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  • Tue
    08
    Nov
    2022

    William Balla-Johnson: A ‘More Perfect’ Shift: Semantic change in the history of the Western European Romance pluperfect.

    2:00 pmBlandijn Faculteitszaal

    William Balla-Johnson: “A ‘More Perfect’ Shift: Semantic change in the history of the Western European Romance pluperfect.”

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  • Tue
    28
    Oct
    2025

    Duccio Guasti (Ghent University) - "Greek kēlōn "stallion": etymology and original meaning"

    11:00 amFaculteitszaal

    Abstract: In this paper, after rejecting all proposed etymologies, I reconstruct the Greek κήλων, a word that can refer both to stallion donkeys and to hypersexual men, as a formation in-ων from κήλη "hernia, swelling, tumor."

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