Grammatical Case and Language Contact Workshop

Date: 3.6.2022
Place: Prague Nám. Jana Palacha 2, room P001 (floor 0, left of main entrance)
Zoom link available after registering through e-mail (see call)
Call: Closed

Organized with the help of Department of Asian Studies, Palacky University and Institute of Asian Studies, Charles University.

13:00 (CEST/UTC+2) Opening Address

13:10
Vít Ulman (PDL; Palacký University)
[ Case and Contact in East Asia ]

13:40 (17:10 IST)
Usha Udaar (IIT Kanpur)
[ Pseudo-Ergativity: Contact-Induced Case Alternation in Punjabi-Hindi ]

14:10 (17:40 IST)
Satyam Kumar & Usha Udaar (IIT Kanpur)
[ Ergative remnants/invention of Angika dialects ]

14:40 (18:10 IST)
Saket Bahuguna (NCERT)
[ Contact-Induced Change: A study of Grammatical Case in Garhwali ]

15:10 – Coffee Break (15 min)

15:25
Nerea Madariaga (EHU) & Olga Romanova (ONPU)
[ Contact-Induced Levelling of Case in the Russian Language of Odessa ]

15:55
Philipp Cirkel (TU Dortmund)
[ Case Syncretism and Definiteness in Present-day Ruhr German ]

16:25
Veronika Zikmundová (PDL; Charles University)
[ The fate of the Manchu genitive-instrumental case: Developments in different language environments ]

16:55 – Coffee Break (15 minutes)

17:10
Adam Pospíšil (PDL; Charles University)
[ An oblique case in Arabic dialects – independent development or contact-influence ]

17:40 (11:40 CLT)
Geraldine Quartararo (PUC)
[ Contact phenomena between Aymara and Spanish in Bolivia: The grammatical replication of the Spanish direct object ]

18:10 – General Discussion

18:40 – Closing Remarks