UiB : HF : LLE

Indo-European Case and Argument Structure in a Typological Perspective

Joint workshop with Miriam Butt (University of Konstanz) and her research team: Case Marking and Alignment in Indo-European (Dragefjellet, Sem. 1)

Wednesday, December 10th 2008
10.00–10.05 Welcome
10.05–11.00 Jóhanna Barðdal (University of Bergen) & Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Iceland): The Origin of the Oblique Subjects Construction: An Indo-European Comparison
11.00–12.00 Miriam Butt (University of Konstanz): From Spatial Expression to Core Case Marker: Urdu Dative/Accusative ko
12.00–13.00 Lunch
13.00–14.00   Tikaram Poudel (University of Konstanz): Nepali Ergativity: A Historical Perspective
14.00–15.00 Thomas Smitherman (University of Bergen): The History of Adverbial Particles in the Formation of Indo-European Adpositions and Verbal Morphology
15.00–15.30 Coffee break
15.30–16.30 Karin Tikkanen (Uppsala University): Expressions of Location, Direction and Separation in Sabellian and Latin: Bare Case Constructions and Adpositional Phrases
16.30–17.30 Ilja A. Serzants (University of Bergen): Some Thoughts on the Development of Oblique Subjects in Baltic
17.30–18.30 Discussion
   
19.30– Dinner at restaurant Somo
   
Thursday, December 11th 2008
10.00–11.00

Eystein Dahl (University of Oslo): Non-Canonical Argument Realization in Indo-Iranian: A Preliminary Investigation

11.00–12.00 Tafseer Ahmed Khan (University of Konstanz): Non Canonical Objects in South Asian languages
12.00–13.00 Lunch
13.00–14.00 Jóhanna Barðdal (University of Bergen) & Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Iceland): Syntactic Reconstruction in Proto-Indo-European: A Principled Model
14.00–15.00 Discussion
15.00–15.30 Coffee break

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 December 8, 2008 by JB