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Confs: Typology/Switzerland
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1. Sonia
Cristofaro,
Transalpine Typology Meeting
Message 1: Transalpine Typology Meeting
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Date: 23-Dec-2008
From: Sonia Cristofaro <sonia.cristofarounipv.it>
Subject: Transalpine Typology Meeting
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Transalpine Typology Meeting
Short Title: TTM
Date: 22-Jan-2009 - 24-Jan-2009
Location: Bern, Switzerland
Contact: Bernhard Waelchli
Contact Email: bernhard.waelchliisw.unibe.ch
Meeting URL: http://www.isw.unibe.ch/index/Transalpine-Typology-Meeting.pdf
Linguistic Field(s): Typology
Meeting Description:
Organizers: Sonia Cristofaro (Pavia) & Bernhard Waelchli (Bern)
Invited speakers: Antoine Guillaume (Lyon) & Frans Plank (Konstanz)
This typology meeting aims at intensifying the contacts between students of
linguistic typology on both sides of the Alps and grew out of a collaboration
between the linguistic departments of Pavia and Bern. Contributions cover a
large variety of topics in linguistic typology, including the expression of
motion, compounds, duals, alignment and grammatical relations, clause combining
and switch-reference, evidentiality, deixis, syllable structure and
morphological complexity, parts of speech, and the nature of grammatical
categories. For the complete program and abstracts please consult the conference
website:
http://www.isw.unibe.ch/index/Transalpine-Typology-Meeting.pdf
Thursday 22.1.09
15.00-16.00
Antoine Guillaume (Lyon):
Cavineña Associated Motion Suffixes: Their Meanings and Discourse Function
16.00-16.40
Arnd Sölling (Bern):
Encoding Motion and Directionality in North West American Languages
16.40-17.10
Coffee Break
17.10-17.50
Raphael Berthele (Fribourg):
On the Typology of the Expression of Motion and Posture in Varieties of Germanic
and Romance
17.50-18.30
Giorgio Francesco Arcodia (Milano):
Coordinating Compounds between SAE and East Asia
18.30-19.10
Nicola Grandi (Bologna):
On the Difference Between Coordinate and Hierarchical Compounds: A Typological
Survey
Friday 23.1.09
8.40-9.40
Frans Plank (Konstanz):
Two or Three Things about Duals
9.40-10.20
Deborah Edwards (Bern): Simultaneous Double Alignment in Kuni, or, How Many
Agreement Patterns does a Language Need?
10.20-10.50
Coffee Break
10.50-11.30
Caterina Mauri (Pavia): How Basic is the Notion of Alternative? A Diachronic
Typology of Disjunction
11.30-12.10
Maddalena Menchi (Pavia):
Considerations on European Converbs Based on a Parallel Corpus
12.10-12.50
Felix Haller (Bern):
Switch-Reference in Tibetan
12.50-14.20
Lunch
14.20-15.00
Andrea Sansò (Como):
Men, Women, and Birds. An Embryonic System of Noun Classification in Ancient Greek
15.00-15.40
Sonia Cristofaro (Pavia): Grammatical Categories and Relations: Universality vs.
Language-Specificity and Construction-Specificity
15.40-16.20
Bernhard Wälchli (Bern): Toward a Typology of Distributional Parts of Speech in
Circum-Alpine Languages and Beyond
16.20-16.50
Coffee Break
16.50-17.30
Manana Topadze: (Pavia)
Evidential Structures in South Caucasian Languages
17.30-18.10
Caterina Guardamagna (Pavia):
Marking Reportive Evidentiality in Italian: A Corpus-based Study
18.10-18.50
Athanassios Moustakas (Freiburg i. Br.): Language Typology from the Nostratic
Perspective: Nominal Sentences in Russian, Turkish and Arabic
Saturday 24.1.09
8.40-9.20
Iwar Werlen (Bern):
Subjecthood in Karay'a
9.20-10
Fernando Zúñiga (Zurich):
Benefactives: Form and Function from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective
10-10.40
Giorgio Iemmolo (Pavia):
Differential Object Marking and Topicality: Evidence from Romance and Beyond
10.40-11.10
Coffee Break
11.10-11.50
Federica DaMilano (Milano):
Deixis in East-Asian Languages
11.50-12.30
Thomas Mayer (Konstanz):
The Co-Variation of Syllable Structure and Morphological Complexity
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