{"id":12815,"date":"2022-03-10T10:05:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T09:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.philo.ulg.ac.be\/linguistique\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=12815"},"modified":"2022-03-10T10:08:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T09:08:25","slug":"conference-de-martin-haspelmath-mpi-eva-universite-de-leipzig-docteur-honoris-causa-de-luniversite-de-liege","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"http:\/\/web.philo.ulg.ac.be\/linguistique\/evenement\/conference-de-martin-haspelmath-mpi-eva-universite-de-leipzig-docteur-honoris-causa-de-luniversite-de-liege\/","title":{"rendered":"Conf\u00e9rence de Martin Haspelmath (MPI – EVA & Universit\u00e9 de Leipzig), Docteur honoris causa de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Li\u00e8ge"},"content":{"rendered":"

The complexity of word <\/span>meanings: <\/span><\/span>Diversity and unity in the <\/span>world\u2019s languages<\/span><\/span>
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Le 19 mars prochain, le professeur Martin Haspelmath (Institut Max-Planck & Universit\u00e9 de Leipzig), linguiste allemand de renomm\u00e9e internationale sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9 dans le domaine de la typologie des langues, recevra les insignes de Docteur honoris causa de notre universit\u00e9, en tant que candidat propos\u00e9 par la Facult\u00e9 de Philosophie et Lettres.<\/p>\n

En marge de cette s\u00e9ance acad\u00e9mique, il donnera une conf\u00e9rence intitul\u00e9e \u00ab The complexity of word meanings: Diversity and unity in the world\u2019s languages \u00bb. Celle-ci aura lieu le vendredi 18\/03\/22 \u00e0 14\u00a0h \u00e0 la Salle acad\u00e9mique (b\u00e2timent A1).<\/p>\n

R\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n

Across the world\u2019s languages, not only the shapes of words differ, but also the meanings. For example, while English bag<\/em> corresponds to German Tasche<\/em>, the latter can also mean \u2018pocket\u2019, and bag<\/em> can refer to a suitcase, which is not a possible meaning of Tasche<\/em>. And corresponding to English go<\/em>, French has various verbs such as aller<\/em>, sortir<\/em>, entrer<\/em>, monter<\/em>, descendre<\/em>, most of which are more specific and can be rendered in English by additional specifications (go out<\/em>, go in<\/em>, go up<\/em>, go down<\/em>). Such differences have long been noted by linguists, but it is only in the 21st century that they have been studied systematically across a wide range of languages. In the 20th century, semantics was mostly studied from a language-particular, descriptive-structural perspective, which did not make comparison easy. The breakthrough came when it was increasingly understood that structural description and broad comparison rely on different methodologies (structural contrasts vs. non-linguistic comparative concepts). I will illustrate these differences on the basis of a range of examples, and I will show how the technical concepts of \u2018colexification\u2019 and \u2018syllexification\u2019 allow us to recognize diversity and unity simultaneously.<\/p>\n

Affiche<\/a><\/p>\n

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