Meaning and Form in Historical Linguistics and Comparative Reconstruction
PROGETTO DI RICERCA DI RILEVANTE INTERESSE NAZIONALE 2022
“LINKED WORDNETS FOR ANCIENT INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES”
May 19 – Day 1
13:45-14:00 Opening Remarks
14:00-15:00 Keynote Lecture 1:
Silvia LURAGHI (University of Pavia)
Interactive second arguments in Ancient Greek: Evidence for constructional merger
15:00-15:15 Break
15:15-16:45 Session 1
15:15-15:45
Francesco MAMBRINI (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) and Silvia ZAMPETTA (University of Pavia)
Definite Article Omission in Classical Greek Coordination
15:45-16:15
Stefan HÖFLER (University of Vienna)
When Adjectives Name Kinds: Classificatory ADJECTIVE + NOUN
Expressions in Indo-European
16:15-16:45
Eystein DAHL (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu)
Subjecthood and subject properties in Indo-European
16:45-17:15 Break
17.15-18.45 Session 2
17:15-17:45
Claire LE FEUVRE (Sorbonne Université, Paris)
*-tero- derivatives from nouns in Indo-European languages: semantics and reconstruction
17:45-18:15
Chiara ZANCHI (Università di Pavia)
Together, after, differently: the meanings and productivity of Greek meta- in the diachrony of Greek
18:15-18:45
Thiago MENDES VENTUROTT (University of Würzburg)
Prefixed uerba dicendi as resultatives in Greek and Latin
May 20 – Day 2
9:30-11:00 Session 3
9:30-10:00
Riccardo GINEVRA (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: On the Etymology of Ancient Greek ἔραμαι ‘desire, love’ and Latin dēsīderō ‘miss, desire’
10:00-10:30
Andrew MERRITT (Georgetown University)
A Cognitive Semantic Perspective on the Etymology and Poetics of κάλλος and śrī-
10:30-11:00
Mattia PETROGALLI (Università degli Studi di Bergamo)
Conceptualizing Sterility and Sexual Insensitivity within Sensory-Impairment Domains in Greek and Roman Texts
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-13:00 Session 4
11:30-12:00
Annamaria BARTOLOTTA (Università di Palermo)
The Indo-European root *h₁es - ‘to be’ from a typological perspective
12:00-12:30
Matteo TARSI (Università di Pavia)
PIE *sent-
12:30-13:00
Lucien VAN BEEK (Leiden University)
Conceptual metaphors and the etymology of Vedic r̥tá-
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30
Keynote Lecture 2: José L. GARCÍA RAMÓN (Köln / AIBL, Paris)
Form and Meaning(s) in Indo-European Reconstruction: semantic paths, metaphors, phraseology
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-17:30 Session 5
16:00-16:30
Giorgio CARBONI (Università per Stranieri di Siena)
The etymology of Ἐρινύς in light of Indo-European phraseology
16:30-17:00
Paola DARDANO (Università per Stranieri di Siena)
Spells and Speech Acts in Pre-Classical Anatolia: Verbs of Saying in Hittite Magical Texts
17:00-17:30
Erica FRATELLINI (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
The Hesiodic compound ἀλεξιάρη
20:00 Conference Dinner
May 21 – Day 3
9:30-10:30 Session 6
9:30-10:00
Birgit Anette OLSEN (University of Copenhagen)
Thinking “giving”, “taking”, and the exchange of wealth in Indo-European
10:00-10:30
Giorgio SCALVINI (Università per Stranieri di Siena & Sorbonne Université)
The Lands of Well-Fed Horses: Some Reflections on Gk. ἱππόβοτος
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Session 7
11:00-11:30
Irene DE FELICE (Università del Piemonte Orientale) and Roberta LEOTTA (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Thinking the mind: metaphors, collocations, and pragmatic functions of Latin mens
11:30-12:00
Eleonora LITTA and Riccardo GINEVRA (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
Cerebrate, Cogitate, Think: Mapping the Semantic Neighbourhood of ‘Reasoning’ in the Latin WordNet
12:00-12:30
Laura MASSETTI (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
Athena Mentor: Thinking about the Finale of the Odyssey
12:30-12:45 Closing Remarks
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
- Erica FRATELLINI
- Riccardo GINEVRA
- Eleonora LITTA
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