Brighter, cleverer, but more intelligent: Understanding periphrasis
Periphrasis Conference
In June 2010, SMG held a two-day conference on periphrasis, the situation where a grammatical function normally realised synthetically by a single word is expressed by more than one word. The conference was part of an ESRC funded project on periphrasis, called 'Brighter, cleverer, but more intelligent: Understanding periphrasis'.
Background
The dual nature of periphrasis (morphological function performed by means of syntax) presents interesting problems for linguistic theory. These have not yet been resolved, in part because the theoretical devices available have been inadequate and partly because the range of data considered has been rather narrow. Little is known about the extent of typological variation of periphrastic constructions, their interaction with the morphology and syntax of the languages they are found in, the way they adapt to morphological structure, and the changes they undergo over time on the way from being a free syntactic phrase to being a part of the inflectional paradigm.
Programme
7 June, 2010
10.00-10.30 | Welcome coffee |
10.30-10.45 | Greville G. Corbett, Introduction |
10.45-11.25 | Gergana Popova, Andrew Spencer, Dunstan Brown, Marina Chumakina & Greville G. Corbett, Defining 'periphrasis': Key notions |
11.25-12.25 | Irina Nikolaeva, Periphrasis in Nenets |
12.25-13.30 | Lunch |
13.30-14.10 | Olivier Bonami & Polett Samvelian, A Persian lesson on periphrasis, typology and formal grammar |
14.10-14.50 | Raul Aranovich, Clitic clusters, verbal periphrases, and the morphological blocking principle |
14.50-15.20 | Coffee break |
15.20-16.00 | Athanasios Giannaris, The formation of the 'coniugatio periphrastica' in Ancient Greek |
16.00-17.00 | Gregory Stump. Periphrasis in Sanskrit. |
8 June, 2010
09.30-10.30 | Nicholas Evans, Periphrasis in Dalabon. |
10.30-11.10 | Eva Schultze-Berndt, Between periphrasis and predication: The curious case of the Jaminjung progressive construction. |
11.10-11.40 | Coffee break |
11.40-12.20 | Andrew Spencer & Gergana Popova, Relatedness in periphrasis: A paradigm-based perspective. |
12.20-13.00 | Olivier Bonami & Gert Webelhuth, The phrase-structural diversity of periphrasis: A lexicalist account. |
13.00-14.00 | Lunch |
14.00-14.40 | Nigel Vincent, Compound periphrasis: Syntax or morphology? |
14.40-15.40 | Marina Chumakina, Periphrasis in Archi |
15.40-16.20 | Greville G. Corbett, Periphrasis and possible lexemes |
16.20-16.50 | Coffee and close |
Poster: | Dmitrij Ganenkov, Timur Majsak & Solmaz Merdanova, Periphrastic verbal forms and clause structure in Agul |
Project members
Prof Greville G. Corbett
Dr Dunstan Brown
Dr Marina Chumakina
Period of award:
November 2007 - October 2010
Funder
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
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