22.4943, Confs: Morphology, Semantics/Austria

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Date: 07-Dec-2011
From: Tania Paciaroni [paciaron at rom.uzh.ch]
Subject: Exploring Grammatical Gender


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Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:13:43
From: Tania Paciaroni [paciaron at rom.uzh.ch]
Subject: Exploring Grammatical Gender

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Exploring Grammatical Gender 

Date: 09-Feb-2012 - 12-Feb-2012 
Location: Vienna, Austria 
Contact: Tania Paciaroni 
Contact Email: imm15_gender at rom.uzh.ch 
Meeting URL: http://wwwap.wu.ac.at/imm15/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

Workshop: Exploring Grammatical Gender

Organized by Michele Loporcaro (Zurich University), Tania Paciaroni (Zurich University) & Anna M. Thornton (L'Aquila University), within the 15th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 9-12, 2012 

Main conference website: http://wwwap.wu.ac.at/imm15/

Invited Speaker:

Greville G. Corbett (Surrey Morphology Group) 

Workshop 

Exploring grammatical gender

Thursday, February 9

16.30-16.45	
Introduction

16.45-17.45	
Invited speaker:
Greville G. Corbett (Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey)
'Is gender special?'

17.45-18.15	
Peter Siemund & Florian Dolberg (University of Hamburg)
'From lexical to referential gender: An analysis of gender change in medieval  English based on two historical documents'

18.15-18.30	
Break

18.30-19.00	
Yulia Rodina (CASTL, University of Tromsø)
'The effect of variable input in the acquisition of grammatical gender in Russian: Child and caregiver'

19.00-19.30	
Michelle St-Amour (University of Toronto) 
'Feature interactions in Russian grammatical gender assignment'

19.30-20.00	
Petros Karatsareas (University of Cambridge)
'On the synchrony and diachrony of gender agreement in Pontic Greek: Syntactic  versus semantic'

Saturday, February 11

16.30-16.45	
Administrative stuff

16.45-17.15	
Hans-Olav Enger (University of Oslo)
'Scandinavian pancake sentences - again'

17.15-17.45	
Gunlög Josefsson (Lund University)
'Pancake sentences and gender system changes in Mainland Scandinavian'

17.45-18.15	
Ion Giurgea ('Iorgu Iordan-Al. Rosetti' Institute of Linguistics, Bucharest)
'Ambigenerics and the controller vs. target gender distinction'

18.15-18.30	
Break

18.30-19.00	
Ruth Kramer (Georgetown University)
'The morphosyntax of natural gender: Evidence from Amharic'

19.00-19.30	
Rose-Marie Déchaine - Raphael Girard - Calisto Mudzingwa - Martina Wiltschko (University of British Columbia)
'The internal syntax of Shona class prefixes'

19.30-20.00	
Jenny Audring (Leiden University)
'Gender and complexity'

Alternates:

1.
Margot Kraaikamp (University of Amsterdam)
'Semantic versus lexical gender agreement in Dutch'

2. 
Bettina Jobin (Uppsala University)
'Morpheme on the loose - the fluctuating use of the suffix -e in adjectival gender agreement in Present Day Swedish'






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