Genitives and Possession in Contact Workshop 13th June 2025
This workshop is organized by Prague Descriptive Linguistics with the help of the Department of Asian Studies, Palacky University Olomouc and the Institute of Asian Studies, Charles University.
Zoom link: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/92305552272
Program
All listed times are CEST (UTC +2:00)
9:00
Welcome address
Introductory talk – The Evolution of Genitives in Japonic and Koreanic –
Vít Ulman (Palacky University Olomouc)
9:30
Possessives within indefinite DPs: a sign of a larger Balkan Sprachbund? – Giuseppina Silvestri (University of California, Los Angeles)
10:00
Gujarati Inheritance in the Possession Markers of Khatri – Antonia Alvares
(The University of Hong Kong)
10:30
Adnominal and predicative possession in Western Saami with special
reference to Lule Saami – Florian Siegl
11:00
Coffee Break
11:15
Evolution of the EXIST Possessive in the languages of the Ethiopian area – Wakweya Gobena (University of Potsdam)
11:45
Attributive relation in different morphosyntactic settings across Arabic
dialects – Adam Pospíšil (Charles University)
12:15
The development of head-marked possessives in Sibe and language
contact – Zikmundová, Veronika (Charles University), Ulman, Vít (Palacky
University Olomouc)
12:45
Final discussion