17.2574, Confs: Morphology, Discipline of Ling,Germanic Lang,Romance Lang/Germany

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Subject: 17.2574, Confs: Morphology, Discipline of Ling,Germanic Lang,Romance Lang/Germany

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Date: 11-Sep-2006
From: Barbara Fassnacht < bfassnacht at gmx.net >
Subject: New Perspectives on Morphological Change 

	
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Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:07:20
From: Barbara Fassnacht < bfassnacht at gmx.net >
Subject: New Perspectives on Morphological Change 
 



New Perspectives on Morphological Change 

Date: 27-Oct-2006 - 28-Oct-2006 
Location: Berlin, Germany 
Contact: Elisabeth Stark 
Contact Email: estark at zedat.fu-berlin.de 
Meeting URL: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~estark/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics; Morphology; Typology 

Language Family(ies): Germanic; Indo-European; Romance 
Meeting Description: 

Main issues: morphological change, typology and diachrony. 

Interdisziplinäres Zentrum Europäische Sprachen (ZEUS)
Strukturen  Entwicklung  Vergleich

International Workshop on ''New Perspectives on Morphological Change''
Freie Universität Berlin (Room: L 115, Silberlaube)

Friday, 27th october 2006

9.00-9.30 Elisabeth Stark, Freie Universität Berlin
          Opening remarks

9.30-10.45 Paolo Ramat, Università di Pavia
           ''Typology and philology''

10.45-12.00 Greville Corbett, University of Surrey
            ''Determining features and their values''

14.00-15.00 Ranko Matasovi?, University of Zagreb
            ''The drift in the evolution of gender systems in Indo- 
            European languages''

15.00-16.00 Jan Terje Faarlund, University of Oslo
            ''The diachronic morphosyntax of clitics: from free  
            determiner to cliticized article''

16.30-17.30 Franz Rainer, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
            ''Polysemy of agent nouns in Romance: typology, diachrony and  
            universals of semantic change in
            word-formation''

17.30-18.30 Matthias Hüning, Freie Universität Berlin
            ''A comparative view on the history of A+N compounds in Dutch  
            and German''

Saturday, 28th october 2006

9.00-10.00 Elisabeth Leiss, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
           ''Diachrony and typology of aspect and modality across 
           European languages''

10.00-11.00 Werner Abraham, Universität Wien
            ''Reflexive and passive diatheses in diachrony and synchrony''

11.30-12.30 Anna Bartra Kaufmann, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
            ''Passive morphology and syntax in Old Catalan and Romance''

14.30-15.30 Georg Kaiser, Universität Konstanz & Klaus von Heusinger,   
            Universität Stuttgart ''Morphosyntactic change in  
            differential object marking in Romance languages''

15.30-16.30 Franck Floricic, Université de Toulouse
            ''On the morphosyntactic status of negation in the history of 
            Italian, Spanish and Occitan''

17.00-18.00 Agnes Jäger, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena
            ''Typology of changes in syntactic patterns of negation with 
            special emphasis on German''

18.00-19.00 Alex Klinge, Copenhagen Business School
            ''Syntax or morphology? On the development and analyses of un-
            Germanic English lexical formation patterns''.





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