B.1 Cognitive Linguistic Investigations in Finno-Ugric Languages
The symposium is organized by the CoFuLa (Cognitive Linguistic Perspectives on Finno-Ugric Languages) Project. The CoFuLa Project, founded in 2012, focuses on comparative and contrastive researches in present-day Estonian, Finnish and Hungarian languages in the theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics.
The main aim of the symposium is to demonstrate new theoretical, methodological and descriptive results in Finno-Ugrian linguistics, from a functional cognitive viewpoint. On one hand, both the earlier publications, workshops and conference presentations of the project participants and the present proposal carry out researches on specific linguistic topics in the description of the Estonian, Finnish and Hungarian (and also other smaller Finno-Ugrian) languages. On the other hand, there is a main concern on the general linguistic and typological aspects of the investigated topics, in adopting theoretical tenets as well as modifying them through language-specific and typological results. The most important theoretical starting points are: the conceptual, encyclopaedic nature of semantics, the continuum principle (between lexicon and syntax), the usage-based character of the linguistic system, the cognitive basis of construal, and type and instantiation (grounding).
The main topics planned as sections of the symposium are:
- Temporality, motion, aspect, metaphor
- Reference, deixis, space
- Evidentiality
- Conceptualization patterns, ways of construal (in certain lexical and morpho-syntactic constructions)
Main organizer: Tuomas Huumo, University of Turku, tuomas.huumo@ut.ee.
Co-organizers: Gábor Tolcsvai Nagy, ELTE University, Budapest; Renate Pajusalu, University of Tartu; Jaakko Leino, University of Helsinki; Tiina Onikki-Rantajääskö, University of Helsinki.