LINGUIST List 22.4943 Fri Dec 09 2011 Confs: Morphology, Semantics/Austria Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Tania Paciaroni , Exploring Grammatical Gender Message 1: Exploring Grammatical Gender Date: 07-Dec-2011 From: Tania Paciaroni <paciaronrom.uzh.ch> Subject: Exploring Grammatical Gender E-mail this message to a friend Exploring Grammatical Gender Date: 09-Feb-2012 - 12-Feb-2012 Location: Vienna, Austria Contact: Tania Paciaroni Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://wwwap.wu.ac.at/imm15/ Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Semantics Meeting Description: Workshop: Exploring Grammatical Gender Organized by Michele Loporcaro (Zurich University), Tania Paciaroni (Zurich University) & Anna M. Thornton (L'Aquila University), within the 15th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 9-12, 2012 Main conference website: http://wwwap.wu.ac.at/imm15/ Invited Speaker: Greville G. Corbett (Surrey Morphology Group) Workshop Exploring grammatical gender Thursday, February 9 16.30-16.45 Introduction 16.45-17.45 Invited speaker: Greville G. Corbett (Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey) 'Is gender special?' 17.45-18.15 Peter Siemund & Florian Dolberg (University of Hamburg) 'From lexical to referential gender: An analysis of gender change in medieval English based on two historical documents' 18.15-18.30 Break 18.30-19.00 Yulia Rodina (CASTL, University of Tromsø) 'The effect of variable input in the acquisition of grammatical gender in Russian: Child and caregiver' 19.00-19.30 Michelle St-Amour (University of Toronto) 'Feature interactions in Russian grammatical gender assignment' 19.30-20.00 Petros Karatsareas (University of Cambridge) 'On the synchrony and diachrony of gender agreement in Pontic Greek: Syntactic versus semantic' Saturday, February 11 16.30-16.45 Administrative stuff 16.45-17.15 Hans-Olav Enger (University of Oslo) 'Scandinavian pancake sentences - again' 17.15-17.45 Gunlög Josefsson (Lund University) 'Pancake sentences and gender system changes in Mainland Scandinavian' 17.45-18.15 Ion Giurgea ('Iorgu Iordan-Al. Rosetti' Institute of Linguistics, Bucharest) 'Ambigenerics and the controller vs. target gender distinction' 18.15-18.30 Break 18.30-19.00 Ruth Kramer (Georgetown University) 'The morphosyntax of natural gender: Evidence from Amharic' 19.00-19.30 Rose-Marie Déchaine - Raphael Girard - Calisto Mudzingwa - Martina Wiltschko (University of British Columbia) 'The internal syntax of Shona class prefixes' 19.30-20.00 Jenny Audring (Leiden University) 'Gender and complexity' Alternates: 1. Margot Kraaikamp (University of Amsterdam) 'Semantic versus lexical gender agreement in Dutch' 2. Bettina Jobin (Uppsala University) 'Morpheme on the loose - the fluctuating use of the suffix -e in adjectival gender agreement in Present Day Swedish' Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 09-Dec-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.