23.1276, Confs: Romance, Germanic, Historical Ling, Socioling/Netherlands

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Subject: 23.1276, Confs: Romance, Germanic, Historical Ling, Socioling/Netherlands

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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:04:38
From: Petra Sleeman [p.sleeman at uva.nl]
Subject: Adjectives in Germanic and Romance: Variation and Change

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Adjectives in Germanic and Romance: Variation and Change 

Date: 29-Mar-2012 - 30-Mar-2012 
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands 
Contact: Petra Sleeman 
Contact Email: variation-change-fgw at uva.nl 
Meeting URL: http://www.hum.uva.nl/adjectives 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Language Family(ies): Germanic; Romance 
Meeting Description: 

Adjectives in Germanic and Romance: Variation and Change
29 March - 30 March, 2012 
Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam (ACLC)

Although the Germanic and Romance languages are two branches of 
the same language family and both have developed the adjective as a 
separate morphological and syntactic category, the syntax and 
semantics of adjectives is by no means the same in these two language 
groups. The goal of this conference is to map the differences and 
similarities in meaning and syntactic behavior of the Germanic and 
Romance adjective, and to find an answer to the question: are the 
(dis)similarities the result of autonomous development in each of the 
two branches of the Indo-European language family or are they caused 
by language contact.

Invited Speakers: 

Fred Weerman (University of Amsterdam) 
Frans Plank (Universität Konstanz) 

Thursday 29 March (location: Bungehuis, Spuistraat 210, Amsterdam, 
room 401)

08.45   -    09.15        
Registration

09.15   -     09.30        
Opening + announcements

09.30   -     10.30
Invited speaker: Fred Weerman (ACLC, University of Amsterdam) 
The rise and fall of adjectival inflection

10.30   -     11.00
Marit Julien (Lund University) & Dorian Roehrs (University of North 
Texas) 
Constructions off the beaten track: revisiting the inflections on 
attributive adjectives in German and Norwegian

11.00   -     11.15       
Coffee break

11.15   -     11.45 
Ulla Stroh-Wollin (Uppsala University) & Rico Simke (Friedrich-Alexan
der-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg) 
Weak adjectives in early Swedish/Scandinavian

11.45   -     12.15
Amanda Pounder (University of Calgary & Universität Konstanz) 
Adjective inflection: information and informativeness

12.15   -     12.45
Freek Van de Velde (University of Leuven)
The Dutch attributive inflectional schwa is not functionless yet

12.45   -     14.00       
Lunch break

14.00   -     14.30
Alexander Pfaff (CASTL/University of Tromsø)
Pre- and postnominal adjectives from an Icelandic perspective

14.30   -     15.00        
Erik Schoorlemmer (MIT)
Germanic and Romance predicative adjectives: variation in agreement

15.00   -     15.30
Maartje Schulpen & Ana Aguilar-Guevara (Utrecht University) 
Comparing subtyping and relational adjectives: data from Dutch and 
Spanish

15.30   -     15.45        
Tea break

15.45   -     16.15
Reiko Shimamura (Tsuda College, Tokyo) 
Modification of nouns by adjectives in compounds in English

16.15   -     16.45
Martin Hummel (Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz)
The adjective-adverb interface in Romance and English

16.45   -     17.15
Kristel Van Goethem & Hendrik De Smet (University of Leuven) 
How nouns turn into adjectives: the emergence of new adjectives in 
French, Dutch and English through debonding processes

18.00                           
Conference dinner

Friday 30 March (location: Bungehuis, Spuistraat 210, Amsterdam, 
room 401)

09.30   -     10.00
Harry Perridon (ACLC, University of Amsterdam) 
Adjectives and the definite article

10.00   -     10.30
Volker Struckmeier (Universität Köln)
Attributive agreement induces phase structure in German(ic)

10.30   -     11.00
Carola Trips (Universität Mannheim) 
The position proper of the adjective in Middle English: a result of 
language contact?

11.00   -     11.15        
Coffee break

11.15   -     11.45
Petra Sleeman (ACLC, University of Amsterdam) 
>From participle to adjective in Germanic and Romance

11.45   -     12.15
Ilse Stangen (Universität Hamburg) 
2L1 and L2 acquisition of interfaces in French adjective placement

12.15   -     12.45
Robert Cirillo (ACLC, University of Amsterdam)
Accounting for the variation in pre- and post-nominal universal 
quantifiers in Germanic and Romance

12.45   -     14.00        
Lunch break

14.00   -     14.30
Dana Niculescu (ACLC, University of Amsterdam)
The mixed categorial behavior of 'cel' + participle in Romanian

14.30   -     15.00
Caroline Morris & Muriel Norde (University of Groningen)
>From descriptive genitive to adjective : Swedish 'slags'

15.00   -     15.15        
Tea break

15.15   -     16.30
Invited speaker : Frans Plank (Universität Konstanz)
The direction of derivation between nouns and adjectives, with special 
reference to Germanic vs Romance

16.30   -     18.00        
Drinks

For abstracts see: http://www.hum.uva.nl/adjectives

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