Graz Reduplication Conference

[Bernhard Hurch]

GRAZ REDUPLICATION CONFERENCE 2002
Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Graz, Austria
3 - 6 November 2002


Program


Sunday, 03.11.02
14:00 - 14:30     Opening
14:30 - 15:10     Carl Rubino: Reduplication: form, function,
                  and distribution
15:10 - 15:50     Bernhard Hurch: On the typology of
                  reduplication
15:50 - 16:30     Rajendra Singh & Lionel Wee: Is there a
                  life after reduplication?

16:30 - 17:00     Coffee Break

17:00 - 17:40     Patricia Shaw: Non-adjacency in
reduplication:
                  competing constraints at the prosody-morphology
                  interface
17:40 - 18:20     Nicole Nelson: Wrong Side reduplication:
                  typological prediction or a epiphenomen?
18:20 - 19:00     Fedor Rojanski: Typology of ideophonic
                  reduplication

19:00             Welcome-Party


Monday, 04.11.02
09:00 - 09:40     Wolfgang Dressler et al.: Reduplication in
                  language acquisition
09:40 - 10:20     Aliyah Morgenstern: Reduplication before 2 years
                  old: a tool for the construction of the lexicon
10:20 - 11:00     Hatice Sofu: Acquisition of reduplication
                  in Turkish

11:00 - 11:30     Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:10     Peter Bakker: Reduplication in pidgins and
                  creole languages
12:10 - 12:50     Charles Mann: Reduplication in pidgins and
                  creoles: Illustrations from Anglo-Nigerian
                  Pidgin
12:50 - 13:30     Silvia Kouwenberg & Darlene LaCharité: Less
                  is More: Evidence from diminutive
                  reduplication in Caribbean

13:30 - 15:00     Lunch

15:00 - 15:40     David Gil: From repetition to reduplication
                  in Riau Indonesian
15:40 - 16:20     Reijirou Shibasaki: Clause integration and
                  semantic change in Japanese verbal reduplication
16:20 - 17:00     Bella Feng: Solving the puzzle of mandarin
                  verb versus adjective reduplication

17:00 - 17:30     Coffee Break

17:30 - 18:10     Roland Pfau & Markus Steinbach: Reduplication
                  and conversion inGerman Sign Language
18:10 - 18:50     Ronnie Wilbur: Reduplication and Sign
                  Language

19:30             Reception



Tuesday, 05.11.02
09:00 - 09:40     John Frampton: What happens to a stem when
                  it combines with a reduplicative affix?
09:40 - 10:20     Sharon Inkelas: Morphological Doubling Theory
I:
                  Evidence for morphological doubling in
                  reduplication
10:20 - 11:00     Cheryl Zoll: Morphological Doubling Theory II:
                  The special phonology of reduplication

11:00 - 11:30     Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:10     Vida Shaghaghi: Reduplication in Persian
12:10 - 12:50     Dina El Zarka: Reduplication and gemination
                  in Arabic verbal morphology: one phenomenon
                  or two distinct mechanisms?
12:50 - 13:30     Utz Maas: Reduplication in syntax: the FIGURA
                  ETYMOLOGICA in Classical and Neo-Arabic

14:00 - 21:00     Excursion to the South Styrian Wine Region



Wednesday, 06.11.02
09:00 - 09:40     Elinor Keane: Phrasal reduplication and
                  dual description
09:40 - 10:20     Suzanne Urbanczyk: Enhancing
                  contrasts in reduplication
10:20 - 11:00     Stuart Davis: The interaction of nasal
                  substitution and reduplication

11:00 - 11:30     Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:10     Laura Downing: The Emergence of the marked:
                  Tone in some African reduplication systems
12:10 - 12:50     Fiona McLaughlin: Reduplication and consonant
                  mutation in Northern Atlantic (Niger-Congo)
                  languages
12:50 - 13:30     Thomas Stolz: Mediterrainianism vs. universial
                  process: Word iteration in an areal perspective

13:30 - 15:00     Lunch

15:00 - 15:40     Jason Haugen: Reduplicative allomorphy and
                  language prehistory in Uto-Aztecan
15:40 - 16:20     Fritz Schweiger: Wemba-Wemba and Yota-Yota:
                  Reduplication in Australian Languages
16:20 - 17:00     Francoise Rose: Reduplications in Tupi-Guarani
                  languages: going into the opposite direction

17:00 - 17:30     Coffee Break

17:30 - 18:10     Philip Minlos: Inexact reduplication in
                  Russian Folklore
18:10 - 18:50     Leonid Kulikov: The reduplication in Vedic
verb:
                  Indo-European inheritance, analogy and iconicity
18:50             Closing Session



organizer: Bernhard Hurch
website: www-gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at/ling/
contact: Veronika Mattes at reduplication at gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at
conference location:

       European Center for Modern Languages
       Nikolaiplatz 4
       A-8020 Graz /Austria

adress of the Linguistics Department:
       Institut für Sprachwissenschaft
       Universität Graz
       Merangasse 70
       A-8010 Graz /Austria
       Fax: +43-316-380-9780

participation fee: € 20,- (for students and active participants
       free) - on site