29.1005, Confs: Historical Linguistics/Switzerland

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Subject: 29.1005, Confs: Historical Linguistics/Switzerland

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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:30:07
From: Francesco Gardani [francesco.gardani at uzh.ch]
Subject: Romance languages and the others: the Balkan Sprachbund

 
Romance languages and the others: the Balkan Sprachbund 

Date: 25-May-2018 - 26-May-2018 
Location: Zurich, Switzerland 
Contact: Francesco Gardani 
Contact Email: francesco.gardani at uzh.ch 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The languages of the Balkans are a gold mine when it comes to instances of
contact-induced language change, as they are a paramount example of linguistic
and socio-cultural processes which over the centuries have led to high levels
of structural convergence. This so called Sprachbund also includes Romance
languages: Daco-Romanian as well as the less-known varieties spoken south of
the Danube, viz. Istro-Romanian, Aromanian, and Megleno-Romanian . The
workshop, as part of the SNF-funded project ''Linguistic Morphology in Time
and Space'' (CRSII1_160739 / 1), will bring to Zurich several experts in
Romance, Balkan and contact-linguistics, to present their ongoing research on
Romance and the other languages of the Balkans.
 

Program: 

Thursday, 24 May 2018

08:45-09:15: Welcome coffee

09:15-09:20:
Official welcome (UZH authorities)

09:20-09:30:
Francesco Gardani & Michele Loporcaro
Welcome and introduction

Chair: Michele Loporcaro 
09:30-10:10:
Martin Maiden (Oxford)
How 'Slavonic' is Daco-Romance verb morphology?

10:10-10:50:
Francesco Gardani (Zurich)
Verbal aspect in Istro-Romanian

10:50-11:20: Coffee break
 
Chair: Francesco Gardani
11:20-12:00:
Brian Joseph (Ohio State U)
Eastern and Western Romance in the Balkans — The contrasting but revealing
positions of the Romanian languages and Judeo-Spanish

12:00-12:40:
Angela Ralli (Patras) 
Romance contrasting Turkish as donor languages in the Greek-speaking world
  
12:40-14:45: Lunch break (Dozentenfoyer)

Chair: Brian Joseph
14:45-15:25:
Barbara Sonnenhauser (Zurich)
Areal aspects of the morphosyntax of Albanian

15:25-16:05:
Paul Widmer (Zurich)
TBA

Friday, 25 May 2018

Chair: Martin Maiden
09:30-10:10:
Adam Ledgeway (Cambridge)
The Romanian definite article in a comparative Romance perspective

10:10-10:50:
Michele Loporcaro, Francesco Gardani & Alberto Giudici (Zurich) 
Borrowed numerals in Istro-Romanian

10:50-11:20: Coffee break

11:20-12:00:
Walter Breu (Konstanz) 
Italo-Albanian: Balkan inheritance and Romance influence

Chair: Francesco Gardani & Michele Loporcaro
12:00-12:15:
Final discussion and closing remarks





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