Joshua T.KATZ, professeur invité au laboratoire HTL

Joshua Katz, Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics at Princeton University, is a specialist of Historical and comparative linguistics, as well as of Greek and Latin literature and language.
https://classics.princeton.edu/people/faculty/core/joshua-katz

Le laboratoire HTL accueille du 15 janvier au 9 février 2018 le professeur Joshua T.Katz de l’Université de Princeton (USA) pour une série de quatre séminaires sur le thème “Marginal Linguistic Phenomena”.
Ces séminaires se dérouleront les mardis 16, 23, 30 janvier et 06 février de 14h30 à 16h30 à l’Université Paris Diderot – bâtiment Olympe de Gouges – Place Paul Ricoeur – 75013 Paris – Salle 209.

Toutes les informations concernant ces séminaires seront très prochainement sur le site du Labex EFL : http://www.labex-efl.com/wordpress/actualites/ . En attendant, vous trouverez ci-dessous le programme complet assorti de lectures préliminaires.

In this series I will consider a number of marginal linguistic phenomena in languages from Ancient Greek to Modern French, paying attention to both synchronic and diachronic analysis and in particular to the combination of pleasures and pitfalls that historical reconstruction presents.  Above all, my aim is to show that looking at the periphery, and doing so with an eye on philology and sociocultural circumstance as well as on the purely linguistic, can be a fruitful way to answer the two very different core questions “What is language?” and “What is a language?”

The four seminars will be divided into two groups: “Marginal Categories” and “Marginal Approaches.”  In addition, each of the seminars in the first group will consist of two parts.

 

Group I: Marginal Categories

  • Seminar 1: “(a) Introduction; (b) Unexpected Phonology” — Tuesday, 16 January 2018

Introduction to marginal linguistic phenomena; followed by the identification of a quasi-ideophone in Ancient Greek

Reading:

(i) Mark Dingemanse’s blog (ideophone.org) and any of the works cited there; a good place to begin is Mark Dingemanse et al.What Sound Symbolism can and cannot Do: Testing the Iconicity of Ideophones from Five Languages,” Language (2016) 92: e117–133.

(ii) JTK, “The Hymnic Long Alpha: Moúsas aeídō and Related Incipits in Archaic Greek Poetry,” in Stephanie W. Jamison, H. Craig Melchert & Brent Vine (eds.), Proceedings of the 24th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles, October 26th and 27th, 2012.  Bremen: Hempen, 2013, pp. 87–101.

(iii) Hot off the press this month (!): John Haiman, Ideophones and the Evolution of Language (2018).  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107706897

PDF : The Hymnic Long Alpha: Μούσας ἀείδω and Related Incipits in Archaic Greek Poetry

  • Seminar 2: “(a) Light Words; (b) Heavy Words” — Tuesday, 23 January 2018

General problems in the analysis and reconstruction of (mostly older Indo-European) pronouns and other ubiquitous “light” words with minimal phonological form and non-obvious internal morphology; followed by issues with the morphologically and semantically “heavy” category of pluperfect in Ancient Greek and elsewhere, as well as in reconstructed Proto-Indo-European

 

Group II: Marginal Approaches

  • Seminar 3: “Exercises in Wile” — Tuesday, 30 January 2018

Wordplay as an unexpected avenue into fundamental linguistic issues, with an interactive workshop on exercises in English and French designed to demonstrate what happens when language is pushed to its limits

Reading: I do not wish anyone to read anything in advance of this seminar.  Please bring scrap paper and a pen or pencil — and your sense of humor!

 

  • Seminar 4: “Construction and Reconstruction” — Tuesday, 6 February 2018

Constructed languages, examined from the perspective of someone who is primarily a recontructor and with special emphasis on a pair of English-based examples that have interesting diachronic and epistemological properties

 


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