Program

Program of the Workshop «Syntactic change and syntactic reconstruction: New perspectives»

9.00 - 9.15 Greetings and introduction

General problems: The data. The role of corpus linguistics for syntactic reconstruction

9.15 - 9.45 Dag Haug (University of Oslo) “Aspect and prefixation in Old Church Slavonic and Greek”
9.45 - 10.15 Rosemarie Lühr (University of Jena) “Traces of discourse-configurationality in the old Indo-European languages”
10.15 – 10.45 Lieven Danckaert (University of Ghent) “Word order variation in Latin verb clusters: a diachronic perspective”

10.45 – 11.05 Pause

Case and argument coding I

11.05 – 11.35 Thomas Smitherman (University of Bergen) “Reconstructing non-canonical argument structure for Proto-Indo-European: methodological questions and progress”
11.35 – 12.05 Ilja Seržant (University of Bergen) “Reconstructing morphosyntactic changes: the independent partitive genitive from the ancient Indo-European languages to Baltic and East Slavic”

12.30 – 14.30 Lunch

Case and argument coding II

14.30 - 15.00 Oswald Panagl (University of Salzburg) “The construction ‘kath’ holon kai meros’: some thoughts on its emergence, diachronic development and comparative syntactic reconstruction”
15.00 – 15.30 Tobias Weber (University of Zürich) “Indirect diachronic explanations in typology: the case of Differential Agent Marking”

15.30 – 15.50 Pause

Connectives and clause linkage

15.50 – 16.20 Ekkehard König (Free University of Berlin) “Manner deixis as a source of grammatical markers”
16.20 – 16.50 Luz Conti (Autonomous University of Madrid) “The non-defined boundaries between prototypical adverbs and discourse markers in Homer”
16.50 – 17.20 Anna Bonifazi (University of Heidelberg) “Problematizing early IE syndetic coordination: Ancient Greek ‘and’ from Homer to Thucydides”

17.20 – 17.40 Pause

Case and clause linkage: the accusative with infinitive

17.40 – 18.10 Sean M. Gleason (University of Yale) “The Role of Analogy in the Development of Latin AcI Constructions”
18.10 – 18.40 Kristjan Šinkec (University of Tel Aviv) “Analysis of the Accusative with Infinitive to Declarative Sentences after the Verbs of Saying in Ancient Greek Language”

19.30 Social dinner

Syntax and language contact

9.00 – 9.30 Mathias Jenny (University of Zurich) “Language contact and syntactic change in Austroasiatic languages”
9.30 -10.00 Tjerk Hagemeijer (University of Lisbon) “The Gulf of Guinea creoles: a case-study of syntactic reconstruction”

10.00 – 10.20 Pause

General problems: the theory. Principles of syntactic change and syntactic reconstruction

11.20 – 12.00 Final discussion