20.647, Confs: Historical Ling, Socioling, Syntax, English, French, German/UK

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Subject: 20.647, Confs: Historical Ling, Socioling, Syntax, English, French, German/UK

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Date: 27-Feb-2009
From: Emma Mason < e.mason at aston.ac.uk >
Subject: Cycles of Grammaticalization
 

	
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Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:53:50
From: Emma Mason [e.mason at aston.ac.uk]
Subject: Cycles of Grammaticalization

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Cycles of Grammaticalization 

Date: 04-Apr-2009 - 04-Apr-2009 
Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom 
Contact: Emma Mason 
Contact Email: e.mason at aston.ac.uk 
Meeting URL:
http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/research-projects/cycles-of-grammaticalization/


Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Syntax 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)
                     German, Standard (deu)

Meeting Description: 

Dear colleagues,

I have pleasure in drawing your attention to the fourth 'Cycles of 
Grammaticalization' seminar to be held at Birmingham City University on April 
4, 14h-17h. The seminar will be held in room 202 in the Seacole Building at the 
Edgbaston campus. Ans van Kemenade (Nijmegen) will be talking about the 
sentence structure of the Negative Cycle in English, with Paul Rowlett 
(Salford) as discussant. 

Funded under the International Network programme by the Leverhulme Trust, the 
project seeks to elucidate and diagnose the complex series of factors that lead 
to grammatical change through time, with particular reference to the negation 
cycle in English, French and German. The research objectives are to establish: 
1. The definition of criteria for determining when a polarity item becomes a 
negative element, and 2. The means to recognise the presence of a negative 
phrase. The relation between formal and functional factors, reanalysis and 
language learning, dialect competition and language contact, as well as 
diachronic data closer to everyday usage will also be considered. Additional 
information and a copy of the project bibliography to date is available at:
http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/research-projects/cycles-of-
grammaticalization/

Attendance is free of any charge and warmly invited. For further details, 
please contact:

Emma Mason
Network Facilitator
School of Languages and Social Sciences
Aston University
Aston Triangle
Birmingham
B4 7ET
+44 (0) 121 204 3675
e.mason at aston.ac.uk







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