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mer. 29/01/2020 Réunion Interne
Conseil de Laboratoire
9h30-12h
MSH-LSE, Salle Ennat Léger

[Note: réunion interne. Seuls sont concernés les 15 membres élus, nommés ou de droit du Conseil de Laboratoire.

Note: internal meeting. Only the 15 elected, appointed or ex-officio members of the Conseil de Laboratoire are concerned.]


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ven. 31/01/2020 Word constituents and the morphology-syntax distinction: descriptive and typological perspectives (1/3)
14h-16h
ISH, salle Ennat Léger
Conférence de :
  • Adam J.R. Tallman (DDL, ELDP)

dans le cadre DTT : Atelier morphosyntaxe

This seminar will be concerned with two related issues in linguistics; (i) the distinction between morphology and syntax language-internally and cross-linguistically; (ii) the legitimacy of 'words' as language-internally motivated and as cross-linguistically comparable constituents. We will review ideas in the field concerning the distinction between morphology and syntax and the problems associated with identifying word constituents with a focus on literature critical of the traditional distinctions between morphology and syntax on the one hand and the word and the phrase on other hand (rather than the vaster literature in the field of linguistics which presupposes these distinctions without argumentation). New perspectives on constituency will be proposed for the description and comparison of morphology and constituency across languages.

The first talk will provide an overview of proposals regarding what distinguishes morphology and syntax together with an outline of the seminar. For those interested in presenting later on in the seminar, attendance will be crucial, since a number of new methodologies will be proposed, and it will be expected that those who present engage with these methodologies. In the first lecture an overview of the basic problems in identifying words in specific languages and cross-linguistically will be provided, focusing on the interpretation of wordhood diagnostics and what it means for such diagnostics to converge or diverge around specific spans of structures. A new proposal for how to motivate words in the face of misalignments will be proposed based on the concept of convergence beyond chance along with a research program for how to investigate constituency in general. The talk will critique the concepts of ‘morphosyntactic/grammatical word’ and ‘phonological/prosodic word’ as they are currently used in linguistic description and confessional ‘theoretical approaches’ like prosodic phonology upon which much description is based.
(see Tallman accepted ; in review; Tallman et al. 2019; Guttierez et al. 2019)

References
Guttierez, A., Uchihara, H., & Tallman, A. J. (2019). Words as emergent constituents in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec. Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America IX. Austin.
Tallman, A. J. (accepted for publication). Beyond grammatical and phonological words. (email author for copy).
Tallman, A. J. (submitted). Constituency and coincidence in Chácobo (Pano). Studies in Language.
Tallman, A. J., & Auderset, S. (in prep). Measuring and assessing morphological autonomy. For a special volume in Linguistic Typology on morphosyntactic misfits.
Tallman, A. J., & Epps, P. (to appear). Morphological complexity, autonomy, and areality in Amazonia. In G. Francesco, & P. Arkadiev (Eds.), Morphological complexity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Tallman, A. J., Campbell, E., Uchihara, H., Guttierrez, A., Wylie, D., Adell, E., . . . Everdell, M. J. (2019). A new typology of constituency and convergence. 13th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology. Pavia (Italy).
Tallman, A. J., Wylie, D., Adell, E., Bermudez, N., Camacho, G., Epps, P., . . . Woodbury, A. C. (2018). Constituency and the morphology-syntax divide in the languages of the Americas: towards a distributional typology. 21st Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages. University of California Santa Barbara.


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mar. 11/02/2020 Réunion Interne
Réunion des permanents DENDY - Préparation visite HCERES
14h30-16h
MSH, salle Frossard
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mar. 11/02/2020 Réunion Interne
Séminaire DTT - Dry run
15:30-17:00
ISH - Salle Ennat Léger

Dry run for University of Hawai'i Mānoa job talk (Shelece Easterday).


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ven. 14/02/2020 Word constituents and the morphology-syntax distinction: descriptive and typological perspectives (2/3)
14h-16h
ISH, salle Ennat Léger
Conférence de :
  • Adam J.R. Tallman (DDL, ELDP)

dans le cadre DTT : Atelier morphosyntaxe

This seminar will be concerned with two related issues in linguistics; (i) the distinction between morphology and syntax language-internally and cross-linguistically; (ii) the legitimacy of 'words' as language-internally motivated and as cross-linguistically comparable constituents. We will review ideas in the field concerning the distinction between morphology and syntax and the problems associated with identifying word constituents with a focus on literature critical of the traditional distinctions between morphology and syntax on the one hand and the word and the phrase on other hand (rather than the vaster literature in the field of linguistics which presupposes these distinctions without argumentation). New perspectives on constituency will be proposed for the description and comparison of morphology and constituency across languages.

The second talk will continue the discussion of wordhood diagnostics gradually moving into a different approach that does not assume that morphology necessarily has to be word-based, but rather assumes that morphology can be justified based on statistically meaningful associations between wordhood criterial variables over head-modifier/elaborator/dependent combinations. It will be argued that morphosyntactic misfits (clitic, compound, perphrasis) are basically useless for cross-linguistic comparison, because they presuppose the descriptive architectures that they problematize.
(see Tallman and Epps in press; Tallman and Auderset in progress)

References
Guttierez, A., Uchihara, H., & Tallman, A. J. (2019). Words as emergent constituents in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec. Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America IX. Austin.
Tallman, A. J. (accepted for publication). Beyond grammatical and phonological words. (email author for copy).
Tallman, A. J. (submitted). Constituency and coincidence in Chácobo (Pano). Studies in Language.
Tallman, A. J., & Auderset, S. (in prep). Measuring and assessing morphological autonomy. For a special volume in Linguistic Typology on morphosyntactic misfits.
Tallman, A. J., & Epps, P. (to appear). Morphological complexity, autonomy, and areality in Amazonia. In G. Francesco, & P. Arkadiev (Eds.), Morphological complexity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Tallman, A. J., Campbell, E., Uchihara, H., Guttierrez, A., Wylie, D., Adell, E., . . . Everdell, M. J. (2019). A new typology of constituency and convergence. 13th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology. Pavia (Italy).
Tallman, A. J., Wylie, D., Adell, E., Bermudez, N., Camacho, G., Epps, P., . . . Woodbury, A. C. (2018). Constituency and the morphology-syntax divide in the languages of the Americas: towards a distributional typology. 21st Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages. University of California Santa Barbara.


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mar. 18/02/2020 Réunion Interne
Comité de direction - préparation visite HCERES
14h45-15h45
MSH, salle André Frossard
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ven. 21/02/2020 Atelier Typologie sémantique
On PURPOSE and its relationship to MOTION: conceptual, semantic and syntactic perspectives
14h30-16h
ISH, salle Ennat Léger
Conférence de :
  • Clément Voirin (DDL)

dans le cadre DTT

This presentation focuses on the concept of PURPOSE and its semantic and syntactic links with motion events. PURPOSE refers to a relationship between two events, namely when one event “is performed with the goal of obtaining the realization of another one” (Cristofaro 2013). Importantly, the realization of the second event depends on the realization of the first one. This entails that the first event is encoded in a main clause and the second event in a subordinate purpose clause (ibid.). Typological research on this topic has focused on clause-linking devices, forms and argument structure of predicates used in purpose clauses crosslinguistically (see Cristofaro (2003, 2013), Verstraete (2008) and Schmidtke-Bode (2009) inter alia). Interestingly, research on individual languages or on sample of languages have pointed out the particular syntactic and semantic structure of some purpose clauses subordinated to a main clause encoding motion (see Lamiroy (1983), Aissen (1984), Schmidtke-Bode (2009: 94-99) inter alia, see also Stefanowitsch (1999, 2000) and Wulff (2006) on English go+Verb / go and+Verb “fake coordinated” constructions). These so called “motion-cum-purpose” constructions (a term proposed by Aissen (1984)) are characterized by a high degree of syntactic and semantic integration of the event encoded in the purpose clause to the motion event encoded in the main clause (e.g. Il est allé [courir sur la plage] ‘He went to run on the beach’, Il est parti [acheter le journal] ‘He went to buy the newspaper’). In such constructions, the purpose clause often has the status of syntactic argument rather than adjunct of the main clause (see Lamiroy (1983) and Schmidtke-Bode (2009: 96-97) inter alia). Furthermore, the semantic structure of the main motion predicate gets “blended” with that of the subordinate predicate (see Stefanowitsch (1999) on the notion of “semantic blend”). Finally, from a cognitive perspective, it is argued that spatial locations and purpose are closely related. For instance, going to the cinema presumably entails going to watch a movie, and this relation is grounded in our experience of reality (see Johnson (1987) or Lakoff (1987) inter alia). Such experiential correlation is in itself a reason for looking more closely at the syntactic and semantic features of motion-cum-purpose constructions.

In this presentation, I will first give a crosslinguistic overview of the main syntactic and semantic features of purpose clauses. I will then investigate motion-cum-purpose constructions in the corpus of parallel texts in French, English and Polish. Finally, I will consider whether purpose clauses are tightly or loosely related to the main clause (form of clause-linking device, additional text or punctuation between clauses for instance) and examine which predicates are used in main and purpose clauses (form and meaning of these predicates).

AISSEN, J. (1984). Control and command in Tzotzil purpose clauses. Berkeley Linguistics Society 10: 559-571.

CRISTOFARO, S. (2003). Subordination. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

CRISTOFARO, S. (2013). Purpose clauses. In Dryer, M.S. & Haspelmath, M. (eds.), The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

JOHNSON, M. (1987). The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press.

LAKOFF, G. (1987). Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press.

LAMIROY, B. (1983). Les verbes de mouvement en français et en espagnol. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

SCHMIDTKE-BODE, K. (2009). A typology of purpose clauses. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

STEFANOWITSCH, A. (1999). The go-and-VERB construction in a cross-linguistic perspective: Image schema blending and the construal of events. In Nordquist, D. & Berkenfield, C. (eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd Annual High Desert Linguistics Society Conference. 123-134. Albuquerque NM: High Desert Linguistics Society.

STEFANOWITSCH, A. (2000). The English GO-(PRT)-AND-VERB construction. Berkeley Linguistics Society 26: 259-270.

VERSTRAETE, J.-C. (2008). The status of purpose, reason and intended endpoint in the typology of complex sentences, and its implications for layered models of clause structure. Linguistics 46: 757-788.

WULFF, S. (2006). Go-V vs. go-and-V in English: A case of constructional synonymy?. In Gries, S. & Stefanowitsch, A. (eds.), Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics: Corpus-based Approaches to Syntax and Lexis. 101-125. Berlin/New-York: Mouton de Gruyter.


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ven. 28/02/2020 Word constituents and the morphology-syntax distinction: descriptive and typological perspectives (3/3)
14h-16h
ISH, salle Ennat Léger
Conférence de :
  • Adam J.R. Tallman (DDL, ELDP)

dans le cadre DTT : Atelier morphosyntaxe

This seminar will be concerned with two related issues in linguistics; (i) the distinction between morphology and syntax language-internally and cross-linguistically; (ii) the legitimacy of 'words' as language-internally motivated and as cross-linguistically comparable constituents. We will review ideas in the field concerning the distinction between morphology and syntax and the problems associated with identifying word constituents with a focus on literature critical of the traditional distinctions between morphology and syntax on the one hand and the word and the phrase on other hand (rather than the vaster literature in the field of linguistics which presupposes these distinctions without argumentation). New perspectives on constituency will be proposed for the description and comparison of morphology and constituency across languages.

The third talk will provide an illustrative example of the methodology defended in the previous lectures based on Chácobo, Araona and a few other languages (probably Quechua and Zapotec).

References
Guttierez, A., Uchihara, H., & Tallman, A. J. (2019). Words as emergent constituents in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec. Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America IX. Austin.
Tallman, A. J. (accepted for publication). Beyond grammatical and phonological words. (email author for copy).
Tallman, A. J. (submitted). Constituency and coincidence in Chácobo (Pano). Studies in Language.
Tallman, A. J., & Auderset, S. (in prep). Measuring and assessing morphological autonomy. For a special volume in Linguistic Typology on morphosyntactic misfits.
Tallman, A. J., & Epps, P. (to appear). Morphological complexity, autonomy, and areality in Amazonia. In G. Francesco, & P. Arkadiev (Eds.), Morphological complexity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Tallman, A. J., Campbell, E., Uchihara, H., Guttierrez, A., Wylie, D., Adell, E., . . . Everdell, M. J. (2019). A new typology of constituency and convergence. 13th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology. Pavia (Italy).
Tallman, A. J., Wylie, D., Adell, E., Bermudez, N., Camacho, G., Epps, P., . . . Woodbury, A. C. (2018). Constituency and the morphology-syntax divide in the languages of the Americas: towards a distributional typology. 21st Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages. University of California Santa Barbara.


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