Symposium on Typology

within the Graduiertenkolleg

"Satzarten: Variation und Interpretation"

Frankfurt / Main, November 8-9, 2002

Venue: Bockenheim Campus of Frankfurt University,
"Konferenzraum über dem Labsaal"

Scheduled programme

November 8th:

Morning session

9.00h Opening of the symposium

9.15h Walter Bisang (Mainz): "Grammatical categories and the finite/non-finite distinction"

10.00h Martin Haspelmath (Leipzig): "Complement clauses of desiderative verbs in a world-wide perspective"

10.45h Coffee break

11.00h Bernd Heine (Cologne): "Contact-induced grammaticalization and syntactic typology"

11.45h Victor Friedman (Chicago): "Admirativity: Between Modality and Evidentiality"

12.30h Lunch break

 

Afternoon session

14.30h Claudia Gerstner-Link (Munich): "Approaching modality in Kilmeri: deontic and epistemic strategies"

15.15h Vera I Podlesskaya (Moscow): "Auxiliation of 'give' verbs in Russian: discourse evidence for grammaticalization"

16.00h Tea break

16.15h Lars Johanson (Uppsala): "On copying grammatical meaning"

17.00h Elena Skribnik (Munich): "From complex sentence structures to complex predicates: some grammaticalization patterns in Siberian languages"

17.45h Irina Nevskaya (Frankfurt a/M): "Typology of prospectivity in Turkic languages"

 

 

November 9th:

Morning session

10.00h Thomas Bearth (Zurich): "I- or S-Topics - an Africanist viewpoint on a Germanic puzzle"

10.45h Thomas Krisch (Salzburg): ""Some aspects of word order and sentence type: from Indo-European to New High German" (to be read in German)

11.30h Coffee break

11.45h Rosemarie Lühr (Jena): "Features of subordinate clauses" (to be read in German)

12.30h Lunch break

 

Afternoon session

14.30h Sonja Gippert-Fritz (Heidelberg): "Sentence structures in Maldivian"

15.15h Ralf-Peter Ritter (Kraków): "The Nominal Clause in Hungarian" (to be read in German)

16.00h Tea break

16.15h Andrej Malchukov (St. Petersburg): "Towards a typology of transcategorial operations: Nominalizations."

17.00h Winfried Boeder (Oldenburg): "Protasis and apodosis in Kartvelian"

17.45h Wolfgang Schulze (Munich): "The grammar of information flow and referential tracking in Udi: A Cognitive Typologist's perspective"