<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div><div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: medium; "><span>*** Apologies for cross-posting ***</span><br><span></span><br><span>2nd Transalpine Typology Meeting</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors="true">10-11 December 2010</a>, Aula Scarpa, University of Pavia, Italy</span><br><span></span><br><span>Promoted by:</span><br><span></span><br><span>Università degli Studi di Pavia</span><br><span>Dipartimento di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata</span><br><span>Dottorato Internazionale in Linguistica</span><br><span>Laurea Specialistica in Linguistica </span><br><span></span><br><span>Universität Bern</span><br><span>Institut für Sprachwissenschaft</span><br><span></span><br><span>Description</span><br><span></span><br><span>This typology meeting aims at intensifying the contacts between</span><br><span>students of linguistic typology on both sides of the Alps and grew out</span><br><span>of a collaboration between the linguistic departments of Pavia and</span><br><span>Bern. Contributions cover a large variety of topics in linguistic</span><br><span>typology, including ideophones, the expression of motion, number</span><br><span>marking, adverbs, auxiliaries, alignment and grammatical relations,</span><br><span>transitivity, clause combining, and competing motivations.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Program</span><br><span></span><br><span>12/10/2010</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://2" x-apple-data-detectors="true">10.00-11.00</a> Christa Koenig (Koeln): Marked Nominative: An Exotic Language Type?</span><br><span><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://3" x-apple-data-detectors="true">11.00-11.30</a> Coffee break</span><br><span><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://4" x-apple-data-detectors="true">11.30-12.00</a> Silvia Luraghi (Pavia): Basic valency orientation in Hittite</span><br><span><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://5" x-apple-data-detectors="true">12.00-12.30</a> Arnd Soelling (Bern): Diverging lexicalization patterns of</span><br><span>a semantic domain of goal-orientation in two North-American languages:</span><br><span>Takelma and Maidu</span><br><span><a href="tel:12.30-14-30" x-apple-data-detectors="true">12.30-14-30</a> Lunch</span><br><span><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://7" x-apple-data-detectors="true">14.30-15.00</a> Deborah Edwards (Bern): Obligatory and Optional Nominal</span><br><span>Plural Marking - A Typology Based on Original Texts</span><br><span><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://8" x-apple-data-detectors="true">15.00-15.30</a> Pietro Cerrone and Emanuele Miola (Pavia): Auxiliary</span><br><span>Selection in Piedmontese</span><br><span><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://9" x-apple-data-detectors="true">15.30-16.00</a> Ruprecht von Waldenfels (Bern): Verbal categories across</span><br><span>Slavic - a corpus driven study</span><br><span><a href="tel:16.00-16-30" x-apple-data-detectors="true">16.00-16-30</a> Coffee break</span><br><span><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://11" x-apple-data-detectors="true">16.30-17.00</a> Chiara Fedriani and Emanuele Miola (Pavia): From temporal</span><br><span>adverbs to discourse markers in the languages of Europe: between</span><br><span>cooptation, grammaticalization, and pragmaticalization</span><br><span><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://12" x-apple-data-detectors="true">17.00-17.30</a> Caterina Mauri and Andrea Sanso' (Pavia): Reality status</span><br><span>and interclausal relations: synchronic and diachronic variation</span><br><span></span><br><span>12/11/2010</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://14" x-apple-data-detectors="true">10.00-10.30</a> Ashild Naess (Zurich): Transitivity and word classes in Äiwoo</span><br><span><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://15" x-apple-data-detectors="true">10.30-11.00</a> Bernhard Waelchli (Bern): Ištiktukai „happenlings“ – How</span><br><span>Baltic linguistics anticipated ideophones and why this is not known in</span><br><span>typology.</span><br><span><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://16" x-apple-data-detectors="true">11.00-11.30</a> Coffee break</span><br><span><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://17" x-apple-data-detectors="true">11.30-12.00</a> Sonia Cristofaro (Pavia): Competing motivations and</span><br><span>diachrony: What evidence for what motivations?</span><br><span><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://18" x-apple-data-detectors="true">12.00-12.30</a> Erik Van Gijn (Nijmegen): Subordination strategies in</span><br><span>South-American languages: an interim report</span><br><span><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://19" x-apple-data-detectors="true">12.30-13.30</a> Martine Vanhove (CNRS-LLACAN - Paris): TBA</span><br><span></span><br><span>Organizers</span><br><span></span><br><span>- Sonia Cristofaro (Pavia)</span><br><span><a href="mailto:sonia.cristofaro@unipv.it" x-apple-data-detectors="true"></a><a href="mailto:sonia.cristofaro@unipv.it"></a><a href="mailto:sonia.cristofaro@unipv.it"><a href="mailto:sonia.cristofaro@unipv.it">sonia.cristofaro@unipv.it</a></a></span><br><span></span><br><span>- Bernhard Waelchli (Bern)</span><br><span><a href="mailto:bernhard.waelchli@isw.unibe.ch" x-apple-data-detectors="true"></a><a href="mailto:bernhard.waelchli@isw.unibe.ch"></a><a href="mailto:bernhard.waelchli@isw.unibe.ch"><a href="mailto:bernhard.waelchli@isw.unibe.ch">bernhard.waelchli@isw.unibe.ch</a></a></span><br><span></span><br><span>For additional information, please contact Sonia Cristofaro or visit:</span><br><span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/transalpinetypologymeeting/" x-apple-data-detectors="true"></a><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/transalpinetypologymeeting/"></a><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/transalpinetypologymeeting/"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/transalpinetypologymeeting/">https://sites.google.com/site/transalpinetypologymeeting/</a></a></span></span></div><div></div></div><div></div></body></html>