Loanword Typology project


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Fourth Meeting,

4 February 2005


Programme

9.00    Martin Haspelmath (MPI): "Welcome and introduction"

9.15    Gerald Heusing (U Leipzig): "Loanwords in Alur (Nilotic; Uganda)"

9.30    Ekkehard Wolff & Ari Awagana (U Leipzig): "Lexical borrowing in
and between Hausa (Chadic) and Kanuri (Saharan): Preliminary report
on 3 selected domains (animals, body parts, religion)"

10.15     Susanne Michaelis & Katrin Muhme (MPI): "Loanwords in
    Seychelles Creole"

10.45    Jeff Good (MPI) "Lexical strata in Saramaccan"

(11.15-11.45 Coffee break)

11.45    Andrej Sobolev (U Marburg): "On the Importance of Borrowing in
    the Languages of the Balkan Linguistic Area"

12.30    Viktor Elšík (Charles U Prague): "Loanwords in Romani"

(13-14.30 Lunch break)

14.30    Anthony Grant (Edge Hill College, UK): "Loanwords in North
    America"

15.15    Michael Rießler (U Leipzig): "Loanwords in Kildin Saami"

15.45    Kristine A. Hildebrandt (U Leipzig): "Loanwords in Bodish (Tibeto-Burman)"

(16.15-16.45 Coffee break)

16.45    Jan Wohlgemuth (MPI): "Towards a database of loan verbs"

17.15    Dik Bakker (U Amsterdam): "Language contact in Spanish America
with special attention to Otomi"

18-18.30    general discussion

 

 

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Third Meeting, 1-2 May 2004

 

Saturday, 1 May

 

9.00 Martin Haspelmath (MPI-EVA): Welcome and introduction

 

9.15-10 Maarten Kossmann (U Leiden): "Borrowing in Tasawaq (Northern Songhay, Niger)"

 

10-10.30 Susanne Michaelis (MPI-EVA): "Some remarks on loanwords in creole languages"

 

10.30-11.15 Viktor Elsík (Prague): "Loanwords in Romani"

 

         11.15-11.45 (coffee break)

 

11.45-12.15 Michael Riessler (U Leipzig): "Loanwords in Saami from Nordic, Finnish, and Russian"

 

12.15-12.45 Uri Tadmor (MPI-EVA Jakarta): "Function words in the loanword typology project"

 

         12.45-14 (lunch break)

 

14-14.30 Titima Suthiwan (NU Singapore): "Loanwords in Thai"

 

14.30-15.15 Thekla Wiebusch (CNRS-CRLAO, Paris): "Loanwords in Chinese"

 

15.15-15.45 Kristine Hildebrandt (U Leipzig): "Borrowing from Indo-Aryan into Bodish (Tibeto-Burman)"

 

         15.45-16.15 (coffee break)

 

16.15-16.45 E. Annamalai (CIIL Mysore/MPI-EVA): "Sanskrit loan word compounds in Tamil: Are they created or borrowed"

 

16.45-17.15 Patience Epps (MPI-EVA): "Agricultural terms in Hup"

 

17.15-18.00 General discussion I

 

Sunday, 2 May

 

9-9.45 Yaron Matras (U Manchester/MPI-EVA): "Convergence, borrowing and linguistic areas" (see http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/Info/staff/JS/JScon.html)

 

9.45-10.15 Orin Gensler (MPI-EVA): "Calques in Welsh"

 

10.15-10.45 Bernard Comrie (MPI-EVA): " Prolegomena to a study of loan words in Tsezic languages"

 

         10.45-11.15 (coffee break)

 

11.15-11.45  David Gil (MPI-EVA): "How to Distinguish Borrowings from Code Switching:  A Case Study from Riau, Indonesia"

 

11.45-12.15 Søren Wichmann (MPI-EVA): "Structural patterns of verb borrowing"

 

12.15-13   General discussion II

 

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Second Meeting,

21-22 July 2003

 

Monday, 21 July 2003

 

9.30      Bernard Comrie & Martin Haspelmath: Welcome and introduction

10.00     Malcolm Ross (ANU, Canberra)

 

10.45        break

 

11.15     Lyle Campbell (U Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ)

12.00     Patrick McConvell (AIATSIS, Canberra)

 

12.45        break

 

14.30     Brigitte Pakendorf (MPI-EVA Leipzig)

15.15     Titima Suthiwan (NU Singapore)

 

16.00        break

 

16.30     Uri Tadmor (MPI-EVA, Jakarta)

17.15     general discussion

 

Tuesday, 22 July 2003

 

9.15      Maarten Mous (U Leiden)

10.00     Gerald Heusing (U Leipzig)

 

10.45        break

 

11.15     Cecil Brown (N Illinois U)

12.00     Søren Wichmann (MPI-EVA Leipzig)

 

12.45        break

 

14.30     Fredric Field (CSU Northridge): "Toward Basic Vocabulary"

15.15     William Croft (U Manchester)

 

16.00        break

 

16.30     general discussion

 

 

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First brainstorming meeting,

15 March 2003

 

09.45   Welcome

 

10.00 Martin Haspelmath (MPI): General overview

 

11.00 Bernard Comrie (MPI): Loanwords and word taboo: the case of Haruai

 

12.00 Rosemarie Lühr (U Jena): Lehnwörter und das althochdeutsche Wörterbuch

 

13.00   Lunch

 

14.00 Helma van den Berg (MPI): Loanwords in Daghestanian languages

 

15:00 Don Stilo (MPI): Intragenetic loans (from Iranian to Iranian)

 

16:00   General discussion