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• 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

Event Information:

• Fri

  18

  Sep

  2015

  The Language(s) of the Papyrus Archives

  10:00 amKoninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- & Letterkunde (KANTL)

  The conference “The Language(s) of the Papyrus Archives” will be held at the conference center KANTL (Koningstraat, Ghent) on 18 September 2015.
  The conference focuses on the linguistic approach of (documentary) papyri, and on papyri preserved in papyrological archives in particular.
  It has a multilingual scope with contributions about Greek, Demotic and Latin.
  It not only presents scientific results of scholars working within the field of the linguistic study of papyri, but it also aims to discuss the potential of this relatively new subdiscipline.

  Programme
  10.00-10.30       Coffee
  10.30-10.45       Welcoming speech (Delphine Nachtergaele, Ghent University)
  10.45-11.30       Bilingual documents in Greco-Roman Egypt (Willy Clarysse, KU Leuven)
  11.30-12.15       Some Aspects of the Language of Individuals and Social Groups in Zenon Papyri (Trevor Evans, Macquarie University, Sydney)
  12.15-13.30       Lunch
  13.30-14.15       Further observations on senders, scribes and language (Hilla Halla-aho, University of Helsinki)
  14.15-15.00       DIA in the Archive of Basil the Pagarch (VIII AD) (Klaas Bentein, Ghent University)
  15.00-15.45       Digital Humanities and the future of linguistic papyrology (Mark Depauw, KU Leuven)

  Registration
  Attendance of the conference is open to the public. A fee of €25 is asked for coffee & tea and lunch; therefore advance registration is necessary. If you plan to attend, please inform the organizers (Delphine.Nachtergaele@UGent.be)

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