9th Syntax of the World's languages

Beskrivning

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.

Period	23.07.2024 → 25.07.2024
Typ av evenemang	Workshop
Plats	Lima, PeruVisa på karta
Omfattning	Internationell