Conférences & Workshops
Gastvortrag: Semantische Spezifizität: Wie detailliert werden Ereignisse in verschiedenen Sprachen beschrieben?
Invitée par l'Institut de langue et littérature allemandes
Dr. Katerina Stathi
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Semantische Spezifizität: Wie detailliert werden Ereignisse in verschiedenen Sprachen beschrieben?
Le jeudi 30 novembre 2017 à 18.15
Salle R.S.38 - Espace Louis-Agassiz 1
Ereignisse sind fundamentale Einheiten unserer Kognition. Doch wie werden Ereignisse in verschiedenen Sprachen ausgedrückt? Hier wird besonders thematisiert, wie viele Details eines Ereignisses ausgedrückt werden. So ist es z.B. bei Positionsverben im Deutschen notwendig, zwischen "setzen", "stellen" und "legen" zu unterscheiden, während das Französische in allen drei Fällen mit dem Verb "mettre" auskommt. Davon ausgehend soll die Frage thematisiert werden, ob Sprecher unterschiedlicher Sprachen systematisch und habituell mehr oder weniger Details von Ereignissen mitteilen.
Toute personne intéressée est cordialement invitée.
Workshop: Complex Adpositions in European Languages
The goal of the workshop is to collect and aggregate data about the inventories of complex adpositions in the languages of Europe (e.g. E. in front of, G. aufgrund von, F. à l’aide de, Pt. em vez de, Sp. pese a etc.). The workshop equally focuses on the systems of complex adpositions, their functions, their diachronic development as well as regularities in their formation. Three central questions will guide the discussion:
- definition and categorical status of complex adpositions: What criteria are characteristic of complex adpositions in different languages? To which extent are they universal and/or language specific?
- morphological and syntactic properties of complex adpositions: Are complex prepositions formed after similar or different schematic patterns in European languages? Are there patterns which are particularly productive?
- grammaticalization/ lexicalization of complex adpositions: What are the regularities in the diachronic development of complex adpositions in different languages? Do they coincide into some sort of universal grammaticalization paths?
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PROGRAMME
Friday, Oct 6
09:20-09:30
Elena Smirnova
Welcome09:30-10:30
Benjamin Fagard, José Pinto de Lima, Dejan Stosic & Elena Smirnova
Complex adpositions in European Languages: theoretical and typological issues10:30-11:00
coffee
11:00-11:45
Benjamin Fagard, Dejan Stosic, José Pinto de Lima
11:45-12:30
Matthias Hüning
12:30-14:30
lunch (Casino)
14:30-15:15
Christian Ebert
Variation in word order of German complex prepositions during grammaticalization
15:15-16:00
Anni Jürine
Recycling grammar - the development of (complex) adpositions in Estonian
16:00-16:30
coffee
16:30-17:15
Kevin Rottet
Prepositions in Brythonic Celtic: Stability and Contact-Induced Change
17:15-18:00
Pietro Bortone
Greek complex adpositions as a key to Greek adpositional development
Dinner („Alpes et Lac“)
Saturday, Oct 7
09:30-10:15
Maria Usacheva, Timofey Arkhangelski
10:15-11:00
Michael Daniel
Up in the mountains: Spatial categories in East Caucasian revisited
11:00-
closing discussion
farewell, departure
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VENUE
The workshop will take place at the University of Neuchâtel:Faculté des Lettres et Sciences humaines
Institut de langue et littérature allemandes
Espace Louis-Agassiz 1
CH - 2000 NeuchâtelSee maps.google
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ACCOMODATION
Participants will be accommodated in either of the following hotels near the University (5-10 minutes by foot).
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