Conference | SHESL 2024, Paris, France

2024 Jan, 9

SHESL Conference 2024, January, 31ˢᵗ – February, 2ⁿᵈ 2024 :

Ethnolinguistics – Linguistic anthropology : histories and current trends

Paris (amphithéâtre Turing, Université Paris Cité, bâtiment Sophie Germain)

Organized by

Chloé Laplantine, Cécile Leguy et Valentina Vapnarsky

Informations :

shesl.org/colloque-shesl-2024/

Committees and partners

Program and abstracts

Registration (free but compulsory) and further information : shesl2024@listes.u-paris.fr

The conference will be accessible online, please register.

Ouvrage │ Understanding Language Contact │ E. Adamou, B.E. Bullock and A.J. Toribio © 2024

2024 Jan, 9


1st Edition

Understanding Language Contact

By Evangelia Adamou, Barbara E. Bullock, and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio

Copyright 2024

 

 

 

 

Description

Understanding Language Contact offers an accessible and empirically grounded introduction to contact linguistics. Rather than taking a traditional focus on the outcomes of language contact, this book takes the novel approach of considering these outcomes as an endpoint of bilingualism and multilingualism. Covering speech production and comprehension, language diffusion across different interactional networks and timeframes, and the historical outcomes of contact-induced language change, this book:

Discusses both how these areas relate to one another and how they correspond to different theoretical fields and methodologies;
Draws together concepts and methodological/theoretical advances from the related fields of bilingualism and sociolinguistics to show how these can shed new light on the traditional field of contact linguistics;
Presents up-to-date research in a digestible form;
Includes examples from a wide range of contact languages, including Creoles and pidgins; Indigenous, minority, and heritage languages; mixed languages; and immigrants’ linguistic practices, to illustrate ideas and concepts;
Features exercises to test students’ understanding as well as suggestions for further reading to expand knowledge in specific areas.

Written by three experienced teachers and researchers in this area, Understanding Language Contact is key reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students approaching bilingualism and language contact for the first time.

Read more… 

Adamou E., B. Bullock & J. Toribio (under contract). Understanding Language Contact. London: Routledge [Understanding Language series]

ELAD-SILDA │ /Pyi2/ et le discours au présent en birman │ San San HNIN TUN. 2023

2024 Jan, 8

 

 

 

 

San San HNIN TUN. 2023.

/Pyi2/ et le discours au présent en birman

San San Hnin Tun, « /Pyi2/ et le discours au présent en birman », ELAD-SILDA [En ligne], 8 | 2023, mis en ligne le 14 novembre 2023, consulté le 26 janvier 2024. URL : DOI : 10.35562/elad-silda.1317

 

 

 

 

 

 

Description

Burmese belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language family, in which there is a heavy presence of bound-morphemes, of which some (and not all) have one or more grammatical functions. This study attempts to describe the meaning of /pyi2/ in Burmese, which is typically described as one of the three sentence final markers for affirmative statements. Our analyses suggest that /pyi2/ expresses discontinuity between the present and the time that precedes. Based on the corpora of authentic contemporary spoken Burmese, which, to our knowledge, are still (relatively) inaccessible for linguistic analyses and to a larger general audience, our study analyzes the use of /pyi2/ by making a distinction among four cases according to the relationship that they indicate between the present and what precedes.

Author

San San Hnin Tun, lecturer at INALCO, member of LACITO-CNRS.

San San Hnin Tun, « /Pyi2/ et le discours au présent en birman », ELAD-SILDA [En ligne], 8 | 2023, mis en ligne le 14 novembre 2023, consulté le 26 janvier 2024. URL : https://publications-prairial.fr/elad-silda/index.php?id=1317

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