Abstract:
In this lecture, I discuss my linguistic background, and how I started early on by investigating linguistics topics that are unconventional; in my early research I focused on a range of topics that went against the received knowledge at the time, which will be the focus of this lecture. First, I will discuss case-agreement patterns in Kutchi Gujarati, a split ergative Western Indo-Aryan language, which has a case pattern that had long been argued to be non-existing, potentially impossible in human languages. The second aspect this lecture will be on pronominal typology and the interaction between syntax, semantics and pragmatics. I will zoom in on the analysis of pronominal paradigms, touching on methodological points such as creating a micro-paralell corpus using Asterix comics.
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Mini bio:
Pritty Patel-Grosz is Professor of Linguistics and director of the Super Linguistics Research Group at the University of Oslo. She was educated at University College London, and obtained a PhD in Linguistics from MIT. Her early interests include the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface and psycholinguistics. She has conducted research on individual variables, agreement and anaphoric presuppositions. In recent work, P. Patel-Grosz advocates for the emerging field of Super Linguistics, whose goal is to expand the traditional boundaries of language and linguistics, by applying formal linguistic methodology to non-standard objects beyond language. P. Patel-Grosz’s current research proposes a unified semantic theory of body movement. In collaboration with musicologists and primatologists, she has explored the semantics of narrative dance, and illustrated its similarities to linguistic semantics; this research is now being extended to non-human primates.