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ven. 18/03/2016 Séminaire DTT - Conférence Amos Teo (DDL & Univ. Oregon)
14h-16h
ISH

'Optional ergativity' in Tibeto-Burman languages, with a case study of differential A and S marking in Sumi

Sumi, also known as Sema or Simi, is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Nagaland, North-East India. Like many other Tibeto-Burman languages of the area, Sumi displays semantically and pragmatically motivated differential A and S argument marking. This type of differential argument marking is not unusual for the area, where it appears that semantic and pragmatic factors play a major role in the distribution of what is sometimes described as the ‘ergative’ or sometimes the ‘agentive’ in these languages. We find similar patterns of argument marking in other languages of Nagaland, including Mongsen Ao (Coupe 2007), and more generally across Tibeto-Burman (see DeLancey 2011; Chelliah and Hyslop 2012). In Sumi, we find a two-way distinction with A marking: the choice of two enclitics: =ye and =no; but a three-way distinction with S marking: the choice of the two enclitics: =ye and =no, and no overt morphological marking. In addition, non-pronominal O arguments are unmarked (at least for many members of the language community). In this talk, I describe the circumstances under which argument marking is obligatory in the language, before examining some of the triggers of differential A and S marking. I also present some inter-speaker differences in the marking of A and S (as well as O) and discuss the potential for using both experimental and sociolinguistic methods in future research.


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ven. 18/03/2016 Séminaire du laboratoire DDL
9h30-12h30
ISH, salle Elise Rivet
Conférence de :
  • Dan Dediu (Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen)
  • Bruno Galantucci (Yeshiva University & Haskins Laboratories)

dans le cadre des séminaires DDL

Conférence de Dan Dediu : "The anatomy of language evolution" (9h30-10h30)

The study of language origins and evolution must take language's wider context into consideration. On one hand, I will argue that such a broad, cross-disciplinary approach supports an ancient origin and gradual evolution of modern speech and language going back at least half a million years ago to our shared ancestor with the Neandertals and the Denisovans. And, on the other, extra-linguistic factors influence language change and the patterns of cross-linguistic diversity, and I will highlight the role the anatomy of the vocal tract might play in shaping phonetic and phonological diversity and universal tendencies

Conférence de Bruno Galantucci : "Sabbatical reflections: A few things I learned about human communication" (11h00-12h00)

In this talk I present a synopsis of the research on human communication that I conducted over the last few years. In the first part of the talk I focus on the linguistic side of communication, which I investigated through a methodology—Experimental Semiotics—that allows us to study in the laboratory the emergence of novel forms of human communication. In particular, I present a set of related studies aimed at investigating how communication systems acquire a combinatorial design. In the second part of the talk I focus on the psychological and social sides of communication, starting from the observation that humans exhibit important limitations when they are asked to perform tasks that require communicative sophistication. This raises the question of how individuals who have limited communicative skills manage to develop sophisticated forms of communication. I discuss three non-mutually exclusive hypotheses to address the question and present some empirical evidence relevant to one of them.


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