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