Workshop on preverbs

Venue: University of Nijmegen
Organisers: Geert Booij (Amsterdam); Olga Fischer (Amsterdam); Ans van Kemenade (Nijmegen, local organiser); Bettelou Los (Amsterdam); Nigel Vincent (Manchester).

Sponsored by the Dutch research organization NWO, through the collaborative effort of the Dutch linguistics network LOT and the North-West Centre of Linguistics in Great-Britain

For up to date information, check our website: www.let.kun.nl/engdept/preverbs.htm


January 19, 2001  

9.00 - 9.30             Coffee & welcome

9.30 - 10.10    Marian Klamer (University of Leiden) invited speaker
                        Phrasal emotion predicates in three languages of Eastern 
                        Indonesia

10.10 - 10.50   Eva Schultze-Berndt (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum)
                        Preverbs as an open word class in Northern Australian 
                        languages

10.50 - 11.05   Coffee

11.05 - 11.45   Angela Ralli (University of Patras)
                        Preverbs in Greek

11.45 - 12.45   Alice Harris (Vanderbilt University) invited speaker
                        Preverb Location and Dislocation

12.45 - 13.05   Discussant: Geert Booij (VU)

13.05 - 14.00   Lunch

14.00 - 14.40   K. Donhauser & R. Hinterhoelzl (Humboldt University, Berlin)
                        invited speakers
                        Preverbs in Old High German

14.40 - 15.20   Kees van Dijk (University of Nijmegen)
                        The prefix ge-: a uniform analysis

15.20 - 16.00   Sheila Watts (Cambridge  University)
                        Were prefixes the only preverbs in Old Saxon?

16.00 - 16.20   Tea

16.20 - 17.00   Jochen Zeller (University of Frankfurt) invited speaker
                        Lexical links and local licensing

17.00 - 17.40   M. Tremblay, M. Dufresne & F. Dupuis (Queen's U. & UQAM)
                        On the lexicalization of preverbs in the history of French

17.40 - 18.00   Discussant: Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam)



January 20, 2001

9.30 - 10.10    Mark Campana (University of Kobe)
                        Preverbs prove it: The verbal complex IS the sentence.

10.10 - 10.50   Dagmar Jung (University of Cologne)
                        The historical development of preverbs in Apachean languages

10.50 - 11.05   Coffee

11.05 - 12.05   Farrell Ackerman (UC San Diego) invited speaker
                        Morphology and Lexical Constructions: 
                        The Morphosyntax and Morphosemantics of Phrasal Predicates

12.05 - 12.25   Discussant: Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester)

12.25 - 13.30   Lunch

13.30 - 14.10   Andrew McIntyre (University of Leipzig)
                        Preverbs, argument linking and verb semantics

14.10 - 14.50   Willem Koopman (University of Amsterdam/HIL) invited speaker
                        Preverbs in early English

14.40 - 15.30   Adrienne Bruyn (University of Manchester/Amsterdam)
                        invited speaker
                        The fate of complex verbs in creole languages

15.30 - 15.50   Tea

15.50 - 16.30   Thorhallur Eythorsson (University of Manchester)
                        invited speaker
                        Syntactic affixation and Wackernagel's Law: A comparative 
                        approach

16.30 - 17.10   Muriel Norde (University of Amsterdam) invited speaker
                        On particles and adpositions in Old Scandinavian

17.10 - 17.30   Discussant: Ans van Kemenade (University of Nijmegen)

Alternates
Aidan Doyle (University of Gdansk)	
The vanishing prefix: the lexical representation of complex verbs in Old Irish

Silvia Kutscher (University of Cologne)
The Preverb System in Laz