Morphological Variation and Contact
Conference Program/Announcement
Program:
Workshop on Morphological Variation and Contact
University of Patras, Conference Centre
June 19-20, 2015
Friday, June 19 2015
9.30 – 10.00
Greetings - Presentation of the MORILAN Project
Chair: Greville Corbett
10.00-10.40
Mithun, Marianne (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Morphological Variation and Contact
10.40-11.20
Gaeta, Livio (Università degli Studi di Torino)
The Role of Language Contact for the Development of Passive in Titsch
11.20-11.40 Coffee break
Chair: Brian Joseph
11.40-12.20
Wohlgemuth, Jan (Max Planck Institute)
Loan verb accommodation pattern and borrowing
12.20-13.00
Ralli, Angela (University of Patras)
Strategies and Patterns in Verbal Loans across Modern Greek dialects
13.00-17.30 Lunch break
Chair: Livio Gaeta
17.30-18.10
Gkiouleka Marianna (University of Patras)
Morphological Change and Language Contact: Evidence from Pontic
18.10-18.50
Melissaropoulou, Dimitra, Marinis, Michalis & Angela Ralli (University of Patras)
Revisiting Borrowability Scale(s) of Grammatical Elements: Evidence from Modern Greek Contact induced Varie
18.50-19.10 Coffee break
Chair: Jan Wohlgemuth
19.10-19.50
Gardani, Francesco (Economic University of Vienna)
DER-borrowing: A Typological Overview
19.50-20.30
Janse, Mark (Ghent University)
Variation, Retention and Innovation in Cappadocian Nominal and Verbal inflection
20.30 Conference dinner
Saturday, June 20 2015
Chair: Marianne Mithun
9.30-10.10
Corbett, Greville (Surrey)
Gender: canonical and non-canonical systems
10.10-10.50
Thornton, Anna (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila)
On overabundance
10.50-11.30
Makri, Vasiliki & Nikos Koutsoukos (University of Patras)
Language Contact at the Service of Endogenous Forces: A Case study of Neuterisation in the Dialect of the Ion
Islands
11.30-11.50 Coffee break
Chair: Francesco Gardani
11.50-12.30
Karatsareas, Petros (University of the West of England and Open University of Cyprus)
(In)vulnerable Morphosyntactic Features in Heritage Languages: Evidence from British Cypriot Greek
12.30-13.10
Manolessou, Io (Academy of Athens)
Sources for the Early History of Variation in the Asia Minor Dialects
13.10-17.30 Lunch break
Chair: Anna Thornton
17.30-18.10
Andreou, Marios (University of Patras)
Compounds and De-compounds in Modern Greek Dialects
18.10-18.50
Bağrıaçık, Metin (Ghent University), Aslı Göksel (Boğasıçı University) & Angela Ralli (University of Patras)
Compounding in Pharasiot Greek: The Effects of Language Contact on Morphological Structure
18.50-19.20 Coffee break
Chair: Mark Janse
19.20-20.00
Joseph, Brian D. (Ohio State University)
Language Contact and Pluralization Strategies: Evidence from the Balkans
20.00-20.15
Closing remarks