Italo-Americana 7
26-27/9/2017
Cortona, Scuola Normale Superiore
September 26th
9.45 OPENING
SESSION CHAIR: Flavia Cuturi
10.00 - Lucia Golluscio: Individuation and depersonalization in Mapudungun.
A contribution to referentiality in Amerindian languages
10.30 - Sara Pacchiarotti: On the origins of the ergative marker wã in the Viceitic languages
of the Chibchan family
11.00 - Alessio Muro: Determiners, evidentiality and tense in owekyala texts
11.30 PAUSE
SESSION CHAIR: Bernhard Hurch
12.00 - Anneliese Kelterer: Glottalisation and the Word in Chichimeco
12.30 - Didier Demolin: Glottalization features in some South American languages
13.00 LUNCH
SESSION CHAIR: Lucia Golluscio
15.00 - Doris L. Payne: On deictic notions in three languages of South America
16.00 - Thomas E. Payne: Spatial Orientation in Yagua
16.30 PAUSE
SESSION CHAIR: Wolf Dietrich
17.00 - Maurizio Gnerre & Anna Riccio:‘Speaking’, between ‘doing’ and ‘saying’
17.30 - Flavia Cuturi: Aspectos textuales y extra-textuales de temporalidad “histórica” en
eventos rituales Ikoots (Huave, San Mateo del Mar, Oaxaca, México)
18.00 - Gianguido Manzelli: The competition between Spanish and Nahuatl for the name for ‘cat’: A trace of the role played by Nahuatl as a lingua franca in early New Spain
18.30 - Luciano Giannelli: Informe sobre la actividad del CISAP-Cagliari y su relación con
el CISAI-Siena
18.45 END OF THE DAY AND WALK TO THE RESTAURANT
20.00 DINNER
September 27th
SESSION CHAIR: Thomas E. Payne
9.00 - Alexandra Aikhenvald: Serial verb constructions in Amazonian languages
10.00 - Bernhard Hurch: Serial verbs in Pame
10.30 PAUSE
SESSION CHAIR: Didier Demolin
11.00 - Luca Ciucci & Pier Marco Bertinetto: Nominal suffixes in Zamucoan
11.30 - Raoul Zamponi (with Bernard Comrie): Verb Root Ellipsis: Americas and beyond
12.00 - Wolf Dietrich: Bolivian Tupi-Guarani languages: New data allowing new insights into their classification
12.30 CLOSING AND TAKE AWAY LUNCH