12.162, Confs: Japanese Lang in Theory and Practice

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Date:  Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:24:12 +0100
From:  Wlodarczyk Andre <wlod at ext.jussieu.fr>
Subject:  Japanese Lang in Theory and Practice/ Le Japonais 2000

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Date:  Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:24:12 +0100
From:  Wlodarczyk Andre <wlod at ext.jussieu.fr>
Subject:  Japanese Lang in Theory and Practice/ Le Japonais 2000

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                     Le JAPONAIS 2000 INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR
                 on the Japanese Language in Theory and Practice
                                organised by
           the UMR <<Japan's Culture>> - a common research unit of
               CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
                and EPHE (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes)
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The title of the next lecture is:

                       GRAMMATICALIZATION IN JAPANESE

The Conference will be given in English  by

                       Dr Lone TAKEUCHI, Ph. D.
                   Teaching fellow, SOAS, London


                FRIDAY 26 January 2001 at 4:30 p.m.
         CNRS -  Instituts des Hautes Etudes Japonaises
            52, rue Cardinal Lemoine 75231 PARIS 05

After the lecture, we kindly invite you to our reception at which wine and
snacks will be served.

Main topics of the Conference:
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It is a basic tenet of any realistic account of grammaticalization that a
linguistic innovation (change) can be understood as the plausible outcome of
the interpretation which young speakers in the process of constructing their
grammar would make on the basis of the language data available to them.

During the history of Japanese, predicate morphosyntax has been replaced
almost wholesale. Yet the structural norms within the predicate, and above
all the basic order of elements have remained the same While it is a simple
matter to set up correspondences between Old and Modern Japanese it is more
difficult to account for the developments in a coherent  and  realistic
manner. Taking some recent or ongoing cases of grammaticalization, such as
predicate-final copula desu and verb concatenations characterised by -te as
point of departure , a long-term perspective is applied to the pivotal
developments of -te accreted and nari-copula morphology.

General description of the Seminar:
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To meet the increasing demand for Japanese language proficiency, a series of
lectures is being given by guest scholars. The major themes focus on the
Japanese Language (its history and structure, electronic dictionaries,
machine translation technologies etc.) as well as linguistic and social
problems (verbal behaviour, networking and other aspects of the
computerisation of Japanese society).

Previous lectures were delivered by Prof. TSUJII Jun-ichi (Tokyo University),
Prof. Zoya SHALYAPINA (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow), Prof. HOSOKAWA
Hideo (Waseda University)  Prof. IDE Sachiko (Japa n Women's University),
and by Prof. André WLODARCZYK (University Stendhal - Grenoble 3),
Prof. Romuald HUSZCZA (Warsaw University), Prof. IKEGAMI Yoshihiko
(Professor emeritus, University of Tokyo, currently professor at Showa
Women's University), Prof. Viktoria ESCHBACH-SZABO (Tuebingen University).

The Seminar is organised thanks to grants from The Japan Foundation and La
Fondation Tanaka.

Seminar director: Prof. André Wlodarczyk, Ph. D.
E-mail: wlod at ext.jussieu.fr,
homepage: www.u-grenoble3.fr/stendhal/people/AWlodarczyk/
Information: Lionel.Stouder at lexiquest.fr

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