THE CAUCASUS is often called “the mountain of tongues”; this relatively small landmass between the Black and the Caspian Sea is home to almost a hundred languages, with three families indigenous to the area: Kartvelian, Nakh-Dagestanian, and Northwest Caucasian. The empirical base of general linguistics has been greatly enriched by sophisticated descriptive work on Caucasian languages. Furthermore, over the past twenty years or so, these languages have begun to make their entry into the arena of theoretical linguistics. Their potential, in terms of contributing directly to general theory and challenging existing theoretical constructs, is enormous. This workshop serves two related goals: First, it presents the richness of languages of the Caucasus to the general audience of linguists who do not necessarily work on these languages. Second, the workshop serves as an introduction to a number of theoretical challenges posed by these languages and as a platform for future topics of theoretical importance that can be explored in these languages. Finally, the workshop is a celebration of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus (edited by Maria Polinsky).
Student Cultural Center Xenia
16 Sofokli Venizelou str
74100 Rethymnon Crete
Program
- 09:30 – 10:00: Welcome and Opening Remarks (Maria Polinsky)
- 10:00 – 11:00: Semantics and Languages of the Caucasus (Sergei Tatevosov, Moscow State University)
- 11:00 – 12:00: Prosody and Languages of the Caucasus (Lena Borise, Harvard University)
- 12:00 – 13:30: Lunch (on your own)
- 13:30 – 14:30: Syntax and languages of the Caucasus (Dmitry Ganenkov, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) [Handout]
- 14:30 – 15:30: Morphology and languages of the Caucasus (Peter Arkadiev, Russian Academy of Science) [Handout]
- 15:30 -16:00: Break
- 16:00 -16:30: Poster Lightning Talks (each presenter introduces their poster in two minutes)
- 16:30 – 18:00: Poster Session (posters will be mounted on the wall, no poster stands)
Posters
- A case for DP in ostensibly articleless languages: Morphological evidence (David Erschler; Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
- A case of upward agree: A new analysis of Georgian NP ellipsis and suffix-stacking (Kinza Mahoon, Jean-François Juneau; University of Toronto)
- Circassian cislocative: Regular inverse marker but irregular PCC marker? (Imke Driemel, Ahmet Bilal Özdemir, Marie-Luise Popp; Leipzig University)
- The functionality of the dative case in Udi (Nida Ocak; Goethe University Frankfurt)
- Indexical Shift in Adyghe (Ahmet Bilal Özdemir; Leipzig University)
- CANCELED: The issue of marking verbal evidentiality in the Kartvelian languages (Ramaz Kurdadze, Maia Lomia, Ketevan Margiani; Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University)
- A new account of Kartvelian number agreement (Tanya Bondarenko, Stanislao Zompì; MIT)
- Preverbs, telicity, and ditransitive Georgian mi-/mo- VPs (Jean-François Juneau; University of Toronto)
- Reflexive pronouns and the (a)symmetry of the arguments of transitive verbs in Dargwa (Nina Sumbatova; Russian State University for the Humanities)
- Shifty clusivity in Tsova-Tush (Bryn Hauk; University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa)
- Unusual agreement targets in Nakh-Daghestanian languages (Marina Chumakina; Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey)
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