Conference: Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable

4/2/2004 - 4/3/2004

The Faculty Club University of California, Berkeley

2004 BERKELEY GERMANIC LINGUISTICS ROUNDTABLE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

program

Friday, April 2

8:00 Registration (Faculty Club: Seaborg Room)

Morning Session: Rex A. Sprouse (Indiana Univ.)

8:30 John Durbin (Indiana Univ.): "Are Modals a Form of Passivization?
Evidence from Dutch moeten/mogen + van "

8:55 Donald Steinmetz (Augsburg College): "The Germanic Gender Shift and
its Consequences in Yiddish: Order in the Chaos?"

9:20 Ana Krzic (Indiana Univ.): "Pronoun Address System in German"

9:45 Charles M. Barrack (Univ. of Washington): "Grimm's Law and Verner's
Law: From Typology to Trajectory"

10:10 Mark Southern (Middlebury College): "Metonymic and Linguistic
Inheritances in Old Saxon: Betrayal, Protection, Death, and Words as Power"

10:35 Suin Shin (UC Berkeley): "Why Germans are Rude. Or not? -
Politeness Strategies in Language: A Contrastive Study of German,
English and Korean"

11:00 Ulrich Busse (Univ. of Halle/Wittenberg): "The Impact of Lexical
Borrowing from English on German and Its Treatment in Selected
Dictionaries"

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session: John Ole Askedal (Univ. of Oslo)

  1:00 Hans C. Boas (Univ. of Texas): "Texas German - or - The Dialect
that Never Happened"

   1:25 Eugene Green (Boston University): "The Subjunctive Mood and Modal
Auxiliary in Old English Poetry"

  1:50 Tonya Kim Dewey (UC Berkeley/Univ. of Iceland): "V2 in West
Germanic: Syntax vs. Phonology"

  2:15 Thaddeus G. Meyer (Indiana Univ.): "The Transitional Transcriptions
Anew: Runic Evidence for the Phonemicization of i - umlaut"

  2:40 Robert G. Hoeing (SUNY Buffalo): "Talking Heads and Relatives"

  3:05 Guido Seiler (Stanford University): "On the Development of the
Bavarian Quantity System"

  3:30 Dorian Roehrs,(Indiana Univ.): "German ein jeder as a Late Compound"

  3:55 Johan van der Auwera (Univ. of Antwerp): "Flemish Negative
Indefinites: Micro-and Macrovariation"

  7:00 Dinner (Faculty Club: Howard Lounge)

        Enrique Mallen (Texas A&M Univ.): "A German('s) Grammar of Cubism:
Pablo Picasso and Daniel-Heinrich Kahnweiler"

Saturday, April 3

Morning Session (Seaborg Room): Robert G. Hoeing (SUNY Buffalo)

  8:30 Marc Pierce (Univ. of Michigan): "Syllable Weight and Vowel
Lengthening in Modern Faroese"

  8:55 Vera Lee-Schoenfeld (UC Santa Cruz): "Possessor Raising: A
Diagnostic for Restructuring"

  9:20 Christopher D. Sapp (Indiana Univ.): "Verb Placement in Subordinate
Clauses in the History of German"

  9:45 Andre Nündel (Rutgers University): "Case Attraction as a
Consequence of DP Structure"

10:10 Thomas F. Shannon (UC Berkeley): "Oy Vey, Maatjie: More Drift in
Germanic?"

10:35 Santeri Palviainen (Harvard Univ.): "Baltic-Finnic Evidence for
Germanic Final Syllables"

11:00 Marga Reis (Univ. of Tübingen): "Modals, so-called Semi-modals, and
Grammaticalization in German"

12:00-1:30 Lunch

Afternoon Session Charles M. Barrack (Univ. of Washington)

  1:30 Heiko Wiggers (Univ. of Texas): "The Prestige Shift of Low German"

  1:55 Bay Area German Project (UC Berkeley): "Emotion, Gesture, Language"

  2:20 John Ole Askedal (Univ. of Oslo): "Intercategorial Coordination in
German NPs"

  2:45 Dorian Roehrs & Rex Sprouse (Indiana Univ.): "The Three Genitival
Declensions of Proper Names in Modern Standard German: Some Morphosyntactic
Nuts"

  3:10 Irmengard Rauch (UC Berkeley) "Muscular Gothic II: Template Morphology"

  3:35 Joseph Voyles (Univ. of Washington): "Hittite and Proto-Indo-European"

        Cocktails

The Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable is supported by the University
of California Berkeley Center for German and European Studies through a
Daimler-Chrysler/Deutsche Bank Grant, and by the Max Kade Foundation, Inc.