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LINGUIST List 20.3989

Fri Nov 20 2009

Confs: Historical Ling, Syntax, Pragmatics/UK

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        1.    Maria Lopez, 6th Cycle of Grammaticalization
Message 1: 6th Cycle of Grammaticalization
Date: 20-Nov-2009
From: Maria Lopez <m.lopez-portilloaston.ac.uk>
Subject: 6th Cycle of Grammaticalization
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6th Cycle of Grammaticalization

Date: 05-Dec-2009 - 05-Dec-2009
Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom
Contact: Richard Ingham Pierre Larrivee
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://http//www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/research-projects/cycles-of-grammaticalization/

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

Meeting Description:

The seminar will be led by David Willis (University of Cambridge) with a presentation entitled 'Negative Polarity and the Quantifier Cycle: Comparative Diachronic Perspectives from European Languages.' Richard Ingham (Birmingham City University) will be the discussant.

Funded under the International Network programme by The Leverhulme Trust, the project seeks to elucidate and diagnose the complex series of factors that lead to grammatical change through time, with particular reference to the negation cycle in English, French and German. The research objectives are to establish:

1) The definition of criteria for determining when a polarity item becomes a negative element.
2) The means to recognise the presence of a negative phrase.

The relation between formal and functional factors, reanalysis and language learning, dialect competition and language contact, as well as diachronic data closer to everyday usage will also be considered.


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