Clitics Workshop

Workshop on Clitics on 25 April 2019 (9.00-16.00). More information will follow later.

Get to know your colleagues: Rozenn Guérois, Hilde Gunnink, Minah Nabirye and Alessandro Papini

Project presentations by new DiaLing members:

  • Rozenn Guérois: “A typology of the passive voice in Bantu”
  • Hilde Gunnink: “Language contact between migrating Bantu speakers and resident Khoisan speakers in southern Africa”
  • Minah Nabirye: “Duplication processes in Lusoga morphosyntax”
  • Alessandro Papini: “Stylistic and diatopic variation in the ‘Vulgar’ Latin vowel system. Rome and Italy: a statistical analysis based on inscriptional evidence.”

Project presentations: Anne Breitbarth & Melissa Farasyn

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.”

Get to know your colleagues: Klaas Bentein, Geert de Mol, Yasmine Amory and Emmanuel Roumanis; Metin Bagriacik; and Laura Bruno.

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.”

Get to know your colleagues: Isabelle de Meyer + Leonid Kulikov: “Greek χρόνος, its origin and cognates: An old etymological puzzle in Indo-European perspective”

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.