DIACHRO II, Prague

DIACHRO II, Prague

 

Resilience in the diachrony of languages

10 February 2025,

Faculty of Arts, Charles University
nám. Jana Palacha 2, Praha 1
Room No. 116

We are pleased to invite you to the workshop DIACHRO II Prague, which will be held on Monday, 10 February, in Room 116 at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. This workshop follows the first event, organised in 2020 as part of the KREAS project, which, due to the unfortunate outbreak of the pandemic, was limited to only a couple of lectures. 

The second event adopts a traditional, friendly one-day format, centering on the key concept of the CoRe project: “the resilience of linguistic systems”. We believe that this broad conceptual framework is flexible enough to be explored from various perspectives and across different languages. 

Programme:

Opening Remarks (Pavel Štichauer)

Session 1 (Chair: Pavel Štichauer)

  • 10.00 – 10.30 Martin Maiden (Oxford) – Contact-induced resilience: the uncanny ‚Croatianness‘ of Istro-Romanian inflectional morphology
  • 10.30 – 11.00 Xavier Bach (Toulouse) – The dramatic effects of sound change on inflectional paradigms: resilience in future and conditional in Jèrriais

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break

Session 2 (Chair: Salvador Valera)

  • 11.30 – 12.00 Egle Mocciaro (Brno) – Pejorative suffixes in Old Sicilian between continuity and innovation
  • 12.00 – 12.30 Jan Radimský (České Budějovice), Pavel Štichauer (Prague) – (Ir)resilience of compounding patterns in the diachrony of Italian

12.30 – 14.30 Lunch

Session 3 (Chair: Xavier Bach)

  • 14.30 – 15.00 Johanna Vogelsanger (Zurich) – Lexical loss and survival in medieval English
  • 15.00 – 15.30 Cristina Fernandez Alcaina (Córdoba), Salvador Valera (Granada), Jan Čermák (Prague) – A diachronic account of stress shift in English conversion
  • 15.30 – 16.00 Vojtěch Ripl & Ondřej Tichý (Prague) – Mass Nouns in Old English & the Roots of the Category of Countability in the History of English

16.00 – 16. 15 Concluding Remarks (Ondřej Tichý and Jan Čermák)

17.00 Supper

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