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LINGUIST List 18.390

Mon Feb 05 2007

Confs: Historical Ling,Pragmatics,Semantics/UK

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        1.    Richard Waltereit, Procedural Meaning in Diachrony
Message 1: Procedural Meaning in Diachrony
Date: 05-Feb-2007
From: Richard Waltereit <richard.waltereitnewcastle.ac.uk>
Subject: Procedural Meaning in Diachrony


Procedural Meaning in Diachrony

Date: 23-Feb-2007 - 23-Feb-2007
Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
Contact: Richard Waltereit
Contact Email: richard.waltereitnewcastle.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics

Meeting Description:

Recent years have seen much interest in the question as to how meaning in
language arises over time, both with respect to grammatical morphemes
(grammaticalization) and to pragmatic markers (you know, well,
etc.). Such forms have procedural, as opposed to conceptual, meaning. There has
been a quite lively debate as to how these patterns relate both to each other
and to more general principles of language change. This workshop intends to take
a fresh look at semantic change and to explore whether there is a principled
basis for nuanced pathways of change. The speakers will look at instances of
change from various European languages.

Friday, 23 February 2007, 1:30 - 4:00 pm

Newcastle University, Bedson Teaching Centre, G 35

1:30 - 2:00 Richard Waltereit: Introduction
2:00 - 3:00 Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (University of Copenhagen):
On the diachrony of reinforced negation in Old and
Middle French
3:00 - 4:00 Ulrich Detges (University of Munich):
Old French or and German jetzt. On the
diachrony of discourse markers and modal particles

Organizer: Richard Waltereit, Newcastle University, School of Modern Languages
(Richard.waltereitncl.ac.uk). Please contact the organizer if you'd like to attend.
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