Verbal morphology and the historical comparison of the Trans-Eurasian languages

Von: gna
03 - 04 September Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

The historical relationship of Japanese, Korean, the Tungusic languages, the Mongolic languages and the Turkic languages is among the most disputed issues of historical linguistics. The objective of this working-group is to bring together European historical linguists to compare these languages, referred to as Trans-Eurasian, from a diachronic point of view with a focus on verbal morphology. Besides the search for concrete cognates, some topics open for discussion are the different determinants of linguistic similarity such as borrowing, universals, chance, genetic retention; typological similarity; stability and borrowability of verbal morphology in general etc. You are very welcome to take part in the discussions or to submit an abstract for presentation.

Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Bernard Comrie (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA  & Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Bjarke Frellesvig (University of Oxford, UK)
Dr .Stefan Georg (University of Bonn, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Juha Janhunen (University of Helsinki-Helsingfors, Finland)
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Lars Johanson (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Frederik Kortlandt (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Dr. Martine Robbeets  (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany)
Prof. Dr. András Róna-Tas (University of Szeged, Hungary)

Contact and registration:
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Lars Johanson (johanson@uni-mainz.de ),
Dr. Martine Robbeets (martine_robbeets@hotmail.com)
Institute for Oriental Studies Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany) 
No workshop-fee applicable

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