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Mon20Mar20232:00 pmBlandijn Faculteitszaal
Sampson Korsah (University of Cape Coast, Ghana): Object drop in language: Theoretical insights from Kwa
Show contentSampson Korsah (University of Cape Coast, Ghana): "Object drop in language: Theoretical insights from Kwa"
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Tue28Oct202511:00 amFaculteitszaal
Duccio Guasti (Ghent University) - "Greek kēlōn "stallion": etymology and original meaning"
Show contentAbstract: 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."