27.1547, Confs: Anthropological Ling, Lang Doc, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Denmark

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Subject: 27.1547, Confs: Anthropological Ling, Lang Doc, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Denmark

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Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2016 10:57:38
From: Ditte Boeg Thomsen [ditte.boeg at hum.ku.dk]
Subject: Geographic Grounding: Place, Direction and Landscape in the Grammars of the World

Geographic Grounding: Place, Direction and Landscape in the Grammars of the World 
Short Title: GeoGram 

Date: 30-May-2016 - 31-May-2016 
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark 
Contact: Ditte Boeg Thomsen 
Contact Email: geogram2016 at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://inss.ku.dk/english/calendar/geogram/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation; Semantics; Syntax; Typology 

Meeting Description: 

The languages of the world offer their speakers different means of encoding
location information and of grounding utterances spatially by pointing to the
surrounding landscape. Languages vary both in the spatial concepts they
require speakers to hold and in the degree of routine attention to landscape
they demand. There is a now a wealth of findings from different spatial
linguistic subsystems in many languages (Frames of Reference, topological
relation markers, locative predicates, landscape terms, toponyms), and one aim
of this seminar is to investigate cross-linguistic tendencies in the ways such
spatial subsystems play together within single languages. Another aim is to
examine the usefulness of the ethnophysiographic model suggested for landscape
terminology when applied to other aspects of spatial language, such as spatial
conjugations.

We invite contributions addressing the following three themes: 

- The theme ''Coding strategies'' covers cross-linguistic variation and
preferences in presenting place and direction information as either foreground
or background information (lexical vs. grammatical), as core or periphery
(argument vs. adjunct) and as independent or fused with other types of
meanings (dedicated morphemes vs. portmanteaus). 
- The theme ''Dependencies across subsystems'' explores the ways different
parts of grammar and lexicon expressing location and direction either
reinforce each other (supporting similar concepts and distinctions across
scales and domains) or supplement each other (division of labour). 
- The theme ''Place-marking systems as parts of ecological and cultural
niches'' zooms out to the relationships between linguistic strategies for
spatial reference and grounding, the landscapes these strategies are used in
and the speech communities they serve, asking also whether their underpinning
by traditional landbased practices makes them especially vulnerable in
language endangerment contexts.

Invited Speakers:

Niclas Burenhult
Michael Fortescue
Gabriela Pérez Báez

Program:

Monday, 30 May:

8:45-9:00
Opening remarks 

9:00-10:00
Keynote: Gabriela Pérez Báez

10:00-10:20 Coffee

10:20-10:45
Luke McDermott

10:45-11:10
Letizia Cerqueglini

11:10-11:35
Jonathon Lum

11:35-12:00
Jonas Nölle

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-13:50
Bill Palmer, Alice Gaby, Jonathon Lum & Jonathan Schlossberg 

13:50-14:15
Randi Moore & Jürgen Bohnemeyer

14:15-14:40
Joe Blythe, Alice Gaby & Hywel Stoakes

14:40-15:05
William B: McGregor

15:05-15:30 Coffee

15:30-15:55
Henrik Hovmark

15:55-16:20
Aurelie Cauchard

16:20-16:45
Emilia Tuuri 

Parallel special session on Cognitive Toponomy:

15:30-15:55
Peder Gammeltoft

15:55-16:20
Birgit Eggert

16:20-16:45
Carole Hough

16:45-17:10
David R: Simmons & Leslie Spence

18:30 Conference Dinner

Tuesday, 31 May

9:00-10:00
Keynote: Michael Fortescue

10:00-10:20 Coffee

10:20-10:45
Jan Heegård Petersen

10:45-11:10
Henrik Liljegren

11:10-11:35
Ditte Boeg Thomsen

11:35-12:00
Naja Blytmann Trondhjem

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:00
Keynote: Niclas Burenhult

14:00-14:25
James Kari

14:25-14:50
Jozsef Szakos

14:40-15:10 Coffee

15:10-15:35
Clair Hill

15:35-16:00
Christian Döhler

16:00-16:25
Ricardo Maldonado & Sara Stradioto

16:30-18:00 Goodbye Reception

For titles of the talks, please see the detailed program at our webpage:
http://inss.ku.dk/english/calendar/geogram/program/

Deadline for registration: 15 April 2016
http://inss.ku.dk/english/calendar/geogram/registration-and-payment/

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