International Workshop

Comparing Grammars

February 7, 2009

Programme
9.00Opening 
9.10 Volker Gast / Johan van der Auwera
FU Berlin / Antwerpen
Scalar additive operators in the languages of Europe
9.50  Daniel Hole
Stuttgart
Focus particles reloaded
10.30Coffee break 
10.50 Günter Rohdenburg
Paderborn
One language -- two grammars: Omissible function words in British and American English
11.30 Bernd Kortmann
Freiburg
Comparing grammars of English around the world: Degrees of complexity, angloversals, rara and rarissima
12.10Lunch 
13.40 Martin Haspelmath
MPI Leipzig
The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures
14.20 Anna Siewierska / Dik Bakker
Lancaster
Comparing grammatical relations: Three perspectives on their presence, identification and strength
15.00Coffee break 
15.20 Johan van der Auwera
Universiteit Antwerpen
The Jespersen cycles
16.00 Peter Siemund
Hamburg
The history of English reflexive verbs: Between language contact, grammaticalization and lexicalization
16.40 Ekkehard König
Freie Universität Berlin
Possessive inflection and the development of intensifiers
18.00 Reception
Chairs and disussants:
Letizia Vezzosi (Perugia)
Jürgen Handke (Marburg)
Igor Nedjalkov (St. Peterburg)

Harnackhaus
Vogt-Saal
Ihnestr. 16-20
14195 Berlin

Organizers: E. König, V. Gast