Workshop Program
Albanian Linguistics Workshop
February 28th, 2009
Paper handouts (.pdf) and PowerPoint presentations (.ppt) files from selected talks are now available via the links below. With the exception of the video of Eric Hamp, to view multimedia content, please click on either the “stream” link (which will open a screencast of the presentation in a new browser window) or *right click* on the “download” link (which will download a video or an audio of the presentation to your computer). Both streamed and downloaded video screencasts are best viewed using Apple’s free QuickTime Player for Macs and PCs.
| 9:15 | Kelly Maynard (U. Chicago) Opening Remarks Audio (download) |
| 9:30 | Rachel Klippenstein (The Ohio State U.) A Corpus-based Investigation of Albanian Initial Consonant Clusters Handout (download) |
| 10:00 | Matthew C. Curtis (The Ohio State U.) On /xh/ and Albanian Allolinguistics Presentation (download), Handout (download), Audio (download) |
| 10:30 | Alex Murzaku (College of St.Elizabeth) Parallels between Deixis and Tense Presentation (download), Screencast (stream; download), Audio (download) |
| 11:00 | Jerry L. Morgan (UI Urbana-Champaign) Nyje the Albanian Particle of Concord Presentation (download), Handouts (one, two), Audio (download) |
| 1:00 | Anastasia Smirnova (The Ohio State U.)
The Meaning of the Present Tense in Albanian from a Cross-linguistic Perspective |
| 1:30 | Eda Derhemi (UI Urbana-Champaign) What’s wrong with the standard Albanian we already have? |
| 2:00 | Kelly Lynne Maynard (U. Chicago) Samsun Albanian |
| 2:30 | Brian D. Joseph (The Ohio State U.) The etymology of the Albanian stër-prefix Presentation (download), Handout (download), Screencast (stream; download), Audio (download) |
| 3:30 | Andrew Dombrowski (U. Chicago) Vowel-Zero Alternations in Albanian and Morphophonological Contac Presentation (download), Handout (download), Screencast (stream; download), Audio (download) |
| 4:00 | Daniel Moore (U. Chicago) Albanian Syntax |
| 4:25 | Chundra Cathcart (U. Chicago) The Letter ‘q’: Albanian Influence on Romani Orthography in Kosovo and the Rep. of Albania |
| 4:50 | Maria Bankova (U. Chicago) Object doubling in Albanian |
| 5:30 | Eric P. Hamp (U. Chicago) The Suppletive Verbs jam, kam, dua, vdes |
Eric P. Hamp Video
To view a larger version of this video, please download Eric_P._Hamp-podcast.qtl and open it on your computer with Apple’s free QuickTime Player.