20.1802, Confs: Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Typology/Norway

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Subject: 20.1802, Confs: Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Typology/Norway

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Date: 08-May-2009
From: Jóhanna Barðdal < johanna.barddal at uib.no >
Subject: Reconstructing Alignment Systems
 

	
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Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 23:01:30
From: Jóhanna Barðdal [johanna.barddal at uib.no]
Subject: Reconstructing Alignment Systems

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Reconstructing Alignment Systems 

Date: 14-May-2009 - 15-May-2009 
Location: Bergen, Norway 
Contact: Thomas Smitherman 
Contact Email: Thomas.Smitherman at uib.no 
Meeting URL: http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/Workshop3.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Morphology; Syntax; Typology 

Meeting Description: 

This is a two-day workshop at the University of Bergen open to papers on diachronic syntax, most specifically, the reconstruction of case alignment systems. 

Thursday 14. May
 	 
10.00-11.00
Alice Harris: 
Methods of Reconstruction in Case Alignment
 	 
11.00-11.40
Spike Gildea & Flávia de Castro Alves: 
Reconstructing the Source of Nominative-Absolutive Alignment in 
two Amazonian Languages

11.40-12.20
Ferenc Havas: Relics of Prenominativity: 
The Uralic Evidence

12.20-13.10
Lunch

13.10-13.50
Helena Metslang: 
Changes in the Use of Partitive Subjects in Estonian

13.50-14.30
Marine Ivanishvili & Rusudan Asatiani: 
Hierarchies of Grammatical Categories and Alignment Systems: 
Batsbi and Georgian

14.30-14.40
Break

14.40-15.20
Thomas Smitherman: 
The Role of Diathetic Systems in Alignment Change

15.20-16.00
Eleanor Coghill: 
The Rise and Fall of Ergative Agreement in the Neo-Aramaic Verb

16.00-16.20
Coffee Break

16.20-17.00
Michela Cennamo: 
Active Systems and the Rise of Head-Marking: A Case Study from Latin
 	 
17.10-18.10
Jóhanna Barðdal & Thórhallur Eythórsson: 
Reconstructing Syntax: Construction Grammar and the 
Comparative Method
 	 
19.00-
Conference Dinner
 	 
Friday 15. May

09.30-10.10
I.V. Kokhlova: 
Some Implications of Alignment Changes in the Historical Development of Three Western 
NIA Languages: Punjabi, Gujarati and Rajasthani

10.10-10.50
Annie Montaut & Appasamy Murugaiyan: The Emergence of Oblique Coding of First Arguments in Indian 
Languages

10.50-11.00
Break

11.00-11.40
Andrea Drocco: 
The Evolution of the Ergative-Absolutive System in Some Western New Indo-Aryan 
Languages

11.40-12.20
Eystein Dahl: 
Prospects and Limitations of Syntactic Reconstruction: The Case of Indo-Iranian

12.20-13.10
Lunch

13.10-13.50
Ilja Serzants: 
Partitive Genitive in Indo-European

13.50-14.30
Julija Vaschenko:
 The Stem-building Suffix -u in Ancient Germanic Languages

14.30-14.50
Coffee Break

14.50-15.50
Geoffrey Haig: 
Non-Canonical Subjects, and Alignment Splits: Where's the Connection?
 	 
16.15-18.15
Guided tour in the Bergen Centre





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