18.390, Confs: Historical Ling,Pragmatics,Semantics/UK

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Subject: 18.390, Confs: Historical Ling,Pragmatics,Semantics/UK

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Date: 05-Feb-2007
From: Richard Waltereit < richard.waltereit at newcastle.ac.uk >
Subject: Procedural Meaning in Diachrony 

	
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Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:56:57
From: Richard Waltereit < richard.waltereit at newcastle.ac.uk >
Subject:  Procedural Meaning in Diachrony 
 

Procedural Meaning in Diachrony 

Date: 23-Feb-2007 - 23-Feb-2007 
Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom 
Contact: Richard Waltereit 
Contact Email: richard.waltereit at newcastle.ac.uk 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

Recent years have seen much interest in the question as to how meaning in
language arises over time, both with respect to grammatical morphemes
(grammaticalization) and to pragmatic markers (<i>you know</i>, <i>well</i>,
etc.). Such forms have procedural, as opposed to conceptual, meaning. There has
been a quite lively debate as to how these patterns relate both to each other
and to more general principles of language change. This workshop intends to take
a fresh look at semantic change and to explore whether there is a principled
basis for nuanced pathways of change. The speakers will look at instances of
change from various European languages. 

Friday, 23 February 2007, 1:30 - 4:00 pm

Newcastle University, Bedson Teaching Centre, G 35

1:30 - 2:00	Richard Waltereit: Introduction
2:00 - 3:00	Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (University of Copenhagen):
                On the diachrony of reinforced negation in  Old and
                Middle French
3:00 - 4:00	Ulrich Detges (University of Munich):
                Old French <i>or</i> and German <i>jetzt</i>. On the
                diachrony of discourse markers and modal particles

Organizer: Richard Waltereit, Newcastle University, School of Modern Languages
(Richard.waltereit at ncl.ac.uk). Please contact the organizer if you'd like to attend.





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