Negation in Clause Combining:
Typological and usage-based perspectives
Time: Thursday May 19 and Friday May 20, 2022.
University of Helsinki
Venue: Metsätalo (Unioninkatu 40), room 12.
Programme
| Thursday May 19 | |
| from 10:30 | Registration |
| 11:00-11:15 | Welcome |
| 11:15-11:45 | Miestamo: Negation in clause combining: Typological and usage-based perspectives – Introduction and project update |
| 11:45-12:30 | Mauri & Sansò: Towards a typology of anticircumstantial clauses |
| lunch break |
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| 14:00-14:45 | Lindström: Variability in the position of the negation in Swedish dependent clauses |
| 14:45-15:30 | Baranova: Negation in subordinate clauses in Kalmyk and Chuvash |
| coffee break | |
| 16:00-16:45 | Shagal & Blinova: Dependent clause negation in Uralic and Turkic |
| 16:45-17:30 | Krasnoukhova, Bruil & van der Auwera: Negation in Western Tukanoan: A closer look at diachrony |
| 19:45 | Dinner |
| Friday May 20 | |
| 9:00-9:45 | van der Auwera: Negative existential indefinite constructions, biclausal and monoclausal |
| 9:45-10:30 | Veselinova: Negative existentials and their interaction with Standard Negation |
| coffee break | |
| 11:00-11:45 | Van Olmen: Are asymmetries in imperative negation based in usage? |
| 11:45-12:30 | Silvennoinen: Polemic and metalinguistic negation revisited |
| lunch break | |
| 14:00-14:45 | Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Miestamo & Börstell: Unhappy words: A typological study of morphologically negated antonyms |
| 14:45-15:30 | Hamari: Negation in Yana |
| 15:30-16:00 | Final discussion |
Abstracts and presentations
You can find the abstracts in this file.
Follow this link to access the powerpoint presentations.
Organization
The event is organized by the project Negation in Clause Combining: Typological and Usage-Based Perspectives (NiCC), funded by the Academy of Finland and housed in the General Linguistics unit at the University of Helsinki.
Organizing team: Matti Miestamo, Ksenia Shagal, Olli Silvennoinen and Héloïse Calame