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Subject: 7.1649, Confs: Romani Linguistics Conference
 
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Date:  Thu, 21 Nov 1996 14:42:50 GMT
From:  y.matras at man.ac.uk (Yaron Matras)
Subject:  Romani Linguistics Conference
 
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Date:  Thu, 21 Nov 1996 14:42:50 GMT
From:  y.matras at man.ac.uk (Yaron Matras)
Subject:  Romani Linguistics Conference
 
 
3rd International Conference on Romani Linguistics
Charles University, Prague, 5-7 December 1996
 
 
Programme
 
Day 1: Thursday, December 5
 
09.15  Opening of the Conference by the Prorector of Charles University,
 
       Professor Jaroslav VACEK
 
Section 1: Structure
 
10.00-10.30     Peter BAKKER: Verbal clitics and stress placement in the
                Terzi Mahalla dialect of Romani
10.30-11.00     Evelina GRIGOROVA: Intonation patterns in a Bulgarian
                Kalderash dialect
 
11.00-11.30             Break
 
11.30-12.00     Birgit IGLA: The expressions of conditional/irrealis in
                southern Balkan Romani dialects
12.00-12.30     Milena H\BSCHMANNOVA: Derivation of causatives, factitives,
                syntactic passives and incohatives in the eastern and
western
                varieties of Slovak Romani and Hungarian Romani
12.30-13.00     Hana SEBKOVA & Edita ZLNAYOVA: Some aspects of the
                expression of possession in the East-Slovak Romani dialect
 
13.00-15.00             Lunch
 
Section 2: Contact and structure
 
15.00-15.30    Vit BUBENIK: Aspect and Aktionsart in Slovak Romani
15.30-16.00    Norbert BORETZKY: New functions for inherited grammatical
                categories
16.00-16.30    Yaron MATRAS: Does Romani have discourse markers?
 
16.30-17.00             Break
 
17.00-17.30    Dieter W. HALWACHS & Mozes HEINSCHINK: Romani and German:
                German influence on the Austrian Romani-varieties
17.30-18.00     Jorge BERNAL: Colombian Kelderash Gypsies in Argentina and
                their language
 
Day 2: Friday, December 6
 
Section 3: Lexicon
 
10.00-10.30     Anna RACOVA: The dynamics of the Romani lexicon
10.30-11.00     Anthony P. GRANT: Borrowed lexicon and dialectal diversity:
                the case of Vlax Romani
11.00-11.30     Paul WEXLER: Why Romani may not be a) a language, or b) of
                direct Indian origin
 
11.30-12.00             Break
 
12.00-12.30     Gheorghe SARAU: Rromane navna (substantlvura) "duje
                ginenga" (mursikane/3uvlikane)
12.30-13.00     Svetislav  KOSTIC: Onomastic phenomena in Romani
 
13.00-15.00             Lunch
 
Section 4: Standardization, codification, and norm
 
15.00-15.30     Victor A. FRIEDMAN: Romani as a Balkan language and as a
                standard language
15.30-16.00     Donald KENRICK: 'No words can that woe sound': the
                challenge of translating Shakespeare into Romani
 
16.00-16.30             Break
 
16.30-17.00    Jan CERVENKA: Segmentation in written Slovak Romani
17.00-17.30    Katalin KOVALCSIK: Aspects of language ideology in a
                Transylvanian Vlach Gypsy community
 
Day 3: Saturday, December 7
 
Section 5: Language and culture
 
10.00-10.30     Hristo KYUCHUKOV: The oral traditions among the Roma in Turkey
10.30-11.00     Mihaela GIURCA & Anna FENYVESI: Romani borrowings in
                Romanian and Hungarian: semantic fields and speakers' attitudes
 
11.00-11.30             Break
 
11.30-12.00     Mihaela GIURCA: Romanians' attitudes towards Romani and its
                speakers
12.00-12.30     Zita RIGER: Teasing in the linguistic socialization of
                Gypsy children in Hungary
 
12.30-13.00             Break
 
13.00-14.00     Concluding Discussion
14.00           Meeting with Romani communitee representatives in Rokycany
 
 
All sessions will take place at the Faculty of Philosophy, Celetna 20.
 
 
For further details contact:
 
Yaron Matras
Department of Linguistics
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL, UK
 
Phone  44 161 2753975
Fax    44 161 2753187
e-mail y.matras at man.ac.uk
 
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