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Date: 22-Jun-2010
From: Johannes Helmbrecht < johannes.helmbrecht at sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de >
Subject: The Grammar of Proper Names - A Typological Perspective
 

	
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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:25:34
From: Johannes Helmbrecht [johannes.helmbrecht at sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de]
Subject: The Grammar of Proper Names - A Typological Perspective

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The Grammar of Proper Names - A Typological Perspective 

Date: 07-Oct-2010 - 08-Oct-2010 
Location: Regensburg, Germany 
Contact: Johannes Helmbrecht 
Contact Email: johannes.helmbrecht at sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de 
Meeting URL: http://www-avs.uni-regensburg.de/navigation.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Typology 

Meeting Description: 

International conference on the 'Grammar of Proper Names - A Typological 
Perspective' to be held at the University of Regensburg, Germany on October, 
7-8 2010. 

This is to notify the linguistic community that there will be a conference on 
'The Grammar of Proper Names - A Typological Perspective' to be held at 
the University of Regensburg, Germany  in  October, 7-8, 2010.  

The conferece URL is http://www-avs.uni-regensburg.de/navigation.htm 

This site contains all information on the general topic and theoretical 
background of the conference, the location, the programme, accommodation, 
etc.

There are no conference fees. Participants are kindly asked to register.

Invited speakers are:

Willy Van Langendonck (Katholike Universiteit Leuven) 
Mark Van de Velde (Paris CNRS, France) 
Dmitry Idiatov (University of Antwerp, Belgium) 

The  conference program is as follows:

Thursday October, 7 

8:00-9:15 
Registration 

9:15-9:30 
Welcome address by Prof. Dr. Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh 
(Vice Principal of the University of Regensburg) 

9:30-10:15 
Proper names as the prototypical nouns between common nouns and 
pronouns 
Willy Van Langendonck (Katholike Universiteit Leuven) 

10:15-10:45 
The internal and external syntax of proper names in Cree (Algonquian) 
H.C.Wolfart (University of Manitoba, Canada) 

Coffee break 

11:00-11:30 
Proper names and obviation in Plains Cree (Algonquian) 
Jeffrey Muehlbauer (University of Lethbridge, Canada) 

11:30-12:00 
On the morphology and syntax of personal names in Slavic 
Björn Hansen & Ernst Hansack (University of Regensburg, Germany) 

12:00-12:30 
The grammar of indefinite proper names 
Klaus von Heusinger (Universität Stuttgart, Germany) 

12:30-14:00 
Lunch

14:00-14:45 
Grammatical criteria for delimiting the category of proper names 
Mark Van de Velde (Paris CNRS, France) 

14:45-15:15 
Personal names with articles - a quantitative approach 
Hanne Eckhoff & Dag Haug (University of Oslo, Norway) 

15:15-15:45 
Proper names and definite article in Modern Greek 
Giannoula Giannoulopoulou (University of Athens, Greece) 

Coffee break 

16:00-16:30 
Syntactic properties of proper names in Iatmul (Papuan) and beyond 
Gerd Jendraschek (University of Regensburg, Germany) 

16:30-17:00 
The structural types of oikonyms in Finno-Ugric languages 
Alexander Pustyakov (University of Tartu, Estonia) 

Friday October, 8 

9:30-10:15 
Non-selective interrogative pronominals, categorical presuppositional 
meanings of proper names, and propriality 
Dmitry Idiatov (University of Antwerp, Belgium) 

10:15-10:45 
Form and function of modifiers in complex German toponyms 
Betina Schnabel-Le Corre (Université Rennes 2, LIDILE, France) 

Coffee break 

11:00-11:30 
Some grammatical features of Turkic borrowings in Kartvelian 
anthroponymics 
Marika Jikia (Tbilisi State University; Georgia) 

11:30-12:00 
Microtoponymy, semiology, and locative language 
Marie Thériault (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada) 

12:00-12:30 
Gender differences and consonant distribution in Georgian proper nouns: 
phonetic symbolism. 
Rusudan Asatiani (Tbilisi State University, Georgia) 

12:30-14:00 
Lunch 

14:00-14:30 
Syntactic and semantic features of Persian proper nouns: a gender-based 
study 
Ehya Amalsaleh & Manizheh Abdollahi (Shiraz University, Iran) 

14:30-15:00 
Toward a names typology: anthroponyms in Arabic 
Terrence Potter (Georgetown University Washington, DC) 

15:00-15:30 
Bad Caves and Good Mountains: the typology of Slovenian toponyms 
Donald F. Reindl (University of Ljubljana; Slovenia) 

15:30-16:00 
On the universality of proper names 
Johannes Helmbrecht (University of Regensburg, Germany) 

Coffee break 

16:15-17:00 
Roundtable: theoretical conclusions 
(all participants) 

http://www-avs.uni-regensburg.de/navigation.htm





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