23.961, Confs: Typology/Germany

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Subject: 23.961, Confs: Typology/Germany

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Date: 24-Feb-2012
From: Martin Haspelmath [haspelmath at eva.mpg.de]
Subject: Anna Siewierska Memorial Workshop


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Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:39:22
From: Martin Haspelmath [haspelmath at eva.mpg.de]
Subject: Anna Siewierska Memorial Workshop

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Anna Siewierska Memorial Workshop 

Date: 27-Apr-2012 - 27-Apr-2012 
Location: Leipzig, Germany 
Contact: Martin Haspelmath 
Contact Email: haspelmath at eva.mpg.de 
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'






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