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第23回支倉セミナー The Creole prototype and the problem of complexity

日時 2024.11.19 10:30~12:00
場所 東北大学川内南キャンパス 文学研究科棟411講義室MAP
主催 日本学国際共同大学院プログラム
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【講師】Professor Umberto Ansaldo
           Honorary Professor, The University of Hong Kong
           Adjunct. Professor, University of Western Australia
 
"The Creole prototype and the problem of complexity"
 
abstract
In recent years, the notion of complexity has caught the attention of linguists who have attempted to use it to gain insights on linguistic structure and language evolution. In the area of Creole studies, scholars have asked themselves whether languages can be compared in terms of complexity, and, if so, whether this may reveal something about the way in which a language evolved. In this talk I argue that the attempts we have seen to date demonstrate that (a) languages as systems cannot be compared in terms of complexity, and that(b)any claim that a language - or a subset of its grammar - is more or less complex than another, is methodologically and factually false. I conclude by considering what novel approaches we might take to investigate languages as complex systems. 
 
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