LINGUIST List 25.2768
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Date: 01-Jul-2014
From: Rita Finkbeiner
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Subject: DGfS 2015 - AG 2:
Exact Repetition in Grammar & Discourse
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Full Title: DGfS 2015 - AG 2: Exact Repetition
in Grammar & Discourse
Date: 04-Mar-2015 - 06-Mar-2015
Location: Leipzig, Germany
Contact Person: Rita Finkbeiner, Ulrike
Freywald
Meeting Email:
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Web Site:
http://conference.uni-leipzig.de/dgfs2015/index.php?id=9
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics;
Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition;
Typology
Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2014
Meeting Description:
DGfS 2015 Leipzig - AG 2: Exact repetition in
grammar and discourse
Organizers: Rita Finkbeiner (University of
Mainz) & Ulrike Freywald (University of
Potsdam)
Most linguists will agree that iteration is a
pervasive phenomenon in language and an
important notion for linguistic analysis.
Traditionally, the process of repetition is
related to the domains of text and discourse,
and associated with specific pragmatic effects
(e.g., emphasis), while the process of
reduplication is restricted to the domains of
phonology and morphology, and associated with
specific semantic effects (e.g.,
intensification).
In phonological and syntactic theory,
reduplication has mainly been discussed as a
local copying process, while in typology, it
has been described as a morphological marker of
inflection or word formation. Repetition
phenomena, in contrast, have been claimed to
apply above word level. In interactional
linguistics, the focus has been on functions of
repetition such as marking of agreement and
disagreement.
In recent years, however, one has come to
realize that the borderline between
reduplication and repetition is rather fuzzy
(Stolz et al. 2011). For example, in
contrastive focus reduplication (e.g.
salad-salad 'prototypical salad'), it is not
quite clear whether we have to do with a
'grammatical' or rather a 'pragmatic' process.
Moreover, while most European languages
traditionally have been regarded as lacking
reduplication altogether, there is now evidence
that there are niches of productive (total)
reduplication also in alleged 'reduplication
avoiders' such as German, English, and French
(Finkbeiner 2014, Freywald (in prep.), Rossi
2011).
Invited Speakers:
Laurence R. Horn, Yale University
Thomas Stolz, Bremen University
Call for Papers:
The workshop aims at bringing together
linguists interested in the phenomenon of exact
repetition, understood broadly as the complete
iteration of items on all levels of linguistic
description, including phonology, lexicon,
syntax, text, and discourse.
Studies on the acquisition and change of exact
repetition are very welcome, as are descriptive
studies of exact repetition in various
languages, registers and genres.
Special attention will be paid to languages
traditionally regarded as reduplication
avoiders.
From a theoretical point of view another focus
of interest is to refine the notions of
reduplication and repetition in order to deepen
the understanding of the borderline between
these two phenomena.
We invite contributions dealing with these or
other suitable topics. Both empirical and
theoretical approaches are welcome.
Abstract Submission:
- Please send an anonymous abstract to
repetition
uni-potsdam.de
- Name(s) of author(s) and affiliation(s)
should be specified only within the email
- The abstract should not exceed 400 words,
excluding references and examples
Important Dates:
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 Aug
2014
Notification of acceptance: 10 Sep 2014
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