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LINGUIST List 20.647

Mon Mar 02 2009

Confs: Historical Ling, Socioling, Syntax, English, French, German/UK

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        1.    Emma Mason, Cycles of Grammaticalization
Message 1: Cycles of Grammaticalization
Date: 27-Feb-2009
From: Emma Mason <e.masonaston.ac.uk>
Subject: Cycles of Grammaticalization
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Cycles of Grammaticalization

Date: 04-Apr-2009 - 04-Apr-2009
Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom
Contact: Emma Mason
Contact Email: e.masonaston.ac.uk
Meeting URL:
http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/research-projects/cycles-of-grammaticalization/


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

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
French (fra)
German, Standard (deu)

Meeting Description:

Dear colleagues,

I have pleasure in drawing your attention to the fourth 'Cycles of
Grammaticalization' seminar to be held at Birmingham City University on April
4, 14h-17h. The seminar will be held in room 202 in the Seacole Building at the
Edgbaston campus. Ans van Kemenade (Nijmegen) will be talking about the
sentence structure of the Negative Cycle in English, with Paul Rowlett
(Salford) as 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, and 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. Additional
information and a copy of the project bibliography to date is available at:
http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/research-projects/cycles-of-
grammaticalization/

Attendance is free of any charge and warmly invited. For further details,
please contact:

Emma Mason
Network Facilitator
School of Languages and Social Sciences
Aston University
Aston Triangle
Birmingham
B4 7ET
+44 (0) 121 204 3675
e.masonaston.ac.uk
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