Programme

The Diachrony of Ditransitives

November 29-30 2018

Vercelli

Sala della Cripta di Sant’Andrea

Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università del Piemonte Orientale

Thursday 29/11/2018

14.00-14.30 Opening Session

14.30-15.30

Timothy Colleman (Ghent University), The early stages of the dative alternation in Dutch vs. English

15.30-16.00

Cristiano Broccias & Enrico Torre (University of Genoa), Revisiting the history of the English dative alternation: An account based on attraction and differentiation

16.00-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-17.00

Eva Zehentner (University of York), Binary choices versus complex networks: the history of the English dative alternation

17.00-17.30

Evi Van Damme, Ludovic De Cuypere & Klaas Willems (Ghent University), The ditransitive alternation in the history of German: the case of verkaufen (‘sell’)

17.30-18.00

Fredrik Valdeson (Stockholm University), The double object construction and its prepositional paraphrases in Late Modern Swedish

Friday 30/11/2018

9.00-10.00

Michele Prandi (University of Genoa), Roles and grammatical relations in synchrony and diachrony: the case of indirect object

10.00-10.30

Anna Giacalone Ramat (University of Pavia), Passives of ditransitives

10.30-11.00

Maria Napoli (University of Eastern Piedmont), Old Italian ditransitive constructions: between alternation and change

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-12.00

Marina Benedetti (University of Foreigners of Siena), Ditransitive ‘teach’ and the status of the Theme argument: Greek didáskō as a case study

12.00-12.30

Carla Bruno (University of Foreigners of Siena), Not just arguments. On gr. dídōmi and the theme-recipient relation in its ditransitive structures

12.30-13.00

Katarzyna Sowka-Pietraszewska (University of Wrocław), Ditransitive verbs of possession change in early Polish

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-14.30

Chantal Melis & Sergio Ibáñez Cerda (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), On the development of Spanish impersonal ‘give’ in experiential constructions

14.30-15.00

Alberto Arceri (University of Turin), On “giving the modal inference invited”: Some remarks on modal 'give' constructions, with special reference to Latin dare + PP and Galician dar +PP

15.00-15.30

Chiara Fedriani (University of Genoa), The spread of the ad + Accusative construction from Early to Late Latin: identifying semantic paths in the domain of ditransitives

15.30 Conclusions