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<font face="Cambria, serif">Liebe Alle, <br>
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lang="en-GB" align="center"><font face="Cambria, serif">am
kommenden Dienstag, 2.Juli, 14:15, Carl-Zeiss-Str. 3 - SR 127
findet folgender Gastvortag im Rahmen der Seminare zu
Ostslavischen Varietäten und Verb und Aspekt statt. Alle
Interessierten sind herzlich eingeladen! <br>
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lang="en-GB" align="center"><font face="Cambria, serif">Mit
freundlichen Grüßen,<br>
Ruprecht von Waldenfels<br>
(<font face="Cambria, serif">Im Anhang eine Lese<i>empfehlung</i>
zur Vorbereitung).</font></font></p>
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<font face="Cambria, serif"><i><b>Kristian Roncero, MPI-SHH /
FSU-Jena: </b></i><b>Archaeology of the future.<br>
Searching
for the origins of the future tense constructions in West
Polesian</b></font></p>
<font face="Cambria, serif">West Polesian is an Eastern Slavonic
variety spoken in the marshes between Belarus, Ukraine and Poland.
The speech community has been quite isolated for many centuries,
given the frequent floods that let the villages inaccessible. On
the
one hand, this has contributed to a better preservation of earlier
stages of the Eastern Slavonic culture and language. On the other
hand, this isolation has also lead to innovations in the grammar.
Since the draining of the marshes and the building of the first
roads
from the eighties on, the inhabitants are suddenly connected to
the
cities where other standardised varieties (particularly Russian)
are
being spoken. This is leading to changes in the grammar and
lexicon
and to even younger generations not using of West Polesian. Until
recently there has been hardly any research on West Polesian,
particularly on the areas of morphology and syntax. </font>
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lang="en-GB" align="justify">
<font face="Cambria, serif">In this talk I will be sharing about
my
recent PhD thesis on West Polesian morphosyntax, based on nine
months
of fieldwork in Belarus. First, I will introduce the study and
some
peculiarities about the area. I will also give more details
about the
sociolinguistic setting and some particularities of West
Polesian
grammar, which make it different from the rest of Eastern
Slavonic
varieties. </font>
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lang="en-GB" align="justify">
<font face="Cambria, serif">Second, I will narrow down the focus
on
the future tense constructions in West Polesian. </font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><span
style="background: #ffffff">In
my PhD thesis I showed, that West </span></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><span
style="background: #ffffff">Polesian</span></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><span
style="background: #ffffff"> has
multiple future tense constructions or grams. In fact, some
of these constructions adjust to at least six of
the ‘future gram families’ proposed by Dahl (2000): the
synthetic future tense (</span></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><i><span
style="background: #ffffff">ɾobɪtɪmu</span></i></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><span
style="background: #ffffff">);
the de-obligative (</span></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><i><span
style="background: #ffffff">majusj</span></i></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><i><span
style="background: #ffffff"> </span></i></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><i><span
style="background: #ffffff">ɾobɪtɪ</span></i></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><span
style="background: #ffffff">);
the de-</span></font></font><font color="#000000"><font
face="Cambria, serif"><span style="background: #ffffff">volitive</span></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><span
style="background: #ffffff"> (</span></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><i><span
style="background: #ffffff">xotʃu</span></i></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><i><span
style="background: #ffffff"> </span></i></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><i><span
style="background: #ffffff">ɾobɪtɪ</span></i></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><span
style="background: #ffffff">);
the de-</span></font></font><font color="#000000"><font
face="Cambria, serif"><span style="background: #ffffff">venitive</span></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><span
style="background: #ffffff"> (</span></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><i><span
style="background: #ffffff">stanu</span></i></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><i><span
style="background: #ffffff"> </span></i></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><i><span
style="background: #ffffff">ɾobɪtɪ</span></i></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><span
style="background: #ffffff">);
the copular future (</span></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><i><span
style="background: #ffffff">budu</span></i></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><i><span
style="background: #ffffff"> </span></i></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><i><span
style="background: #ffffff">ɾobɪtɪ</span></i></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><span
style="background: #ffffff">);
and the Slavonic perfective present (</span></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><i><span
style="background: #ffffff">zɾoblju</span></i></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><span
style="background: #ffffff">) and all
are highly </span></font></font><font color="#000000"><font
face="Cambria, serif"><span style="background: #ffffff">grammaticalised</span></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><span
style="background: #ffffff"> (although
in different degrees). On the one hand, this should not
be surprising as, according to the cross-linguistic surveys
in
Bybee </span></font></font><font color="#000000"><font
face="Cambria, serif"><span style="background: #e1e3e6">(1985)</span></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><span
style="background: #ffffff"> and
Ultan </span></font></font><font color="#000000"><font
face="Cambria, serif"><span style="background: #e1e3e6">(1978)</span></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><span
style="background: #ffffff">,
future tense constructions are reformed frequently. On the
other
hand, no European language appears to have more than
three constructions for the future tense in
Dahl’s </span></font></font><font color="#000000"><font
face="Cambria, serif"><span style="background: #e1e3e6">(2000)</span></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><span
style="background: #ffffff"> survey,
and certainly not in the Slavonic family.</span></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><span
style="background: #ffffff"> </span></font></font></p>
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lang="en-GB" align="justify">
<font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif"><span
style="background: #ffffff">I
will explain the origins and implications of such an
unusually rich
inventory of constructions. For this, </span></font></font><font
face="Cambria, serif">I
will show what the similarities and differences are between the
West
Polesian future tense constructions and the ones found in other
European languages and whether there are any historical links.
Moreover, I will present the unusual fate of the de-volitive (</font><font
face="Cambria, serif"><i>xotʃu
robɪtɪ</i></font><font face="Cambria, serif"> ‘I will have to
do’) and the de-obligative (</font><font face="Cambria, serif"><i>majusj
robɪtɪ</i></font><font face="Cambria, serif"> ‘I intend to
do’),
which have inverted their original roles overtime motivated by a
large inventory of future tense constructions.</font></p>
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lang="en-GB" align="justify">
<font face="Cambria, serif">This talk is open to students with a
background in Linguistics and/or Slavistics. After the talk
there
will be a time for questions and answers</font></p>
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lang="en-GB" align="justify">
<br>
<font face="Cambria, serif"><b>Recommended reading</b></font><font
face="Cambria, serif">:
Sections 5 and 6 (pp. 317-326) from </font>
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lang="en-GB" align="justify"><a name="_GoBack"></a>
<font color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif">Dahl, Ö. (2000).
The grammar of future time reference in European languages. In
Dahl,
Ö. (ed.) (2000). </font></font><font color="#000000"><font
face="Cambria, serif"><i>Tense
and aspect in languages of Europe</i></font></font><font
color="#000000"><font face="Cambria, serif">.
Berlin/NY: Mouton de Gruyter, pp.317-326.</font></font></p>
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