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.