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1. Hubert
Cuyckens,
Quotative Markers: Origins and Use
2. Angela
Ralli,
Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory
Message 1: Quotative Markers: Origins and Use
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Date: 28-Jan-2009
From: Hubert Cuyckens <hubert.cuyckensarts.kuleuven.be>
Subject: Quotative Markers: Origins and Use
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Full Title: Quotative Markers: Origins and Use
Date: 09-Sep-2009 - 12-Sep-2009
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Contact Person: Dmitry Idiatov
Meeting Email: dmitry.idiatovua.ac.be
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Semantics;
Typology
Call Deadline: 05-Feb-2009
Meeting Description:
A workshop at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea,
University of Lisbon, 9-12 September, 2009.
"Quotative Markers: Origins and Use"
Call for Papers
"Quotative Markers: Origins and Use"
Convenors:
Dmitry Idiatov (University of Antwerp)
Hubert Cuyckens (University of Leuven)
Keynote Speaker:
Tom Güldemann (University of Zu?rich / Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Leipzig)
Quotative markers are linguistic signs conventionally signaling the presence of
an adjacent representation of reported discourse, i.e. the quote. Semantically,
they are largely similar to generic speech verbs, such as say and tell in
English, with which they share the feature of reference to an utterance.
Functionally, however, they differ from the latter in being conventionalized in
relation to reported discourse. That is, either they are not used in other
contexts at all or they lack (fully or partially) the feature of reference to an
utterance when no representation of reported discourse is adjacent. Consider,
for instance, _be like_ in English in _And he's like: "That's great!"_.
Following Güldemann (2008), the quote frame based on a quotative marker or/and a
speech verb is called a quotative index. Güldemann (2008) also provides a
detailed classification of quotative markers. Thus, syntactically, quotative
markers can be either predicative or nonpredicative elements.
Morphosyntactically, predicative quotative markers may behave as regular verbs
and are then classified as quotative verbs. Those predicative quotative markers
that do not fully qualify for the status of verb in a given language are
referred to as quotative predicators. Nonpredicative quotative markers are often
referred to as quotative complementizers, especially when they are also used for
purposes of clause combining.
Historically, quotative markers may derive from a large number of sources, such
as generic speech verbs, generic verbs of equation, inchoativity, action, and
motion, markers of similarity and manner, markers of focus, presentation and
identification. Somewhat surprisingly, according to Güldemann (2008:295), at
least in African languages, generic speech verbs appear to be "far less
important" as sources of quotative markers than is usually assumed in the
literature. At the same time, it is remarkable that quotative markers of various
nonpredicative origins often tend to gradually acquire verbal features up to
becoming full-fledged verbal lexemes through their conventionalized use as core
elements of quotative indexes. In many African languages, quotative markers are
also regularly employed for purposes of clause combining and extended to
constructions expressing intention and various kinds of modal meanings.
The proposed workshop is intended to bring together scholars interested in the
origins and use of quotative markers in individual languages, language families
or linguistic areas from any part of the world. Particularly welcome are papers
based on data from spontaneous and spoken language use and data from less
documented languages. Authors are also encouraged to situate their findings in a
broader cross-linguistic perspective, both as regards the known sources of
quotative markers as well as their typical secondary extensions to contexts not
involving instances of reported discourse in the strict sense.
References:
Güldemann, Tom. 2008. Quotative indexes in African languages: A synchronic and
diachronic survey. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (Empirical Approaches to Language
Typology 34)
Submission Procedure:
Abstracts in English are invited for 30 minute (20+10) presentations. Abstracts
should not exceed 500 words (exclusive of references) and should state research
questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. The abstract should
not mention the presenter(s) nor their affiliations or addresses. Abstracts are
preferably in DOC or RTF format; if your abstract contains special symbols,
please include a PDF version as well.
The deadline for submissions is February 5, 2009. Please submit your abstract to
hubert.cuyckensarts.kuleuven.be AND to the organizers of the SLE conference
slearts.kuleuven.be. As to the latter part of the submission procedure, please
follow the instructions on the conference website at
http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/meetings/conference%20lisboa/call%20for%20papers.htm.
When submitting the title of your abstract on the conference website, please
indicate between brackets (Workshop on quotative markers) after the title of
your abstract.
Important Dates:
5 February 2009: Deadline for submission of abstracts
31 March 2009: Notification of acceptance
1 April 2009: Early registration starts
1 June 2009: Registration (full fee)
9-12 September 2009: Conference
Message 2: Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory
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Date: 28-Jan-2009
From: Angela Ralli <ralliupatras.gr>
Subject: Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory
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Full Title: Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory
Short Title: MGDLT
Date: 11-Jun-2009 - 14-Jun-2009
Location: Amaliada, Greece
Contact Person: Angela Ralli
Meeting Email: ralliupatras.gr
Web Site: http://www.philology.upatras.gr/MGDLT4/home.htm
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Greek (ell)
Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2009
Meeting Description:
The meeting aims at bringing together mature linguists and young researchers who
work on dialectal phenomena, mainly, but not necessaaily, on Modern Greek dialects.
Call for Papers
4th International Conference on
Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory
(Island of Chios: June 11-14, 2009)
Extended deadline for abstract submission: March 1st, 2009
Change of location: The Meeting will be held on the Island of Chios
Change of dates: June 11-14, 2009
URL: www.philology.upatras.gr/MGDLT4/home.htm
Conference Programme:
11 June: opening ceremony
12-13 June: conference
14 June: outing
Invited Speakers:
Cleo Condoravdi (Stanford)
Anna Maria Di Sciullo (UQAM)
Peter Trudgill (Fribourg)
Permanent Scientific and Organizing Committee:
Angela Ralli, University of Patras
Brian D. Joseph, Ohio State University
Mark Janse, Ghent University
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