21.4639, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Typology/Japan

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Subject: 21.4639, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Typology/Japan

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Date: 16-Nov-2010
From: Dmitry Idiatov [idiatov at vjf.cnrs.fr]
Subject: Stability & Borrowability of Interrogative Pronominals
 

	
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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:32:42
From: Dmitry Idiatov [idiatov at vjf.cnrs.fr]
Subject: Stability & Borrowability of Interrogative Pronominals

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Full Title: Stability & Borrowability of Interrogative Pronominals 

Date: 25-Jul-2011 - 30-Jul-2011
Location: Osaka, Japan 
Contact Person: Dmitry Idiatov
Meeting Email: idiatov at vjf.cnrs.fr

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

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2011 

Meeting Description:

Description:

Interrogative pronominals, such as English who? and what?, are usually considered to be among the most change-proof elements in any language. They are believed to be highly resistant to both replacement through borrowing (Haspelmath & Tadmor 2009, Matras 2009:199) and language-internal renewal (Haspelmath 1997:176). In this respect, they strongly resemble personal pronominals. The two kinds of pronominals are also often perceived as good indicators of (long-range) genetic relationships and are regularly included in basic vocabulary lists. However, the view of personal pronominals as highly resistant to borrowing is not uncontroversial (cf. Wallace 1983, Thomason & Everett 2005, Matras 2009:203-208, Law 2009). It has also long been observed that reconstruction of personal pronominals tends to be fraught with difficulties due to their typically short forms and their tendency to undergo irregular changes, such as sound changes specific to them, various kinds of analogical changes and amalgamation with other elements. The workshop aims at assessing the claims on the universality of the extremely slow rate of change and high resistance to borrowing with respect to interrogative pronominals. 

Organizer:	

Dmitry Idiatov (LLACAN-CNRS, Paris)

Invited Speaker: 

Yaron Matras (University of Manchester) 

Call for Papers:

Particularly welcome are papers on examples of fast changes of interrogative pronominals in families and subgroups, on examples of their borrowing and on the kinds of irregular changes affecting interrogative pronominals.

Deadline for abstract submission: January 15, 2011

Abstracts of no more than 300 words, including literature references, should be submitted through the conference website (http://www.ichl2011.com/call_for_papers.html). Please remember to indicate the workshop title in the appropriate place on the abstract submission form.

Haspelmath, Martin. 1997. Indefinite pronouns. Oxford: Clarendon.
Haspelmath, Martin & Uri Tadmor (eds.). 2009. Loanwords in the world's languages: a comparative handbook. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Law, Danny. 2009. Pronominal borrowing among the Maya. Diachronica 26(2). 214-252.
Matras, Yaron. 2009. Language contact. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Thomason, Sarah G. & Daniel L. Everett. 2005. Pronoun borrowing. Berkeley Linguistic Society 27. 301-315.
Wallace, Stephen. 1983. Pronouns in contact. In Frederic B. Agard, Gerald 
Kelley, Adam Makkai & Valerie Becker Makkai (eds.), Essays in honor of Charles F. Hockett, 573-589. Leiden: Brill.




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