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Workshop on Case Variation

Aim

The aim of this workshop is to present and discuss work on case variation from a synchronic and diachronic perspective.

Where

University of Stuttgart, Institut für Germanistik/Linguistik, Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 24, 3. floor

When

19th and 20th of June 2008

Organisers

Klaus von Heusinger, Helen de Hoop, Udo Klein, Peter de Swart

Invited speakers

Program

Thursday

09.00-10.30	Andrej Malchukov	Quirky case: rare phenomena in case marking
10:30-11:00	coffee break
11:00-12:30	Jóhanna Barðdal	Modeling case variation - and explaining dative substitution - in Icelandic
12:30-13:30	lunch
13:30-15:00	Beatrice Primus	Animacy, generalized semantic roles, and case variation
15:00-15:30	coffee break
15:30-17:00	Arto Anttila	Adverbials and the typology of case
17:00-17:30	break
17:30-19:00	Elisabeth Stark	What is marked by differential object marking in Romance?

Friday

09.00-10.30	von Heusinger, Klein, de Swart	Variation in differential object marking
10:30-11:00	coffee break
11:00-12:30	Judith Aissen	Case and `antipassive' in Mayan
12:30-14:00	lunch
14:00-15:30	Hanjung Lee	Gradients in object case ellipsis in Korean
15:30-16:00	coffee break
16:00-17:00	General discussion

Map

Click here for a map with the Hotel am Feuersee, the workshop location and the restaurants.

Contact

If you'd like to participate at this conference, please email Udo Klein.