TRUTHS ABOUT PRONOUNS AND HOW TRUE THEY ARE/Programme

[Elena Filimonova]

Dear colleagues, 

please find attached the programme of the Workshop
TRUTHS ABOUT PRONOUNS AND HOW TRUE THEY ARE
University of Konstanz, Germany
December 15-16, 2000

http://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/proj/Sprachbau/pronouns.html

Anybody interested is welcome

Best, 

Elena Filimonova & Michael Cysouw
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PROGRAMME

Friday, December 15
Room G 308

9.30-10.30	E.Filimonova (Universitaet Konstanz)
		Universal irregularities of personal pronouns 
		(browsing through the Universals Archive)

10.30-11.10	V.Elsik (Charles University, Prague & University of Manchester)
		Suppletive patterns in 1st and 2nd person pronouns

11.10-11.50	Tea and coffeebreak

11.50-12.30	F.Plank (Universitaet Konstanz)
		Competing motivations for pronominal paradigms: 
		markedness, conflict resolution, recent inheritance

12.30-14.00	Lunch

14.00-14.40	G.Fenk-Oczlon (Universitaet Klagenfurt)
		Personal pronouns in Slovenian, Chiquitano, and Navaho

14.40-15.20	H.Haberl & R.Hanson (University of Calgary, Zi Corporation)
		Gender specification in inclusive pronouns: an analysis of Nama

15.20-16.00	Tea and coffeebreak

16.00-16.40	A.Kibrik (Institute of Linguistics, Moscow, currently MPI 
		for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
		Verbal agreement and referential strategies in Svan

16.40-17.20	E.Roma (Università di Pavia)
		How verb inflection and pronouns have interacted in the 
		history of Irish

Saturday, December 16
Room G 307

10.00-10.40	M.Daniel (Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow)
		Five false truths about plural personal pronouns	

10.40-11.20	Y.Ono (Tuebingen/Konstanz/Zuerich)
		Constitution of the 1st person plural as a hidden category 
		for obviation and deictic organization of expressions 
		(with particular reference to Japanese in comparison with 
		inverse systems)

11.20-12.00	Tea and coffeebreak

12.00-12.40	K.Cormier (University of Texas at Austin) 
		Distribution of inclusive/exclusive distinction in signed and 
		spoken languages

12.40-14.00	Lunch

14.00-14.40	M.Cysouw (ZAS, Berlin)
		Explicitness lost: homophony between inclusive/exclusive and 
		other person categories

14.40-15.20	H.Simon (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin)
		Are YOU and the OTHER(S) truly divorced? - 
		Sifting the evidence for second person inclusives and exclusives

15.20-16.00	Tea and coffeebreak

16.00-16.40	W.Schellinger (Universitaet Konstanz)
		Inclusivity, dual number, and marriage mode: Father Schmidt revisited

16.40-17.20	Hany Babu (Universitaet Konstanz)
		Pronouns in Malayalam