Cycles of Grammaticalization:
Comparative views on the history of negation
Aston University and Birmingham City University are delighted to announce the following series of one-day seminars on Cycles of Grammaticalization, funded under the International Network programme by the Leverhulme Trust.
The seminars will seek to elucidate and diagnose the complex factors that lead to grammatical change through time, with particular reference to the negation cycle in English, French and German. The context and aims of the programme are informed by recent developments in historical and theoretical syntax.
Programme Hosted by Aston University
June 7, 2008: Ian Roberts (Cambridge), Sentence Structure of the Negative Cycle in French. Discussant: Claire Blanche-Benveniste (EPHE).
August 2, 2008: France Martineau (Ottawa), Phrase Structure of the Negative Cycle in French. Discussant: Lene Schøsler (Copenhagen).
December 6, 2008: Viviane Déprez (Institut des Sciences Cognitives and Rutgers), N-word features in the Negative Cycle in French. Discussant: Maj-Britt Mosegaard-Hansen (Manchester).
Hosted by Birmingham City University
April 4, 2009: Ans van Kemenade (Nijmegen), Sentence Structure of the Negative Cycle in English. Discussant: Paul Rowlett (Salford).
July 25, 2009: Agnes Jäger (Frankfurt), Phrase Structure of the Negative Cycle in German. Discussant: Éric Haeberli (Geneva).
December 5, 2009: David Willis (Cambridge), Negative polarity and the quantifier cycle: Comparative diachronic perspectives from languages. Discussant: Richard Ingham (BCU). Attendance is free of charge and you are warmly invited.
For further details, please contact:-
Dr Pierre Larrivee (for 2008 seminars)
School of Languages and Social Sciences
Aston University, Aston Triangle
Birmingham
B4 7ET
Tel. +44 (0)121 204 3000
plarrivee@aston.ac.uk
Dr Richard Ingham (for 2009 seminars)
School of English
Birmingham City University
Perry Barr, B42 2SU
Tel. +44 (0)121 331 7664
richard.ingham@bcu.ac.uk