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Ditransitive Constructions
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Program

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November 23

Session 1

Session 2

9.00

Plenary 1

Bernard Comrie

(MPI EVA, Leipzig)

Why Ditransitives?

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10.00

1st talk

Ricardo Etxepare & Bernard Oyharçabal

(Centre Nacional de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Bayonne)

Ditransitive structures in standard and north-eastern Basque

Don Stilo

(MPI EVA, Leipzig)

Ditransitives in Vafsi

 

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10.40

COFFEE

11.10

2nd talk

Osahito Miyaoka

(Osaka Gakuin University)

“Ditransitives, applicatives, and “half-transitive” verbs in Central Alaskan Yupik (Eskimo)”

Hilary Chappell & Alain Peyraube

(CRLAO, EHESS / CRLAO, CNRS-EHESS, Paris)

The diachronic syntax of the dative construction from Medieval Chinese to early Southern Min (Sinitic)

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11.50

3rd talk

Eleanor Coghill

(Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge)

Ditransitive constructions in a Neo-Aramaic dialect

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Andy C. Chin & Benjamin K. Tsou

(City University of Hong Kong)

The Ditransitive Construction of Cantonese and its Argument Alignment Type

12.30

4th talk

Amy Campbell

( University of California, Berkeley)

Hupa ditransitives and the syntactic status of R


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Olivia Lam

( University of Oxford)

Ditransitive Constructions in Cantonese: The Give-construction as the Non-Prototypical Example

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13.10

LUNCH

14.30.

5th talk

Søren Wichmann

( MPI EVA, Leipzig)

Ditransitives in Tlapanec


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Feng-hsi Liu

( University of Arizona)

Ditransitive constructions in Mandarin Chinese

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15.10

6th talk

Andrej Nefedov & Andrej Malchukov

(MPI EVA, Leipzig)

Ditransitives in Ket: a case of syntactic realignment?


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Antonio Cheung

( The University of Hong Kong)

The Cantonese dative construction: implications for processing

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15.50

7th talk

Igor Nedjalkov

( St. Petersburg, Russia)

Ditransitive constructions in Tungusic languages



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Sebastian Fedden

(University of Melbourne)

Ditransitives in Mian




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16.30

COFFEE

17.00

8th talk

Seppo Kittilä

( University of Helsinki)

The coding of R (Recipient/Goal) in Finnish: animacy or semantic role?

Ulrike Mosel

(Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)

Ditransitivity in Teop.

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November 24

Session 1

Session 2

9.00

Plenary 2

Bernd Heine & Christa König

( University of Cologne)

How many verbal arguments does a language tolerate? The case of !Xun

10.00

1st talk

 

Michael Daniel & Zaira Khalilova & Zarina Molochieva

(MPI EVA, Leipzig)

Ditransitives in Nakh-Daghestanian. A Family Survey

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10.40

COFFEE

11.10

2nd talk

Denis Creissels & Jérémie Kouadio

( University of Lyon & University of Abidjan)

Ditransitive constructions with the recipient treated as a genitive modifier of the gift? The case of Baule

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Thomas Wier

( University of Chicago)

The Typology and Origins of Tavization in Georgian Ditransitive Constructions





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11.50

3rd talk

Tom Güldemann

(MPI EVA, Leipzig)

"Back to normal?" - ditransitives un the Tuu family




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Rusudan Asatiani

( Institute of Oriental Studies, GAS)

Conceptual Representation of the Verb Forms Creation in Georgian: Ditransitive Verbs

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12.30

4th talk

Ronald P. Schaefer

(Southern Illinois University)

On Emai ditransitive constructions

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René Lacroix

(Université Lumière Lyon 2)

Ditransitives in Laz


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13.10

LUNCH

14.30.

5th talk

Bingfu Lu & Tianhua Luo

( Shanghai Normal University & Nanchang University)

A parallel between the orders composed of S,O, V and those of R, T, V


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Tanmoy Bhattacharya & Andrew Simpson

(University of Delhi & University of Southern California)

The syntax of double object construction in Bangla/Bengali

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15.10

6th talk

Theresa Hanske

( University of Cologne)

Ditransitive Constructions in Vietnamese: How to integrate serial verb constructions and systematic zero-anaphora in a typology of alignment patterns

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Joachim Sabel

(Université catholique de Louvain)

The double object construction in Malagasy

15.50

7th talk

Hideki Kishimoto

( Kobe University)

Three Types of Ditransitive Verbs in Japanese

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Carmen Aguilera Carnerero

( University of Granada)

On "Dimonotransitive" structures in English

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16.30

COFFEE

17.00

8th talk

Shin-Ichi Tamura & al

( Tohoku University)

Semantics in Children’s Production of Ditransitives

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Alain-Christian Bassene

(DDL – CNRS / Université Lumière Lyon 2)

Coding and syntactic properties of ditransitive constructions in Jóola Banjal

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November 25

Session 1

Session 2

9.00

Plenary 3

Beth Levin & Malka Rappaport Hovav

(Stanford University & The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

A cross-linguistic study of the dative alternations

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10.00

1st talk

Åshild Næss

( University of Oslo)

Prototypical ditransitivity


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Timothy Colleman

(Ghent University)

The ditransitive constructions of Dutch

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10.40

COFFEE

11.10

2nd talk

Eva Schultze-Berndt

( University of Manchester)

Ditransitive Constructions in Jaminjung (Northern Australia)

Tyler Peterson

(University of British Columbia)

Examining the Oblique in Tsimshianic Causatives

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12.30

Plenary 4

Balthasar Bickel

( University of Leipzig)

Alignment typology revisited: ditransitives in general and in Southeastern Kiranti

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13.30

 

Closing discussion

14.00

LUNCH

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