Germanic Linguistics Rountable: Germanic Linguistics Rountable

4/7/2006 - 4/8/2006

The Faculty Club, University of California, Berkeley

Friday, April 7  (Faculty Club: Seaborg Room)

Morning Session  Eugene Green (Boston Univ.)

8:30 am Alexander Onysko (Univ. of  Innsbruck/Macalester College): "Gender Assignment of Anglicisms in German"

8:55 am Donald Steinmetz (Augsburg College): "Nouns with the Prefix ge-:

A Cross-linguistic Study in Gender Assignment"

9:20 am  Ilona Vandergriff (San Francisco State Univ.): "Content and Speech Act Conditionality: A Closer Look at Evidence from German"

9:45 am Enrique Mallen (Texas A & M Univ.): "Jackendoff's Parallel Architecture, Picasso's Cubism and Stein's Language Poetry"

10:10 am Ann-Marie Swensson & Jurgen Hering (Univ. of Gotebörg): "On the Ambiguity of Germanic burg"            

10:35 am Elisabeth Leiss (Univ. of Munich): "Case, Aspect, and (In)definiteness Effects. The Case of the Verbal Genitive in the History of German"

11:00 am Werner Abraham (Univ. of Vienna): "The Cartography of Prepositions. The Event-typological Strengthening of the Traditional Concept of Valence and its Demolition under P-government"

12:00-1:00 pm Lunch

Afternoon Session Robert G. Hoeing (SUNY Buffalo)

1:00 pm Marc Pierce (Univ. of Texas): "Onset Well-formedness in Germanic"

1:25 pm Kerstin Schwabe (ZAS Berlin): "On the Directive Force of German  dass-clauses"

1:50 pm John H. G. Scott (Indiana Univ.): "Formalizing Rhotacization (/z/>/r/) in NWGmc.: Norse Runic Evidence"

2:15 pm Tonya Kim Dewey (UC Berkeley): "Case Variation in Gothic Absolute Constructions"

2:40 pm Hans-Martin Gaertner (ZAS Berlin) and Markus Steinbach (Univ. of Mainz) "A Skeptical Note on the syntax of Speech Acts and Point of View"

3:05 pm Ingo Reich (Univ. of Tübingen): "From Discourse to 'Odd Constructions:' On Asymmetric Coordination and Subject Gaps in German"

3:30 pm Eugene Green  (Boston Univ.): "Stative Verbs in Old English Poetry"

3:55 pm Catherine Hester, Chris Little, Meredith Kolar, Joellyn Palomaki, Timothy Price Aida Sakalauskaite,  Jason Whitt  (UC Berkeley):  "BAG 9: Toward the Architecture of the Apology"

7:00 pm Dinner (Faculty Club: Howard Lounge)

Anatoly Liberman (Univ. of Minnesota): "The Operation of Verner's Law"

Saturday, April 8 (Faculty Club: Seaborg Room)

Morning Session John Ole Askedal (Univ. of Oslo)

8:25 am Jason Whitt (UC Berkeley): "The Cognitive Underpinnings of the German Modal Verbs: A Diachronic Perspective"

8:50 am Michel van der Hoek (Univ. of Minnesota) "The Dutch Diminutive and Palatalization in West Germanic"

9:15 am Kurt Goblirsch (Univ. of South Carolina): "Old High German kx and the Mechanism of Germanic Consonant Shifts"

9:40 am Craig Callender (Univ. of South Carolina): "Sonority, Consonant Length and West Germanic Gemination"

10:05 am Karen Sullivan (UC Berkeley: "MEMBER FOR MEMBER Category Metonymy in Norse Skaldic Kennings"

10:30 am Thomas F. Shannon (UC Berkeley): "Infinitive Doubling in Yiddish: An Enigma for the Germanist?"

10:55 Ekkehard König (Freie Univ. Berlin): "Towards a Typology of Reciprocal Constructions: Focus on Germanic"

12:00-1:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session Enrique Mallen (Texas A & M Univ.)

1:00 pm Robert G. Hoeing (SUNY Buffalo): "Relativization, Predication, Tense, and Aspect in German and Selected Non-IE Languages"

1:25 pm Bill J. Darden (Univ. of Chicago): "Gothic ogs and the PIE Pluperfect"

1:50 pm Prisca Augustyn (Florida Atlantic Univ.): "Language Game and Language Play: Saussure's chess metaphor, Wittengenstein's Sprachspiegel, and the Notion of play in René Thom's Catastrophe Theory"

2:15 pm Murielle Etoré (Univ. of Calabria): "Why is it so Difficult for Students to Deal with German Rightheaded (anruf-) and English Leftheaded (call  up) Complex Verbs?"

2:40 pm  Hans Martin Gaertner (ZAS Berlin): "From German Quirk to Universal Tendency: A Speculation on (the Absence of Wh- Infinitives"

3:05 pm Claudia Bucheli and Guido Seiler (Univ. of Zürich): "Is Syntax Different?  Evidence from Swiss German"

3:30 pm Irmengard Rauch (UC Berkeley): "To What Extent Does Old Frisian Have Noun Gender?"

3:55 pm John Ole Askedal (Univ. of Oslo): "The Potential subjunctive in Germanic and the Reportive subjunctive of Modern German: A Case of Structural Cyclicity?"

4:30 pm Cocktails

The Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable is supported by the University of California Berkeley Center for German and European Studies and by the Max Kade Foundation, Inc.