[Lingtyp] Lingtyp Digest, Vol 60, Issue 4
Woodbury, Anthony C
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Wed Sep 11 16:17:38 UTC 2019
Responding to Lyuba, that’s all the Yupik-Inuit language, all based on the exact same cognates. So in Central Alaskan Yupik, nallu- is ‘to be ignorant (of something)’; nallu-nrite- (be.ignorant-NEG-) is ‘to know (something)’, e.g., nallu-aqa (be.ignorant-INDIC.1s>3s) ‘I don’t know it/that’’, vs. nallu-nrit-aqa ‘I know it’.
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Subject: [Lingtyp] NEG not.know --> know
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Dear All,
At ALT in Leipzig 2013, somebody pointed out to me that there is a language
where the verb 'not.know' has to be negated in order to get the sense
'know'; if I recall it correctly, a positive verb 'know' did not exist in
that language. Unfortunately, I did not write down neither the name of the
language, nor the example. If anyone knows of such cases, I would
appreciate it very much to hear about them.
Thank you in advance for your time and help.
All the best,
Ljuba
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Dear Ljuba,
That might have been *Greenlandic*. There is the verb ‘to not know’, which
is negated to express the notion ‘to know’. The following examples are from
West Greenlandic:
*Nalu–ara.*
not.know–1SG>3SG
‘I don't know him.’
*Nalu–nngila–ra.*
not.know–NEG–1SG>3SG
‘I know him.’
I don't know if this also happens in other related Eskimo-Aleut languages,
though.
Best wishes from Zurich,
— André Müller
Am Mi., 11. Sept. 2019 um 12:09 Uhr schrieb Ljuba Veselinova <
ljuba at ling.su.se<mailto:ljuba at ling.su.se>>:
Dear All,
At ALT in Leipzig 2013, somebody pointed out to me that there is a
language where the verb 'not.know' has to be negated in order to get the
sense 'know'; if I recall it correctly, a positive verb 'know' did not
exist in that language. Unfortunately, I did not write down neither the
name of the language, nor the example. If anyone knows of such cases, I
would appreciate it very much to hear about them.
Thank you in advance for your time and help.
All the best,
Ljuba
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Phone: +46-8-16-2332 Fax: +46-8-15 5389
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Dear LingTyp editors,
I am emailing to aks if you could post in the LingTyp newsletter the call for participation of the workshop ''Cross-Linguistic Semantics of Reciprocals''. You can find the text below.
Thank you very much!
Best regards,
Giada
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Workshop on Cross-Linguistic Semantics of Reciprocals
On the 7th and 8th of October, the workshop “Cross-linguistic semantics of reciprocals” will take place at Utrecht University. We are glad to announce that the final program is now available.
The workshop will bring together formal semanticists and experts of reciprocity phenomena, with the goal of addressing some of the major questions in this area.
Keynote speakers are Mary Dalrymple (Oxford University) and Martin Haspelmath (MPI-SHH Jena & Leipzig University).
PROGRAM
All slots for presentation contain 10 minutes for remarks by a discussant + 10-15 minutes for general discussion.
7th October
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10.00–10.15 welcome
10.15–10.20 opening remarks
10.20–11.30 Keynote - Mary Dalrymple (Oxford University): ‘Reciprocal scope ambiguity and scope marking’
discussant: Yoad Winter (Utrecht University)
11.30–11.50 coffee break
11.50–12.40 Koen Bostoen (Ghent University): ‘Historical cycles of reciprocal marking in Bantu and the polysemy of Proto-Bantu *-an’
discussant: Isabelle Bril (LACITO-CNRS, LABEX EFL)
12.40–14.00 lunch
14.00–14.50 Filipe Hisao Kobayashi (MIT): ‘A Compositional Analysis of Scattered Reciprocals in Brazilian Portuguese’
discussant: Eric Reuland (Utrecht University)
15.00–15.50 Naonori Nagaya (The University of Tokyo): ‘Reciprocity in Tagalog dyad constructions’
discussant: Martin Haspelmath (MPI-SHH Jena & Leipzig University)
15.50–16.10 coffee break
16.10–17.00 Giada Palmieri (Utrecht University): ‘Vagueness or ambiguity? On the interpretation of reflexive and reciprocal si-constructions in Italian’
discussant: Jakub Dotlacil (University of Amsterdam)
17.10–18.00 John Beavers (The University of Texas at Austin): ‘Middle voice as generalized argument suppression: the case from Indonesian’
discussant: Joost Zwarts (Utrecht University)
19.00 dinner
8th October
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09.00-09.10 informal gathering + coffee
09.10–10.00 Ed Keenan (UCLA) & Baholy Ralalaoherivony (University of Antananarivo): ‘Morphological reciprocals: the case of Malagasy’
discussant: Jack Hoeksema (Groeningen University)
10.10–11.00 Isabelle Bril (LACITO-CNRS, LABEX EFL): ‘Symmetrical and reciprocal constructions in Austronesian languages the syntax-semantics-lexicon interface’
discussant: Eva van Lier (University of Amsterdam)
11.00-11.20 coffee break
11.20-12.40 POSTER SESSION (see titles below)
12.40-14.00 lunch
14.00-14.50 Kilu von Prince (Humboldt University of Berlin): ‘Reciprocal strategies in Daakaka’
discussant: Bert Le Bruyn (Utrecht University)
15.00–15.50 Yuan Shen (Fudan University): ‘A unified analysis of the semantic licensing conditions for huxiang (“mutually”) in Chinese’
discussant: Jenny Doetjes (Leiden University)
15.50-16.10 coffee break
16.10–17.20 Keynote - Martin Haspelmath (MPI-SHH Jena & Leipzig University): ‘Reflexive and reciprocal constructions: Comparisons and explanations without true analysis’
discussant: Helen de Hoop (Radboud University Nijmegen)
17.20–17.30 Ending notes
POSTER PRESENTATIONS:
-Brian Buccola (Michigan State University), Jeremy Kuhn (CNRS) & David Nicolas (CNRS): ‘The unexplained symmetric reading of reciprocal sentences’
-Dag Haug (University of Oslo): ‘Reciprocals with quantified antecedents’
-Filipe Hisao Kobayashi (MIT): ‘Two Types of Reciprocals in Mandarin Chinese’
-Imke Kruitwagen (Utrecht University): ‘Can we fight with trees? Exploring the territory of reciprocal verbs’
-György Rákosi (University of Debrecen): ‘Reciprocal anaphors in singular constructions in Hungarian’
-Maud Devos (RMCA) & Rozenn Guérois (Ghent University): ‘Reciprocity in the North-Mozambican Bantu language Shangaji (P312)’
Location
Drift 21, 3512 BR Utrecht -- Sweelinckzaal
The poster session will take place in Drift 21, room 1.05
Workshop description
The last two decades have seen extensive research on the syntax and distribution of reciprocal morphemes across languages. Typological linguists and theoretical syntacticians have revealed fascinating phenomena of reciprocity, which have substantially increased our knowledge of the ways languages encode reciprocal concepts. Quite independently, there have been some important advances in the formal semantic analysis of reciprocals in English. Yet, at present there is no clear understanding of the cross-linguistic semantics of reciprocals, or even the extent to which such a general semantics is motivated.
This workshop will focus on the phenomenon of reciprocity across languages. By bringing together formal semanticists who focus on cross-linguistic research and experts of reciprocity phenomena, we hope to be able to address some of the major questions in this area. Relevant questions are:
– Are there concepts of reciprocity that are potential candidates as language universals in formal semantics in the sense of von Fintel & Matthewson (2008)?
– How can the universal principles as proposed in Haspelmath (2007) and formal principles as suggested in Dalrymple et al. (1998) be used to promote such efforts?
– How do different languages encode reciprocal concepts in the syntax-semantics-lexicon interfaces?
– Should the formal semantic analysis of reciprocity be extended to reflexives?
– Is there motivation for a unified analysis of reciprocals and “dyad” constructions? (Evans 2006)
– Are there special properties of the discontinuous reciprocal construction that bear on the general semantics of reciprocity?
– How should reciprocity be connected to other collective concepts, and what is the semantic contribution of collective markers to reciprocity?
Additional general subjects:
– Theoretical work on reciprocity in specific languages
– Typological work on reciprocity in under-studied languages
– Experimental work on reciprocal expressions
Organization
Yoad Winter, Joost Zwarts, Giada Palmieri (Utrecht)
Date & Location
7th and 8th October 2019
Drift 21, 3512 BR Utrecht, Sweelinckzaal. The poster session will take place in Drift 21, room 1.05.
Original Call for Papers
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clsor2019
Workshop website
https://rocky.sites.uu.nl/workshop-on-cross-linguistic-semantics-of-reciprocals/
Info
For practical questions, please contact Giada Palmieri (g.palmieri [AT] uu.nl)
This workshop is part of the ROCKY ERC-AdG project (https://rocky.sites.uu.nl) at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics.
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