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ΔiaLing presentation by Prof. Dr. Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) : “From diachronic observations to synchronic semantic analyses: the case of the NP-strategy for expressing reciprocity.”

You can find the abstract here.

ΔiaLing presentation by Prof. Dr. Peter Arnold Mumm (LMU München) : “On the Etymology of germ. Seele ‘soul’.”

You can find the abstract here.

Prof. dr. Ulrike Vogl and PhD student Nikoleta Vassalou will introduce themselves and their respective research to the members of DiaLing.

Prof. Anne Breitbarth will introduce a new project entitled “Het Gesproken Corpus Nederlandse Dialecten (GCND).”

Dr. Melissa Farasyn will introduce her new FWO-postdoc project in a talk with the title “Nature and origin of V2-violations French Flemish.”

Prof. Klaas Bentein will introduce his ERC-project and the members of his new team (Geert de Mol, dr. Yasmine Amory and Emmanuel Roumanis) to the members of DiaLing. The title of the ERC-project is Everyday writing in Graeco-Roman and late antique Egypt (I – VIII AD). A socio-semiotic study of communicative variation.

Dr. Metin Bagriacik will introduce us to his FWO-postdoc project, titled “Relatives and their relatives in Asia Minor Greek: A synchronic micro-comparative analysis.”

Laura Bruno, a new member of DiaLing, will also introduce herself and her project, which is titled: “Non-canonical subject marking in Germanic vernaculars.”

PhD student Isabelle de Meyer will introduce herself and her PhD project to the members of DiaLing. The title of her FWO-project is “Recherches de sémantique et d’étymologie sur gr. ἀραρίσκω « adapter » et les mots apparentés.”

Dr. Leonid Kulikov will give a talk on “Greek χρόνος, its origin and cognates: An old etymological puzzle in Indo-European perspective.” You can find the abstract for his lecture here.

ΔiaLing presentation – in cooperation with EVALISA – by Prof. Dr. William Croft (University of New Mexico): “Using models to explore mechanisms of language variation and change.”

You can find the abstract here.