Converbs from a cross-linguistic perspective

Date: 15.7.2021

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12:00 (CEST/UTC+2) Welcome speech

12:10
Adam Pospíšil (PDL; Charles University)
[ From Converbs to Constructional Auxiliaries (PDL project) ]

12:35 (19:35 KST)
Feng, YuJiao / Kim, JongBok (Kyung Hee University)
[ English Predicate Inversion: A Corpus-based Investigation ]

13:05 (20:05 JST)
Endō, Yoshio (Kanda University of International Studies)
[ Converb particle: Core, peripheral and mono-clausal structures ]

13:35 (4:35 PDT) Plenary speech
Daniel Ross (University of Illinois)
[ Converbs: Definition, Distribution and Typology ] [ video ]

14:20 – break

14:30
Robin Meyer (University of Lausanne)
[ The Rise and Fall of Converbs in Classical Armenian ] [ video ]

15:00
Beatrice Grieco (Università per Stranieri di Siena)
[ The emergence of converbs: The case of Indo-Aryan ŚAK‐ ‘to be able to’ plus gerund ]

15:25
Daniel Krauße (University of Newcastle, Australia)
[ The difference between converbs and coverbs: Are they both complex predicates? ] [ video ]

15:55 – break

16:10 (10:10 EDT)
Andrew Peters (University of Toronto)
[ Two Manners of Composition for Mongolian Contextual Converbs ] [ video ]

16:40 – Plenary speech
Florian Siegl (PDL)
[ Bier- ‘give’ and ıl- ‘take’ as constructional auxiliaries in Taimyr Dolgan: first notes on a system (in decay) ] [ video ]

17:30 – Open discussion

18:15 – Closing remarks