Grammar, space and cognition
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05.11.2009 um 09:00 bis 07.11.2009 um 18:00 |
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Wo | Path. Hörsaal / Seminarraum EG FRIAS |
Name | Gesa von Essen |
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Organisers: Prof. Dr. Peter Auer, Dr. Martin Hilpert
Internal / Junior Fellow of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Workshop I: Grammar, space and cognition
Dates 5-7.11.
05.11: Pathologischer Hörsaal (FRIAS)
06./07.11.: Seminarraum FRIAS
Thematic foci
In the grammars of the world's languages, certain parameters of spatial orientation and movement are sedimented. These patterns prestructure spatial cognition in a socially and culturally given way – they represent a certain spatial “world view”. On the other hand, local deixis is a means to anchor the meaning of linguistic expressions in space, and to help interactants locate themselves, their co-participants and the things they talk about in space. The questions to be addressed in this workshop can therefore be summarized as follows:
- Along which dimensions do the spatial systems in the languages of the world (including sign languages) vary?
- What is universal in spatial systems, and what is culture-specific?
- What is the impact of spatial grammar on spatial cognition?
- How do speakers use spatial deixis in order to manoeuver in space, to refer to non-present things, to construe displaced worlds (deixis am phantasma) , etc?
In addition to linguists and grammarians, the meeting will also include cognitive scientists, anthropologists and psychologists.
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Program
Thursday, November 5, 2009
12:30 Welcome lunch in the FRIAS lounge
14:00 Peter Auer
Martin Hilpert
Anja Stukenbrock
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
Introduction
14:30 Session 1: Linguistic Typology
Position paper: Jürgen Bohnemeyer (Buffalo)
Space in semantic typology: The MesoSpace project
Research paper: Eva Schultze-Bernd (Manchester)
Only some paths rise to verb status (but do the others turn into
satellites?) – On the lexicalisation of path concepts in languages
with closed-class verbs
Research paper: Soteria Svorou (San Jose)
Evolutionary Paths of Spatial Grams
Friday, November 6, 2009
09:00 Session 2: Multi-modal research
Position paper: Alan Cienki (Amsterdam)
The cognitive study of gesture in relation to grammar and space
Research paper: Gisela Fehrmann (Bonn)
Spatial Codes in German Sign Language
Research paper: Pentti Haddington (Oulu)
Collaborative movement in space: Everyday navigation in cars
12:30 Lunch break (Paradies)
15:00 Session 3: Cognitive Linguistics
Research paper: Anatol Stefanowitsch (Bremen)
Manner and Telicity in English Motion Constructions
Research paper: Holger Diessel (Jena)
Spatial deixis and joint attention
Research paper: Daniel Jacob (Freiburg)
Spatial metaphor in grammar and spatial metaphors in
grammatical description: some epistemological remarks on
grammatical localism
19:00 Conference Dinner
Saturday, November 7, 2009
09:30 Session 4: Cognitive Science
Position paper: Thora Tenbrink (Bremen)
Spatial language in cognition and communication
Research paper: Kenny Coventry (Newcastle)
On the mapping between spatial language and vision and action
Research paper: Lars Konieczny & Sarah Schwarzkopf (Freiburg)
Embodied Perspectives
13:00 Farewell