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Workshop on Valency Classes

Workshop on Valency Classes
 
 

Date: August 21, 2010, 9h00 - 18h00

Place: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig; 4th floor seminar room)

Organised by:

  • Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology)

 

Description:

At this workshop, presentations on various aspects of valency classes in various languages will be given and discussed. The workshop is organized by the DFG project on Valency Classes in the World's Languages.

 

Final schedule:

9:00-9:25 Andrej Malchukov (MPI-EVA): Introduction to the valency classes project
9:25-9:40 Martin Haspelmath: Introduction to the valency classes database
9:40-9:55 Søren Wichmann: Computational cluster analyses of data from the valency project: a preview
9:55-10:20 Iren Hartmann (MPI-EVA): Valency Alternations in Hoocąk
10:20-10:35 Frank Seifart (MPI-EVA): Valency classes in Bora (Peru): a first approximation
10:35-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:30 Ulrike Mosel (U Kiel): Valency classes in Teop (Austronesian, New Guinea)
11:30-12:00 David Gil (MPI-EVA, JFS): Valency Classes in Isolating-Monocategorial-Associational Language
12:00-12:30 Thomas J. Conners (MPI-EVA, JFS): Valency Classes in Jakarta Indonesian
12:30-13:00 Claire Moyse-Faurie (CNRS-LACITO): Valency classes in Xârâcùù, Drehu or East Futunan
13:00-14:00 Lunch break (lunch in the MPI's cafeteria)
14:00-14:30 Anna Bugaeva (Waseda U): Valency classes in Ainu
14:30-15:00 Sebastian Nordhoff (MPI-EVA): No valency classes in Sri Lanka Malay
15:00-15:30 Robert Schikowski, Netra Paudyal, and Balthasar Bickel (U Leipzig):
Fluid transitivity in Chintang
15:30-16:00 Denis Creissels (U Lyon 2): Transitivity alternations in Mandinka
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:00 Joseph Atoyebi (MPI-EVA): Valency classes in Yoruba
17:00-17:30 Csilla Kász (U Kiel): Valency classes in Modern Standard Arabic
17:30-18:00 Bernard Comrie & Zaira Khalilova (MPI-EVA): Valency and valency classes in Bezhta
18:00-18:30 Birgit Jänen (U Bremen): Experiential constructions and valency
19:30 Dinner in some downtown restaurant (tba)

 

Valency Classes Database Tutorial

Date: Monday, August 23, 2010, 18h30-19h30
Organised by: Iren Hartmann & Martin Haspelmath
Place: MPI-EVA, Seminar Room 4th Floor