Meronymy across Languages:

Lexicalization, Semantics, Morphosyntax

September 27-28, 2013

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Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas,

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico

 

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Friday

8:30-10:00am

Breakfast

10:00-10:10am

Inauguración

10:10-10:40am

Introducción, Jürgen Bohnemeyer

10:40-11:45am

Keynote Speaker: Soteria Svorou

Meronyms in conception and grammar

11:45-12:15pm

Recess

12:15-12:50pm

Meronimos en p’orhépecha: nominales para partes de cuerpo vs. afijos espaciales que indican regiones de un todo, Alejandra Capistran

12:50-1:25pm

La productividad de los merónimos del diidxa za en función de un gradiente de comparaciones, Gabriela Pérez Báez

1:25-2:00pm

Yucatec object meronymy: Algorithmic and metaphorical aspects, Jürgen Bohnemeyer

2:00-4:00pm

Lunch

4:00-4:35pm

Los morfemas de parte y su proyección semántica, Rodrigo Romero Mendez

4:35-5:10pm

Características sintácticas y morfológicas de las construcciones meronímicas en Huave, Samuel Herrera

5:10-5:40pm

Resumen de resultados preliminares de la tarea de los Chunches, Gilles Polian y Susan Smythe-Kung

5:45-6:20pm

Sumu-Mayangna meronyms: Mapping volumes and projecting, Alyson Eggleston, Elisa Salomón, Demetrio Antolín, Susana Budier, Modesta Dolores, Gloria Fendly, Tomasa Gomez, and Elena Benedicto

6:20-6:50pm

What plants tell us about the Mayangna Meronymy System, Elena Benedicto, Mayangna Yulbarangyang Balna (Elisa Salomón, Demetrio Antolín, Modesta Dolores, Gloria Fendly, Tomasa Gomez), Ethan Myers, and Alyson Eggleston

Saturday

8:30-10:00am

Breakfast

10:00-10:35am

La referencia a partes del cuerpo en wixárika o huichol, Paula Gómez

10:35-11:10am

The grammatical status of meronyms in Seri, Carolyn O'Meara

11:10-11:45am

Meronymy in Yurakaré (isolate, Bolivia), Rik van Gijn and Vincent Hirtzel

11:45-12:20pm

Faces and limbs from Apache to Ngwi: On vertical meronymy and proportional harmony, Jamin Pelkey

12:20-12:50pm

Recess

12:50-1:25pm

Shape-based and orientation-based meronymy in Wan (Mande, Côte d’Ivoire), Tatiana Nikitina

1:25-2:00pm

English meronymy: Preliminary results from the Novel Objects, Tim Tilbe

2:00-4:00pm

Lunch

4:00-4:35pm

Meronymy and reference frames: Preliminary evidence, Randi Tucker

4:35-5:35pm

Keynote Speaker: Eve Danziger

Commentary

 

5:35-6:15pm

General Discussion

6:15-6:35pm

Clausura

 

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