Jóhanna Barðdal (University of Bergen)
Title: “Hungering and Lusting for Women and Fleshly Delicacies”: Reconstructing Grammatical Relations for Proto-Germanic
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Jóhanna Barðdal (University of Bergen) Title: “Hungering and Lusting for Women and Fleshly Delicacies”: Reconstructing Grammatical Relations for Proto-Germanic
Nazareth Amlesom Kifle will defend her thesis titled Tigrinya Applicatives in Lexical-Functional Grammar on January 20, 2012. The defense is in Auditorium B, Sydneshaugen Skole, Bergen. The opponents are Prof. Mary Dalrymple (U. of Oxford) and Prof. Louisa Sadler (U. of Essex). The day before, she will give a trial lecture at 16:30 at the same venue. Gunn-Inger Lyse will defend her PhD dissertation entitled Translation-based Word Sense Disambiguation on Friday Dec. 9 at 9:30 at UiB, Sydneshaugen Skole, Aud. B. The day before, Thursday Dec. 8 at 16:30, she will give a trial lecture entitled Using Translations as Word Senses in the same auditorium. All interested scholars and students are welcome to attend these events. Martha Thunes will defend her PhD thesis on Nov. 4 at 9:30 in SH:B. The title is Complexity in Translation. An English-Norwegian Study of Two Text Types. The day before, she will give two trial lectures at the same venue. The titles are: 16:15: When do words correspond translationally? A discussion of principles. 17:15: The concept of ‘translation unit’ in translation theory and its applicability to automatic translation. Chris Butler is giving a five-day intensive course on Statistics from Oct. 24 to 28, 2011. The course is organized by the Research School on Linguistics and Philology; contact Victoria Rosén for more information. Beatrice Primus from the University of Cologne will give two lectures: Tuesday Aug. 30 at 14:15 in Aud. D: Agentivity in Impersonal Passives Wednesday Aug. 31 at 14:15 in Aud. D: Empirical Methods and Explanations A new project META-NORD has started in Bergen. Its preliminary website is up, but it will be integrated in META-NET. Congratulations to Jóhanna Barðdal for obtaining support from the RCN for her project “Emergence of Non-Canonical Case Marking in Indo-European”! On Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, Gard Buen Jenset will defend his PhD thesis at the University of Bergen. This will take place at 9:30 in Aud. B at Sydneshaugen Skole. The day before, on Thursday Aug. 26, he will present his trial lecture at 17:30 at the same place. Brian D. Joseph, professor in Linguistics and South Slavic languages at Ohio State University, will present two lectures in Bergen. They will be held in SH:E (Aud. E, Sydneshaugen skole) on Thursday 20 and Friday 21 May from 14:15 to 16:00. Part I: A General Critique of Grammaticalization The notion of ‘grammaticalization’ — the embedding into grammatical status of once non- (or less-) grammatical phenomena — has enjoyed broad acceptance as a new paradigm for describing and accounting for linguistic change. Despite its appeal, my contention is that there are numerous foundational problems with ‘grammaticalization’ as it is conventionally described and discussed in the literature. I thus offer here in my first lecture a general critique of grammaticalization in which I explore what some of these problems are, and then in my second lecture turn to a consideration of the applicability of the principles of grammaticalization in language contact situations, an enterprise which I see as equally fraught with problems. My overall goal is to try to come to an understanding of where grammaticalization has gone wrong and what it has gotten right. |
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