International Workshop 'Perception and cognition: a cross-linguistic investigation'

Sun Nov 7 16:46:41 UTC 2010

Dear Colleagues,

we would like to announce our forthcoming International Workshop 
'Perception and cognition: a cross-linguistic investigation'
. Everyone is cordially invited to attend. Questions can be addressed to Prof Dr Anne Storch (astorch at uni-koeln.de) or Prof Dr Alexandra Aikhenvald (preferrably at Alexandra.Aikhenvald at jcu.edu.au). The program is also enclosed as attachment together with the general announcement.

Best wishes

Anne and Alexandra

Perception and cognition: a cross-linguistic investigation
An International Workshop

Alter Senatssaal, November 25-27 2010

Program

24.11., 18:00               Welcome 

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25.11., 9:00-17:30      Papers

9:00-10:00                  Alexandra Aikhenvald: Perception and cognition in Manambu, a Papuan language from New Guinea

10:00-11:00                Lourens de Vries: The linguistic expression of perception and cognition in languages of the Awyu-Ndumut family in West Papua 

11:00-11:30                Coffee Break

11:30-12:30                Nikolaus Himmelmann: Are perceptions states? Evidence from western Austronesian

12:30-14:00                Lunch Break

14:00-15:00                R.M.W. Dixon: Perception and cognition in Dyirbal

15:00-15:30                Coffee Break

15:30-16:30                Jose-Luis García-Ramón: 'Seeing', 'hearing' and 'saying' in the IE languages

16:30-17:30                Elisabeth Norcliffe: Asymmetries of experience: The grammar of perception in Guambiano

18:30                           Dinner Party

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26.11., 9:00-17:30      Papers

9:00-10:00                  Dagmar Jung: Ways of knowing in Beaver Athapaskan: lexical sources and grammatical framing

10:00-11:00                Willem Adelaar: Reflections on the Quechua mirative 

11:00-11:30                Coffee Break

11:30-12:30                Christa König: Evidentials in !Xun

12:30-14:00                Lunch Break

14:00-15:00                Matthias Brenzinger & Anne Maria Fehn: Perception and knowledge in Central Khoisan languages 

15:00-15:30                Coffee Break

15:30-16:30                Marilena Thanassoula: The expression of qualities in Luganda and Lussese with special focus on the color terminology

16:30-17:30                Anne Storch: Knowing, smelling and telling tales in Luwo (Western Nilotic)

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27.11., 9:00-14:00      Papers, publication plans 

9:00-10:00                  Angelika Jakobi: Basic perception verbs and their semantics in Dongolawi (Nile Nubian)

10:00-11:00                Getrude Schneider-Blum: Excite your senses – glances into the field of perception and cognition in Tima 

11:00-11:30                Coffee Break

11:30-13:00                Concluding discussion & publication plans

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Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, PhD, DLitt, FAHA
Professor and Research Leader (Peoples and Societies of the Tropics)
The Cairns Institute 
James Cook University
PO Box 6811
Cairns
Queensland 4870
Australia

mobile 0400 305315
office 61-7-40421117

Phone numbers in Cologne:
49-221-470 3884
mobile 49 1578 8474481

alexandra.aikhenvald at jcu.edu.au  
http://www.jcu.edu.au/sass/staff/JCUPRD_043649.html
http://www.aikhenvaldlinguistics.com/

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