6.997, Confs: Linguistic Typology

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-997. Thu Jul 20 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  435
 
Subject: 6.997, Confs: Linguistic Typology
 
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Date:  Thu, 20 Jul 1995 14:03:10 +0200
From:  fvpgolor at vc.ehu.es (Gomez Lopez Ricardo)
Subject:  Conf: ALT Inaugural Meeting / K. Mitxelena I. Ihardunaldiak
 
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Date:  Thu, 20 Jul 1995 14:03:10 +0200
From:  fvpgolor at vc.ehu.es (Gomez Lopez Ricardo)
Subject:  Conf: ALT Inaugural Meeting / K. Mitxelena I. Ihardunaldiak
 
 
                      Inaugural meeting of the
              Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT)
                   K. Mitxelena I. Ihardunaldiak
            September 7-10 (Thursday through Sunday), l995
                       Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
 
 
VENUE: The University Institute where the meeting will
take place (Filologia eta Geografi-Historia Fakultatea) is
right behind the railway station. We will send a map upon
registration, but, in any case, it is easy to find (ask about Dato
Street / Calle Dato, pedestrian street leading to the railway
station; once there, cross the station, you will then see two
red brick buildings facing you: walk to the one on the left ).
 
FURTHER INFORMATION & REGISTRATION:
ALT Antolamendu Taldea (Organizing Committee)
Filologia eta Geografi-Historia Fakultatea
Euskal Filologia Saila
UPV/EHU
Marques de Urquijo, s/n
E-01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz
(Spain)
 
e-mail:  fvalt at vh.ehu.es
fax: + 34  45  144290
tel.: + 34  45  139811
 
                                PROGRAM
 
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 6 (Filologia eta Geografi-Historia Fakultatea)
 
18:00-21:00             REGISTRATION (University Hall: Facultad de
Filologia y Geografia e
Historia / Filologia eta Geografi-Historia Fakultatea)
 
SEPTEMBER 7 (Filologia eta Geografi-Historia Fakultatea)
 
BASQUE WORKSHOP
 
THURSDAY MORNING
 
Chair: Endrike Knoerr (U. of the Basque Country / R. Academy of the Basque
Language)
 
9:00-10:00
Benat Oyharcabal                        On Basque Syntax
(C.N.R.S. Paris )
 
10:00-11:00
Miren Azkarate                          On Basque Morphology
(U. of the Basque Country)
 
COFFEE BREAK (11:00-11:30)
 
11:30-12:30
Miren Lourdes Onederra                  On Basque Phonology
(U. of the Basque Country)
 
12:30-13:00
Agurtzane Elordui                       Language decay and
(U. of the Basque Country)              typological change
                                        in a Biscayan dialect
 
LUNCH BREAK (13:00-15:00)
 
*             *             *
 
THURSDAY AFTERNOON
 
Chair: Inaki Camino (U. of the Basque Country)
 
15:00-15:30
Karmele Rotaetxe                        Scission de l'ergativite en Basque?
(U. of the Basque Country)
 
15:30-16:00
Juan Carlos Moreno                      Lexicotelic and syntactotelic
 
(Autonomous U.of Madrid )               grammaticalization in Basque
 
16:00-16:30
Andolin Eguzkitza                       Indirect questions and other
 
 (U. of the Basque Country)             adnominals in the grammar of
                                        Basque
 
COFFEE BREAK (16:30-17:00)
 
17:00-17:30
Frans Plank                             Abbe Darrigol's Basque Grammar
(U. of Konstanz)
 
17:30-18:00
Manfred Ringmacher                      The new edition of Humboldt's
(Freie U. Berlin)                       linguistic writings
 
18:00-18:30
Bernhard Hurch                          "Abteilung II: Baskisch und
 
(Graz U.) and                           Romanisch" A sketch of
M. Jose Kerejeta                        Humboldt's writings on Basque
(U. of the Basque Country)
 
*             *             *
 
18:30-21:00             REGISTRATION (Hall of the Institute:
Facultad de Filologia y Geografia e Historia / Filogia eta
Geografi-Historia Fakultatea)
 
 
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 8 (Filologia eta Geografi-Historia Fakultatea)
 
MORNING
 
Chair: Miren Azkarate (U. of the Basque Country / R. Academy of the Basque
Language)
 
                 WELCOME! (by ALT Officers) (8:45-9:00)
 
       SESSION ON REFERENCE, NUMBER, AND DISTRIBUTIVES (9:00-10:30)
 
 
    9:00-10:00
       Greville CORBETT          Distributives and number in the world's
       (U. of Surrey) and        languages
       Marianne MITHUN
       U. of California,
       Santa Barbara)
 
    10:00-10:30                   Referring phrases from a typological
       Jan RIJKHOFF               perspective
       (U. of Konstanz)
 
                       COFFEE BREAK (10:30-11:00)
 
              SESSION ON GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS (11:00-13:00)
 
Chair: Benat Oyharcabal (C.N.R.S. / R. Academy of the Basque Language)
 
    11:00-12:00
       Aleksandr E. KIBRIK       Toward a holistic typology of languages
       (Moscow State U.)
 
 
    12:00-12:30
       Wolfram SCHAFFAR          Grammaticalization of functional
       (U. of Tuebingen)         properties into subject positions
 
 
    12:30-13:00
       Elke NOWAK                On subordination and coordination
       (U. of Stuttgart)
 
               WELCOME! (by local organizers) 13:00-13:15
 
 
                       LUNCH BREAK (13:15-15:00)
 
 
                              *  *  *
 
                          FRIDAY AFTERNOON
 
Chair: Pello Salaburu (U. of the Basque Country / R. Academy of the Basque
Language)
 
               SYMPOSIUM ON INCORPORATION (15:00-17:00)
 
    15:00-15:30
       Farrell ACKERMAN          Systemic patterns in a hierarchical
       and                       lexicon: preverbs and incorporation
       Phil LESOURD
       (U. of California,
       San Diego)
 
    15:30-16:00
       Adele GOLDBERG            Persian complex predicates
       (U. of California,
       San Diego)
 
    16:00-16:30
       Maria POLINSKY            Noun incorporation and the reference
       (U. of Southern           to incorporated nominals
       California)
 
    16:30-17:00
       Andrew SPENCER            On syntactic accounts of noun
       (U. of Essex)             incorporation
 
 
 
                     COFFEE BREAK (17:00-17:30)
 
                   BUSINESS MEETING  (17:30-19:30)
 
    **************************************************************************
 
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 9 (Palacio de Villa Suso)
 
 
MORNING
 
Chair: Xabier Artiagoitia (U. of the Basque Country)
 
                SESSION ON GLOBAL ISSUES (8:30-11:00)
 
    8:30-9:00
      Sebastian SHAUMYAN         Linguistic typology and applicative
      (Yale U.)                  universal grammar
 
 
    9:00-9:30
      Rajendra SINGH             Towards a word-based approach to
      (U. of Montreal)           morphological typology
 
 
    9:30-10:00
       Gertraud FENK-OCZLON      Self-organization and natural typology
       and August FENK
       (U. of Klagenfurt)
 
 
    10:00-10:30
       Simon KIRBY               Competing motivations and the in-
       (U. of Edinburgh)         visible hand: a computational model of the
                                 emergence of hierarchies
 
    10:30-11:00
       Frans PLANK               A catalogue of allegations concerning
       (U. of Konstanz)          the co-variation of sound and of
                                 meaningful form
 
 
                     COFFEE BREAK  (11:00-11:30)
 
                 SESSION ON WORD ORDER (11:30-13:30)
 
Chair: Karmele Rotaetxe  (U. of the Basque Country)
 
    11:30-12:00
       Alain PEYRAUBE            On word order in Archaic Chinese
       (Center for Linguistic
       Research on Oriental
       Asia, Paris)
 
    12:00-12:30
       Nicholas OSTLER           Some apparent cases of wh-fronting in
       (Linguacubun Ltd.,        SOV languages: form, function, and history
       London)
 
    12:30-13:00
       Dik BAKKER                Flexibility and consistency in word
       (U. of Amsterdam)         order patterns in the languages of Europe
 
 
    13:00-13:30
       Anna SIEWIERSKA           On word order flexibility, case,
       (U. of Lancaster)         and agreement marking
 
 
                        LUNCH BREAK (13:30-15:00)
 
                                 * * *
 
                           SATURDAY AFTERNOON
 
                  SESSION ON WORD CLASSES (15:00-17:30)
 
Chair: Ines Pagola  (U. of the Basque Country)
 
    15:00-15:45
       Dietmar ZAEFFERER         A typology of proposition coding
       (University of Muenchen)
 
 
    15:45-16:30
       Juergen BROSCHART         Why Tongan does it differently:
       (U. of Koeln)             categorial distinctions in a language
                                 without nouns and verbs
 
 
    16:30-17:00
       Walter BISANG             Areal typology and grammaticaliza-
       (U. of Mainz)             tion: processes of grammaticaliza-
                                 tion based on nouns and verbs in
                                 East and South East Asian languages
 
 
    17:00-17:30
       Lilly L. CHEN             A typological study of the copula verb
       (Rice University)         system in the Chinese languages
 
                    COFFEE BREAK (17:30-18:00)
 
             SESSION ON CASE AND SPACE (18:00-20:15)
 
Chair: Jose Luis Alvarez Enparantza (U. of the Basque Country)
 
    18:00-18:45
       Maria KOPTJEVSKAJA-       Partitives and pseudo-partitives in
       TAMM (U. of Stockholm)    the European languages: typology and
                                 grammaticalization                    .
 
    18:45-19:30
       Thomas STOLZ              Toward a typology of with-relations:
       (U. of Bochum)            comitatives, instrumentals, and
                                 privatives in the languages of the
                                 world                                 .
 
    19:30-20:15
       Christel STOLZ            Towards a typology of spatial frames
       (Max Planck Institute,    of reference: comparing frames of
       Nijmegen)                 reference in different spatial
                                 subdomains
 
 
                    SONG RECITAL (20:15-21:15)
 
    ***********************************************************************
 
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER  10
 
 
MORNING
 
Chair: Javier Ormazabal  (U. of the Basque Country)
 
             SESSION ON MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS (8:30-11:00)
 
    8:30-9:00
      Zygmunt FRAJZYNGIER        Grammaticalization of a multifunctional
      (U. of Colorado)           dependent clause: a cross-categorial approach
 
 
    9:00-10:00
      Nick EVANS                 Insubordination and its uses
      (U. of Melbourne)
 
    10:00-11:00
      David GIL                  Patterns of polyfunctionality in
                                 Noun-Phrase constructions
 
 
                      COFFEE BREAK (11:00-11:30)
 
          SESSION ON MOOD, MODALITY, AND NEGATION (11:30-13:00)
 
Chair: Andolin Eguzkitza  (U. of the Basque Country)
 
    11:30-12:15
       Ferdinand DE HAAN         The interaction of modality and negation
       (U. of Groningen)
 
 
    12:15-13:00
       Kees HENGEVELD            Mood and modality
       (U. of Amsterdam)
 
                       LUNCH BREAK (13:00-15:00)
 
                               * * *
 
          SESSION ON VERBS AND VERB SATELLITES (15:00-18:00)
 
Chair: Igone Zabala  (U. of the Basque Country)
 
    15:00-15:30
       Johan VAN DER AUWERA      Phasal adverbials and Standard Average
       (U. of Antwerpen)         European
 
    15:30-16:15
       Leon STASSEN              The typology of predicative possession
       (Catholic U. of
       Nijmegen)
 
    16:15-16:45
       Kathryn HOWARD and        The "Perf" grammaticization pathway in
       Benjamin WANG             Chinese and Thai
       (U. of California,
       Los Angeles)
 
    16:45-17:15
       Kylie HSU, Motoko         A cross-linguistic analysis of
       EZAKI, Amy MEEPOE, and    imperfectivity in natural spoken discourse
       David OLSHER
       (U. of California,
       Los Angeles)
 
    17:15-18:00
       Vladimir NEDJALKOV        Correlation between semantic and
       (Institute of Linguistic  formal oppositions in verbal
       Research, St. Petersburg) derivation
 
 
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