LINGUIST List 27.1547
Mon Apr 04 2016
Confs: Anthropological Ling, Lang Doc, Semantics, Syntax, Typology/Denmark
Editor for this issue: Amanda Foster <amandalinguistlist.org>
Date: 02-Apr-2016
From: Ditte Boeg Thomsen <ditte.boeg
hum.ku.dk>
Subject: Geographic Grounding: Place, Direction and Landscape in the Grammars of the World
E-mail this message to a friend Geographic Grounding: Place, Direction and Landscape in the Grammars of the World
Short Title: GeoGram
Date: 30-May-2016 - 31-May-2016
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Contact: Ditte Boeg Thomsen
Contact Email:
< click here to access email > Meeting URL:
http://inss.ku.dk/english/calendar/geogram/
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation; Semantics; Syntax; Typology
Meeting Description:
The languages of the world offer their speakers different means of encoding location information and of grounding utterances spatially by pointing to the surrounding landscape. Languages vary both in the spatial concepts they require speakers to hold and in the degree of routine attention to landscape they demand. There is a now a wealth of findings from different spatial linguistic subsystems in many languages (Frames of Reference, topological relation markers, locative predicates, landscape terms, toponyms), and one aim of this seminar is to investigate cross-linguistic tendencies in the ways such spatial subsystems play together within single languages. Another aim is to examine the usefulness of the ethnophysiographic model suggested for landscape terminology when applied to other aspects of spatial language, such as spatial conjugations.
We invite contributions addressing the following three themes:
- The theme ''Coding strategies'' covers cross-linguistic variation and preferences in presenting place and direction information as either foreground or background information (lexical vs. grammatical), as core or periphery (argument vs. adjunct) and as independent or fused with other types of meanings (dedicated morphemes vs. portmanteaus).
- The theme ''Dependencies across subsystems'' explores the ways different parts of grammar and lexicon expressing location and direction either reinforce each other (supporting similar concepts and distinctions across scales and domains) or supplement each other (division of labour).
- The theme ''Place-marking systems as parts of ecological and cultural niches'' zooms out to the relationships between linguistic strategies for spatial reference and grounding, the landscapes these strategies are used in and the speech communities they serve, asking also whether their underpinning by traditional landbased practices makes them especially vulnerable in language endangerment contexts.
Invited Speakers:
Niclas Burenhult
Michael Fortescue
Gabriela Pérez Báez
Program:
Monday, 30 May:
8:45-9:00
Opening remarks
9:00-10:00
Keynote: Gabriela Pérez Báez
10:00-10:20 Coffee
10:20-10:45
Luke McDermott
10:45-11:10
Letizia Cerqueglini
11:10-11:35
Jonathon Lum
11:35-12:00
Jonas Nölle
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:50
Bill Palmer, Alice Gaby, Jonathon Lum & Jonathan Schlossberg
13:50-14:15
Randi Moore & Jürgen Bohnemeyer
14:15-14:40
Joe Blythe, Alice Gaby & Hywel Stoakes
14:40-15:05
William B: McGregor
15:05-15:30 Coffee
15:30-15:55
Henrik Hovmark
15:55-16:20
Aurelie Cauchard
16:20-16:45
Emilia Tuuri
Parallel special session on Cognitive Toponomy:
15:30-15:55
Peder Gammeltoft
15:55-16:20
Birgit Eggert
16:20-16:45
Carole Hough
16:45-17:10
David R: Simmons & Leslie Spence
18:30 Conference Dinner
Tuesday, 31 May
9:00-10:00
Keynote: Michael Fortescue
10:00-10:20 Coffee
10:20-10:45
Jan Heegård Petersen
10:45-11:10
Henrik Liljegren
11:10-11:35
Ditte Boeg Thomsen
11:35-12:00
Naja Blytmann Trondhjem
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00
Keynote: Niclas Burenhult
14:00-14:25
James Kari
14:25-14:50
Jozsef Szakos
14:40-15:10 Coffee
15:10-15:35
Clair Hill
15:35-16:00
Christian Döhler
16:00-16:25
Ricardo Maldonado & Sara Stradioto
16:30-18:00 Goodbye Reception
For titles of the talks, please see the detailed program at our webpage:
http://inss.ku.dk/english/calendar/geogram/program/ Deadline for registration: 15 April 2016
http://inss.ku.dk/english/calendar/geogram/registration-and-payment/
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