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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"
lang="en-GB" align="center"> <font face="Cambria, serif">Dear
All, <br>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"
lang="en-GB" align="center"><font face="Cambria, serif">please not
the following guest seminar next Tuesday, July 2nd, 14:15,
Carl-Zeiss-Str. 3 - SR 127. <br>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"
lang="en-GB" align="center"><font face="Cambria, serif">Best
wishes!<br>
Ruprecht von Waldenfels</font></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"
lang="en-GB" align="center"><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>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"
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> </p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"
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>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"
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>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"
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>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"
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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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 108%"
lang="en-GB" align="justify"><a name="_GoBack"
moz-do-not-send="true"></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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