OLAC Record oai:hughandbecky.us:0002

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Title:		Exploring the logophoric continuum
Abstract:		On logophoric phenomena across West Africa, including grammatical marking of both reported speaker and reported addressee, how logophoric forms fit into language systems, and extensions of logophoric forms to related functions.
Access Rights:		Open Access
Bibliographic Citation:		Paterson, Rebecca Dow. Abbie Hantgan-Sanko, & Rebecca Voll. (Panel co-organizers) 2021. “Exploring the logophoric continuum” special panel at the 4th Symposium on West African Languages (Sep 22-24). Università degli Studi di Napoli “L'Orientale”. Originally scheduled for 23‑25 September 2020; postponed due to Covid-19.
Contributor (researcher):		Rebecca Paterson
		Abbie Hantgan-Sanko
		Rebecca Voll
Contributor (speaker):		Rebecca Paterson
Description:		Logophoricity has been discussed in the literature for nearly half a century (Hagège, 1974; Clements, 1975). However, as stated by Nikitina (2019), the phenomenon of logophoricity is not yet well understood. We contend that only through comprehensive studies of spoken language corpora from West African languages will we achieve an accurate conceptualization of logophoric languages: forms, functions, and distribution. By separating logophoric functions from logophoric forms, we can look beyond the expected uses of logophorics in discourse reports to other constructions within and across languages. Preliminary results from a corpus of West African languages show that so-called “pure logophoric languages” (Culy, 1994: 1060) with fully dedicated logophoric pronouns are rare, if they even exist. Rather, those depicted as being “mixed” are frequent. For instance, Tikar, one of Culy’s examples of a pure language, is shown by Voll (in prep) to have pronouns of logophoric function that have “other” non-logophoric uses. Furthermore, even in a language like Wan which has a fully-dedicated singular logophoric pronoun, we see that the plural logophoric pronoun is used anaphorically in subordinate clauses. Curnow (2002) also challenges Culy’s delineation of pure versus mixed logophoric languages; in this panel we expand upon this notion of logophoric in opposition to nonlogophoric functions. Figure 1 approximates four of the languages included in our corpus with their relative positions along a newly proposed continuum: For this panel, we invite papers on logophoric phenomena, including grammatical marking of both reported speaker and reported addressee. We encourage potential participants to discuss how logophoric forms fit into the language as a whole. Additionally, papers of interest might discuss possible sources for and/or extensions of logophoric forms to related functions, such as anaphora, reflexives, co-reference, emphatics, clausal complements, number asymmetry, or demonstratives.
Identifier (URI):		https://hughandbecky.us/Becky-CV/talk/2021-exploring-the-logophoric-continuum/
Language:		English
Language (ISO639):		eng
Subject:		general_linguistics
		morphology
		syntax
		Reported Speech
		Grammar
		u̱t‑MaꞌRor
		ut-Ma'in language
Subject (ISO639):		gel
Subject (OLAC):		general_linguistics
		morphology
		syntax
Type (DCMI):		Event
Type (OLAC):		language_description
OLAC Info
Archive:		Rebecca Paterson's Interactive Research Portfolio
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/hughandbecky.us
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:hughandbecky.us:0002
DateStamp:		2021-02-22
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Citation:		Rebecca Paterson (speaker); Rebecca Paterson (researcher); Abbie Hantgan-Sanko (researcher); Rebecca Voll (researcher). n.d. Rebecca Paterson's Interactive Research Portfolio.
Terms:		area_Africa area_Europe country_GB country_NG dcmi_Event iso639_eng iso639_gel olac_general_linguistics olac_language_description olac_morphology olac_syntax
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Nigeria
Area:		Africa