RSSMidwest Consortium on Greek Linguistics – Inaugural Meeting
Friday March 4, 2011
University of Chicago, Department of Linguistics
Program
Morning sessions: To be held at the Linguistics Lounge, Dept. of Linguistics
9:00-9:30
Nikos Vergis (UIUC): The rhetorics of shame: Language, women and stereotypes
9:30-10:00
Marina Terkourafi (UIUC): On the intonation/pragmatics interface: a prohibitive construction in Cypriot Greek
Break: 10-10:30
10:30-11:00
Anastasia Giannakidou (U Chicago), Despoina Papadopoulou (U Thessaloniki), and Melita Stavrou (U Thessaloniki): scope and epistemic judgment: evidence form Greek indefinites
11:00-11:30
Jason Merchant (U Chicago): A new argument for LF-copy? Evidence from ellipsis in the Greek NP
Lunch break: 11:30-1:00
Afternoon sessions: Harper 130
1:00-2:00
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Ioanna Sitaridou (U Cambridge): The Last Greek Infinitive — Continuity, Contact, and Change in the Greek varieties of Pontus
2:00-2:30
Christopher Brown (OSU) and Brian D. Joseph (OSU): Greek of Southern Albania — Preliminary Observations
Break: 2:30-3:00
3:00-3:30
Eleni Staraki (U Chicago): Greek modals interacting with tense and aspect
3:30-4:00
Katerina Chatzopoulou (U Chicago): Negation selection in Ancient Greek: the latest news
4:00-4:30
Anastasia Smirnova (OSU): Linguistic encoding of motion events in Greek in comparison to other Balkan languages