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Indo-European Case and Argument Structure in a Typological Perspective

Program     2012       29 January 2012 Friday Linguistics Seminar with Jóhanna Barðdal: "Hungering and Lusting for Women and Fleshly Delicacies": Reconstructing Grammatical Relations in Proto-Germanic     17 February 2012 Guest talk by Ritsuko Kikusawa (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka): TBA     23–24 February 2012 Workshop "Hitches in Historical Linguistics"     9 March 2012 Guest talk by Laurie Reid (University of Hawai): "Say What?": Grammaticalization Paths of Say in some Formosan and Philippines Languages     3 May 2012 Workshop "Measuring Case"     28 May 2012 Seminar: Spike Gildea and Mirjam Fried     4–8 June 2012 Conference on "Non-Canonical Case Marking of Subjects" in Reykjavík and at Eyjafjallajökull     2011       11 March 2011 Guest talk by Chiara Fedriani (University of Pavia): Experiential Constructions in Latin: Some Syncronic and Diachronic Remarks     13 April 2011 Classics Seminar with Thomas Smitherman & Valerie Hannon: Oblique Subject Predicates in Ancient Greek: Beyond the Few and Obvious     6 May 2011 Friday Linguistic Seminar with Eystein Dahl: TBA (Cancelled)     12–13 May 2011 Workshop "Changes in Case and Argument Structure in the Archaic and Ancient Indo-European Languages"     25–30 July 2011 ICHL 20 Workshop: Reconstructing Syntax     30–31 August 2011 Guest talks by Beatrice Primus (University of Cologne): Agentivity in Impersonal Passives and Productivity: Empirical Methods and Explanations     8–11 September 2011 SLE-44 Workshop: Diachronic Construction Grammar     19–20 September 2011 Guest talks by Joe Salmons (University of Madison, Wisconsin): Verb Regularizations in German: Frequency in Context and Transmission and Persistence in Sound Change     2010       16 April 2010 Friday Linguistic Seminar with Jóhanna Barðdal: The Rise of Dative Substitution in the History of Icelandic.   10 May 2010 Guest talk by Krzysztof Stronski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan): Ergativity in Indo-Aryan – Competetitive Explanations   20–21 May 2010 Guest talks by Brian D. Joseph (The Ohio State University): Lectures on Grammaticalization   27–30 May 2010 Workshop: Variation and Change in Argument Realization     2–5 September 2010 SLE 43 Workshop: Subject and Transitivity in Indo-European and beyond: A Diachronic Typological Perspective     2–5 September 2010 SLE 43 Workshop: Ergativity in Indo-Aryan     27 September 2010 Guest talk by Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Iceland): The Faroese Experimental Kitchen: Changes in Case Marking in the Scandinavian Passive     2009       14 Feburary 2009 Reading Seminar     28 Feburary 2009 Reading Seminar     13 March 2009 Guest talk by Bridget Drinka (University of Texas, San Antonio): Stratified Reconstruction and a New View of the Family Tree Model   20 March 2009 Reading Seminar     27 March 2009 Guest talk by Cynthia L. Allen (National Australian University): 'His' Genitives in Early English and Germanic Possessor Doubling     8 May 2009 Reading Seminar     14–15 May 2009 Workshop: Reconstructing Alignment Systems     22 May 2009 Guest talk by Bethwyn Evans (National Australian University/Max Planck Institute, Leipzig): Reconstructing syntactic and semantic motivations of reanalysis     17 June 2009 Reading Seminar     28 July–3 August 2009 Workshop: Cognitive and CxG based Approaches to Evolution (Postponed until October, Prague) 10–15 August 2009 Workshop: The Origin of Non-Canoncial Subject Marking in Indo-European     21 September 2009 Guest talk by Jekaterina Rakhilina (Det Russiske Humanistiske Universitet, Moskva): Semantic Shifts and pain predicates: "rebranding" 1 October 2009 Guest talk by Anatol Stefanowitsch (University of Bremen): On PATH and MANNER in English Motion Clauses     23 October 2009 Internal Seminar: Presentation by Chiara Fedriani     5 November 2009 Reading Seminar     6 November 2009 Friday Linguistic Seminar with Thomas Smitherman: The Case for Prehistoric Language Contact Between Kartvelian and Indo-European     12 November 2009 Internal Seminar: Presentation by Jóhanna Barðdal     13 November 2009 Friday Linguistic Seminar with Jóhanna Barðdal: West-Scandinavian Ditransitives as a Family of Constructions.     20 November 2009 Internal Seminar: Presentation by Chiara Fedriani     4 December 2009 Guest talk by Guro Fløgstad (University of Oslo):     2008   20–21 August 2008 Launching workshop on Indo-European and Typological Aspects of Case and Argument Structure     15 October 2008 Guest talk by Eystein Dahl (University of Oslo): Remarks on the Development of the Vedic Verbal System     10–11 December 2008 Joint Workshop with Miriam Butt in Konstanz and her research team: Case Marking and Alignment in Indo-European

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