Programme
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Thursday, 22nd May 2014
08.30 – 09.15 REGISTRATION
09.15 – 09.30 INTRODUCTION
09.30 – 10.15 Kurt BRAUNMÜLLER (Hamburg)
10.15 – 11.00 Jóhannes Gísli JÓNSSON & Þórhallur EYÞÓRSSON (Reykjavík)
The fate of genitive case in Insular Scandinavian
11.00 – 11.30 COFFEE BREAK
11.30 – 12.15 Hjalmar P. PETERSEN (Faroe Islands) & Renata SZCZEPANIAK (Hamburg)
The decline of the synthetic genitive and the grammaticalization
of prepositional phrases as possessive constructions in Faroese
12.15 – 13.00 Caroline DÖHMER (Luxembourg)
Die Kategorisierung des Genitivs im Luxemburgischen.
Aktuelle Belege und terminologische Überlegungen
13.00 – 14.30 LUNCH
14.30 – 15.30 Alan K. SCOTT (Nottingham)
Genitive -s Omission in Modern German and Early Modern Dutch:
A Contrastive Investigation into the Properties of Grammaticalisation
15.30 – 16.15 Christian ZIMMER (FU Berlin)
Die Nutzung des Internet(s) – zur Einordnung und funktionalen Motivation
s-loser Genitive im Gegenwartsdeutschen
16.15 – 16.45 COFFEE BREAK
16.45 – 17.30 Simone UEBERWASSER (Zurich)
German Long and Short Genitive Endings and their Spacial Distribution
17.30 – 18.15 Dirk PIJPOPS & Freek VAN DE VELDE (Leuven)
In search of the function of the Dutch partitive genitive: a corpus analysis
18.15 – 19.00 Tanja ACKERMANN (FU Berlin)
Vom Genitiv zum Possessivmarker? –
Adnominale Possessivkonstruktionen mit Eigennamen im Deutschen
19.30 DINNER
Friday, 23rd May 2014
09.00 – 09.45 Barbara SCHLÜCKER (FU Berlin)
Eigennamenkomposita und Genitive
09.45 – 10.30 Kristin KOPF (Mainz)
an des reichs rat and bey dem reichs rat:
From genitive suffix to linking element
10.30 – 11.00 COFFEE BREAK
11.00 – 11.45 Jarich HOEKSTRA (Kiel)
11.45 – 12.30 Kerstin HOGE (Oxford)
A Genitive Analysis of Yiddish Possessives
12.30 – 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 – 15.00 Peter GALLMANN (Jena)
Genitiv und Wortgruppenflexion
15.00 – 15.45 Simone PESCHKE (Mainz)
Family names vs. place names. How semantic roles influence the
pre- and prostnominal positioning of genitive attributes
15.45 – 16.15 COFFEE BREAK
16.15 – 17.00 Mirjam SCHMUCK (Mainz)
Personennamen in Genitivkonstruktionen –
ein Motor für die Grammatikalisierung des onymischen Artikels?
17.00 DEPARTURE FOR BOAT TRIP
Saturday, 24th May 2014
10.00 – 10.45 Tijs D'HULSTER & Liisa BUELENS (Ghent)
On the edge of acceptability: The Flemish External Possessor
10.45 – 11.30 Julia KOLKMANN (Manchester) & Ingrid LOSSIUS FALKUM (Oslo)
Genitive semantics revisited: the case of English pre-nominal possessives
11.30 – 12.00 COFFEE BREAK
12.00 – 12.45 Hans C. BOAS, Marc PIERCE, Ryan DUX & T. Adam LABORDE (Austin)
The genitive in Texas German: Leveling , accommodation,
and the influence of Standard German
12.45 – 14.00 FINAL DISCUSSION
14.00 BEER GARDEN