35.1409, Confs: From Associated Motion to Associated Posture in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

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Subject: 35.1409, Confs: From Associated Motion to Associated Posture in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

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Date: 04-May-2024
From: ALBERT ALVAREZ GONZALEZ [albert.alvarez at unison.mx]
Subject: From Associated Motion to Associated Posture in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

>From associated motion to associated posture in cross-linguistic
perspective

Date: 19-Nov-2024 - 20-Nov-2024
Location: Hermosillo, Mexico
Contact: ALBERT ALVAREZ
Contact Email: albert.alvarez at unison.mx

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

Meeting Description:

This workshop aims to explore the diversity of associated motion and
associated posture systems in the languages of the world.

Associated motion (AM) is a relatively new, although by now
well-established comparative concept. Following Guillaume (2016), AM
refers to grammatical morphemes (affixes, clitics, particles or
auxiliaries) that are associated with the verb and that have among
their possible functions the coding of translational motion (spatial
displacement). As synthesized in Guillaume & Koch (2021), the main
typological parameters relevant to the analysis of AM systems include
the argument role of the moving figure (typically subject or object),
the temporal relation between the motion and the verb event (typically
prior, concurrent or subsequent) and the direction of the motion
(typically itive or ventive, one-way or returnative, straight or
ambulative). For instance, the Tacana inflectional imperfective
circumfixes in (1a) below instantiate a system of five subject
concurrent AM markers distinguished according to different
combinations of directional values.

Unlike AM, the phenomenon of “associated posture” (AP), lacks an
established label and definition in comparative linguistics, and has
not been the subject of any typological investigation. The term
“associated posture” has recently been employed by analogy with that
of AM in a number of descriptive studies, particularly focusing on
languages from Central and South America, to account for the
morphological expression of postural meanings (Peralta Ramirez 2009;
Vuillermet 2017; Tallman 2020; Guillaume 2023; 2024).

One of the aims of this workshop is to explore the relevance and
usefulness of AP as a crosslinguistic comparative concept (in the
sense of Haspelmath 2010). For this purpose, we will follow
Guillaume’s (2024) proposal in defining an AP marker as a grammatical
morpheme (affix, clitic, particle or auxiliary) that is associated
with the verb and that has among its possible functions the coding of
postural meanings (‘sit’, ‘stand’, ‘lie’, ‘bend’, ‘hang’, etc.).

Preliminary investigation suggests that expressions that match (or at
least come close to) this definition are found in languages from all
over the world. In addition to those listed above in Central and South
American languages, such expressions also appear to be present in
languages from at least some parts of North America (Watkins 1976;
Mithun 1999: 115–116), Africa (Newman 2002: 12–13; Hellwig 2003), Asia
(Enfield 2002; Anderson 2006: 344) and Europe (Kuteva 1999; 2001:
chap.3; Lemmens 2005).

In this workshop on AM and AP, we are particularly interested in, but
not limited to, studies that address the following topics:
• AM and/or AP in languages spoken in or near Northwestern Mexico
(Nahuan, Oto-Manguean, etc.): cf. surveys of AM in North- and
Central-American languages by Dryer (2021a), in the Otomi branch of
Oto-Manguean by Hernández-Green & Palancar (2021), in Nahuan languages
by Boeg Thomsen (Forthcoming) and of AM and AP in Zapotec languages by
Operstein (2024);
• similarities versus differences between AM and AP: parameters
relevant to their description, historical development, semantic
overlap, use in discourse (pleonastic/“echo” constructions), etc.:cf.
outline of a typology of AP in Guillaume (2024: Section 12);
• overlap between AM and directionals (“path satellites”): cf.
cross-linguistic surveys by Dryer (2021b) and Ross (2021), and
implicational scale by Belkadi (2016);
• purposive AM (“motion-with-purpose”) – and/or purposive AP, if
attested (?) – and the wider question of the degree of event
integration between the AM/AP meanings and the verb meanings: cf.
diagnostic tests in Jacques et al. (2021) and Silva-Robles et al.
(2022);
• interaction of AM/AP with the argument structure of the verb: cf.
applicative-like function of AM markers in Tungusic languages
described by Pakendorf & Stoynova (2021).

Invited speakers:
• Marina Magalhães (Universidade de Brasília)
• Natalia Stoynova (Universität Hamburg)

Organizers:
• Antoine Guillaume, CNRS & Université Lumière Lyon 2
• Albert Alvarez Gonzalez, Universidad de Sonora
• Zarina Estrada Fernández, Universidad de Sonora

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