Conference Posting

[Brian Joseph]

Fifth Annual Workshop in Comparative Linguistics 1996
 
LANGUAGE CONTACT -- LANGUAGE CHANGE
November 16 - 17, 1996
 
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
 
All sessions to be held in 120 Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Avenue
(just a five-minute walk down Neil Avenue going south from the
Department of Linguistics office in Oxley Hall), at the corner of Neil
Avenue and 8th Avenue (note that there is parking in two small lots
behind the Center, off of Pennsylvania Avenue, itself a block west
Neil Avenue between 8th Avenue and King Avenue).
 
For information, contact Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State
University (phone: 614-292-4052; fax: 614-292-4273; e-mail:
lingadm at ling.ohio-state.edu)
 
 
SATURDAY 11/16
 
9.00 - 9.10     Welcome
 
Session I:  Phonological Contact
 
9.10 - 9.40     Neil Jacobs, Ohio State University
 
"Contact Features in Yiddish and Jewish German Phonology"
 
9.40 - 10.10    Frans Hinskens, Univ. of Nijmegen/Ohio State Univ.
 
"A wave rolling backwards. The Old High German Consonant
Shift and the feature [cont] in a derivational suffix in a group
of Dutch dialects"
 
10.10 - 10.25   BREAK
 
Session II:  Prosodic Contact
 
10.30 - 11.10   Joe Salmons, University of Wisconsin
 
"Internal and External Factors in Prosodic Change"
 
11.10 - 11.50   Graham Thurgood, California State Univ., Fresno
 
"Language contact and the origins of tone and register systems
in Southeast Asia:  the cases of Tsat, Haroi, and Jiamao"
 
11.50 - 12.20   Ilse Lehiste, Ohio State University
 
"Testing the generality of Salmons' and Thurgood's results by
comparison with the situation in the Baltic Convergence Area"
 
12:20 - 1:40    LUNCH
 
Session III:  Plenary Address
 
1.45 - 3.00     Sarah G. Thomason, University of Pittsburgh
 
        "Contact as a Cause of Change"
 
3.00 - 3.15     BREAK
 
Session IV:  Morpho-Syntactic Contact
 
3.15 - 3.55     Ellen Prince, University of Pennsylvania
 
"Yiddish Subject-Prodrop as a Window on Language Contact
Effects"
 
3.55 - 4.15     Terence Odlin, Ohio State University
 
"Commentary on Prince"
 
4.15 - 4.30     Mini-Break
 
4.30 - 5.00     Steven Hartman Keiser, Ohio State University
 
"Case change in the Pennsylvania German of Kalona, Iowa"
 
5.00 - 5.30     Bettina Migge, Ohio State University
 
"The origin of reduplicated predicates in Sranan"
 
DINNER
 
 
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 17
 
Session V:  Contact in the Ancient World
 
9.30 - 10.00    John A. C. Greppin, Cleveland State University
 
"Urartean Loanword Intrusion into Armenian"
 
10.00 - 10.20   Rex Wallace, University of Massachusetts
 
"The Venetic Genitive:  An Italic Crux"
 
10.20 - 10.35   BREAK
 
Session VI:  Convergence Areas
 
10.40 - 11.10   Brian Joseph, Ohio State University
 
"On the spread of constructions in the Balkans"
 
11.10 - 11.40   Hans H. Hock, University of Illinois
 
"Dialectology and Convergence Areas:  Retroflexion in Indo-
Iranian"
 
11.40 - 12.10   Martha Ratliff, Wayne State University
 
"An introduction to the Southeast Asia Sprachbund"
 
12.10 - 12.25   BREAK
 
 
Session VII:  Wrap-up Discussion
 
12.30 - 1.00    Bernard Comrie, Univ. of Southern California
        (Discussant/Moderator)
 
"What have we learned?"  [Comments and open discussion.]
 
End of Workshop (by 1.00 PM)
 
 
 
HOTEL INFORMATION available upon request from Department of Linguistics,
The Ohio STate University/