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Subject: 33.977, Confs: Historical Linguistics/United Kingdom
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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 20:51:40
From: Mathilde Bru [mathilde.bru.20 at ucl.ac.uk]
Subject: Choosing your Words: Lexicalisation and Grammaticalisation in Greek and Latin
Choosing your Words: Lexicalisation and Grammaticalisation in Greek and Latin
Date: 01-Apr-2022 - 02-Apr-2022
Location: University College London, United Kingdom
Contact: Mathilde Bru
Contact Email: chooseyourwords22 at gmail.com
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Meeting Description:
The UCL Department of Greek and Latin is pleased to announce an International
Conference held at University College London on the 1st-2nd April 2022.
The aim of this conference is to examine changes in the lexicon and the
constructions of Greek and Latin. The traditionally strong separation between
lexicon and constructions of languages might warrant a closer examination. The
English expression “who knows” can, for instance, function at the same time as
an interrogative as well as an adverb, the latter being traditionally
represented by a lexeme. A similar situation can be observed in Aristophanes’
μὰ τὸν Δία or the Plautine ita me di ament, etc. Examining the variation and
evolution of the language of the literary and documentary corpus can help us
develop different or more thorough interpretations of these texts. This
continuum between constructions and the lexicon is an area where traditional
boundaries between lexicon, morphology, syntax and semantics may be unhelpful
in understanding how and why changes occur. This is symptomatic of a more
systematic issue with terminology: compounds, for example, are the result of a
lexicalisation process by which all of these factors interact with each other.
We hope that case studies from the history of Greek and Latin, underpinned by
a range of theoretical approaches, will help us to develop better frameworks
for the analysis and explanation of linguistic innovation, a field in which
current terminological constraints can make it hard to describe the phenomena
clearly.
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
- Lexicon and constructions: can we understand them as separate categories or
part of a whole?
- Can we understand the reasons (language contact, phonological,
morphological, semantic, pragmatic...) for innovation and change in the
lexicon?
- Motivations for grammatical change: insights from functional, cognitive,
pragmatic, discourse approaches, etc.
- How can the reasons behind compounding be explained, and why is it sometimes
favoured over other lexicalisation processes?
- The use of classical texts in examining linguistic change and variation.
- The use of theories of linguistic change and variation in interpreting
classical texts.
- How cognitive approaches to language and ancient texts can inform our
understanding of linguistic change and variation.
A dedicated webpage will appear shortly on the website of the Department of
Greek and Latin, UCL. We are delighted to announce that speakers will include:
Prof. James Clackson (University of Cambridge)
Dr. Evert van Emde Boas (Aarhus University)
Prof. Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute)
Prof. Silvia Luraghi (University of Pavia)
The Department of Greek and Latin at UCL is pleased to invite participants to
the conference ''Choosing your Words: Lexicalisation and Grammaticalisation in
Greek and Latin.'' The conference will run in person at the UCL Institute of
Advance Study on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd April, and will be streamed on
zoom for anyone who would like to attend virtually.
A fee of £20 will cover the cost of the conference, including tea and coffee,
snacks and lunch on both days, and a wine reception on the first evening. A
conference dinner will take place near UCL following the wine reception, and
participants are also invited to attend this.
The conference fee will be waived for post-graduate students, and a number of
post-graduate bursaries to subsidise travel and accommodation will be made
available upon application. Further details about these can be found on our
website:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/choosing-your-words-lexicalisation-and-grammati
calisation-greek-and-latin.
In order to register, could participants please email
chooseyourwords22 at gmail.com, specifying whether they would like to attend in
person or online, and whether they would like to attend the conference dinner,
by Friday 18 March 2022.
Paper abstracts, as well as further information about the conference, can be
found on our website.
Conference Programme:
Friday 1 April
9:30
Coffee & registration
10:30 – 12:45
Paper session 1
10:30 – 11:15
Prof. Silvia Luraghi (Pavia)
Lexical and constructional patterns of Ancient Greek perception verbs
11:15 – 12:00
Dr Guglielmo Inglese (Leuven)
Talking and fighting in Rome: syntactic alternations with lexical reciprocal
verbs in Latin
12:00 – 12:45
Baihui Cheng (UCL)
Headedness and centricity of Homeric nominal compounds
12:45 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 15:30
Paper session 2
14:00 – 14:45
Prof. Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute Jena)
Against ‘lexicalization’ (and what to replace it with)
14:45 – 15:30
Tomaž Potočnik (UCL)
Epistemic modality and subjectivity: Evidence from comedy and letters
15:30 – 16:00
Break (tea, coffee)
16:00 – 17:30
Paper session 3
16:00 – 16:45
Ezra La Roi (Ghent)
Category changes in Greek diachrony: the trajectories of fossilized mood forms
16:45 – 17:30
Sólveig Hilmarsdóttir (Cambridge)
Filling the ‘gaps’ of the Latin participial system: Discourse analysis and
contact-induced grammaticalisation
17:30 – 19:00
Reception
19:30
Conference dinner
Saturday 2 April
9:30 – 11:00
Paper session 4
9:30 – 10:15
Prof. James Clackson (Cambridge)
It’s all Greek to me: Greek loanwords in Republican Latin
10:15 – 11:00
Mathilde Bru (UCL)
The Attic Lexicographers on Lexicalisation
11:00 – 11:30
Break (tea, coffee)
11:30 – 13:00
Paper session 5
11:30 – 12:15
Elena Squeri (Genova/Paris)
Omitting Your Words: semantic specialisation in the Ancient Greek verbal
system
12:15 – 13:00
Shoni Lavie-Driver (Cambridge)
The future and modality in the Cassiodoran Latin Translation of Josephus
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 15:30
Paper session 6
14:00 – 14:45
Dr Evert Van Emde Boas (Aarhus)
Not first at all: on (τὴν) ἀρχήν and grammaticalisation
14:45 – 15:30
Luis Unceta Gómez (Madrid)
Pro di immortales! And other composite interjections in Latin. From syntagms
to pragmatic markers.
15:30-16.16:
Tea, coffee, and end of conference.
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