Events

• Mon

  09

  Mar

  2026

  Jóhanna Barðdal (Ghent University) - "How to Reconstruct Case and Argument Structure for Inconsistent Correspondence Sets Across Daughter Languages"

  3:00 pmFaculteitszaal

  How to Reconstruct Case and Argument Structure for Inconsistent Correspondence Sets Across Daughter Languages: The Case of ‘Satisfy’, ‘Satiate’, ‘Suffice’ and ‘Be Satisfied’ in Germanic

  The verb 'suffice' in the Germanic languages is of major interest to syntactic reconstruction for several reasons. First, two different, but etymologically related, verbs exist in the early daughter languages with the meaning 'suffice', reconstructable as *ga-nahan and *ga-nōgjan. Second, major inconsistencies are found between the case and argument structure constructions across the two verbs and across the daughter languages, including Nom-Gen, Acc-only, Acc-Nom, Acc-Gen, Dat-Gen and Dat-Nom. These case frames are not particularly compatible with each other, severely limiting the chances of a successful reconstruction. A further scrutiny reveals that the younger verb may also occur as a ditransitive, which complicates matters even further. Here both verbs are reconstructed for Proto-Germanic with different case frames, including how the internal development may, or even must, have been in order for the two verbs and the different case and argument structure constructions to be reconcilable. This study also shows that the lexical semantic meanings range from 'satiate', 'endow' and 'satisfy' to 'be satisfied', 'find sufficient' and 'suffice', all depending on the relevant case and argument structure constructions, calling for a further investigation into the role of argument structure for semantic change with lexical verbs.

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• Mon

  23

  Mar

  2026

  Didier Demolin (Université Sorbonne nouvelle, CNRS & Rhodes University Makhanda) & Francisco Mendes (Federal University of Brasilia) - "Acoustic features and grammatical structures of Muriqui vocalizations"

  3:00 pmBlandijn 2 3.30 (Camelot)

  Acoustic features and grammatical structures of Muriqui vocalizations

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• Mon

  20

  Apr

  2026

  Annachiara Clementelli - t.b.a.

  3:00 pm

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• Mon

  20

  Mar

  2023

  Sampson Korsah (University of Cape Coast, Ghana): Object drop in language: Theoretical insights from Kwa

  2:00 pmBlandijn Faculteitszaal

  Sampson Korsah (University of Cape Coast, Ghana): "Object drop in language: Theoretical insights from Kwa"

   

  Abstract: here

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