24.2117, Confs: Indo-Iranian, Historical Ling, Typology, General Ling/USA

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Subject: 24.2117, Confs: Indo-Iranian, Historical Ling, Typology, General Ling/USA

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Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 11:31:36
From: Andrew Hippisley [andrew.hippisley at uky.edu]
Subject: Patterns of Alignment in the Indo-Iranian Languages: Towards a Typology

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 Patterns of Alignment in the Indo-Iranian Languages: Towards a Typology 

Date: 13-Jul-2013 - 14-Jul-2013 
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 
Contact: Andrew Hippisley 
Contact Email: andrew.hippisley at uky.edu 
Meeting URL: http://alignment.as.uky.edu/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Typology 

Language Family(ies): Indo-Iranian 
Meeting Description: 

In their early history, the Iranian and Indic languages developed split-ergative alignment, independently but in parallel. The languages in both branches vary widely with respect to both (a) their degree of reversion to accusative alignment and (b) the trajectories that they have followed in this reversion. The objectives of this workshop is to establish a typology of paths from split ergativity to full accusativity and to identify parallels and contrasts between Indic and Iranian languages.

Invited Talks:

Ashwini Deo (Yale University)
The emergence of accusative objects in New Indo-Aryan ergative clauses

Geoffrey Haig (University of Bamberg)
Alignment change in Iranian: What happened to agreement?

Andrew Hippisley & Greg Stump (University of Kentucky)
The morphomics of split-ergativity in Indo-Iranian

Paul Kiparsky (Stanford University)
Ranking volume predicts directionality: An OT-based theory of syntactic drift

Agnes Korn (Universität Frankfurt)
Patterns of ergativity and differential object marking in Iranian

Annie Montaut (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris)
>From the parallel constructions for past and modal future to the meaning of the ergative case markers

John Payne (University of Manchester)
Alignment and coordination in Iranian

Pollet Samvelian (Université de Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Clitics and alignment in Iranian languages

Saartje Verbeke (Universiteit Gent)
Alternating argument constructions in Indo-Aryan: Case studies from Nepali and Kashmiri 

For full program and registration, please visit the workshop website at http://alignment.as.uky.edu/. Registration is free.



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