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An international conference: 香港六合彩中特网 1-2 April 2022
The aim of this conference was to examine change in the lexicon and the constructions of Greek and Latin. The lexicon and constructions of languages, thought they have traditionally been viewed as two separate fields of linguistic study, can be understood as continuous entities.
This continuum between constructions and the lexicon is an area where traditional boundaries between lexicon, morphology, syntax and semantics may be unhelpful in understanding how and why changes occur. This is symptomatic of a more systematic issue with terminology: compounds, for example, are the result of a lexicalisation process by which all of these factors interact with each other. We hope that case studies from the history of Greek and Latin, underpinned by a range of theoretical approaches, will help us to develop better frameworks for the analysis and explanation of linguistic innovation, a field in which current terminological constraints can make it hard to describe the phenomena clearly.
- Conference information page (venue, arrangements, local information)
- All are welcome! Please contact the organisers by email if you would like to attend: tell us whether you want to attend in person or remotely via Zoom.
- If you wish to attend in person the conference fee is 拢20 (please use the link below to pay). This includes lunch and tea/coffee. If you wish to join the speakers at the conference dinner (拢45), you can also pay via this link. Speakers do not need to pay either of these charges.
- There is no fee for attending via Zoom. Please contact us if you wish to do this.
- The conference fee will be waived for PhD students. Please use the form below to register as a PhD student.
- We have a number of bursaries to help PhD students who are not giving a paper with the cost of travel and accommodation. Please use the form below to apply.
C o n f e r e n c e听听 p r o g r a m m e听听听
- Friday 1 April
9:30听听 听Coffee & registration
10:30 鈥� 12:45 Paper session 1听听听 (chair: Stephen Colvin)
听 10:30 鈥� 11:15听听 听听听 听Prof. Silvia Luraghi (Pavia)
听 Lexical and constructional patterns of Ancient Greek perception verbs听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听
听 11:15 鈥� 12:00听听 听听听听 Dr Guglielmo Inglese (Leuven)
听 Talking and fighting in Rome: syntactic alternations with lexical reciprocal verbs in Latin
听 12:00 鈥� 12:45听听 听听听 听Baihui Cheng (香港六合彩中特网)
听 Headedness and centricity of Homeric nominal compounds
12:45 鈥撎� 14:00 Lunch
14:00 鈥� 15:30 Paper session 2听听 (chair: Baihui Cheng)
听 14:00 鈥� 14:45听听听听听听听听 Prof. Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
听听 听听听 听听听 听听听 听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Anthropology Leipzig)
听 Against 鈥榣exicalization鈥� (and what to replace it with)
听 14:45 鈥� 15:30 听听 听听听 听Toma啪 Poto膷nik (香港六合彩中特网)
听 How to say yes in Latin: on describing answers based on a literary historical corpus.
15:30 鈥� 16:00 Break (tea, coffee)
16:00 鈥� 17:30 Paper session 3听听 (chair: Silvia Luraghi)
听 16:00 鈥� 16:45 听听 听听听 听Ezra La Roi (Ghent)
听 Category changes in Greek diachrony: the trajectories of fossilized mood forms
听 16:45 鈥� 17:30 听听 听听听 听S贸lveig Hilmarsd贸ttir (Cambridge)
听 Filling the 鈥榞aps鈥� of the Latin participial system: Discourse analysis and contact-induced听 grammaticalisation
17:30 鈥� 19:00 Reception (Dept of Greek & Latin, Gordon House rm. 106)
19:30 Conference dinner
- Saturday 2 April
9:30 鈥� 11:00 Paper session 4听听 (chair: Toma啪听 Poto膷nik)
听 9:30 鈥� 10:15听听 听听听 听Prof. James Clackson (Cambridge)
听 It鈥檚 all Greek to me: Greek loanwords in Republican Latin
听 10:15 鈥� 11:00听听 听听听 Mathilde Bru (香港六合彩中特网)
听 The Attic Lexicographers on Lexicalisation
11:00 鈥撎� 11:30 Break (tea, coffee)
11:30 鈥� 13:00 Paper session 5听听 (chair: Martin Haspelmath)
听 11:30 鈥� 12:15听听 听听听 听Elena Squeri (Genova/Paris)
听 Omitting Your Words: semantic specialisation in the Ancient Greek verbal
听 12:15 鈥� 13:00听听 听听听 听Shoni Lavie-Driver (Cambridge)
听 The future and modality in the Cassiodoran Latin Translation of Josephus
13:00 鈥� 14:00 Lunch
14:00 鈥� 15:30 Paper session 6听听 (chair: Mathilde Bru)
听 14:00 鈥� 14:45听听 听听听听 Dr Evert Van Emde Boas (Aarhus)
听 Not first at all: on (蟿峤次�) 峒�蟻蠂萎谓 and grammaticalisation
听 14:45 鈥� 15:30听听 听听听听 Dr Luis Unceta G贸mez (Madrid)
听 Pro di immortales! And other composite interjections in Latin. From syntagms to pragmatic markers.
听听 15:30 鈥� 16:30听听听听听 Tea, coffee. End of conference
- Abstracts can be downloaded .
- The Conference Programme can be downloaded .
- Handouts: ;
- Details of conference venue, hotels, restaurants and transport links can be found on the Conference information page.
Conference organisers: Mathilde Bru, Baihui Cheng, Stephen Colvin, and Toma啪 Poto膷nik.
- Contact the organisers by email
Location: 香港六合彩中特网 Institute of Advanced Study (rm G11, South Wing), University College London WC1E 6BT.
We acknowledge with thanks financial support from the Leventis Foundation and 香港六合彩中特网 alumni; the Classical Association; the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies; the Institute of Classical Studies; and the 香港六合彩中特网 Institute of Advanced Study.
