Du 1er au 22 septembre 2024, le laboratoire HTL a le plaisir d’accueillir David A. Peterson comme chercheur invité. A cette occasion, il donnera une série de conférences dont vous trouverez le programme ci-dessous.
| Date et horaire | Salle | Titre de la conférence |
| 6 septembre 2024 14h | Salle ODG 165 | “The history of scholarship on South Central Tibeto-Burman languages” |
| 12 septembre 2024 12h30 LingLunch exceptionnel | Salle ODG 533 | “Valence-affecting constructions in Tibeto-Burman, with an emphasis on recent advances in South Central (Kuki-Chin)” Lien zoom : https://u-paris.zoom.us/j/85396390595?pwd=ZVlTSytxQVlhaU0yZFlrTTVHYURxdz09 |
| 17 septembre 14h | Salle ODG 533 | “Aesthetic devices in Tibeto-Burman” Lien zoom : https://u-paris.zoom.us/j/89401491953?pwd=9Lbs9Kyw9VjwHk8ukOorKDZTgybYBJ.1 |
| 20 septembre 14h | Salle ODG 533 | “The typology of discourse markers” Lien zoom : https://u-paris.zoom.us/j/84078587634?pwd=Bgk1JbIuJRwPkhVMhD2pCAduIbsPtR.1 |
6 Septembre 2024 : “An overview of the history of description and documentation of the South Central Tibeto-Burman (Kuki-Chin) languages”
This talk will survey the study and documentation of the South Central Tibeto-Burman languages (previously known as Kuki-Chin). We will begin with 19th Century work, leading up to the Linguistic Survey of India. Thereafter we will have a look at early 20th Century developments, culminating in the Chin Hills Linguistic Tour of the late 50s. Approaching the end of the 20th Century we will see an expansion of research on key languages due to availability of immigrant communities in the West. And finally, the first quarter of this century is characterized by a blossoming of productivity based on greater accessibility in previously restricted areas such as Manipur and the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
Lien zoom : https://u-paris.zoom.us/j/88541120121?pwd=PPk5j5vg2PaSMV6oEc5x72YerCDvO5.1
12 septembre 2024 : Séance du LingLunch “Valence-affecting constructions in Tibeto-Burman, with an emphasis on recent advances in South Central (Kuki-Chin)”
While contemporary Southeast Asian prototypes may engender the impression that Tibeto-Burman languages are lacking in valence-affecting constructions, the western part of the family yields quite a different view. The relatively more agglutinating and fusional languages in the Western part of the family are often rich in morphological causatives and applicatives, in addition to valence-decreasing morphology; in some cases this morphology reflects considerable antiquity. This talk will briefly survey the distribution of such morphology in different parts of the family, but will quickly narrow in on aspects of the richness of valence-affecting constructions in the South Central (Kuki-Chin) branch, including summaries of a number of recent studies.
Lien zoom : https://u-paris.zoom.us/j/85396390595?pwd=ZVlTSytxQVlhaU0yZFlrTTVHYURxdz09
17 septembre 2024 : “Aesthetics and verbal art in the Tibeto-Burman context”
Focusing on narrative, this talk will survey a number of aspects of aesthetics in the creation of verbal art in the Tibeto-Burman context. We will look first at specific grammatical devices languages have at hand for enriching narrative, including what I have called verbal classifiers in the South Central languages, what elsewhere has been described as chiming. A second element of grammar is the fairly open class of ideophones or expressives typically seen in this part of the world. Elaborate expressions, reduplicative or quasi-reduplicative structures which are larger (=more elaborate) than the usual means for expressing referents or events, are a third device speakers may employ in crafting utterances which have greater aesthetic virtue; these would appear to reflect a broader preference for parallel structures, which also are exhibited in other aspects of how speakers put texts together. Finally, we will examine the role of directly quoted speech as a frequent device speakers use to inject life into protagonists.
Lien zoom : https://u-paris.zoom.us/j/89401491953?pwd=9Lbs9Kyw9VjwHk8ukOorKDZTgybYBJ.1
20 septembre 2024 : “Approaches to the typology of discourse markers”
While specialists in pragmatics and discourse analysis have had a lot to say about discourse markers’ core meanings and functions, typology has so far had little to contribute to the discussion. This talk will be an initial attempt to come to grips with discourse markers from a typologist’s perspective.
Lien zoom : https://u-paris.zoom.us/j/84078587634?pwd=Bgk1JbIuJRwPkhVMhD2pCAduIbsPtR.1
