22.82, Calls: Historical Ling, Morphology/Japan

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Date: 01-Jan-2011
From: Kazuha Watanabe [kwatanabe at fullerton.edu]
Subject: Diachrony of TAM Systems as a Paradigm
 

	
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Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:12:43
From: Kazuha Watanabe [kwatanabe at fullerton.edu]
Subject: Diachrony of TAM Systems as a Paradigm

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Full Title: Diachrony of TAM Systems as a Paradigm 
Short Title: TAM Systems 

Date: 25-Jul-2011 - 30-Jul-2011
Location: Osaka, Japan 
Contact Person: Kazuha Watanabe
Meeting Email: kwatanabe at fullerton.edu
Web Site: http://www.ichl2011.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Morphology 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2011 

Meeting Description:

The diachrony of TAM (tense-aspect-modality) systems has been one of the most researched topics in historical linguistics, especially after Heine, Claudi, and Hünnemeyer (1991) and Bybee, Perkins, and Pagliuca (1994).  However, many of the previous studies have focused on the diachronic development of specific TAM markers.  That is, their aim is usually to identify the origins of the TAM markers in question and to examine the further changes (phonological, semantic, and/or morpho-syntactic) that the markers have gone through.  This might be due to the fact that this is the structure of above mentioned works.  Furthermore, while the interaction among tense, aspect and modality is a long-studied topic, we still have not thoroughly addressed how the overall TAM systems develop in a given language.  

References: 

Bybee, J., Parkins, R., and Pagliuca, W. 1994. The Evolution of Grammar:  Tense, Aspect and Modality in the Languages of the World. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago
Heine, Bernd, Ulrike Claudi and Friederike Hünnemeyer 1991. 'From cognition to grammar: Evidence from African languages'. In Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Bernd Heine (eds.), Approaches to Grammaticalization. pp. 149-188.  John Benjamins: Amsterdam 

Call for Papers:

The workshop is on the diachrony of TAM systems as a paradigm at the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. The abstract needs to be submitted via the conference website (http://www.ichl2011.com) by January 15. Please specify the workshop title while submitting the abstract.

The questions that the workshop would like to address are...

1) How do the specific diachronic changes of TAM markers affect the overall TAM paradigm in a given language?
2) Alternatively, how is tense, aspect, or modality system affected by such changes, rather than the TAM systems as a whole?)
3) Reversely, how does the overall structure of the TAM paradigm affect the types of diachronic changes of specific TAM markers?
4) Or how does the nature of tense, aspect, or modality system affect the development of individual markers?
5) Typologically speaking, what is possible TAM systems like? (or what would an impossible TAM system would be?)
6) Any other issues that have not been solved




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