Date: Saturday, 29 September 2007
Organised by:
- Michael Cysouw
- Martin Haspelmath
- Andrej Malchukov
Topics
This workshop invites contributions related to the further understanding of the semantic map method. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Status of semantic maps in linguistic theory
- Methods of building semantic maps from data
- Limits of the semantic map approach
- Possibilities for and problems of the interpretation of semantic maps
- Relation between semantic maps and grammaticalization chains
- Presentation and discussion of particular semantic maps
- Scalability of the method to build semantic maps (e.g. the problem of the "vacuous" semantic maps, which might arise when more empirical data is included)
- Implications of cross-linguistically rare phenomena for semantic maps
- In what way can the semantic map approach guide and be guided by the deductive (decompositional) approaches in (formal) semantics
- Relation between semantic maps and psycholinguistic research (i.e. issues of mental reality of the structures discovered by the semantic map methodology)
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany
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