33.3308, Confs: General Linguistics/Mexico
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Subject: 33.3308, Confs: General Linguistics/Mexico
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 03:52:58
From: Zygmunt Frajzyngier [Zygmunt.Frajzyngier at Colorado.Edu]
Subject: Interaction of Formal Means and Functional Categories in the Coding of Reference
Interaction of Formal Means and Functional Categories in the Coding of Reference
Date: 14-Nov-2022 - 15-Nov-2022
Location: Hermosillo, Mexico
Contact: Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Contact Email: Zygmunt.Frajzyngier at Colorado.Edu
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Meeting Description:
There exists rich literature on individual formal means and their functions,
forms alone, or functions alone in the coding of reference. Thus, numerous
studies deal with pronouns, person, demonstratives, class and gender systems,
agreement, deixis, anaphora, logophoricity, reference tracking, switch
reference, and other forms and functions across languages. The presentations
at the Workshop will focus on the interaction of formal means and functions in
a broad variety of languages. The workshop will also deal with the
implications of reference systems for the formation of clauses and sentences
and the interpretation of their meanings.
The aims of the workshop are: (1) discovery of similarities and differences
in and among references systems in a broad range of language families; (2)
implications of the reference systems for theories and methodologies of
semantic analysis; and (3) implication of reference systems for syntactic
theories.
The term ‘reference system’ designates all functions within the grammatical
system of the given language, including the indication of whether the
addressees should identify the referents of participants in the proposition
and, if so, how they should identify the referents.
The importance of reference systems consists of the role they play in (1) the
formation of utterances, including clauses and sentences, and (2) the
interpretation of meanings of utterances. With respect to the formation of
clauses, the systems of reference in some languages determine whether or not
nouns, noun phrases or pronouns are included in the clause . This fact affects
the fundamental premise of some syntactic theories, namely that the formation
of clauses consists of combining various constituents into larger units. With
respect to (2), the systems of reference enable speakers to perform
fundamental tasks in interpreting the meaning of clauses, viz. the
identification of the participants in the proposition and their roles in the
proposition, regardless of whether the participants are overtly coded or not.
Studies of reference systems so far increasingly indicate that an analysis of
the meaning of a clause or a sentence cannot be confined to the clause or the
sentence alone and must take into consideration a larger part of discourse.
Similarly, an explanation of the syntax of a clause cannot be confined to the
clause alone and must take into consideration larger chunks of discourse. What
these larger chunks are is an open question that may well be answered by
analyses of systems of reference.
There exists rich literature on the individual formal means and their
functions, on forms alone, or on functions alone. Publications and the scope
of literature include:
a. Pronouns (Frei 1944, Hagège 1986, Haspelmath 1997, Bhat 2004, Gast and van
der Auwera 2013). Some studies, e.g. Comrie 1997, 1998.
b. Demonstratives and determiners (Diessel 1999a and b, 2014, Stark, Leiss and
Abraham 2007, Ghomeshi, Paul, and Wiltschko 2009, Levinson et al. 2018).
c. Agreement (though not all studies claim that agreement is a coding means in
the reference system) (Frajzyngier1997, Lehmann 1988, Corbett 2006, Haspelmath
2013). Some studies postulate gender to be a means for the coding of reference
(Martinet 1967, Frajzyngier and Shay 2003), while others do not (Corbett 1991
and papers in De Vogelaer and Janse (eds.) 2011).
d. Person (Siewierska 2004, Baerman and Corbett 2013).
e. Definite and indefinite articles and definiteness (Lyons 1999, Dryer 2013a
and b).
f. Anaphora and reference tracking (Comrie 1997, 1998, Croft 2013).
g. Switch reference (Stirling 1993)
Among studies that look at the totality of reference systems are Stirling
(1993); Gundel and Hedberg (2016), Kibrik (2011, 2013); and Frajzyngier (in
press).
Program:
Interaction of formal means and functional categories in the coding of
reference
Hybrid event
Dates: November 14 and 15, 2022
Institution: U. of Sonora
Sala de Usos Múltiples
Building: 3O, 1st. Floor, Dept. of Architecture
Contact: zygmunt.frajzyngier at colorado.edu, zarinaef at gmail.com
Link: to be announced
P R O G R A M
Monday, November 14th
8:00-8:55 Reference vs. Address in Locuphoric Pronouns and Verbal
Indexes in Trans-Himalayan Languages
Scott Delancey
U. of Oregon
8:55-9:05 BREAK
9:10-9:35 Reference in discourse: R-expressions as pronouns in Malayalam,
Bangla, and beyond
Yangchen Roy
Jawaharl Nehru U.
(online)
9:40-10:05 Irregular y regular la lengua baure (Arawak) en el curso de la
historia: El paradigma personal en perspectiva diacrónica y comparativa
Swintha Danielsen
U. Flensburg (KURS)
(online)
10:10-10:20 BREAK
10:25-10:50 Zero vs. pronoun coding of high-accessibility referents in (some)
Western Austronesian languages
Yi-Yang Cheng & Chun-Jan Young
U. of California, Santa Barbara
10:55-11:20 Estrategias de seguimiento de referencia en wixárika
Stefanie Ramos Bierge
Institute of Economic Botany, New York Botanical Garden
(online)
11:25-11:50 An investigation of polyfunctional discourse particle cu in Hakha
Lai
James C. Wamsley
Indiana U.
(online)
11:55-12:00 BREAK
12:05-13:00 The role of reference markers in an omnipredicative
systems
Katharina Haude
CNRS (SEDYL)
(online)
13:00-15:55 LUNCH
16:00-16:25 Colombian Andean Spanish as a basic argument
indexing language
Alejandra Ortiz Villegas,
Instituto de Educación Media Superior
Sergio Ibáñez Cerda &
U. Nacional Autónoma de México
Armando Mora-Bustos
U. Autónoma Metropolitana-I
16:30-16:55 El sistema de referencia pronominal zapoteco en la
narración de vida de Alberto Antonio Méndez
Pafnuncio Antonio Ramos
U. de Sonora
17:00-17:25 Referential constraints in a language without personal pronouns:
the case of Hoocąk (Siouan)
Johannes Helmbrecht
U. Regensburg
(online)
17:30-17:40 BREAK
18:05-18:30 Systems of reference in two Uto-Aztecan languages of northwestern
Mexico Zarina Estrada Fernández
U. de Sonora
18:35-19:00 Panorama de continuidad referencial en náhuatl: mecanismos y
estrategias en el discurso
Manuel Peregrina Llanes
U. de Sonora
19:00-19:25 Cambio de referencia e inversión en mixe de Oaxaca
Rodrigo Romero Méndez
U. Nacional Autónoma de México
Friday November 15th
8:00-8:55 The reference system in Korean: From diachronic and typological
perspectives
Seongha Rhee
Mahidol U. & Hankuk U. of Foreign Studies
8:55-9:05 BREAK
9:10-9:35 Switch reference and topic marking in Aguaruna narrative
Simon Overall
U. of Otago
(online)
9:40-10:05 Non-canonical Switch-Reference in Pano (Western Amazonia)
Pilar Valenzuela &
Chapman U.
Roberto Zariquiey
Pontificia U. Católica de Perú
(online)
10:10-10:20 BREAK
10:25-10:50 Third person encoding in Mocoví and its implications for language
asymmetry explanations
Cristian Juarez
U. of Texas, Austin
(online)
10:55-11:20 Encoding referential entities in Mapudungun discourse
Lucía Golluscio,
U. de Buenos Aires y C. N. de I. C. y T.
Felipe Hasler &
U. de Chile
Florencia Palazuelos
U. de Buenos Aires
(online)
11:25-11:50 A sketch of the reference system in Timucua
George Aaron Broadwell
U. of Florida
11:55-12:00 BREAK
12:05-12:30 Emphatic Pronominals and Gender in Taiwanese
Adæmrys Chihjen Cheng
U. of Ottawa
12:35-13:00 Siwi Berber: an overview of its reference system
Valentina Schiattarella
U. of Hamburg (online)
13:00-15:55 LUNCH
16:00-16:25 Marcación de persona en pronombres independientes,
cuantificadores interrogativos y numerales en huave de San Mateo del Mar,
Oaxaca
Samuel H. Castro
U. Nacional Autónoma de México
16:30-16:55 From reference to predication. The case of adnominal possession in
Taracahitan languages
Albert Alvarez Gonzalez
U. de Sonora
17:00-17:25 Cambio de referencia, dependencia sintáctica y distinciones
modales en kumiay de San José de la Zorra Carlos
17:30-17:40 BREAK
18:05-19:00 The place of reference systems in syntax
Z. Frajzyngier
U. of Colorado
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