Cross-linguistic investigation of argument structure Lecture 1 : controlled speech production Elisabeth Verhoeven

« Areal linguistics in Africa before a new approach to its genealogical language classification », Lecture 4 : « Language families in space and time », Tom Güldemann (Humboldt University – Berlin)

« Areal linguistics in Africa before a new approach to its genealogical language classification », Lecture 3 : « Language contact as an alternative to assumed genealogical relationships », Tom

« Areal linguistics in Africa before a new approach to its genealogical language classification », Lecture 2 : « The macro-areal profile of Afrabia », Tom Güldemann (Humboldt University – Berlin)

« Areal linguistics in Africa before a new approach to its genealogical language classification », Lecture 1 : « African language classification beyond Greenberg »,Tom Güldemann (Humboldt University –

Part 3: Borrowing hierarchies: A problem of epistemology ? In this part I review proposals for implicational hierarchies of contact induced change in grammar, and discuss sampling methods and the

Part 2: The borrowing of morphology and the special position of predications This part deals with controversies surrounding the borrowability of inflectional morphology, and with the related

Part 4 : Language documentation in contact situations The fourth part addresses methodological and theoretical challenges of identifying the boundaries of a 'language system' and 'authenticity'

Lecture 4. Comparison between methods / Lundi 25 septembre – 16h à 18h – salle Vert, sous-sol bât. B The methodologically interesting questions are: (a) whether the measures that we get with

Lecture 3. Speakers’ intuitions / Lundi 18 septembre – 16h à 18h – salle de Conférence, RDC bât. D A crucial part of the relevant generalizations for argument structure is gained through fine

Lecture 2. Cross-linguistic corpus studies / Lundi 11 septembre – 16h à 18h – salle de Conférence, RDC bât. D The findings in controlled speech production will be validated by a large-scale

Chaire Internationale 2017 : Le Labex accueille le Professeur Sonia Cristofaro - Université de Pavie (Italie) Nominalizations have mainly been investigated in a synchronic perspective. The available

Chaire Internationale 2017 : Le Labex accueille le Professeur Sonia Cristofaro - Université de Pavie (Italie) Several languages have been argued to have a grammatical category of irrealis,