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Last Modified: 9-mar-06

 

All events will take place in the Humanities building on the first (= ground) floor. The talks will all be held in Humanities 117. The poster sessions will be in this area too. Lunch will be in the humanities courtyard (or inside in the main hall if it's raining).

Thursday



8:30-9:00

Breakfast


9:00-9:15

Dean Gary Wihl

Opening Remarks

9:15-10:00

Claire Bowern

Introduction: Issues in the analysis of complex predication

10:00-10:15

Morning Tea


10:15-11:15

T. Givón

Multiple routes to syntactic complexity: The diachronic foundations of (any) synchronic typology

11:15-12:15

Alice Harris

Light verbs as classifiers in Udi

12:15-1:45

Lunch


1:45-2:45

Peter Hook and Prashant Pardeshi


2:45-3:45

Simin Karimi


3:45-4:00

Afternoon Tea


4:00-5:30

Poster Session I





Friday



9:00-10:00

Andrew Pawley

Where have all the verbs gone? Remarks on the organisation of languages with small, closed verb classes.

10:00-10:15

Morning Tea


10:15-11:15

Kingkarn Thepkanjana

Properties of events expressed by serial verb constructions in Thai

11:15-12:15

Masayoshi Shibatani

Grammaticalization of complex predicates

12:15-1:45

Lunch


1:24-2:45

Keren Rice

Verb stem incorporation in Athapaskan language? The case of activity incorporates

2:45-3:45

Andrew Garrett


3:45-4:00

Afternoon Tea


4:00-5:30

Poster Session II





Saturday



9:00-10:00

Martin Hilpert and Christian Koops

A quantitative approach to the emergence and historical develpment of complex verb constructions: synchronic and diachronic aspects of pseudo-coordination

10:00-10:15

Morning Tea


10:15-11:15

Adams Bodomo

On nominalizing the verbal complex in Dagaare and English

11:15-12:15

Discussion/Closing/Thanks


12:15-1:45

Lunch