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<i>Historical-Comparative Linguistics in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century<br>
Pavia, 22-25 September 2011<br>
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22 September<br>
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<i>15.15</i> <i>Pre-opening session<br>
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15.20-15.40 Alessandra Caviglia, Pavia - Introduction to the poster
session <br>
15.45 -16.45 Poster Session organized by Alessandra Caviglia<br>
16.45-17.15 Break<br>
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Session 1 Chair Elisabetta Jezek<br>
17.15 Elisabetta Jezek, Pavia - Introduction: “Quantitative methods and
corpora”<br>
17.30 Michael Cysouw, München, “Quantitative approaches to the
reconstruction of meaning change”<br>
18.00 Dag Haug, Oslo, “Personal names with articles in New Testament
Greek. A quantitative approach”<br>
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<b>23 September<br>
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<i>9.00 Opening address<br>
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Angiolino Stella, President of the University<br>
Alessandro Cattaneo, Mayor of the City of Pavia<br>
Dario Mantovani, Coordinator of celebrations for <br>
the 650<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the University <br>
Bernhard Hauer, Deputy Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany <br>
Riccardo Pozzo, Humboldt Fellows Association <br>
Ulrich Braess, Director of the Goethe-Institut <br>
Mailand <br>
Elisa Romano, Dean of the Faculty of Arts<br>
Gianguido Manzelli, Chair of the Linguistic Department<br>
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10.30 Rosemarie Lühr, Jena, President of the Indogermanische
Gesellschaft, “Zur Rekonstruktion der indogermanischen Syntax heute”<br>
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11.00 Break<br>
Session 2. - Chair Rosemarie Lühr<br>
11.30 Elisabeth Rieken, Marburg, “Neue Wege und Irrwege in der
indogermanistischen Forschung”<br>
12.00 Gerd Carling, Uppsala “Structural typology and the role of
historical linguistics - towards a synthesis”<br>
12.30 Mate Kapovi , Zagreb, “Historical-Comparative and Variationist
Linguistics”<br>
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13-14.30 Break<br>
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Session 3 - Chair Pierluigi Cuzzolin<br>
14.30 Pierluigi Cuzzolin, Bergamo - Introduction: “Reconstructing
alignment in PIE” <br>
14.40 Leonid Kulikov, Leiden, “Transitivity and labile syntax in
Proto-Indo-European: A diachronic typological approach”<br>
15.10 Ranko Matasovi , Zagreb, “The re-evaluation of the evidence for PIE
as a language with active clause alignment”<br>
15.40 Ilya Yakubovich, Moscow State University, “Privative ergativity in
Hittite”<br>
16.10 Discussion<br>
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16.30 Break<br>
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Session 4. - Chair Elisabeth Rieken<br>
17.00 Antonio Loprieno, Basel, “On the typology of focus in
Egyptian”<br>
17.30 Maria Carmela Benvenuto, Roma Sapienza, “Possessive and existential
contructions in Ancient Greek. A discourse perspective”<br>
18.00 Elena Skribnik, München, “South Siberian Turkic languages: past
language contacts”<br>
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24 September<br>
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Session 5 - Chair Antonio Loprieno<br>
9.00 Tijmen Pronk, Zagreb, “Slavic words denoting emotions and their
Indo-European origin” <br>
9.30 Matthias Urban, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,
Leipzig, “Semantic Change and the Methodology of Semantic
Reconstruction”<br>
10.00 Paola Dardano, Siena Stranieri, “Anatolischer Wortschatz und
Phraseologie: Ererbtes und fremde Einflüsse”<br>
<br>
10.30-11.00 Break<br>
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Session 6 - Chair Elisa Roma <br>
11.00 Livio Gaeta, Napoli Federico II “On evolutive and adaptive change:
Historical-comparative linguistics and the origin of language”<br>
11.30 Maria Napoli, Siena Stranieri, “The Indo-European Verb in the 21st
Century. On the category of Aspect”<br>
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12.00 Guided tour of the University<br>
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13.30-15.00 Break<br>
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Session 8- Chair Ranko Matasovi <br>
15.00 Pietro Dini, Pisa, “Philologisches und Linguistisches am Beispiel
der Übersetzungen ins Altpreussische”<br>
15.30 Daniel Petit, École Normale Supérieure Paris, “On indefinite
pronouns in the Baltic languages”<br>
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16.00-16.30 Break<br>
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Session 6 - Chair Daniel Petit<br>
16.30 Egle Mocciaro, Palermo “Agency and agentive prepositions in Late
Latin”<br>
17.00 Luisa Brucale, Palermo “Manner of motion verbs in Latin”<br>
<br>
18.00 Walking tour of Pavia<br>
<br>
25 September<br>
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Session 7 - Chair Gerd Carling<br>
9.00 Luz Conti, Madrid Autónoma, “Temporal and conjunctive Adverbs in
Ancient Greek: A historical overview”<br>
9.30 Stefanie Fauconnier, Leuven, “The Ancient Greek relative clause from
a typological perspective”<br>
10.00 César Ruiz, Madrid Complutense, “Productivity and language
corpus”<br>
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10.30-11.00 Break<br>
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11.00 Round table hosted by Davide Ricca, Torino<br>
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12.30 Silvia Luraghi, Pavia - Conclusion<br><br>
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Silvia Luraghi<br>
Dipartimento di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata<br>
Università di Pavia<br>
Strada Nuova 65<br>
I-27100 Pavia<br>
telef.: +39-0382-984685<br>
fax: +39-0382-984487<br>
silvia.luraghi@unipv.it<br>
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