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.
The conference is dedicated to the investigation of synchronic and diachronic functioning and variation of possessives from a great variety of perspectives and in any Romance varieties.
Please find the link to the conference page 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.
PhD defense Melissa Farasyn:
Fitting in or standing out? Subject agreement phenomena in Middle Low German
Supervisor: prof. dr. Anne Breitbarth
Co-supervisor: prof. dr. Veronique Hoste
Location: Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde (KANTL, Koningstraat 18, 9000 Gent)
ΔiaLing presentation by Elisabeth Witzenhausen (UGent): “A syntax of restricting modal domains? Unintegrated event conditionals in German.”
You can find the abstract here.
ΔiaLing presentation – in cooperation with BantUGent – by Dr. Sara Pacchiarotti (Department of Languages and Cultures, BantUGent): “Bantu applicative construction types involving Proto-Bantu *-ɪd: Form, functions and diachrony.”
You can find the abstract here.
ΔiaLing presentation by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang De Melo (Oxford University): “Varro’s linguistic theory: etymology, morphology and syntax.”
You can find the abstract here.
ΔiaLing presentation by Prof. Dr. Anna Volkova (Linguistic Convergence Laboratory – National Research University Higher School of Economics): “Subject encoding in participial relative clauses.”
You can find the abstract here.
ΔiaLing presentation by Dr. Lisa Bylinina & Alexander Podobryaev (LUCL – Leiden University): “Number-neutrality and DP structure in Buriat.”
You can find the abstract here.
ΔiaLing presentation by Prof. dr. Álvaro Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München / Madrid Institute of Advanced Studies): “Historical prejudice and linguistic oblivion: on Spanish during the ‘Decadence’ (ca. 1665-1830)”.