Diachronic Typology. Colloquium in Göteborg 19-21 November 2004

Diachronic Typology. Colloquium in Göteborg 19-21 november 2004

Friday 19th Nov. 13.30 Opening session.

Valency

Leonid Kulikov (Leiden): "A diachronic study of valency- changing

categories. Guidelines and typological parameters". 14-14:30

Gerd Carling (Lund): "Lexical and derived ditransitivity in Tocharian A

and B".14.35-15:05

Åke Engsheden (Uppsala): "Valency in Egyptian and Coptic". 15:30-16

William McGregor (Aarhus): "Verb classification in Australian languages

and beyond (valency, aktionsart)".16:o5-16:35

Discussion 16:35-17.

17-18 General discusssion.

Saturday 20th Nov.

Diathesis and aspect

Mila Vulchanova (Trondheim): "The diathesis/aspect interface". 9:15-9:45

Folke Josephson (Göteborg) will speak about diathesis, reflexives and

aspect in Hittite. 9:55-10:25

Kjartan Ottosson (Oslo): "The Old Nordic Middle Voice: questions of

cliticisation and grammaticalisation". 10:30-11.00

Adam Hyllested (Copenhagen): "Active, passive, or both? Overlapping

voices in Uralic".11:05-11:35 Discussion until 12.

Aspect, tense and actionality: Latin and Greek

Dag Haug (Oslo): "Tense and aspect from Proto-Indo-European to

Latin".14-14:30

Gerd Haverling (Aarhus): "On the development of tense, viewpoint and

actionality from Early to Late Latin".14:35-15:05

Eva-Carin Gerö (Stockholm): "Continuity and Change - the Imperfect and

the Future (Greek ancient and modern)"15.10-15.40

Aspect, tense and mood

Jan Rijkhoff (Aarhus): "Conceptual parallels and diachronic relations

between grammatical categories in the clause (aspect, tense, mood) and in

the NP".16-16.30

Peter Bakker (Aarhus): "The development of tense, mood and aspect in the

creole languages and the typology of affix order"16:35-17.05

Jouni Maho (Göteborg) "Comparative morphology of tense-aspect-mood in

Niger-Congo".17:10-17:40

Discussion. -18.00 18.00-19.00 strategy meeting.

Sunday 21st Nov.

Aspect, tense and actionality: Slavic and Romance

Atle Grønn (Oslo): "Imperfectivity and complete events" (with an emphasis

on Slavic and Romance).9:15-9:45.

Kåre Nilsson (Oslo) and Ingmar Söhrman (Göteborg): "Verbs of Transition

in Portuguese and Spanish. A Cognitive Approach to Aspect, Aktionsart and

Tense".9:50-10:25

Aspect and tense in Semitic languages

Sven-Olof Dahlgren (Göteborg) will speak about aspect and tense in Hebrew

and Arabic 10:30-11.00

11.15-12.30 discussion.

Afternoon: Discussion. Planning.