LINGUIST List 17.2574

Tue Sep 12 2006

Confs: Morphology, Discipline of Ling,Germanic Lang,Romance Lang/Germany

Editor for this issue: Jeremy Taylor <jeremylinguistlist.org>

Directory         1.    Barbara Fassnacht, New Perspectives on Morphological Change
Message 1: New Perspectives on Morphological Change
Date: 11-Sep-2006
From: Barbara Fassnacht <bfassnachtgmx.net>
Subject: New Perspectives on Morphological Change



New Perspectives on Morphological Change

Date: 27-Oct-2006 - 28-Oct-2006 Location: Berlin, Germany Contact: Elisabeth Stark Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~estark/

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics; Morphology; Typology

Language Family(ies): Germanic; Indo-European; Romance

Meeting Description:

Main issues: morphological change, typology and diachrony.


Interdisziplinäres Zentrum Europäische Sprachen (ZEUS) Strukturen Entwicklung Vergleich

International Workshop on ''New Perspectives on Morphological Change'' Freie Universität Berlin (Room: L 115, Silberlaube)

Friday, 27th october 2006

9.00-9.30 Elisabeth Stark, Freie Universität Berlin Opening remarks

9.30-10.45 Paolo Ramat, Università di Pavia ''Typology and philology''

10.45-12.00 Greville Corbett, University of Surrey ''Determining features and their values''

14.00-15.00 Ranko Matasović, University of Zagreb ''The drift in the evolution of gender systems in Indo- European languages''

15.00-16.00 Jan Terje Faarlund, University of Oslo ''The diachronic morphosyntax of clitics: from free determiner to cliticized article''

16.30-17.30 Franz Rainer, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien ''Polysemy of agent nouns in Romance: typology, diachrony and universals of semantic change in word-formation''

17.30-18.30 Matthias Hüning, Freie Universität Berlin ''A comparative view on the history of A+N compounds in Dutch and German''

Saturday, 28th october 2006

9.00-10.00 Elisabeth Leiss, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München ''Diachrony and typology of aspect and modality across European languages''

10.00-11.00 Werner Abraham, Universität Wien ''Reflexive and passive diatheses in diachrony and synchrony''

11.30-12.30 Anna Bartra Kaufmann, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ''Passive morphology and syntax in Old Catalan and Romance''

14.30-15.30 Georg Kaiser, Universität Konstanz & Klaus von Heusinger, Universität Stuttgart ''Morphosyntactic change in differential object marking in Romance languages''

15.30-16.30 Franck Floricic, Université de Toulouse ''On the morphosyntactic status of negation in the history of Italian, Spanish and Occitan''

17.00-18.00 Agnes Jäger, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena ''Typology of changes in syntactic patterns of negation with special emphasis on German''

18.00-19.00 Alex Klinge, Copenhagen Business School ''Syntax or morphology? On the development and analyses of un- Germanic English lexical formation patterns''.