26.1155, Confs: Maltese, General Linguistics/Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-26-1155. Sun Mar 01 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.1155, Confs: Maltese, General Linguistics/Germany

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Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 20:59:00
From: Benjamin Saade [bsaade at uni-bremen.de]
Subject: Grazzi, Bernard! Honoring the contribution of Bernard Comrie to Maltese Linguistics

Grazzi, Bernard! Honoring the contribution of Bernard Comrie to Maltese Linguistics 

Date: 30-Apr-2015 - 30-Apr-2015 
Location: Leipzig, Germany 
Contact: Benjamin Saade 
Contact Email: bsaade at uni-bremen.de 
Meeting URL: http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/maltacentre/comrie.vbhtml 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Maltese (mlt)

Meeting Description: 

On the occasion of Bernard Comrie's retirement from the Linguistics Department of the Max Planck Institue for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, the Maltese Linguistics community wants to honour his dedication and contribution to the study of Maltese with a farewell colloquium.

Listeners are welcome. Participation is free of charge thanks to the generous support of the Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig). If you plan to participate, please sent a short notice to Benjamin Saade (Universität Bremen).

Date: April 30, 2015
Location: MPI-EVA, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig (Room H4.10, 4th floor) 

Programme:

9:00-9:45
The several functions of pronominal clitics in Maltese: an attempt at a uniform characterisation
Ray Fabri (University of Malta)

9:45-11:00
A footnote to Comrie's ''Transitivity pairs, markedness, and diachronic stability''
Michael Spagnol (University of Malta)

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:15
Annotating information structure in Maltese with ELAN-CorpA
Martine Vanhove (LLACAN, Villejuif)

12:15-13:00
Full and reduced pronouns in Maltese
Benjamin Saade (Universität Bremen)

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-14:45
Finite verbs as attributes in Maltese NPs
Thomas Stolz (Universität Bremen)

14:45-15:30
''Everything you always wanted to know about the history of Semitic Maltese, and I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to tell you''
Bernard Comrie (MPI-EVA, Leipzig)

15:30-16:00
The Maltese Linguistics community says: Grazzi, Bernard!

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