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