December 2, 2015
5:00PM - 6:30PM
Faculty Club Grand Lounge
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2015-12-02 18:00:00
2015-12-02 19:30:00
Scott Schwenter, Would you just die already? Priming and Obsolescence in Grammar
Time: 5 p.m.
Event Host: Arts and Humanities
Short Description: Why won’t some grammatical elements in a language just die out?
Why won’t some grammatical elements in a language just die out? In this talk, Scott Schwenter provides evidence to show that persistence in discourse, the priming of a grammatical item G by some prior mention of G or one of its variants in discourse, plays a crucial role in keeping obsolescing grammatical items from dying out completely. Examples will be drawn from Spanish, Portuguese and English. RSVP.Reception will accompany each lecture. Free and open to the public.List of 2015-2016 lectures.
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2015-12-02 17:00:00
2015-12-02 18:30:00
Scott Schwenter, Would you just die already? Priming and Obsolescence in Grammar
Time: 5 p.m.
Event Host: Arts and Humanities
Short Description: Why won’t some grammatical elements in a language just die out?
Why won’t some grammatical elements in a language just die out? In this talk, Scott Schwenter provides evidence to show that persistence in discourse, the priming of a grammatical item G by some prior mention of G or one of its variants in discourse, plays a crucial role in keeping obsolescing grammatical items from dying out completely. Examples will be drawn from Spanish, Portuguese and English. RSVP.Reception will accompany each lecture. Free and open to the public.List of 2015-2016 lectures.
Faculty Club Grand Lounge
College of Arts and Sciences
asccomm@osu.edu
America/New_York
public
Time: 5 p.m.
Event Host: Arts and Humanities
Short Description: Why won’t some grammatical elements in a language just die out?
Why won’t some grammatical elements in a language just die out? In this talk, Scott Schwenter provides evidence to show that persistence in discourse, the priming of a grammatical item G by some prior mention of G or one of its variants in discourse, plays a crucial role in keeping obsolescing grammatical items from dying out completely. Examples will be drawn from Spanish, Portuguese and English. RSVP.
Event Host: Arts and Humanities
Short Description: Why won’t some grammatical elements in a language just die out?
Reception will accompany each lecture. Free and open to the public.