22.877, Confs: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Greek/USA

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Subject: 22.877, Confs: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Greek/USA

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Date: 22-Feb-2011
From: Marina Terkourafi [mt217 at illinois.edu]
Subject: Midwest Consortium on Greek Linguistics
 

	
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Subject: Midwest Consortium on Greek Linguistics

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Midwest Consortium on Greek Linguistics 

Date: 04-Mar-2011 - 04-Mar-2011 
Location: Chicago IL, USA 
Contact: Anastasia Giannakidou 
Contact Email: giannaki at uchicago.edu 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Greek (ell)

Meeting Description: 

Midwest Consortium on Greek Linguistics - Inaugural Meeting
Friday March 4, 2011
University of Chicago, Department of Linguistics 

Morning sessions: To be held at the Linguistics Lounge, Dept. of Linguistics

9:00-9:30: Nikos Vergis (UIUC): The rhotics of shame: Language, women 
and stereotypes
9:30-10:00: Marina Terkourafi (UIUC): On the intonation/pragmatics 
interface: a prohibitive construction in Cypriot Greek

Break: 10-10:30

10:30-11:00: Anastasia Giannakidou (U Chicago), Despoina Papadopoulou 
(U Thessaloniki), and Melita Stavrou (U Thessaloniki): scope and epistemic
judgment: evidence form Greek indefinites
11:00-11:30: Jason Merchant (U Chicago): A new argument for LF-copy? 
Evidence from ellipsis in the Greek NP

Lunch break: 11:30-1:00

Afternoon sessions: To be held in Harper 130

1:00-2:00: Keynote Address: Ioanna Sitaridou (U Cambridge): The Last 
Greek Infinitive - Continuity, Contact, and Change in the Greek varieties of 
Pontus
2:00-2:30: Christopher Brown (OSU) and Brian D. Joseph (OSU): Greek of 
Southern Albania - Preliminary Observations

Break: 2:30-3:00

3:00-3:30: Eleni Staraki (U Chicago): Greek modals interacting with tense 
and aspect
3:30-4:00: Katerina Chatzopoulou (U Chicago): Negation selection in 
Ancient Greek: the latest news
4:00-4:30: Anastasia Smirnova (OSU): Linguistic encoding of motion events 
in Greek in comparison to other Balkan languages





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