UiB : HF : LLE

Indo-European Case and Argument Structure in a Typological Perspective

 

Workshop:

Hitches in Historical Linguistics

Location: Ø3: 418–422 (Øysteinsgate 3)

 

 
Thursday, February 23rd 2012

 

10.00–11.00

Ritsuko Kikusawa: Actancy Systems in Austronesian Languages: Typological Generalizations and Diachronic Analyses

11.00–11.30

Coffee Break

11.30–12.10

Henning Andersen: On the Origin of Slavic Aspects

12.10–13.10 Jóhanna Barðdal, Thomas Smitherman, Valgerður Bjarnadóttir & Gard B. Jenset: Reconstructing constructional semantics: The dative subject construction in Old Norse-Icelandic, Latin, Ancient Greek, Old Russian and Lithuanian

13.10–14.10 

Lunch

14.10–14.50

Laurie Reid: Klamer's Grammaticalization Strategies in the Light of Philippine Data

14.50–15.30

Jóhanna Barðdal, Valgerður Bjarnadóttir, Eystein Dahl, Thórhallur Eythórsson, Chiara Fedriani & Thomas Smitherman: "Woe to the Rich and the Sordid Fellows": The Syntax, Semantics and Information Structure of 'Woe' in Indo-European

15.30–16.00 Catrine Sandal: Oblique Anticausatives in Old Norse
16.00–16.30

Coffee Break

16.30–17.10

Thomas Smitherman: Metaphors Expressed by Argument Marking Patterns: An Historical and Typological View

17.10–17.50

Tonya Kim Dewey: Oblique Subjects in Early Germanic: Areal Feature or Common Inheritance

   
19.00– Dinner at Bryggen Tracteursted
   

Friday, February 24th 2012

   
09.30–10.00

Stephen Mark Carey: "Sô mi thés uundar thunkit": Consistencies and Innovations of Dative Subjects in the History of German

10.00–11.00

Erik Andvik: From Semantic to Pragmatic Meaning: Pathways of Development in the Grammaticalization of Norwegian Modal Particles

11.00–11.40

Serena Danesi: The Oblique Subject Construction and the Dative–Nominative Alternation in Sanskrit

11.40–12.40 Lunch
12.40–13.40

Jóhanna Barðdal & Thórhallur Eythórsson: "Hungering and Lusting for Women and Fleshly Delicasies": Reconstructing Grammatical Relations for Proto-Germanic

14.00–15.30

Guided Tour: The medieval ruins of Christ Church, the Haakons Hall and the Rosenkranz Tower

 

 

 

 

 

 


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

    Updated February 21, 2012 by JB