LINGUIST List 23.1276: Confs: Romance, Germanic, Historical Ling, Socioling/Netherlands

LINGUIST List 23.1276
Tue Mar 13 2012 Confs: Romance, Germanic, Historical Ling, Socioling/Netherlands Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org>
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Date: 12-Mar-2012 From: Petra Sleeman <p.sleemanuva.nl> Subject: Adjectives in Germanic and Romance: Variation and Change E-mail this message to a friend Adjectives in Germanic and Romance: Variation and Change Date: 29-Mar-2012 - 30-Mar-2012 Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands Contact: Petra Sleeman Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.hum.uva.nl/adjectives Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics Language Family(ies): Germanic; Romance Meeting Description: Adjectives in Germanic and Romance: Variation and Change 29 March - 30 March, 2012 Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam (ACLC) Although the Germanic and Romance languages are two branches of the same language family and both have developed the adjective as a separate morphological and syntactic category, the syntax and semantics of adjectives is by no means the same in these two language groups. The goal of this conference is to map the differences and similarities in meaning and syntactic behavior of the Germanic and Romance adjective, and to find an answer to the question: are the (dis)similarities the result of autonomous development in each of the two branches of the Indo-European language family or are they caused by language contact. Invited Speakers: Fred Weerman (University of Amsterdam) Frans Plank (Universität Konstanz) Thursday 29 March (location: Bungehuis, Spuistraat 210, Amsterdam, room 401) 08.45 - 09.15 Registration 09.15 - 09.30 Opening + announcements 09.30 - 10.30 Invited speaker: Fred Weerman (ACLC, University of Amsterdam) The rise and fall of adjectival inflection 10.30 - 11.00 Marit Julien (Lund University) & Dorian Roehrs (University of North Texas) Constructions off the beaten track: revisiting the inflections on attributive adjectives in German and Norwegian 11.00 - 11.15 Coffee break 11.15 - 11.45 Ulla Stroh-Wollin (Uppsala University) & Rico Simke (Friedrich-Alexan der-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg) Weak adjectives in early Swedish/Scandinavian 11.45 - 12.15 Amanda Pounder (University of Calgary & Universität Konstanz) Adjective inflection: information and informativeness 12.15 - 12.45 Freek Van de Velde (University of Leuven) The Dutch attributive inflectional schwa is not functionless yet 12.45 - 14.00 Lunch break 14.00 - 14.30 Alexander Pfaff (CASTL/University of Tromsø) Pre- and postnominal adjectives from an Icelandic perspective 14.30 - 15.00 Erik Schoorlemmer (MIT) Germanic and Romance predicative adjectives: variation in agreement 15.00 - 15.30 Maartje Schulpen & Ana Aguilar-Guevara (Utrecht University) Comparing subtyping and relational adjectives: data from Dutch and Spanish 15.30 - 15.45 Tea break 15.45 - 16.15 Reiko Shimamura (Tsuda College, Tokyo) Modification of nouns by adjectives in compounds in English 16.15 - 16.45 Martin Hummel (Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz) The adjective-adverb interface in Romance and English 16.45 - 17.15 Kristel Van Goethem & Hendrik De Smet (University of Leuven) How nouns turn into adjectives: the emergence of new adjectives in French, Dutch and English through debonding processes 18.00 Conference dinner Friday 30 March (location: Bungehuis, Spuistraat 210, Amsterdam, room 401) 09.30 - 10.00 Harry Perridon (ACLC, University of Amsterdam) Adjectives and the definite article 10.00 - 10.30 Volker Struckmeier (Universität Köln) Attributive agreement induces phase structure in German(ic) 10.30 - 11.00 Carola Trips (Universität Mannheim) The position proper of the adjective in Middle English: a result of language contact? 11.00 - 11.15 Coffee break 11.15 - 11.45 Petra Sleeman (ACLC, University of Amsterdam) From participle to adjective in Germanic and Romance 11.45 - 12.15 Ilse Stangen (Universität Hamburg) 2L1 and L2 acquisition of interfaces in French adjective placement 12.15 - 12.45 Robert Cirillo (ACLC, University of Amsterdam) Accounting for the variation in pre- and post-nominal universal quantifiers in Germanic and Romance 12.45 - 14.00 Lunch break 14.00 - 14.30 Dana Niculescu (ACLC, University of Amsterdam) The mixed categorial behavior of 'cel' + participle in Romanian 14.30 - 15.00 Caroline Morris & Muriel Norde (University of Groningen) From descriptive genitive to adjective : Swedish 'slags' 15.00 - 15.15 Tea break 15.15 - 16.30 Invited speaker : Frans Plank (Universität Konstanz) The direction of derivation between nouns and adjectives, with special reference to Germanic vs Romance 16.30 - 18.00 Drinks For abstracts see: http://www.hum.uva.nl/adjectives This Year the LINGUIST List hopes to raise $67,000. 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