34.926, Calls: Ideophones in Motion Descriptions

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-926. Fri Mar 17 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.926, Calls: Ideophones in Motion Descriptions

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From: Kiyoko Toratani [ktora at yorku.ca]
Subject: Ideophones in Motion Descriptions

Full Title: Ideophones in Motion Descriptions
Short Title: IMD2023

Date: 07-Oct-2023 - 08-Oct-2023
Location: Online, Japan
Contact Person: Kiyoko Toratani
Meeting Email: ktora at yorku.ca
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/imd2023

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

Call Deadline: 14-Aug-2023

Meeting Description:

An ideophone is defined as “[a] member of an open lexical class of
marked words that depict sensory imagery” (Dingemanse 2019: 16). It
has been noted that ideophones are used in motion descriptions
expressing ‘manner’, with reference to Talmy’s (1985, 2000)
two-category typology (verb-framed languages vs. satellite-framed
languages), for instance, in Awetí (Reiter 2013), Basque
(Ibarretxe-Antuñano 2015), Changana (Menete, 2022), and Thai and
Telugu (Naidu et al. 2018). While these studies reveal ideophones play
a part in motion descriptions of some languages, as their focus is not
on ideophones, more work is required to know precisely how ideophones
participate in motion descriptions.

The workshop brings together researchers of ideophones and specialists
of understudied languages with ideophones to explore the
morphosyntactic and semantic characteristics of ideophones used in
motion descriptions, considering whether cross-linguistic
generalizations can be drawn from them.

The discussion is intended to be descriptive and
morphosyntactic-theory-neutral. While part of the discussion may draw
on Talmy’s (1985, 2000) idea on Motion events, we construe ‘motion’
more broadly, covering both translational motion (wherein an entity
travels from one location to another: e.g., ‘enter’, ‘cross’) and
self-contained motion (wherein the entity can remain in one place in
approximation: e.g., ‘spin’, ‘sway’). We welcome new ways to analyse
use of ideophones in spatial motion descriptions beyond Talmy (1985,
2000).

Call for Papers:

We invite papers that address the following (and related) topics,
focusing on the characteristics of ideophones used in a motion
description, such as (1a) from Pastaza Quechua and (1b) from Japanese.

(1)
a.
        Pollhang     wamburi-n, rik-i  !
        IDEO         float-3         look-2IMP
        ‘Look! He [i.e., the anaconda] rises pollhang.’ (Nuckolls
1996: 157)
        polang: ‘Describes the moment of emergence from underwater to
the surface’ (Nuckolls 1996: 155)

b.
        Chichi-wa     kosokoso-to …        hait-te-it-ta
        father-TOP    IDEO.stealthily-P   enter-GER-go-PAST
        ‘My father went into (the place) stealthily (away from me).’

We are interested in the morpho-syntactic environments surrounding
ideophones (e.g., part-of-speech class, co-occurrence possibility with
‘do’/‘say’ verbs, distance from the verb, possibility of taking a
grammatical marker, ‘expressive morphology’ (Zwicky and Pullum 1987),
‘grammatical integration’ (Dingemanse and Akita 2017)).

We are also interested in the semantic characteristics of ideophones
and verbs (e.g., semantic categories of verbs that co-occur with them,
semantic relations between the ideophone and the predicate with which
it is in construction, semantic components of ideophones (cf.
Ibarretxe-Antuñano 2019), ‘manner saliency’ (e.g., Slobin 2006)).

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The workshop will take place using the Zoom platform on October 7-8,
2023, with a mixture of “live” and “pre-recorded” presentation
deliveries.

Dates:
- Deadline for submission of an anonymous abstract (500 words
including examples but excluding references, tables, and figures):
August 14, 2023 (Anywhere on Earth), e-mailed to: ktora [at] yorku.ca
(with no space).
Submissions can be one single-authored and one co-authored abstract or
two co-authored abstracts.
- Notification: August 21, 2023 (UTC +9)
- Dates of the online workshop via Zoom: October 7-8, 2023 (UTC +9)

Invited Speaker:
Dr. Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Workshop Organizers:
Kiyoko Toratani (York University) and Kimi Akita (Nagoya University)

For the full call for papers, visit the website:
https://sites.google.com/view/imd2023

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