Friday January 24, 2013 at 14:15 – 16:00 (HF: 217)
In this presentation, I analyze gerundives in combination with the so-called “dative of agent” in six different Indo-European languages, namely Sanskrit, Avestan, Ancient Greek, Latin, Tocharian, and Lithuanian. Consider the following examples from Ancient Greek and Latin:
hēmîn … pánta poiētéa Ancient Greek
Friday January 17, 2013 at 14:15 – 16:00 (HF: 217)
In contrast to the received consensus in the historical-comparative linguistic community, we argue that syntactic reconstruction is both a plausible and a feasible enterprise. We illustrate this with an investigation of the syntactic behavior of *wai ‘woe’ across five subbranches of Indo-European, i.e. Indo-Iranian, Italic, […]
Fredag 10. januar, 2014, 14:15 – 16:00 (HF-bygget 217)
Her presenteres resultater fra pilotstudien til mitt pågående ph.d.-prosjekt om genuskongruens og morsmålspåvirkning (transfer) i norsk innlærerspråk. For å avdekke transfer, sammenligner jeg språkbruken til innlærere med morsmål (S1) som er ulike når det gjelder grammatisk genus og kongruens. Hovedhypotesen er at innlærere som har et […]