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Confs: Historical Linguistics, Indo-European/Italy
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1. Chiara
Gianollo,
Levels of Analysis in the History of IE Languages
Message 1: Levels of Analysis in the History of IE Languages
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Date: 28-Apr-2008
From: Chiara Gianollo <gianollounits.it>
Subject: Levels of Analysis in the History of IE Languages
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Levels of Analysis in the History of IE Languages
Date: 22-May-2008 - 24-May-2008
Location: Trieste, Italy
Contact: Giorgio Banti
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://www2.units.it/~linglab/?file=ieconference.html
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Language Family(ies): Indo-European
Meeting Description:
Levels of Analysis in the History of Indo-European Languages
Trieste, May 22nd-24th, 2008
Invited speakers: Angela Ralli (University of Patras); Ian Roberts
(University of Cambridge); Third speaker to be announced
The Universities of Napoli 'L'Orientale', Pavia, Roma, Siena 'Università
per Stranieri', and Trieste will hold the concluding conference of their
joint National Research Project 'Levels of Analysis in the History of
Indo-European Languages', co-funded by the Italian Ministry of University
and Scientific Research and directed by prof. Giorgio Banti, in Trieste
next May.
Since one of the aims of the conference is to integrate the project's
results obtained by the Italian research units within a larger
international network, approximately 8 presentation slots will be from foreign institutions proposing theoretically significant contributions to the history of Indo-European languages in one or more of the following areas:
Phonology
Morphology
Syntax and information structure
Vocabulary
Thursday, May 22
14.45
Opening
15.00
Invited speaker:
Susan Pintzuk (University of York),
title tba
15.50-16.20
Coffee Break
16.20
Judy B. Bernstein (William Paterson University) & Raffaella Zanuttini (Georgetown University),
'The Development of Verbal -s in Non-standard Varieties of English'
17.00
Nikolaos Lavidas
(University of Athens and University of the Aegean, Rhodes),
'VSO word-order in the history of Indo-European languages'
17.40
Invited speakers:
Tania Kuteva (University of Düsseldorf) and Bernd Heine (University of Cologne),
'Towards an integrative model of grammaticalization'
18.30
End of Session
Friday, May 23
9.30
Invited speaker:
Heinrich Hettrich (University of Würzburg),
'Grammatische und konkrete Kasus im Vedischen und im Indogermanischen: Ein wirklicher Gegensatz?'
10.20
Konstantinos Kakarikos
(University of Athens),
'On the distinction between Grammatical and Semantic Cases: Re-evaluating the evidence from Ancient Greek'
11.00-11.30
Coffee Break
11.30
Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova (NTNU Trondheim), Giuliana Giusti (Ca' Foscari University of Venice), Valentin Vulchanov (NTNU Trondheim),
'Nominal Expressions in Flux: The status of the universal quantifier in Old Bulgarian'
12.10
Siena Research Unit
Maria Napoli, 'Perfetto e Risultativo: dal latino alle lingue romanze'
Marina Benedetti, 'Oggetti diversi: a proposito di ''echein'' in greco antico'
13.10-14.30
Lunch Time
14.30
Cassino Research Unit
Paolo Milizia, 'L'etimologia dell'hapax avestico bixǝδra- e l'esegesi di Videvdad 19,21'
Giancarlo Schirru, 'Fonologia delle occlusive nei dialetti armeni'
15.30
Pavia Research Unit
Anna Giacalone and Caterina Mauri, 'Paths of semantic change leading to contrast markers'
16.30-17
Coffee Break
17.00
Heloisa Maria Moreira Lima-Salles (University of Brasilia),
'Subordination in the diachrony of Brazilian Portuguese: finiteness as a grammatical property encoding modality and evidentiality'
17.40
Invited speaker:
Angela Ralli (University of Patras),
'Greek [V V] co-compounds: A linguistic innovation in the history of the Indo-European languages'
18.30
End of Session
Social dinner
Saturday, May 24
9.30
Invited speaker:
Bernhard Wälchli (University of Bern),
'Lexical typology and Indo-European. Two case studies: motion events and secondary positional states'
10.20
Cassino Research Unit
Luca Lorenzetti, 'Sincopi e grafie sillabiche tra etrusco e latino di Praeneste'
Marco Mancini, 'I latinismi nell'ebraico biblico'
11.20
Coffee Break
11.50
Trieste Research Unit
Giuseppe Longobardi, 'Toward a history and geography of human syntax'
12.50
Invited speaker:
Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge),
'Typological drift, macroparameters and markedness'
13.40
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