Theme session - Forlì, 19th September 2008
The theme session will take place during the
41st ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETAS LINGUISTICA EUROPAEA
Languages in Contrast: Grammar, Translation, Corpora
Forlì, 17-20 September 2008.
Programme
| Time | Content |
|---|---|
| 09:00 - 09:10 | Opening (Anna Siewierska & Andrej Malchukov) |
| 09:10 - 09:30 | Andrej Malchukov (MPI EVA, Leipzig & Institute for Linguistic Studies, St.-Petersburg) & Akio Ogawa (Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya)“Impersonal constructions: variation on the theme |
| 09:30 - 09:50 | Anna Siewierska and Maria Papastathi (University of Lancaster)“Towards a typology of third person plural impersonals |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Werner Abraham (University of Vienna): “Impersonal passivization in which languages?” |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Denis Creissels (Université Lumière (Lyon 2)): “From pronouns to valency operators: a possible origin of impersonal markers” |
| Coffee break | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Michael Daniel (Moscow State University), Zaira Khalilova (MPI EVA, Leipzig), Zarina Molochieva (University of Leipzig): “Impersonal domain in Nakh-Daghestanian: struggling for nominatives” |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Michela Cennamo (University of Naples Federico I): “Impersonal constructions and accusative subjects in Late Latin” |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Claire Moyse-Faurie (Lacito-CNRS, France): “Impersonal constructions in a few Oceanic languages” |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Doris L. Payne (University of Oregon): “Maa (Eastern Nilotic) Impersonals” |
| 12:20 - 12:40 | Mauro Tosco (University of Naples) and Amina Mettouchi (University of Nantes and Institut Universitaire de France) “Speakers, entities and situations: impersonal configurations in Afroasiatic” |
| 12:40 - 13:00 | Steve Hewitt (UNESCO) “The impersonal in Breton” |
| Lunach break | |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Ruth A. Berman (Tel Aviv University): “Impersonal Constructions in Hebrew, an (S)VO language: Usage-based perspectives” |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Anna Kibort (Surrey Morphology Group): “The inventory of impersonal constructions in Polish (or how to find hidden subjects)” |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Volker Gast and Florian Haas (Freie Universität Berlin) „Introducing discourse referents in Germanic and Romance – presentationals in comparative perspective” |
| 15:30 -15:50 | Casper de Groot (University of Amsterdam) “A typological study into Hungarian and the impersonal” |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Merja Salo (University of Helsinki): “Mordvin equivalent for impersonal” |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | Anna Bugaeva (Chiba University): “Impersonal constructions in Ainu” |