09:00 Introduction

09:15 - 10:15 KEYNOTE SESSION

Carlotta Viti (University of Lorraine)

Converbs, gerunds and participles: diachronic and areal factors

COFFEE BREAK

(10:15 - 10:45)

10:45 - 11:15 Daniel Ross (University of California, Riverside) Online!

The Life Cycle of Converbs: A Diachronic Typology

11:15 - 11:45 Thomas Wier (Free University of Tbilisi)

Suffixaufnahme and Noncanonical Converbs in Georgian

11:45 - 12:15 Dejan Matić (Univ. of Münster), Irina Nikolaeva (Univ. of Münster, SOAS)

The recategorization of converbs and language contacts

LUNCH BREAK

(12:15 - 14:15)

14:15 - 14:45 Shinsuke Hidaka (Niigata University)

The “converbs” based on participles in Uzbek

14:45 - 15:15 Adam Pospíšil (Charles University Prague), Petr Felčer (Charles University Prague)

A prefixed converbial structure in colloquial Arabic

COFFEE BREAK

(15:15 - 16:15)

16:15 - 17:15 KEYNOTE SESSION

Krzysztof Stroński (University of Poznań)

Control properties of IA converbs in diachronic perspective

Friday, October 7

09:30 - 10:30 KEYNOTE SESSION

Andrea Drocco (Università di Venezia - Ca’ Foscari)

On the origin of Hindi compound verbs from original converbs

COFFEE BREAK

(10:30 - 11:00)

11:00 - 11:30 Lucrezia Carnesale (University of Pavia/Bergamo)

A comparative study of subordinate constructions with non-finite verbal forms in Hindi and Italian

11:30 -12:00 Robin Meyer (University of Lausanne) Online!

Origin and aspect of the converb in Classical Armenian

12:00 - 12:30 Paola Cotticelli (UniVR), Eystein Dahl (UiT), Jelena Živojinović (UniVR)

The resolution of the accusative absolute vs. gerundial constructions in Late Latin

LUNCH BREAK

(12:30 - 14:30)

14:30 - 15:00 Jasper Vangaever (University of Leiden & Ghent University)

From masdar to converb and beyond: the Latin gerund from Latin to Old French

15:00 - 15:30 Jan Casalicchio (University of Palermo) Online!

Same origin, different outcomes. The use of gerunds as secondary predicates in Romance

15:30 - 16:00 Olga Nádvorníková (Charles University Prague)

The Czech converb confronted with its French and Polish counterparts: Investigation of the potential

impact of diachronic and typological factors defining the properties of converbs

COFFEE BREAK

(16:00 - 16:30)

16:30 - 17:30 KEYNOTE SESSION

Anna Pompei (Roma Tre University)

Converbs and participles: the case of Ancient Greek

17:30 - 18:00 Filip De Decker (University of Verona)

The origins of the Greek Genitive Absolute: nominal, participial or both?

CONFERENCE DINNER

Saturday, October 8

09:30 - 10:00 Andreas Waibel, Albina Mukhamadyarova, Leysan Shayakhmetova (Kazan Federal University)

The Tatar Converb System

10:00 - 10:30 Andreas Waibel (Kazan Federal University)

The historical development of the Chuvash converb system

10:30 - 11:00 Christoph Schroeder, Kateryna Iefremenko (Potsdam University)

Converbs in heritage Turkish in Germany and the U.S.

11:00 Closing remarks

END OF CONFERENCE