Archives: Events

Wolfgang de Melo (University of Oxford): Synchronic Semantic and Siachronic Reconstruction: Latin S-Forms

Jasper Vangaever (UGent): The Ablative of the Gerund versus the Present Participle: a Diachronic Corpus Study from Classical Latin to Medieval French

Elisabeth Witzenhausen (UGent): Continuity or change? The post-cyclic development of preverbal negation in Continental West Germanic

Jack Lynch (Rutgers University): Shakespeare Forger and Cretan Liar : Puzzling over William Henry Ireland

I discuss the challenges of using bibliographical evidence to tell the truth about someone who was almost always lying. Most of our evidence about the life of William Henry Ireland is books and manuscripts that have passed through his hands — but he was such a compulsive and pathological liar that anything he said must be doubted and anything he touched is suspect. The result is a strange version of the Cretan Liar’s Paradox, in which we’re forced to glean the truth from documents that refuse to give it.

 

Brian D. Joseph (Ohio State University): What speakers know — or don’t know — about history and about typology

Prof. Agnes Jäger (University of Cologne): “Comparison constructions in the history of German”

Ioanna Sitaridou (Cambridge University): Word order in Old Ibero-Romance: (non-)V2, participle fronting and information structure

Ioanna Sitaridou (Cambridge University): Phylogenetic approaches to the evolution of Pontic Greek

Prof. Lawrence A. Reid (University of Hawai’i): “Accounting for Variability in Malayo-Polynesian Pronouns: Morphological Instability or Drift?” (Evalisa / ΔiaLing)

Mark Janse (Ugent/Oxford): Godsdienst, taal en identiteit in Ottomaans Cappadocië; aansluitend: filmvoorstelling “Laatste Woorden”, over de laatste sprekers van het Cappadocisch Grieks