Program

All presentations will be in 2336 Mason Hall (419 S. State St.).

SATURDAY 13 JULY

8:15   -   Coffee

     Session 1: chaired by [TBA]

     8:45   -   Opening Remarks

                        Andrew Hippisley & Greg Stump, University of Kentucky

     9:00   -   Alignment change in Iranian: what happened to agreement? (Handout available)

                        Geoffrey Haig, University of Bamberg

     10:00 -   Ergative-accusative patterns in Kurmanji: language internal change or Turkish

                        influence?

                        Songül Gündoğdu, Boğaziçi University

10:30 -   Coffee

     Session 2: chaired by [TBA]

     11:00   -   Alternating argument constructions in Indo-Aryan: Case studies from Nepali and

                          Kashmiri

                         Saartje Verbeke, University of Gent

12:00 -   Lunch

     Session 3: chaired by [TBA]

     1:30   -  The morphomics of split-ergativity in Indo-Iranian

                        Andrew Hippisley & Greg Stump, University of Kentucky

     2:30   -   Patterns of ergativity and differential object marking in Iranian

                        Agnes Korn, University of Frankfurt

3:30 -   Coffee

     Session 4: chaired by [TBA]

     4:00   -   Ranking volume predicts directionality: an OT-based theory of syntactic drift

                        Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University

5:00 -   CLOSE

 

SUNDAY 14 JULY

8:30 -   Coffee

     Session 5: chaired by [TBA]

     9:00   -   The emergence of accusative objects in New Indo-Aryan ergative clauses

                          Ashwini Deo, Yale University

     10:00 -   Change and acquisition of split-ergativity in Kurmanji Kurdish

                        Laura Mahalingappa, Duquesne University

10:30 -   Coffee

     Session 6: chaired by [TBA]

     11:00 -   From the parallel constructions for past and modal future to the meaning of ergative

                        case markers

                        Annie Montaut, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales

12:00 -   Lunch

     Session 7: chaired by [TBA]

     1:30   -   Alignment and coordination in Iranian

                        John Payne, University of Manchester

     2:30   -  Computational methods to elucidate aspects of Pamir language morphology

                         Raphael Finkel, University of Kentucky

3:15 -   Coffee

     3:45   -  General discussion / Business meeting

4:30   -   CLOSE