‘Insufficient strength to defend its case’: Case attraction and related phe...

Introduction

This two-day conference on case attraction and related phenomena will take place on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th September 2015 at the University of Wrocław.

The conference will explore the whole range of phenomena traditionally described in terms of ‘case attraction’, together with the history of the subject. The aim is to bring together scholars interested in case attraction and related phenomena, often in different traditions and different parts of the world, to try to communicate across different perspectives and frameworks and explore a subject of common interest. The conference will include a history of scholarship dimension, alongside theoretical and typological contributions.

This is a joint event of the Center for General and Comparative Linguistics at the University of Wrocław and the Philological Society, and is generously supported also by the Faculty of Linguistics at the University of Oxford and the UCLA Program in Indo-European Studies.

Programme

Friday 18 September 2015

Wydział Filologiczny (Faculty of Letters), pl. Nankiera 15b, 50-140 Wrocław: http://www.wfil.uni.wroc.pl/

Room no. 22 (Library of the Institute of Polish Studies)

8.30–9.00 a.m.
Registration 9.00–10.00 a.m. Philomen Probert (Oxford): Historical introduction: The ‘insufficient strength’ theory of case attraction 10.00–11 a.m. Joanna Błaszczak (Wrocław): Theoretical introduction 11.00–11.30 a.m. Coffee 11.30 a.m.–12.10 p.m. Maria Kholodilova (St Petersburg) and Maria Privizentseva (Moscow): Inverse attraction in Finno-Ugric languages 12.10–12.50 p.m. Anna Pompei (Rome): Case attraction and the evolution of relative clauses in Latin 12.50–1.00 p.m. Free ten minutes 1.00–2.00 p.m. Tour of the historic library 2.00–3.00 p.m. Lunch break (lunch at nearby restaurants) 3.00–4.10 p.m. Tour of the historic university 4.10–4.50 p.m. Robin Meyer (Oxford): Translating Attraction: Free Relative Clauses in Classical Armenian 4.50–5.30 p.m. Vassilios Spyropoulos (Athens): The syntax and morphology of case attraction: Free relatives in modern Greek 5.30–6.00 p.m. Tea 6.00–7.15 p.m. Henk Van Riemsdijk (Arezzo): (Mis-)matches in (Free) Relatives: in situ aut inter situs 7.15–7.30 p.m. Free fifteen minutes 7.30 p.m. Conference dinner for all participants (To be counted in, participants must sign up for the conference by 30 August, by clicking on the 'register' button above.)

Saturday 19 September 2015

Wydział Filologiczny (Faculty of Letters), pl. Nankiera 15b, 50-140 Wroclaw: http://www.wfil.uni.wroc.pl/

Rooms 125 and 26

9–10.15 a.m. Markus Bader (Frankfurt) and Anna Czypionka (Konstanz): Case attraction and the role of lexical case 10.15–10.45 a.m. Coffee 10.45–11.25 a.m. Robin Meyer (Oxford): Relative Attraction and the ezāfe Construction in Old Iranian‽ 11.25 a.m.–12.05 p.m. Maksim Kudrinskii (Moscow): KUR URUX in Hittite: a case for case attraction or overlooked determinative? 12.05–12.45 p.m. Dominika Dziubała-Szrejbrowska (Poznań): Deriving case patterns in phrases with higher numerals: on Genitive of Quantification and other case puzzles in Polish 12.45–2.00 p.m. Lunch break (lunch at nearby restaurants) 2.00—2.40 p.m. Maria Kholodilova (St Petersburg): Case attraction in non-standard Russian 2.40–3.20 p.m.
Christian Paulsen (Fresno): Structural case and agreement in ancient Greek copular constructions 3.20–4.00 p.m. Patrick Lindert (Stuttgart): Case alternations in Polish predication and control 4.00–4.30 p.m.
Tea 4.30–5.45 p.m. Ralf Vogel (Bielefeld): Case Hierarchies 5.45–6.15 p.m. Concluding remarks from the organisers

How to book a place

To book a place at this event, please register by clicking on the 'register' button above (you will then be prompted for your name and email address). To book accommodation at the nearby Tumski Hotel, please book directly with the hotel (hotel@hotel-tumski.com.pl or fax +48 71 322 61 13).

No fee will be charged for full members or student associate members of the Philological Society attending this conference. A fee of £10 will be charged to non-members (£5 to students). Fees will be collected on the first day of the event during Registration. Fees will be waived for individuals who join the Philological Society on the day. The membership application form is available online from www.philsoc.org.uk/membership.asp. Membership subscription is £10 per annum for full members, or £10 for five years for student associate members. The conference dinner on the Friday evening, as well as tea and coffee on both days, are provided free of charge for all registered participants. To be counted in, participants MUST register by 30 August 2015, using the 'Register' button above.