Research

universitat Konstanz

SFB 471 "Variation und Entwicklung im Lexikon"

A-24: The role of semantic fields in the development of postpositions and case markers

Recent Publications/Handouts/Talks

Poudel, Tikaram. 2008. Nepali Ergativity: A Historical Perspective. Workshop on "Case and Alignment in Indo-European", Bergen.

Ahmed, Tafseer. 2008. Non-Canonical Objects in South Asian languages. Workshop on "Case and Alignment in Indo-European", Bergen. .

Ahmed, Tafseer. 2008. How can the same spatial marker have different semantic usages?. PIONIER Workshop on Locative Case, Nijmegen.

Poudel, Tikaram. 2008. The evolution of the ergative in Nepali. 14th Himalayan Languages Symposium, Gothenburg.

Ahmed, Tafseer. 2008. Non-Canonical Object marking in Nepali and Manipuri. 14th Himalayan Languages Symposium, Gothenburg.

Ahmed, Tafseer. 2008. Instrument as Path: Reconciling the semantic usages of Urdu se and Pashto pa. Workshop on "Morphosyntactic aspects of Instruments and Instrumentals", Sydney.

Poudel, Tikaram. 2008. Diachronic and semantic aspects of ergativity. Workshop on "A Non-Canonical Perspective on Case", Konstanz.

Ahmed, Tafseer. 2008. Spatial Sources of Structural Case. Workshop on "A Non-Canonical Perspective on Case", Konstanz.

Butt, Miriam, Tafseer Ahmed and Tikaram Poudel. 2008. Development of Case in South Asian Languages. DGfS Workshop Sprachwandelvergleich, Bamberg.

Poudel, Tikaram. 2008. Ergative/Nominative Alternations in Manipuri Intransitive Constructions. Workshop on Transitivity and Case Alternations, Stuttgart.

Ahmed, Tafseer. 2008. NCTV in Urdu/Hindi and Nepali. Workshop on Transitivity and Case Alternations, Stuttgart.

Butt, Miriam, Tafseer Ahmed and Tikaram Poudel. 2008. Case: A Semantic System. SFB 471 International Colloquium, Konstanz.
Butt, Miriam and Tafseer Ahmed. 2007. Non-Canonical Argument Marking: Beyond Volitionality, Specificity and Animacy. Workshop on Case, Word Order and Prominence in Argument Structure, Nijmegen.
Ahmed, Tafseer. 2007. Unaccusativity and Underspecification in Urdu . Conference on Theoretical and Computational Perspectives on Underspecification, Stuttgart.
Poudel, Tikaram. 2007. Ergativity and Stage/Individual Level Predications in Manipuri .Workshop on Differential Case Marking, Stuttgart.
Ahmed, Tafseer. 2007. Ablative, Sociative and Instrumental Case Markers, Conference of Language and Technology, Peshawar.
Butt, Miriam. 2007. Why Case? . Workshop on Empirical Approaches to Morphological Case, Stanford.
Butt, Miriam, and Tikaram Poudel. 2007. Distribution of the Ergative in Nepali . Universität Leipzig, Leipzig.
Ahmed, Tafseer. 2006. Spatial, Temporal and Structural Uses of Urdu ko. Workshop on Case and Aspect in South Asian Languages, LFG06 , Konstanz.
An updated handout on this topic is presented at Universität Stuttgart in January 2007.
Grimm, Scott. 2006. Subject Marking in Hindi/Urdu: A Study in Case and Agency. In Janneke Huitink and Sophia Katrenko (eds.) ESSLLI 2006 Proceedings of the Student Session, August, Malaga.
Grimm, Scott. 2006. Case Attraction in Ancient Greek. In Balder Ten Cate and Hank Zeevat (eds.) Proceedings of the 6th International Tblisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation.
Butt, Miriam, Scott Grimm and Tafseer Ahmed. 2006. Dative Subjects. NWO/DFG Workshop on Optimal Sentence Processing. June, Nijmegen.
Butt, Miriam. 2006. The Dative-Ergative Connection. Proceedings of the Colloque Syntax-Semantique de Paris 2005.
Butt, Miriam. 2006. Theories of Case. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Related Publications

Grimm, Scott. 2005. The Lattice of Case and Agentivity. ILLC: University of Amsterdam.