Utrecht Theoretical Linguistics

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20 - 21 January 2023
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CHARTING HONORIFIC and ADDRESSEE MORPHOSYNTACTIC PROCESSES (CHAMP) – 2023

The CHAMP (Charting Honorifics and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes) Workshop will take place at UCL in London on January 20-21.

Invited speakers
Rajesh Bhatt (UMass), Roberta D’Alessandro (Utrecht), Gurmeet Kaur (Göttingen)

PROGRAM

Day 1 20th January

Venue: Chandler House, 2 Wakefield St, B07 (Basement)

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Meeting ID: 960 1844 7028, Passcode: 025676

10.00 – 10.15 Welcome by Andrew Nevins  (UCL)
10.15 -11.15 Invited Talk 1:

Rajesh Bhatt (UMass) & Chris Davis (University of Ryukyus)

Honor and Plurality in Hindi-Urdu

11.15 -11.45 Tea Break
11.45 – 12.25 Changguk  Yim (Chung-Ang University)
The *<φ, φ> Haplology Constraint on Korean Vocatives
12.25 – 14.30 Lunch Break
14.30 – 15.10 Preeti Kumari (IIT Delhi & ITER) & Martina Wiltschko (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Against a uniform treatment of Allocutives and Vocatives

15.10 – 15.50 Tran Truong (Pennsylvania State University)

Humilifics contain honorifics: The view from Japanese

15.50 – 16.30 Keita Ishii (University of Delaware)

Embedding of Utterance Honorifics as a Multi-clausal Concord Phenomenon

16.30- 17.10 Ruoan Wang  (MIT)

Presuppositionless as politeness in sign languages

 

Day 2 21st January

Venue: Chandler House, 2 Wakefield St, B07 (Basement)

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Meeting ID: 934 9203 7333, Passcode: 767469

 

10.00 – 11.00 Invited Talk 2: Gurmeet Kaur (University of Göttingen)

The morphosyntax of honorific nouns: the view from Punjabi

11.00 – 11.30 Tea Break
11.30 – 12.10 Pritha Chandra (IIT Delhi), Andrew Nevins (UCL) & Yasutada Sudo (UCL)

Reporting Honorifics from the Field: The Bangla-Rajbanshi Bilinguals

12.10-13.10 Invited Talk 3: Roberta D’Alessandro (Utrecht University)

Honorifics and agreement. The view from Romance

13.10 – 13.30 Concluding Remarks by Yasutada Sudo (UCL)