Title Participants "Dative subjects in Gothic : evidence from word order" "Giacomo Bucci, Johanna Barddal" "Productivity in diachrony" "Johanna Barddal, Renata Enghels, Quentin Feltgen, Sven Van Hulle, Peter Lauwers" "From grammaticalization to Diachronic Construction Grammar : a natural evolution of the paradigm" "Spike Gildea, Johanna Barddal" "Oblique subjects in Germanic : their status, history and reconstruction" "Johanna Barddal" "Comparing the argument structure of alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat predicates in German and Icelandic" "Joren Somers, Johanna Barddal" "In this paper we compare a set of 15 Icelandic verbs licensing both a nominative and a dative argument, investigated by Somers & Barðdal (2022), with a corresponding set of 15 German verbs. The Icelandic dataset consists of verbs selecting for three different argument structures: a) ordinary Nom-Dat verbs, non-alternating Dat-Nom verbs and, finally, alternating Dat-Nom/Dat-Nom verbs. The German dataset contains either (near-)synonyms or cognates to the Icelandic verbs. One of our most important findings is that apparent Dat-Nom verbs in German, like gefallen ‘please, like’ and genügen ‘be enough, be sufficient’ are in fact alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat verbs in that language. That is, these verbs can either instantiate the Dat-Nom or the Nom-Dat argument structure, as opposed to Nom-Dat verbs like ‘help’, which consistently select for the Nom-Dat argument structure. This conclusion is supported by word order counts, which show a major difference between alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat verbs, on the one hand, and ordinary Nom-Dat verbs, on the other, across both German and Icelandic." "The alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat construction in present-day German : a corpus study" "Joren Somers, Torsten Leuschner, Ludovic De Cuypere, Johanna Barddal" "Non-nominative subjects in Latin and Ancient Greek : applying the subject tests on early Indo-European languages" "Johanna Barddal, Eleonora Cattafi, Serena Danesi, Laura Bruno, Leonardo Biondo" "This article responds to a call for research, made by Hock (1990) more than 30 years ago, on the subject behavior of potential non-nominative subjects in the early Indo-European languages. Hock’s call was made in the wake of research into behavioral properties of non-nominative subjects in several modern languages. Since then, comprehensive studies have been carried out on the subject behavior of non-nominative subjects in the early Germanic languages, including Gothic, Old English, Old Saxon, Old High German, Old Norse-Icelandic, etc. Some preliminary work has been undertaken on Latin, while work on Ancient Greek is almost non-existent. We gather the Latin data provided so far, adding complementary evidence; we also present a complete dataset from Ancient Greek, not figuring in the earlier literature. These data, pertaining to six established subject tests, show that potential non-nominative subjects behave syntactically as nominative subjects in both Latin and Ancient Greek, while an analysis in terms of object is excluded." "Les centaures, Cerbère et leurs parents (non-)indo-européens (quelques notes sur les traces des contacts des Indo-européens au Proche Orient ancien)" "Leonid Kulikov" "Cet article se concentre sur l'origine de plusieurs mots étymologiquement obscurs des vocabulaires grec et indo-iranien (surtout sanskrit) (principalement des noms faisant référence à certaines divinités ou créatures de panthéons mythologiques inférieurs), tels que gr. κένταυρος / skr. gandharvá- et gr. Κέρβερος / skr. śábala- (l’un des deux chiens de l’enfer dans la mythologie indienne). Je suppose que ces formes ne peuvent être tracées à aucun étymon proto-indo-européen, mais, plutôt, sont empruntées à une ou plusieurs langues non indo-européennes du Proche-Orient, probablement membre(s) de la macro-famille du Caucase du Nord." "The lexicography of Sanskrit" "Leonid Kulikov" "Sanskrit is one of the most ancient attested Indo-European languages, and it has one of the oldest lexicographic traditions in the world. This chapter is organized as follows. The Introduction offers basic information about the chronology of, and the main texts in, Sanskrit. The first section of the Description outlines the characteristics of Sanskrit relevant for lexicography: its phonology and writing systems; its systems of alternation and morphemic variability; and the lexicographic status of its verbal prefixes (preverbs), which are treated differently by different dictionaries. The chapter then offers a brief overview of the history of Sanskrit lexicography, from the most ancient documented works onwards, nighaṇṭu and kośa, up to the bilingual dictionaries compiled within the Western lexicographic tradition during more recent centuries. The final sections deal with the constantly increasing number of digital text corpora and dictionaries of Sanskrit, as well as with further perspectives on the development of Sanskrit lexicography and online tools, and the role of Sanskrit institutions in India in these processes." "K ėtimologii dr.-gr. teonima Κρόνος : zametki o morfologičeskom tipe na -όνο- = On the etymology of the Ancient Greek theonym Κρόνος : notes on the morphological type in -όνο-" "Leonid Kulikov" "The article discusses the etymology of the Greek theonym Κρόνος (Cronus), qualified by all dictionaries as etymologically unclear. I argue that this name can be considered as a member of the small class of nouns in ‑ όνο‑ with agent‑instrumental semantics. Following an old proposal by H. D. Müller (later advocated by M. Janda), I adopt the analysis of this name as a derivative of the verbal root *κερ‑ (cf. κείρω ‘cut’, Arm. kʻerem ‘scratch, rub’, Old Norse skera ‘cut’, etc.), thus explaining the name of the harvest god Cronus as ‘the one who cuts; castrator’, referring to one of his main functions as well as to the myth of castration of his father Uranus by Cronus. The class of nouns in ‑ όνο‑ (/ f. ‑ονη) arguably includes such nouns as θρ‑όνο‑ς ‘seat, chair’ (analysable as a derivative of *θερ‑ < PIE *dʰer‑ ‘fix, hold’), κλ‑όνο‑ς ‘excitement, throng’, φθ‑όνο‑ς ‘malice, envy’ (PIE *dʰegʷʰ‑ ‘almost reach’), βελ‑όνη ‘needle’ (PIE *gʷel‑ ‘throw, pierce’); ἀκ‑όνη ‘whetstone’ (PIE *h₂eḱ‑ ‘sharp(en)’). Possible correspondences of this morphological type outside Greek may include the Celtic type in ‑ono/ā‑ (cf. Nechtan, Mātronā) and Indo‑Iranian formations in ‑āna‑ of the type yudhāna‑ ‘enemy’ (yudh ‘fight’) or budhāna‑ ‘sage, teacher’ (budh ‘awake; observe, perceive’), formally coinciding with the middle participles made from root stems and, probably, partly absorbed by them."