions such as the quest fortriggers in gender change (deflection, language contact), the function ofgrammatical gender, or the structure of gender systems? - Loss or renewal of grammatical gender: in Indo-European languages, mostongoing changes concern the loss of aspects of the gender system, such as thedecrease of the number of genders or the loss of gender agreement from parts ofthe grammar (although there are exceptions, such as the emergence of a'neo-neuter' in varieties of Italian (Haase 2000). Are there language familieswhere the reverse is observed, i.e. frequent changes towards more genders ortowards more gender agreement? In addition, to what extent do these innovationsmatch alleged universal pathways such as the one proposed by Greenberg (1978). - The global distribution of grammatical gender: it appears that gender systemsare quite widespread in the world, but not universal (cf. the WALS). Are thereany linguistic properties that facilitate or inhibit the presence of grammaticalgender? And how can such correlations be explained? - Grammatical gender and theories of language change: recent data, e.g. fromDutch, have shown substantial differences in the way grammatical gender isacquired in L1 and L2. Hence data on gender change can be shed some light overthe ongoing debate on the role of L1 vs. L2 speakers in language change. Conveners: Gunther De Vogelaer (Flemish Research Foundation / Ghent)Mark Janse (Ghent) Keynote Speakers:Alexandra Aikhenvald (La Trobe)Brian Joseph (Ohio State)Peter Siemund (Hamburg) Abstracts: The workshop is part of the ICHL-19 conference, which takes place 10-15 August2009, at the Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands). Abstracts should besubmitted via the ICHL-19 website: http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/. Deadline is 10January 2009. More Information:Please contact gunther.devogelaer at ugent.be or mark.janse at ugent.be
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