The Grammaticalization of Motion Verbs in Romance

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)