November 13–14, 2020

Form and Meaning

Nominal Word Formation and Derivational Semantics in Indo-European

University of Copenhagen / Online

Twenty years after the conference Indo-European Word Formation – Inventory and Analysis (October 20–22, 2000) the University of Copenhagen will again be the venue of an international convention devoted to morphology in Proto-Indo-European and the Indo-European languages.

The focus of the 2020 workshop will be on nominal word formation — both derivation and compounding — and the semantic properties that accompany these processes. The program covers a whole variety of topics including:

· Derivational Morphology in general

· Grammaticalization

· Case Studies of Proto-Indo-European Suffixes

· Case Studies of Proto-Indo-European Roots

· Nominal Stem Classes and/or Accent and Ablaut Classes

· ‘Caland Morphology’ and the Caland System

· Morphosemantics, Derivational Semantics

· Etymology

Due to COVID-19 the workshop will be held as an online conference. For security reasons the links to the sessions will only be sent to registered attendees.

Day 1

Derivation, Grammaticalization, Etymological Case Studies, Root Nouns

Day 2

Derivational Semantics, Case Studies in Suffixes and Etymology, Caland System

"quaero enim uerbum utrum dicant uocem quae ex syllabis ficta, eam quam audimus, an quod ea significat, quam intellegimus, an utrumque."

Varro ling. 8.40

"For I ask whether by a 'word' they mean the spoken word which consists of syllables, that word which we hear,
or that which the spoken word indicates, which we understand, or both."

Speakers

Isabelle de Meyer

École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris / Ghent University

José L. García Ramón

Riccardo Ginevra

University of Copenhagen

Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen

University of Copenhagen

Stefan Höfler (organizer)

University of Copenhagen

Adam Hyllested

University of Copenhagen

Josef J. Jarosch

Universität Erlangen

Konstantin G. Krasuchin

Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Marek Majer

University of Lodz

Melanie Malzahn

University of Vienna

Andrew Merritt

Cornell University

Domenico Giuseppe Muscianisi

Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University / IULM University Milan

Birgit Anette Olsen

University of Copenhagen

Georges-Jean Pinault

École Pratique des Hautes Études, Université Paris sciences et lettres

Nathanael E. Schweikhard

Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena

Rafał Szeptyński

Polish Academy of Sciences

Program (PDF)

Please register to attend the conference!

This conference is organized as part of the project ‘Of beasts and men. The animals of the Proto-Indo-Europeans’, which receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. H2020-MSCA-IF-2018–835954.

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