Workshop on referential hierarchies in three-participant constructions

20-22 May 2011, Lancaster University, United Kingdom - Part of the Referential Hierarchies in Morphosyntax (RHIM) Project

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Friday 20 May

09:00 – 09:15	Welcome
09:15 – 10:15	Invited speaker: Prof. Beth Levin, Stanford University Verb sensitivity and argument realization in three-participant constructions: A crosslinguistic perspective
10:15 – 10:45	Coffee break
10:45 – 11:15	Ben Ambridge, Liverpool University Construction choice and the English dative alternation: Evidence for semantic and morpho-phonological factors
11:15 – 11:45	Elke Diedrichsen, Vechta University The influence of Person Hierarchies on preferences with word order in German ditransitive constructions
11:45 – 12:15	Brian Nolan , Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, Dublin Characterising the effects of the referential hierarchy on Modern Irish ditransitive constructions
12:15 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 14:00	Chiyo Nishida, University of Texas, Austin, The IO/Oblique Alternation in Spanish Dative Constructions: a corpus-study
14:00 – 14:30	Barbara Hentschel – University of Würzburg Clitic doubling of indirect objects in Spanish - considering referential properties of the indirect and the direct object
14:30 - 15:00	Seppo Kittilä, University of Helsinki Remarks on the coding of R arguments (Goals/Recipients) in Finnish
15:00 – 15:30	Susanna Virtanen, University of Helsinki Variation in three-participant constructions in Eastern Mansi
15:30 – 16:00	Tea break
16:00 – 16:30	Thomas Wier, University of Chicago Hierarchical alignment in Kartvelian
16:30 – 17:00	René Lacroix, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Person hierarchy and direct/inverse marking in the Laz verb ‘give'
17:00 – 17:30	Ewa Zakrzewska, University of Amsterdam Monotransitive and Ditransitive constructions in Boharic Coptic
17:30 – 18:00	Discussion time
19:30	Dinner in town

Saturday 21 May

9:00 – 10:00	Invited speaker: Dr. Andrej Malchukov, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig / Saint-Petersburg Institute for Linguistic Studies Exploring the domain of ditransitive constructions: Issues in lexical typology
10:00 – 10:30	Leonid Kulikov – Leiden University Vedic bitransitive verbs: Semantic classes and referential hierar chies
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30	Marian Klamer & Antionette Schapper, Leiden University ‘Give' constructions in Timor-Alor-Pantar: variation and diachronic change
11:30 – 12:00	Sebastian Fedden & Dunstan Brown, University of Surrey Ditransitives in the Alor-Pantar languages
12:00 – 12:30	Stefan Schnell, Kiel University Animate pronoun attraction on Vera'a three-participant constructions
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 14:00	Dmitry Gerasimov, Saint-Petersburg Institute for Linguistic Studies Ditransitive constructions in Paraguayan Guaraní: An uncommon case of alignment mismatch
14:00 - 14:30	Françoise Rose, Dynamique Du Langage (CNRS/Université Lyon) Competition for the object status: the effects of referential factors in derived and non-derived ditransitive verbs in Mojeño Trinitario
14:30 – 15:00	Katharina Haude, CNRS, SeDyL/CELIA and University of Cologne The expression of three-participant events in Movima
15:00 – 15:30	Lena Russell, Inge Genee (University of Lethbridge), and Fernando Zúñiga (University of Zurich) Referential hierarchies in three-participant constructions in Blackfoot: The effects of animacy, topicality, person, and specificity
15:30 – 16:00	Tea break
16:00 – 16:30	Diana Schackow, University of Leipzig Theme-Goal inversion in Yakkha
16:30 – 17:00	Ergin Opengin, University of Sorbonne-Novelle, Paris / University of Bamberg Person, role, and other factors: On clitic/affix interaction in Sorani argument cross-referencing
17.00- 18.00	Closing discussion

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