Programme

Baltic Languages and White Nights

International Conference
University of Helsinki, 11–12 June 2012

Programme

 

Monday 11 June

 

Registration 9.30 – 10.00

Metsätalo – Forsthuset, Unioninkatu – Unionsgatan 40, III Floor

Plenary session 10.00 – 17.00, Room 8, III Floo

Moderated by Santeri Junttila and Laimute Balode

10 00 Arto Mustajoki, University of Helsinki Opening of the conference
10 15 Santeri Junttila, University of Helsinki The contacts between Proto-Finnic and Baltic: do we know anything Thomsen did not?
10 45 Riho Grünthal, University of Helsinki Livonian at the cross-roads of language contacts
11 15 Anna Daugaviete, Saint Petersburg State University The development of unstressed syllables in Latvian: Lithuanian and Baltic-Finnic parallels
11 45 Tea and coffee
12 00 Karl Pajusalu, University of Helsinki On phonology of the Salaca Livonian language
12 30 Laimute Balode, University of Helsinki / University of Latvia Criteria for determining of possible Finno-Ugrisms in Latvian toponymy
13 00 Lunch
14 30 Pauls Balodis, Latvian Language Institute Surnames of Finno-Ugric origin in Latvia
15 00 Pēteris Vanags, Stockholm University / University of Latvia Latvian and Estonian names for traditional feast days of the Christian church: Common history and sources
15 30 Tea and coffee
16 00 Adam Hyllested, University of Copenhagen The origins of Finnish aika ‘time’ and aita ‘fence’: Germanic, Baltic, or Slavic?
16 30 Janne Saarikivi, University of Helsinki On the stratigraphy of borrowings in Finnic. Reconsidering the Slavic and Baltic borrowings.

Evening programme

17.30–19.30 Reception at the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania, Rauhankatu – Fredsgatan 13 A

 

 

Tuesday 12 June

 

Section I. The presentations in Latvian and Lithuanian

12.00–15.30, Room 22, IV Floor

Moderated by Laimute Balode and Aurelija Kaškelevičienė

12 00 Ilga Jansone, University of Latvia Par dažiem somugrismiem Ērģemes draudzes vietvārdos
12 30 Ojārs Bušs, University of Latvia Latv. Ozolsala un šī onīma atbilsmes lietuviešu, igauņu, somu valodā, tostarp teorētiskās onomastikas skatījumā
13 00 Lunch
14 00 Marius Smetona, University of Vilnius Gyvačių eufemizmai lietuvių kalboje
14 30 Anželika Smetonienė, University of Vilnius Kai kurių XVI–XVII a. LDK tekstų skolintų veiksmažodžių šaltinių patikslinimas

 

Section II. Syntax

9.30–17.00, Room 4, III Flo

Moderated by Marja Leinonen and Riho Grünthal

9 30 Peter Arkadijev, Moscow State University “External prefixes” in Lithuanian: A typological rarum
10 00 Hélène de Penanros, National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Paris) Preverbs, prepositions and cases in Finnish and in Lithuanian
10 30 Marja Leinonen, University of Helsinki Lithuanian genitive vs. Finnish partitive in existential sentences
11 00 Maija Tervola, University of Tampere Comparing the object case alternation in Finnish and Lithuanian
11 30 Tea and coffee
12 00 Sturla Berg-Olsen, Oslo University On the fringes of a category: Speech-act datives in Latvian
12 30 Natalia Perkova, Institute of Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint-Petersburg) On companion-oriented comitative constructions in Latvian and Estonian
13 00 Lunch
14 00 Merlijn de Smit, Stockholm University Finnic active-passive diathesis and Baltic contacts
14 30 Valgerdur Bjarnadottir, Stockholm University Oblique anticausatives in Lithuanian
15 00 Ilze Lokmane, Andra Kalnača, University of Latvia Morphosyntax and modal semantics of Latvian verb  vajadzēt ‘to need’
15 30 Tea and coffee
16 00 Helle Metslang, University of Tartu – Karl Pajusalu, University of Helsinki Evidentiality in Livonian
16 30 Jan Henrik Holst, University of Hamburg On the theory of a Proto-Baltic-Fennic substratum in Baltic

17.00 Closing the conference

18.00 Conference dinner