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Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 23:53:40
From: Elly van Gelderen [ellyvangelderen at asu.edu]
Subject: Comparative Approaches to the Diachronic Morpho-Syntax

 
Comparative Approaches to the Diachronic Morpho-Syntax 

Date: 04-Jun-2019 - 04-Jun-2019 
Location: Tempe, AZ, USA 
Contact: Elly van Gelderen 
Contact Email: ellyvangelderen at asu.edu 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

(Session of Diachronic Generative Syntax)

Comparative Approaches to the Diachronic Morpho‐Syntax of the Indigenous
Languages of North and Central America

The diachronic study of indigenous languages has been challenging because of
the limitations of earlier material. However, a lot of work done in order to
understand the synchrony of a construction has also informed diachrony.
Comparative work on different languages in the same family has helped
reconstruct earlier stages, for example, Kroeber’s (1999) and Davis’ (2005)
work on negatives followed by clausal complements in Salish and Langacker’s
(1977) reconstruction of Uto‐Aztecan phenomena which uses comparative data to
find earlier stages. Munro (1976) and Gordon (1986), while synchronic, provide
many reconstructions for Yuman. Mithun (2016) is another illustration of how
comparative data can shed light on changes in a variety of phenomena, such as
negatives, pronominals, demonstratives, and distributives. Also, Rice (2008)
applies a comparative approach to noun incorporation in Athabaskan. A somewhat
different approach to the diachronic questions is to employ internal
reconstruction, for example, Givón (2000) gives a possible diachrony of the
Tolowa Athabaskan verb complex.

The purpose of the workshop is to show how synchronic or diachronic
comparative research can inform the diachronic morpho‐syntax of indigenous
languages. With these languages, it is especially hard to separate syntax from
morphology and, comparing languages in one family, the syntax is seen to
`become’ morphology (Givón 1971). The theoretical framework for the workshop
is open.

The workshop will be held on 4 June 2019 before the Diachronic Generative
Syntax conference (5‐7 June 2019) with which it will share a registration
website. 

Keynote speaker for the Workshop
Pamela Munro, UCLA
 

Program:

Comparative Approaches to the Diachronic Morpho-Syntax of the Indigenous
Languages of North and Central America

4 June 2019 – Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona USA
Lattie F. Coor Hall, Room 4403
976 S Forest Mall

9:15 - 9:30: 
Welcome, Elly van Gelderen

Chair: Elly van Gelderen, Arizona State University

9:30 - 10:45: 
Pamela Munro, University of California at Los Angeles,
Personal DPs in Yuman Languages

10:45 - 11:00: Break

Chair: Pamela Munro, University of California at Los Angeles.

11:00 - 11:40: 
John Powell, University of Arizona,
A Diachronic Partial Accounting for -k and -m Verbs in Yuman River Languages

11:40 – 12:20: 
Karen Dakin, SLI-Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, UNAM,
Uto-Aztecan Nominalization and Naua Verb Derivation.

12:20 - 1:20: Lunch

Chair: Alana Johns, University of Toronto

1:20 - 2:00: 
David Mora-Marin, University of North Carolina,
The Morphology and Syntax of Possession in the Mesoamerican Languages and
Their Neighbors: A Comparative, Historical, and Areal Approach

2:00 - 2:40: 
Jonah Bates, University of Kansas,
Deriving the Eastern Cholan 2nd-Position Polar Question =ka from Proto-Mayan
*qa

2:40 - 3:20: 
Clarissa Forbes, University of Arizona
The synchrony and diachrony of person-sensitive patterns in Tsimshianic

3:20 - 3:30: Break

Chair: John Powell, University of Arizona

3:30-4:10: 
Alana Johns, University of Toronto,
Dialect variation and Brick Walls (Inuktitut)

4:10-4:50:
Julien Carrier, University of Toronto,
Double agreement and morphosyntactic alignment shift in Inuktitut

6:00-8:00: 
Workshop Closing Reception/Conference Opening Reception, Location TBA





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