Linguistic borrowing into Coptic

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Preliminary schedule

Monday 26 April

Sächsische Akademie der Wissen­schaften zu Leipzig, Karl-Tauchnitz-Str. 1

Welcome and introduction

09.30-10.00 Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer / Peter Dils / Eitan Grossman / Sebastian Richter

Sociolinguistics (Chair: Cornelia Römer)

10.00-11.00 Roger Bagnall: Historical aspects & sociolinguistics of Greek-Egyptian language contact in Roman & Byzantine Egypt

11.00-11.45 Mark Depauw: Quantifying 1000 years of Greek-Egyptian language contact

11.45-12.30 Sofia Torallas Tovar: Borrowing from Egyptian into Greek

12.30-14.00 Lunch break

Theoretical issues (Chair: Balthasara Bickel)

14.00-15.00 Pieter Muysken: State-of-art report: Recent thought on language contact and linguistic borrowing

15.00-16.00 Martin Haspelmath: What kinds of words get borrowed? Loanwords in cross-linguistic comparison

16.00-16.45 Coffee break

16.45-17.45 Mark Janse: Theoretical issues in the interpretation of Cappadocian, a not so dead Greek contact language

17.45-18.45 Ariel Shisha-Halevy: A structural-interferential view of Greek elements in Shenoute: Implications and Problematik

Tuesday 27 April

MPI of Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, seminary room

Parts of speech, I (Chair: Sebastian Richter)

09.00-09.45 Elsa Oreál / Mathew Almond: Greek particles in Coptic: What are they used for (and why)

09.45-10.30 Matthias Müller / Mathew Almond: Greek conjunctions in Coptic

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-11.45 Eitan Grossman: Greek prepositions in Coptic

11.45-12.30 Stéphane Polis: Coptic kata vs. Greek katá: A case study in contrastive semantics

12.30-14.00 Lunch break

Parts of speech, II (Chair: Eitan Grossman)

14.00-14.45 Søren Wichmann: Verb borrowing in a typological perspec­tive

14.45-15.30 Andrea Hasznos: Verb borrowing into Coptic

15.30-16.15 Coffee break

Coptic dialects (Chair: Eitan Grossman)

16.15-17.00 Nathalie Bosson: Loanwords in Early Bohairic (B4-B74): Problematics and main features

17.00-17.45 Anne Boud'hors: Les mots d'origine grecque dans les textes documentaires en copte fayoumique

17.45-18.45 Wolf-Peter Funk: Differential borrowing through Coptic dialects

Sächsische Akademie der Wissen­schaften zu Leipzig, Karl-Tauchnitz-Str. 1

20.00 Reception

Wednesday 28 April

Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Karl-Tauchnitz-Str. 1

Syntax (Chair: Wolfgang Schenkel)

09.00-09.45 Jean Winand: Grammatical integration of loan-verbs in Late Egyptian

09.45-10.30 Stephen Emmel: How to capture and present verbal valency in a dictionary of Greek loanwords in Coptic?

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-11.45 Chris Reintges / Barbara Egedi: Language contact at syntax and discourse level: The emergence of Coptic as a bilingual language variety

11.45-12.30 Ewa Zakrzewska: Coptic: 'the language of the pharaohs' or 'a bilingual language variety'?

12.30-14.00 Lunch break

Semantics (Chair: Peter Dils)

14.00-14.45 Heike Behlmer: Delimiting Greek loanwords in Coptic according to semantic fields and different text sorts

14.45-15.30 Jean-Louis Fort: Are there discernible factors governing choices in cases of pairs like ouehsahne : keleue?

15.30-16.15 Peter Nagel / Frank Feder: Contrastive semantics of Greek loanwords in Coptic

16.15-17.00 Coffee break

Lexicography (Chair: Heinz Josep Thissen)

17.00-18.00 Jürgen Horn / Hans Förster: What should a Greek Loanwords in Coptic Dictionary look like

18.00-18.15 Sebastian Richter: The DDGLC project

18.15-18.45 Final discussion