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Come one! come all! come early for refreshments!

All are invited to attend the spring 1999 Typology Miniconference. Witness
the revelation of the wonders of address systems and more!

Typology Miniconference Spring 1999
Geology 108A 	Tuesday, May 4   1:00 -- 3:00   

1:15 -- 1:40 Hartwell Francis
Toward a typology and explanation of address systems in language

        Rather substantial claims have been advanced with respect to
address systems in language.  Brown's (1965) Invariant Norm of Address,
for example, makes a universal prediction that superior to inferior
address forms are used between intimate equals and inferior to superior
forms are used between distant equals (cf. Kroger and Wood 1992).  In
addition consider Dickey's (1997) challenge to the purportedly universal
T/V distinction, and Braun's (1988) conclusion that universals may be of
the trivial 'all languages have more than one form of address' sort.
        This study is an attempt to construct a principled typology of
address forms and an effort at explaining those forms in a revealing
style.  Toward this end pronouns, names, terms of respect, and kin terms
from a sample of languages are assembled.  This data is then analyzed in
an Ervin-Tripp style flowchart to determine what forms are used to address
who under which conditions.  This approach ensures the inclusion of
'exotic' systems of address such as the Nuer system of ox- and cowPnames
and the mechanisms for dealing with T/V1/V2/V3 systems such as the Polish
system or shared proper names and address avoidance in Ilongot.

1:45 -- 2:10  Kathleen Jennings
To Be Announced

2:15 -- 2:40  Cynthia Girand
Cross linguistic forms of intensifiers

        Intensifiers perform the function of magnifying or reducing the
effects of modifiers in a sentence.  They can modify the force of a
predicate (She really wants to eat cake), or the force of an adjective
(...the somewhat hungry cat).  Cross linguistically, they occur in
several different forms:
        (1) Lexical item;  definitely lost (English)
        (2) Reduplication;  loti loti -  slowly slowly -> very slowly
(Kashmiri)
        (3) Particle;  kala-sa - black very -> very black (Urdu)
        (4) Ideophone; e.g. nasality as intensifier (Japanese)
        (5) Prosodic form; e.g. last syllable has greater duration
(Balangao)
Due to the variety of forms used for intensification, the
intensifier system cannot be examined without also looking at other
grammatical systems (e.g. aspect).  I will propose a scope of intensifier
systems that will allow them to be compared cross linguistically.  Within
each language, I will examine the domains of use for each of the forms
present, as well as compare the magnifying and reducing intensifier forms.
I hope to demonstrate that the semantic function of intensification is
universal, but the form of the intensifier is dependent upon those
available in the language.