UiB : HF : LLE

Indo-European Case and Argument Structure in a Typological Perspective

Launching workshop on Indo-European and typological aspects of Case and Argument Structure (Dragefjellet, Sem. 1) Wednesday, August 20th 2008 13.00–15.00 Reception at Knut Fægris hus, Villaveien 9 15.30–15.45 Introduction 15.45–16.15 Jóhanna Barðdal (University of Bergen) & Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Iceland): The Prehistory of Oblique Subjects: An Indo-European Comparison 16.15–16.45 Leonid Kulikov (Leiden University): The Proto-Indo-European case system and its reflexes: Substrate influence in a diachronic typological perspective 16.45–17.00   Break 17.00–17.30 Thomas Smitherman (University of Bergen): Parallels in the development of voice and aspect in Kartvelian and Indo-European 17.30–18.30 Kjartan Ottósson (University of Oslo): The anticausative and related categories in the Old Germanic languages 19.30– Dinner     Thursday, August 21st 2008 10.00–11.00 Robin Ryder (University of Oxford): Phylogenetic methods for linguistic data 11.00–11.30 Gard Jenset (University of Bergen): Some applications of statistics in historical linguistics 11.30–11.45 Break 11.45–12.15 Hanne Eckhoff & Dag Haug (University of Oslo): Representing argument structure – the PROIEL corpus of Old Indo-European bible translations 12.15–13.15 Ilja Serzants (University of Bergen): The co-occurrence of valence reducing and valence increasing categories in a same verb form in Tocharian 13.15–14.30 Lunch 14.30–15.30 Shobhana Chelliah (University of North Texas): Optional Ergativity in Tibeto-Burman 15.30–16.00 Michela Cennamo (University of Naples): Impersonal constructions and argument marking in Latin 16.00–16.30 Steven Clancy (University of Chicago): The Russian subject 16.30–16.45 Break 16.45–17.15 Eystein Dahl (University of Oslo): Some aspects of argument realization in Vedic Sanskrit 17.15–17.45 Thomas Smitherman (University of Bergen): Reconstructing the functional semantics of particles and the advancement of Indo-European linguistics 17.45–18.15 Jóhanna Barðdal (University of Bergen) & Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Iceland): Reconstructing syntax: Construction grammar and the comparative method 18.15–18.45 Discussion 19.30– Dinner

Jóhanna Barðdal, Principal Investigator
Dept. of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, UiB
Box 7805
NO-5020 Bergen
Phone +47-55 58 24 38
Fax +47-55 58 96 60
johanna.barddal at uib.no