Grammar in the Field:
Languages of the Americas and beyond
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
July 4, 2025
organised by YucSoc
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
July 4, 2025
organised by YucSoc
July 4th, 2025
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Part 1: Grammar in the Field and Beyond | ||
| 09:30-09:40 | Welcome & Introduction | |
| 09:40-10:20 | Uli Reich & André Wesley Dantas de Amorim (Freie Universität Berlin) | Sprachen im Fluss: Modalität und Informationsstruktur am Rio Negro |
| 10:20-11:00 | Jozina Vander Klok (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) | On the syntax of auxiliaries in Javanese |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30-12:10 | Florian Ertz & Robin Hollenbach & Stavros Skopeteas (Georg-August Universität Göttingen) | Number and Definiteness in Yucatec Maya: The Effects of Language Contact and Increasing Bilingualism |
| 12:10-12:50 | Hendrik Pigola (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) | Adverbial focus constructions in Yucatec Maya |
| 12:50-14:15 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:15-14:55 | Nico Lehmann (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) | The impersonal use of second person markers in Yucatec Maya |
| Part 2: Resources from the Field and Beyond | ||
| 15:00-15:40 | Michael Dürr (Freie Universität Berlin) | Reviving words: Editing colonial grammars and dictionaries from Mesoamerica |
| 15:40-16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00-16:40 | Harry Thomaß (Freie Universität Berlin) | The significance of digital language archives for indigenous languages and their speakers |
| 16:40-17:10 | Nico Lehmann & Elisabeth Verhoeven (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) | Resources on Yucatec Maya: CoCoYum & Lang*Reg-Yuc |
| 17:10-17:30 | Farewell | |
| 17:30- | Social event tba | |