26.4246, Confs: General Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Acq, Typology/Norway

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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 12:43:52
From: Kristin Melum Eide [kristin.eide at ntnu.no]
Subject: The Perfect: Variation Workshop - Synchrony, Diachrony & Acquisition

 
The Perfect: Variation Workshop -- Synchrony, Diachrony & Acquisition 
Short Title: Perfect: Variation 

Date: 05-Nov-2015 - 06-Nov-2015 
Location: Trondheim, Norway 
Contact: Marc Fryd 
Contact Email: perfect-variation at hf.ntnu.no 
Meeting URL: http://www.ntnu.edu/perfect-variation 

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

Meeting Description: 

The aim of this workshop is to explore variation in perfect constructions across languages, from synchronic, diachronic or acquisitional points of view. Various illustrations drawn from Indo-European languages are given below of possible topics, but proposals outside this family of languages are also invited.

- Synthetic Perfects: Description, Development, Analysis
- Periphrastic Perfects: Definite Past Time Reference and the 'Aoristic Drift'
- Evidentiality and the Perfect
- The Morphology of Periphrastic Perfects (including elision and expansion)
- The Grammaticalisation of Prepositions as Aspectual Markers

Confirmed Invited Speakers: Östen Dahl, Roumyana Pancheva and Leonie Cornips

Conference Venue: Campus Dragvoll, Room D130 

Program:

Thursday November 5

09.00 - 10.00 Registration and coffee (outside of D130)

10.00 - 10.15	
Welcoming address	

10.15 - 11.30	
Roumyana Pancheva (TBA)

11.30- 13.00 Lunch (Grillkantina)

13.00 - 13.30	
Vladimir Plungian & Anna Urmanchieva	
Old Church Slavonic Perfect: Semantic differences underlying formal variation? 

13.30 - 14.00	
Ida Larsson	
On the emergence of auxiliary selection in Germanic

14.00 - 14.30	
Susana Azpiazu 	
“Aoristic drift” or “present lengthening” in European Spanish Perfect?

14.30 - 15.00	
Fabian Fleissner	
Temporal Discourse Patterns in Old High German and Old Saxon

15.00 - 15.30	Coffee break (outside of D130)

15.30 - 16.00	
Alan Munn	
Participle Levelling in American English: syntactic differentiation and auxiliary ''have''

16.00 - 16.30	
Pino Marco Pizzo	
How come Perfect is Never Perfect?

16.30 City bus to city center (bus #5) (from bus stop DRAGVOLL)

17.00 - 18.30	Guided city walk (free of charge) (Meeting point: statue of Olav Tryggvasson)

19.00 Dinner (at your own expense) (Restaurants in Trondheim: http://www.trondheim.no/spise/)


Friday November 6

09.30 - 10.00	Morning coffee	 (outside of D130)

10.00 - 10.30	
Bronwyn Bjorkman, Claire Halpert & Hadil Karawani 	
>From times to worlds: the relational unity of perfects and evidentials

10.30 - 11.00	
Eric Corre	
Is there a Present Perfect in Russian?

11.00 - 11.30	
Peter Slomanson	
Linguistic motivations for the development of a periphrastic perfect construction

11.30 - 12.00	
Anastasia Meermann	
On the bifurcation between preterit and evidential: auxiliary drop within the Serbian perfect forms

12.00 - 13.30 Lunch (Grillkantina)

13.30 - 14.00
Peter Guekguezian	
Coercion of Bounded Aspect as Syntactic Feature Agreement

14.00 - 14.30	
Jean-Louis Duchet & Remzi Përnaska 	
Is there an aoristic drift of the Albanian perfect?

14.30 - 15.00	
Gábor Vadász & Tamás Eitler	
Language contact and competition in the periphrastic perfect in the history of English

15.00 - 15.30	
George Aaron Broadwell	
The diachrony of the Zapotec perfect

15.30 - 16.00	Coffee break (outside of D130)

16.00 - 17.15	
Leonie Cornips and Hans Broekhuis	
The perfect in (varieties of) Dutch: diachrony, acquisition and doubling

19.00 Conference Dinner (Scandic Hotel Nidelven)


Saturday November 7

09.30 - 10.00	Morning coffee	 (outside of D130)

10.00 - 10.30	
Peter Arkadiev	
Perfect and negation: evidence from Lithuanian and Sundry languages 

10.30 - 11.00	
Cristina Schmitt & Alan Munn	
Perfect Acquisition Patterns

11.00 - 11.30
Irina Gorbunova	
Perfect and its relatives in Pyanan variety of Squliq Atayal

11.30 - 12.00	
Teresa Maria Xiques	
Towards a unified view of the present perfect. A comparative study on Catalan, English and Gĩkũyu

12.00 - 12.30	
Timur Maisak	
Structural and functional variations of the perfect in Lezgic languages

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch (Lunch room - building 3, level 4)

13.30 - 14.45	
Östen Dahl	
Perfects and iamitives in the languages of the world

14.45 - 15.30	
Plenary discussion and concluding remarks 

15.30 End of workshop





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