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Last Modified: 12-apr-06

The speakers who participated in the conference are listed below. Links saying "paper" go to the handout given at the symposium.

Adams Bodomo

U Hong Kong

On nominalizing the verbal complex in Dagaare and English

Abstract
Paper

Claire Bowern

Rice U

Issues in the analysis of complex predication

(Position paper)

(Summary slides)

Andrew Garrett

UC Berkeley

The evolution of complex predicates: California case studies

Paper

T. Givón

U Oregon

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


Paper

Alice Harris

SUNY Stony Brook

Light verbs as classifiers in Udi

Abstract

Martin Hilpert and Christian Koops

Rice U

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


Peter Hook and Prashant Pardeshi

U Michigan and Kobe U

Are vector verbs eternal?

Paper

Andrew Pawley

Australian National University

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

Abstract
Paper

Kingkarn Thepkanjana

Chulalongkorn University

Properties of events expressed by serial verb constructions in Thai

Abstract
Paper

Keren Rice

U Toronto

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

Abstract
Paper

Masayoshi Shibatani

Rice U

Grammaticalization of complex predicates

Abstract
Paper