Abstract

Day 1 – Thursday, May 26

15:00 – 15:15 Welcome – Ioanna Sitaridou 15:15 – 15:45 Laurentia Schreiber – Freie Universität Berlin, Assessing the sociolinguistic vitality of Romeyka: An attitudinal study 15:45 – 16:15 M. Olimpia Squillaci – University of Cambridge, Imme Greko. Ime Rumeo. Am I Greek?

16:15 – 16:45 Break

16:45 – 17:30 Nicolaos Neocleous & Ioanna Sitaridou – University of Cambridge, The rise of final auxiliaries in Asia Minor Greek: A contact explanation

19:15 Dinner at the Jamie’s Italian (Address: Wheeler Street, The Old Library, Cambridge, CB2 3QJ )

Day 2 – Friday, May 27

09:00 – 09:45 Johanna Lorenz – Bielefeld University, Subordination in Caucasian Urum 09:45 – 10:30 Stefanie Böhm – Bielefeld University, Focus and word order in Caucasian Urum

10:30 – 11:00 Break

11:00 – 12:30 Round table: Emerging Ergativity as a Sprachbund feature Discussants: James Baker (Cambridge), Stavros Skopeteas (Bielefeld), Geoffrey Khan (Cambridge), Ioanna Sitaridou (Cambridge)

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:45 Ophelie Gandon – Sorbonne Nouvelle, Relative clause strategies in eastern Black Sea languages from an areal point of view 14:45 – 15:30 Plenary talk: Metin Bagriacik – University of Ghent, Relatives and their kin in Pharasiot Greek

15:30 – 16:00 Break

16:00 – 17:00 Plenary talk: Stavros Skopeteas – Bielefeld University, From pragmatics to phonetics: Prosodic constituents and syntactic projections in Georgian

20:00 Dinner at the Pint Shop (Address: 10 Peas Hill, Cambridge, CB2 3PN )