36.530, FYI: STAL Seminar: Thomas Wier, "Expressivity in Georgian and other Caucasian Languages"

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Subject: 36.530, FYI: STAL Seminar: Thomas Wier, "Expressivity in Georgian and other Caucasian Languages"

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Date: 09-Feb-2025
From: Dan Zeman [danczeman at gmail.com]
Subject: STAL Seminar: FEBRUARY 10, 14:30 CET: Thomas Wier, "Expressivity in Georgian and other Caucasian Languages"


The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network
(https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home) invites you to a talk
by Thomas Wier (Free University of Tbilisi) entitled "Expressivity in
Georgian and other Caucasian Languages". The talk will take place
online on FEBRUARY 10, 14:30-16:00 Central European Time (CET) and is
part of the of STAL network seminar series
(https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/seminar). If you want to
participate, please write to stalnetwork at gmail.com for the Zoom link.
Below you can find the abstract.
All welcome!
ABSTRACT:
Expressive and ideophonic constructions conveying ‘marked words that
depict sensory imagery’ (Dingemanse 2012) are frequently found in the
languages of all regions of the world, but their distribution, use and
functioning across languages of the Caucasus has never been documented
from a regional perspective. This talk will give you a brief taste of
the various kinds of expressive language present in the three
autochthonous Caucasian families: Abkhaz-Adyghean, Kartvelian and
Nakh-Daghestanian. It will also look at greater length at the specific
morphological and syntactic peculiarities of expressives in Georgian,
which exhibit exuberant consonant clusters, processes of reduplication
uncharacteristic of the language as a whole, as well as specific
morphosyntactic alignment splits between different classes of
expressive.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Philosophy of Language




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