Book of Abstracts Conference Postclassical Subordination
Day 1: Diachronic syntax of (in)subordination
9.45-10.15 (Organisers) Introduction (Klaas Bentein, Eleonora Cattafi & Ezra la Roi, Universiteit Gent)
10.15-11.00 (Keynote) The ups and downs, and ins and outs of subordination in the history of Greek (Brian Joseph, Ohio State University)
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
(CHAIR: Ezra La Roi)
11.30-12.30 Infinitives in Post-Classical Greek
11.30-12.00 Temporal properties of infinitive clauses in Post-Classical Greek: The example of initial formulas in contracts of sale (Jerneja Kavčič, University of Ljubljana)
12.00-12.30 Going nominal: The articular infinitive in Greek documentary papyri (Klaas Bentein, Universiteit Gent)
12.30-13.00 Verbal syntax in Post-Classical Greek
12.30-13.00 A gradient for periphrastic constructions with εἶναι in post-Hellenistic Greek: between degree of verbiness and event type (Edoardo Nardi, G. Marconi University & Domenica Romagno, University of Pisa)
13.00-14.30 Lunch break
(CHAIR: Klaas Bentein)
14.30-15.30 Insubordination in Post-Classical Greek
14.30-15.00 Continuity and change of counterfactual sentence patterns in Post-Classical Greek literary texts and documentary papyri (Ezra la Roi, Universiteit Gent):
15.00-15.30 Atticist syntax: prescriptive norms on the use of μέλλω and aorist infinitive (Chiara Monaco, Universiteit Gent)
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
(CHAIR: Brian Joseph)
16.00-16.30 Subordination in diachrony
16.00-16.30 Co-subordination in Ancient, Medieval and Modern Greek (Mark Janse, Universiteit Gent)
17.30 Reception at “Alice” (Onderbergen 6)
Day 2: Contextualizing subordination
(CHAIR: Ezra la Roi)
9.15-11.30 Subordination in corpora
9.15-10.00 (Keynote) Levels of subordination in a treebanked corpus of Greek documentary papyri (Marja Vierros, University of Helsinki)
10.00-10.30 Complementation in the papyri: an integrated, corpus-based approach (Alek Keersmaekers, KU Leuven)
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00 -11.30 Subordination in dependency grammar (Robert Crellin, University of Cambridge)
(CHAIR: Chiara Monaco)
11.30-16.00 Subordination in Christian Greek
11.30-12.00 Reevaluating parataxis in the Septuagint (William A. Ross, Reformed Theological Seminary & Andrew T. Keenan, University of Cambridge)
12.00-12.30 Relative clauses in the Septuagint and the New Testament: Greek and/or Hebrew syntax? (Marina Benedetti, Paola Mollo & Liana Tronci, Università per Stranieri di Siena)
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
(CHAIR: Eleonora Cattafi)
14.00-14.30 The Syntax of Suffering: Case Studies on Subordination and Insubordination in Greek Acts of Christian Martyrs (Johannes Breuer, Universität Mainz)
14.30- 15.00 Continuity and change in the syntax of δίδωμι. A study on Septuagint Greek (Carla Bruno, Università per Stranieri di Siena)
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-16.00 Participial syntax in Postclassical Greek: the Sayings of the Fathers as a case study (Liana Tronci, Università per Stranieri di Siena)
19.00 Conference dinner at “De Abt” (Lange Kruisstraat 4)
Day 3: Complexity
(CHAIR: Marja Vierros)
9.30-10.30 Complexity and subordination
9.30-10.00 Post-Classical Please: the complementation structures of καλῶς ποιέω (Marieke Dhont, Universiteit Gent)
10.00-10.30 Detecting complexity in relative clauses: applications and potential in Post-Classical Greek (Eleonora Cattafi, Universiteit Gent)
10.30-11.00 Juice break
(CHAIR: Mark Janse)
11.00-12.00 Disentangling complex syntax
11.00-11.30 Just so you know: Insubordination with ἵνα (Victoria Fendel, University of Oxford)
11.30-12.00 Purpose and Result Clauses in Aristaenetus’ Erotic Letters (Sabira Hajdarević, University of Zadar)
12.00-12.30 (Organisers) Conclusions (Klaas Bentein, Eleonora Cattafi & Ezra la Roi, Universiteit Gent)