Monday 16 March 2015
09.30-10.00 Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Iceland) & Jóhanna Barðdal (UGent)
How to identify cognates in syntax? Taking Watkins’ legacy one step further
10.00-10.30 Michael Frotscher (UGent)
Explaining the ʻgiveʼ – ʻtakeʼ alternation in the Indo-European languages
10.30-11.00 Alwin Kloekhorst (Leiden University)
The Anatolian and the Proto-Indo-European stop systems
Coffee
11.30-12.00 Leonid Kulikov (UGent)
The early Vedic particle gha and its Slavic cognates: evidence for grammaticalization paths of causal and consecutive connectors
12.00-12.30 Tatsiana Nikitsenka (UGent)
Regular semantic shifts in pragmatically-marked words
12.30-13.00 Esther Le Mair (UGent)
Non-canonical subject marking in Old Irish
Lunch (registration required)
14.00-14.30 Jóhanna Barðdal (UGent), Carlee Arnett (UCDavis), Stephen Mark Carey (UMMorris), Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Iceland), Gard B. Jenset (Oxford University), Guus Kroonen (Copenhagen University) & Adam Oberlin (The Lynsley School)
Dative Subjects in Germanic: A computational analysis of lexical semantic verb classes across time and space
14.30-15.00 Ulrike Verdonck & Miriam Taverniers (UGent)
Spontaneous event marking in Swedish from a diachronic perspective
15.00-15.30 Anne Breitbarth (UGent)
Exceptive negation in Middle Low German
Coffee
16.00-16.30 Ritsuko Kikusawa (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)
More on identifying cognate structures: comparing applicative systems in Austronesian languages
16.30-17.00 Laurie Reid (University of Hawai’i)
Language-contact diffusion and the position of Iraya among Philippine languages
Break
17.10-17.40 Doesjka Tilkin (UGent)
Runic inscriptions containing Latin: some preliminary finds
17.40-18.10 Giovanni Galdi (UGent)
On the ‘perspective’ use of incipio + infinitive in Imperial Latin
Reception (registration required)
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Tuesday 17 March 2015
09.30-10.00 Lucien van Beek (Leiden University)
The palatalization of labiovelars in Greek: new etymological evidence
10.00-10.30 Filip De Decker (Ludwig Maximilians University Munich)
The augment in epic and lyric poetry: Homer, Hesiod and Pindar
10.30-11.00 Mark Janse (UGent)
What women want: speaking names, talking birds and other obscure obscenities in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata
Coffee
11.30-12.00 Serena Danesi (University of Bergen)
The distribution of subject properties in Ancient Greek
12.00-12.30 Klaas Bentein (UGent)
Minor complementation patterns in Post-Classical and Byzantine Greek: a socio-historical approach
12.30-13.00 Metin Bağrıaçık (UGent): Ki as a spurious complementizer in Pharasiot Greek
Lunch (registration required)
14.00-14.30 Brian D. Joseph (Ohio State University)
Hybridization in language contact
14.30-15.00 Timothy Colleman (UGent)
On semantic shifts in Dutch and Afrikaans ditransitive constructions (and why construction grammarians should care)
Guided Tour