Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, Room 120
Workshop within the framwork of the research project Moving towards aspect, copula and passive. The diachronic reanalysis of motion verbs in Romanian (MOV) , PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2016-0341.
Friday, September 20
14.00–14.30 – Registration and opening
14.30–15.30 – Invited speaker: Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge),
Coming and Going in Calabrian: Asyndetic Complementation
15.30–16.00 – Coffee break
16.00–16.30 – Mădălina Botez (University of Bucharest), Adina Dragomirescu (“Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics / University of Bucharest), Romanian verbs a se afla ‘be situated’ and a rămâne ‘remain’ on the grammaticalization scale
16.30-17.00 – Adnana Boioc Apintei (“Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics / University of Bucharest), Ștefania Costea (“Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics / University of Cambridge), A (se) pune ‘put > start’, from old to modern Romanian. Morphosyntactic gain, phonological preservation
17.00–17.30 – Alexandru Nicolae (“Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics / University of Bucharest), A veni ‘come’ as a semiauxiliary
17.30–18.00 – Aynat Rubinstein (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), From motion to desire in Romance
18.30 – Dinner
Saturday, September 21
9.30–10.00 – Sweet breakfast and coffee
10.00–10.30 – Valentina Cojocaru, Ramona Cătălina Corbeanu (“Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics / University of Bucharest), Some aspects of the grammaticalization of the Romanian verb a se porni ‘to start’
10.30-11.00 – Raluca Brăescu, Irina Nicula Paraschiv (“Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics / University of Bucharest), From motion verbs to copula: the verbs a intra ‘come in’, a se băga ‘get in’, a ieși ‘go out’
11.00–11.30 – Beatrice Pahonțu (University of Bucharest), From Movement Nouns to Progressive Verbal Periphrases
11.30–12.00 – Coffee break
12.00–13.00 – Invited speaker: Luigi Andriani (Universiteit Utrecht),
The grammaticalisation of Apulo-Barese periphrases with verbs of position and motion
13.00 – Lunch (included in the conference fee)