NINJAL Colloquia and Lecture Meetings (2011)
Lecture Meetings
JLVC talk
| Date | Tuesday, February 7, 2012 |
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| Venue | NINJAL |
| Presenter | Professor XU Daming (School of Liberal Arts,Nanjing University) |
| Theme | How a speech community is formed in the dialect-contact situation of a new town |
The new-town community of Kundulun, located in the northwestern part of China, has experienced in half a century's time a process of speech community formation, which is illustrated by the step-by-step building-up of its constraint patterns of linguistic variation in a real-time study.
Moreover, not only the linguistic variables have undergone changes, the linguistic identity of the community too has changed. Three major stages of linguistic identity are identified: the stage of un-integrated multiple identities, the stage of transplanted identity, and finally the stage of localized identity. The study shows how a speech community is formed in a dialect-contact situation and how the linguistic identity of the community changes over time.
NINJAL Colloquia
| Date | Speaker | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21st | Tuesday, March 20, 2012 Time:10:00-11:00 |
Peter TRUDGILL (University of East Anglia) |
"Mature Linguistic Phenomena and Societies of Intimates" |
| 20th | Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Time:15:30-17:30 |
KINSUI Satoshi (Osaka University) |
"One Facet of Historical Change in the Japanese Verbal Conjugation System: A Syntactic Perspective" |
| 19th | Tuesday, December 6, 2011 Time:15:30-17:30 |
Jane STUART-SMITH (University of Glasgow) |
"Does Watching TV Alter the Way You Speak? Empirical Evidence from an Urban Dialect" |
| 18th | Tuesday, November 15, 2011 Time:15:30-17:30 |
Greville G. CORBETT (University of Surrey) |
Complex Morphology in the Caucasus: A Canonical Approach |
| 17th | Tuesday, October 18, 2011 Time:15:30-17:30 |
Anna BUGAEVA (Waseda University) |
Valency Patterns, Voice Alternations, and Verb-Categorization in Ainu |
| 16th | Tuesday, July 12, 2011 Time:15:30-17:30 |
Sean LEE (University of Tokyo) HASEGAWA Toshikazu (University of Tokyo) |
Bayesian Phylogenetic Analysis Supports an Agricultural Origin of Japonic Languages |
| 15th | Tuesday, June 14, 2011 Time:15:30-17:30 |
Polly SZATROWSKI (University of Minnesota) |
"Negotiation of Food Categories and Knowledge at a Taster Lunch in Japanese, Wolof, Eegimaa, and English" (Tentative Title) |
| 14th | Tuesday, May 17, 2011 Time:15:30-17:30 |
TSUJIMURA Natsuko (Indiana University) |
"Sociolinguistic Variation and the Notion of 'Standard' Language" (Tentative) |
| 15th | Tuesday, April 5, 2011 Time:15:30-17:30 |
Johan van der AUWERA (University of Antwerp) |
Scalar Additive Operators, in the Languages of Europe and Elsewhere [Cancelled] |