Friday, February 1, 2008

WORKSHOP- Morphological Variation and Change in Languages of the Caucasus (MVCLC), Feb. 5-6, Vienna

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WORKSHOP- Variation and Change in Languages of the Caucasus, Feb. 5-6, Vienna

Posted by: Nino Amiridze <nino.amiridze@let.uu.nl>

Morphological Variation and Change in Languages of the Caucasus (MVCLC)

A Related Workshop of the 13th International Morphology Meeting (IMM13),
February 3-6, 2008, Vienna, Austria

Website of IMM13: http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/inst/roman/imm13

Reference website for the workshop:
http://www.let.uu.nl/~Nino.Amiridze/personal/organization/mvclc.html

Invited Speakers:

Alice C. Harris (SUNY Stony Brook)
Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley)

Venue: Centre of Translation Studies, University of Vienna,
Gymnasiumstrasse
50, A- 1190 Vienna, Austria


Program

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

10:00-11:00 Invited Talk: Proving that Change is Induced by Contact:
Examples from the Caucasus
Alice C. Harris (SUNY Stony Brook)

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:00 Typology of Morphosyntactic Variations of Ergative
Constructions in the Batsbi and the Georgian Languages
Rusudan Asatiani and Marina Ivanishvili (Institute of Oriental
Studies, Georgian Academy of Sciences)

12:00-12:30 Person Agreement and Cliticization of Personal Pronouns in Batsbi
Yasuhiro Kojima (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

12:30-13:00 On Possible West-Caucasian Influence on Possession Marking
in Ossetic
David Erschler (The Independent University of Moscow, Russia) and
Arseny Vydrin (The Institute of Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of
Sciences)

13:00-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-15:00 Variation of Oblique Noun Stem Markers in Daghestanian Languages
Aleksandr Kibrik (Moscow State University)

15:00-15:30 Diachronic and Dialectological Variation of Verb
Morphology in Armenian: Internal and/or Contact-induced Changes?
Anaid Donabedian-Demopoulos (INALCO) and Agnes Ouzounian (INALCO;
Institut Catholique de Paris)

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-16:30 The Factors of Variation in Definiteness Marking in the
History of Georgian
Albert Ortmann and Tinatin Kiguradze (University of Duesseldorf)

16:30-17:00 Loss of Morphological Complexity under Language Contact:
The Case of Georgian
Nino Amiridze (Utrecht University)

17:00-17:30 The Loss of Case System in Ardesheni Laz and Its
Morpho-syntactic Consequences
Balkiz Ozturk (Bogazici University)

17:30-17:50 Khinalug 2007: Creating a Digital Portrait of an
Endangered Language: A Film

17:50-18:10 Eastern Armenian National Corpus: A Tool for Linguists/Typologists


Wednesday, February 6, 2008

10:00-11:00 Invited Talk: Variation in the Distribution of Source
Gender in Nakh-Daghestanian
Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley)

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:00 Contact-induced Morphological Change in the Agul Dialects
Dmitry Ganenkov and Timur Maisak (Institute of Linguistics, Russian
Academy of Sciences)

12:00-12:30 Contact-Induced Uses of Volitive Moods in Daghestanian
Nina Dobrushina (State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow)

12:30-13:00 On the way to Evidentiality: Some observations on Georgian Perfect
Manana Topadze (University of Pavia)

13:00-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-15:00 Short-term Morphological Changes in Archi
Marina Chumakina (University of Surrey)

15:00-15:30 Inclusive in Archi
Michael Daniel (Moscow State University)

15:30-16:00 Mehweb: Archaic or Innovative?
Nina Sumbatova (Russian State University for the Humanities)


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