21.5139, Confs: Historical Linguistics, Typology/Japan

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Date: 17-Dec-2010
From: Reijirou Shibasaki [reijiro at okiu.ac.jp]
Subject: Person Forms Across Time and Space
 

	
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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 13:43:01
From: Reijirou Shibasaki [reijiro at okiu.ac.jp]
Subject: Person Forms Across Time and Space

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Person Forms Across Time and Space 

Date: 25-Jul-2011 - 30-Jul-2011 
Location: Osaka, Japan 
Contact: Reijirou Shibasaki 
Contact Email: reijiro at okiu.ac.jp 
Meeting URL: http://www.ichl2011.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Typology 

Meeting Description: 

This workshop focuses on the linguistic evolution of person forms in a wide 
range of languages, especially beyond the realm of European languages. 
Many previous studies ? particularly contrastive studies of English and 
Japanese (e.g. Sugamoto 1989) ? have emphasized diverging points 
between person forms in European languages and those in non-European 
languages, often analyzing lexical origins, lexical modification, word order, 
and discourse frequency. However, once we enlarge the corpus to include 
cross-linguistic or dialectal variations, some converging patterns observed 
through diachronic pathways may come into view.
  
This ICHL20 workshop has a preference for the following themes, ideally 
focusing on languages beyond the European language families. However, 
this workshop will also deal with other interesting themes related to person 
forms, particularly those themes that have an important bearing on the 
themes outlined below. Note that the underlying theoretical assumption in 
this workshop is that grammatical categories and functions are best defined 
in terms of how they behave in discourse, synchronically and diachronically.

(1) Referential shifting e.g. from first to second person as in Japanese, 
Thai, Vietnamese, etc.;

(2) Derivation of newer person forms by combining first and second person 
forms (i.e. inclusive) and first and third person forms (i.e. exclusive) as in 
Dravidian languages;

(3) Derivation of independent forms out of dependent forms, e.g. Jacaltec, 
Tzutujil and Warekena;

(4) Semantic change from more honorific to less honorific as in Japanese;

(5) Functional change, e.g. from person to nominalizer as in Ainu, 
Okinawan, some Tibeto-Burman languages, etc.

(6) Construction-based functional change, e.g. from person to sentence-
final particle as in Chinese, Japanese, Okinawan and some other Asian 
languages.

(7) Reconstructing pronominal paradigms in particular areas, e.g. Central 
Pacific, Philippine, Formosan and other areas.

(8) Rethinking person forms as part of 'functional categories' from different 
theoretical points of view, e.g. generative vs. functional.

References:

Bhat, D. N. S. 2004. Pronouns. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Cooke, J. R. 1968. Pronominal reference in Thai, Burmese and Vietnamese. 
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Ferraresi, Gisella and Maria Goldback (eds.). 2008. Principles of syntactic 
reconstruction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Siewierska, Anna. 2004. Person. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sugamoto, Nobuko. 1989. Pronominality: A noun-pronoun continuum. In 
Linguistic Categorization, edited by R. Corregan, F. Eckman, and M. 
Noonan, 267-291. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Important Dates:

January 15, 2011 Abstract submission deadline
February 28, 2011 Notification of acceptance





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