Program: ALT IV

Association for Linguistic Typology

Santa Barbara, California

Thursday morning, 19 July 2001

10:00 on:	Registration: State Street Room, UCen (University Center), lower level

9:00-12:00	Workshop on South American Languages: Flying A, UCen, upper level

Organizers: Pilar Valenzuela, Verónica Grondona, Sergio Meira

9:00-9:35	Eduardo Rviail Ribeiro: Descriptive predicates in Macro-Jê

9:35-10:10	Verónica Grondona: Location and direction in Waikuruan languages

10:10-10:45	Pilar Valenzuela: Adverbial transitivity agreement in Panoan languages

Coffee: State Street Room

11:00-11:35	Sergio Meira: A typological overview of the Cariban family, with special

attention to valency

11:35-12:10	Sidney Da Silva Facundes: Nominal (un)possession in Arawak languages and

the typology of possession marking

Thursday afternoon

Flying A Room

13:15-13:30	Welcome

The Languages of California in typological perspective

13:30-14:00	Marianne Mithun: Overview

14:00-14:30	M. Dale Kinkade: The areal question: The Northwest Coast and California

14:30-15:00	Victor Golla: Two major California types: Yana and Yokuts

15:30-16:00	Suzanne Wash: Barbareño Chumash: a typologist’s tour from phonology to

syntax

Coffee: State Street Room

Session A: Flying A Room

16:00-16:30	Andrej Kibrik: A typologically oriented portrait of the Athabaskan languages

16:30-17:00	Olga V. Fedorova: Deictic features of demonstratives in Daghestanian languages

Session B: State Street Room

16:00-16:30	Emily Knight: Transitivity is disrespectful: Antipassivisation as a deagentivising/ object defocussing strategy in the avoidance register of Bunuba

16:30-17:00	Seppo Kittila: A typology of involuntary agent constructions

Friday morning, 20 July 2001

8:30	Coffee etc., Multicultural Center Lobby

Session A: Flying A Room

9:00-9:30	Regina Pustet: Copulas worldwide

9:30-10:00	Eva Schultze-Berndt: Competing relations: depictive secondary predicates and adverbials in crosslinguistic perspective

10:00-10:30	Satoshi Uehara and Kingkarn Thepkanjana: Towards a typology of resultative constructions: a case study of some languages of Pacific Rim Asia

Session B: MCC Theater (Multicultural Center)

9:00-9:30	Greville Corbett, Dunstan Brown, and Carole Tiberius: Agreement: Towards a typology

9:30-10:00	Peter Schmidt: Agreement domain universals: Semantically-based proposals and their problems

10:00-10:30	Martin Haspelmath: Basic argument marking in ditransitive alignment types

Coffee: MCC lobby

Session A: Flying A

11:30-12:00	Johan van der Auwera and N. Dobrushina: Towards a typology of imperatives and hortatives: Categories and systems

12:00-12:30	Timothy Curnow: Evidentiality and first person: an initial examination

Session B: MCC Theater

11:00-11:30	Frans Plank: Competing motivations for gender distinctions relative to numbers in pronominal paradigms: Markedness, conflict resolution, retention of recent inheritance

11:30-12:00	Olga Ourioupina: Number agreement and verb distributive plurality in Oceanic languages

12:00-12:30	Michael A. Daniel: Two ways of pronominal number categorization

Lunch

Friday Afternoon

Session A: Flying A: Databases

13:30-14:00	Manuella Pinto and Paola Monachesi: Developing a metalanguage for a ‘Typological Database System’

14:00-15:00	Workshop: Cross-linguistic databases

Balthasar Bickel and Johanna Nichols, organizers

David Gil, Anna Siewierska, Elena Filimonova, Balthsar Bickel and Johanna Nichols, Paola Monachesi, Don Willems

Session B: MCC Theater

13:30-14:00	Wolfgang Schellinger: One + many = two: Indirect number marking

14:00-14:30	Anna Siewierska and Dik Bakker: Semantic parameters of the grammaticalization of person agreement.

14:30-15:00	Michael Cysouw: The (a)symmetry of inflectional person marking

Coffee: MCC Lobby

Session A: Flying A

15:00-17:00	Workshop on cross-linguistic databases, continued

Session B: MCC Theater

15:00-15:30	Matthew Baerman: The interpretation of person syncretism

15:30-16:00	Horst Simon: Only you? On the alleged inclusive-exclusive distinction in the second person plural

16:30-17:00	Johannes Helmbrecht: On the typology of politeness distinctions in pronouns

18:00	Reception hosted by John Benjamins Publishing House, MCC Lounge

Saturday morning, 21 July 2001

8:00	Coffee etc.: MCC Lobby

Session A: Flying A

8:30-9:00	Sergei Sai: On the universality of the notion “head”

9:00-9:30	Hsiu-chuan Liao: The Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy revisited: A view from ergative languages

9:30-10:00	Sonia Cristofaro and Anna Giacalone Ramat: Case relativization strategies and the relativization of circumstantials

10:00-10:30	Maria Polinsky: Towards a typology of control structures

Session B: MCC Theater

8:30-9:00	Sergei Tatevosov: The parameter of actionality: Towards a typology of aspectual classes

9:00-9:30	Östen Dahl and Viveka Velulpillai: Areality in tense-aspect systems

9:30-10:00	Nicholas Reid: Sitting right at the back: Serialised posture/stance verbs in Northern Australian languages

10:00-10:30	Ljuba Veselinova: Suppletion in tense-aspect categories

Cofffee: MCC Lobby

Session A: Flying A

11:00-11:30	Jon Aske: Ancillary changes in the shift from OV to VO: Evidence from Basque

11:30-12:00	Michael Fortescue and J. Lachlan Mackenzie: A two-tiered typological approach to disharmonic word-order/affixation pairings

12:00-12:30	Holger Diessel: The positional patterns of subordinate clauses in cross-linguistic perspective

Session B: MCC Theater

11:00-11:30	Shuafan Huang: Seediq: Spatial representations in a language without prepositions

11:30-12:00	Jürgen Bohnemeyer: Linguistic principles of motion event segmentation

12:00-12:30	Johanna Nichols, David Peterson, and Jonathan Barnes: Which verbs form causatives?

Lunch

Saturday afternoon

Session A: Flying A

13:30-14:00	Lindsay Whaley: A cross-linguistic examination of quantifier float

14:00-14:30	Konstantin Kazenin: Towards a typology of predicate ellipsis

14:30-15:00	Volker Gast: Innovation versus renovation in the grammaticalization of reflexive markers

Session B: MCC Theater

13:30-14:00	Bernard Comrie: Recipient person suppletion in the verb give: a preliminary typological study

14:00-14:30	Adam Saulwick: Towards an intragenetic typology of benefactives in Gunwinyguan with particular reference to Rembarrnga

14:30-15:00	Silvia Luraghi: Separating instruments from companions

Coffee: MCC Lobby

15:30-17:00	Business meeting: MCC Theater

19:00	Banquet: The Beachside

Sunday morning

8:30	Coffee, etc.: MCC Lounge

MCC Theater

9:00-9:30	Myung-Hee Kim, Lesley Stirling, and Nicholas Evans: Narrative structure and referring expressions in Australian languages

9:30-10:00	Balthasar Bickel: How important are referents? Syntactic typology and discourse

10:00-10:30	G. Tucker Childs: Language contact, language typology, and language death: The case of Mmani

Coffee: MCC Lobby

11:00-11:30	David A. Peterson: Typological evidence for the origin and motivation of applicative constructions

11:30-12:00	Donna Gerdts and Thomas Hukari: Stacking antipassives in Halkomelem Salish

Program

Marianne Mithun

2001-06-30