Student Research Showcase: Morphology, Phonology, or Both? The Reconstruction of the PIE Accent / Ablaut System
Differing Perspectives on the Reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European's Accent and Ablaut System
Differing Perspectives on the Reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European's Accent and Ablaut System
It is uncontroversial that Proto-Indo-European *-nti# regularly becomes -t /d/ in Old Irish, as in berait ‧berat ‘(they) carry’ (< *bheronti). Nevertheless, my principal claim in this talk is that just in the copula, and under certain specifiable conditions, the same sequence results instead in -n. In the course of using this new phonological rule to uncover a couple of hitherto unnoticed copular forms, I also comment on morpho-phonological curiosities in the paradigm of the Old Irish copula more generally.
Abstract: "Linguists have been teaching the general public for several decades now that traditional conceptions of "bad" versus "good" grammar are not based on scientific argumentation, but certain fashions laid down by assorted thinkers mostly in the eighteenth century. However, the public remains convinced that most speakers of English go about speaking it "wrong." In this talk, I try to present the linguist's perspective in a new way, showing that while all people must learn standard grammar for public purposes, nonstandard grammar is distinct, but not logically mistaken."
9:00-9:30 |
Welcome Tea & Coffee |
9:30-10:30 |
Is the Creole Prototype Hypothesis a mistake? John McWhorter, Columbia University |
10:30-11:15 |
The left periphery and topic hierarchy in Santiaguense: complexity in a creole pronominal system. Marlyse Baptista and Rachel Bayer, University of Michigan |
11:15-11:30 |
Coffee Break |
11:30-12:15 |
The complexity of definites in French based creoles Viviane Déprez, Rutgers University |
12:15-1:00 |
Language ecology and form selection in some Iberian creole languages Clency Clements, Indiana University |
1:00-2:00 |
Lunch |
2:00-2:45 |
If you look closer : Inflectional morphology in Louisiana Creole Fabiola Henri (Univesity of Kentucky) & Thomas Klingler (Tulane University) |
2:45-3:30 |
On Decreolization, Creole Simplicity Metrics, and the Tales of Brer Rabbit Kevin Rottet & Jamie Root, Indiana University |
3:30-3:45 |
Coffee Break |
3:45-4:30 |
Implicative relations and morphological complexity: The case of Mauritian Raphael Finkel, Fabiola Henri & Greg Stump, University of Kentucky |
4:30-5:00 |
Open discussion |
5:00-5:30 |
Business Meeting |
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Conference Dinner |