LINGUIST List 23.961 Sat Feb 25 2012 Confs: Typology/Germany Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Martin Haspelmath , Anna Siewierska Memorial Workshop Message 1: Anna Siewierska Memorial Workshop Date: 24-Feb-2012 From: Martin Haspelmath <haspelmatheva.mpg.de> Subject: Anna Siewierska Memorial Workshop E-mail this message to a friend Anna Siewierska Memorial Workshop Date: 27-Apr-2012 - 27-Apr-2012 Location: Leipzig, Germany Contact: Martin Haspelmath Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/2012_ASMW/ Linguistic Field(s): Typology Meeting Description: This workshop, held in memory of the eminent typologist Anna Siewierska (1955-2011), brings together some of her colleagues from the typology community, who will report on their current work, relating it to Anna Siewierska's findings and ideas. At the end of the working session, there will be a one-hour remembrance session. Anyone is welcome to attend the workshop and to participate in the remembrance session. Matthew Baerman & Greville G. Corbett (U Surrey): 'Person by Other Means'' Balthasar Bickel (U Zurich): TBA Sonia Cristofaro (U Pavia): ''The Referential Hierarchy: Reviewing the Evidence in Diachronic Perspective'' Bernard Comrie (MPI-EVA Leipzig): ''The Treatment of Animate Themes in Spanish Ditransitive Constructions'' Volker Gast (U Jena): ''A Typology of Human Impersonals Pronouns'' Martin Haspelmath (MPI-EVA Leipzig): 'Argument Indexing: a Conceptual Framework for the Syntactic Status of Bound Person Forms' Andrej A. Kibrik (Moscow): 'Peculiarities and Origin of the Russian Referential System' Ekkehard König (FU Berlin): ''Speech Act Distinctions in Grammar' Revisited' Christian Lehmann (U Erfurt): 'Incomplete Coreference and Incomplete Person Paradigms' Andrej Malchukov (U Mainz): 'Some Remarks on the Typology of Voice Alternations' Johanna Nichols (Berkeley): 'Where do Suppletive Pronouns Come From? Evolutionary Biases in Person Paradigms'' (Anna Siewierska &) Dik Bakker: 'Suppletion in Person Forms: the Role of Iconicity and Frequency' Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 25-Feb-2012       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.