9th Syntax of the World's languages

  • Eloranta, R. (Member of organizing committee)
  • Simon Overall (Member of organizing committee)

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Description


Workshop: The Grammar of Sex

This workshop marks the beginning of a cross-linguistic research project into how sexual activity
is represented in language, with a particular focus on grammatical encoding. The project follows
the model of Newman (ed.) (2009) The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking, in documenting the
grammatical and lexical representation of a specific semantic field. Like eating and drinking, sex
has a universal “fundamental, life-sustaining role for humans” (Newman 2009: vii), but it is also
a sensitive topic that tends to be avoided or disguised in discourse. The workshop aims to bring
together original research on a selection of languages, especially under-documented ones, with
the goal of deepening our understanding of the range of variation and the cross-linguistic
similarities in the grammatical and lexical encoding of sexual activity.
Period23.07.202425.07.2024
Event typeWorkshop
LocationLima, PeruShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational