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X-WR-CALNAME:Linguistics Colloquium Speaker: Gabriel Antunes de Araujo
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DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics proudly presents Gabriel Antunes 
 de Araujo\, Programme Coordinator of Master in Philosophy in Portuguese La
 nguage and Intercultural Studies at University of Macau.  Dr. Araujo will 
 speak on "A Mandarin templatic language game".\n\nLanguage games are lingu
 istic phenomema common in all languages. Basically\, they have the followi
 ng characteristics: the morphophonological system is limited to one or mor
 e mutually non-exclusive operations (infixation/affixation\, templatic man
 ipulation\, reversal\, and substitution)\; inserted affixes are limited to
  one or at most a handful of items\, and the morphology is semantically em
 pty. Here\, we described a templatic language game in Mandarin. In additio
 n\, we analyzed its morphophonological aspects\, such as syllables\, tones
 \, and compound integrity\, from a generative linguistics point of view. O
 ur investigation revealed that this Mandarin’s templatic language game a
 llows the insertion of playful particles —such as le 了and de 的\, amo
 ng others —in the inner limits of an utterance\, undoing the integrity o
 f lexical compounds and the noun-classifier pair. In this way\, a sequence
  as ai4爱 chi¹ 吃 luo² 萝 bo卜 he² 和 qing¹ 青cai4 菜‘they li
 ke to eat radishes and vegetables’becomes the playful sequence ai4爱 le
  了 chi¹ 吃 le 了 luo² 萝 le 了 bo² 卜 le 了bo² 和 le 了 qing
 ¹ 青 le 了 cai4 菜\, with the insertion of the semantically empty part
 icle le 了. In this example\, the integrity of the compound luo² 萝 bo
 卜 ‘radishes’is undone by the insertion of the game’s particle. In 
 the game output\, additionally\, a rising tone\, bo²卜\, is added to the
  second component in the compound luo² 萝 bo² 卜\, originally toneless
 . Thus\, from a linguistic point of view\, the game allows us to address s
 everal issues in Mandarin\, such as the tone attribution system\, the inte
 grity of syllables\, and the nature of the lexical composition. Likewise\,
  the description and analysis of this game allow us to compare it with oth
 er language games in an interlinguistic manner. Therefore\, this presentat
 ion constitutes\nan original contribution to understanding language game p
 henomena in general and Mandarin in particular.\n\nAutomatic captioning wi
 ll be available for this talk.
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium Speaker: Gabriel Antunes de Araujo
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 er_araujo
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