AlT News 8
Johan.VanDerAuwera
auwera at reks.uia.ac.be
Fri Aug 11 10:11:42 UTC 1995
ALT News No. 8
August 1995
Contents: 1. Report on membership
2. Program of ALT1
3. The business meeting at ALT1
4. Kartvel workshop
1.
Report on membership
At this moment ALT has 107 'real' members, and another 158
near-members. Members are 'real' (i) if they have paid their
membership fee or (ii) if they have explicitly requested a
waiver and received it. 'Near-members' are linguists that have
indicated a desire to become a member or have at least shown
some interest, but so far failed to pay their dues or ask to
be exempt from paying. For the benefit of the latter, a
membership form is enclosed once more.
It turns out that the cost of cashing some checks in
dollars is nearly equivalent to the membership fee. If you
prefer to pay in dollars, use personal checks only, i.e.
checks that come from accounts held in your name - or that of
a friend. Other checks, going under different names in
different parts of the world, incur costs on our side. The
beneficiary of the check should be Johan van der Auwera,
not ALT.
Fully unproblematic, we assume, for both you and us, are
international postal money orders - aren't post offices
universal? - bank transfers, Eurochecks, if you have them,
and if you come to Vitoria-Gasteiz, pesetas.
2.
Program of ALT1
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. A map is sent upon
registration, but it is easy to find anyway. Ask for Calle
Dato, the pedestrian street leading to the railway
station, go through 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
ALT members pay no registration fee. Non-or-near-members can
become members upon registration or pay a registration fee
in pesetas, equivalent to the 1995 ALT membership fee of 21 $.
On September 7 and 8 a BOOK EXHIBIT will be organized
in the Hall of the Facultad de Filologia y Geografia e
Historia / Filologia eta Geografi-Historia Fakultatea.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own publications.
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 6
18:00-21:00 REGISTRATION
Hall: Facultad de Filologia y Geografia e
Historia / Filologia eta Geografi-Historia
Fakultatea
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 7
Facultad de Filologia y Geografia e Historia / Filologia eta
Geografi-Historia Fakultatea
BASQUE WORKSHOP
MORNING
Chair: Endrike Knoerr (U. of the Basque Country / R.
Academy of the Basque Language)
9:00-10:00
Itziar Laka On Basque Syntax
(U. of Rochester)
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)
***
AFTERNOON
Chair: Inaki Camino (U. of the Basque Country)
15:00-15:30
Karmele Rotaetxe Scission de l'ergativite en
(U. of the Basque Country) Basque?
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
Ricardo Gomez Lopez (U of The Abbe Darrigol, Basque
the Basque Country)and and Typology
Frans Plank (U. of Konstanz)
17:30-18:00
Manfred Ringmacher (Free The new edition of
U. Berlin) Humboldt's linguistic writings
18:00-18:30
Bernhard Hurch (Graz U.) "Abteilung II: Baskisch und
and M. Jose Kerejeta Romanisch" - A sketch of
(U. of the Basque Country) Humboldt's writings on
Basque
***
18:30-21:00 REGISTRATION
Hall, Facultad de Filologia y Geografia e
Historia / Filogia eta Geografi-Historia
Fakultatea
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 8
Facultad de Filologia y Geografia e Historia / Filologia eta
Geografi-Historia Fakultatea
MORNING
Chair: Miren Azkarate (U. of the Basque Country / R.
Academy of the Basque Language)
8:45-9:00 WELCOME! - by ALT Officers
SESSION ON REFERENCE, NUMBER, AND DISTRIBUTIVES
(9:00-10:30)
9:00-10:00
Marianne Mithun (U. of Distributives and number in
California, Santa Barbara) the world's languages
and Greville Corbett (U.
of Surrey)
10:00-10:30
Jan Rijkhoff (U. of Referring phrases from a
Konstanz) typological perspective
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
(Moscow State U.) of languages
12:00-12:30
Wolfram Schaffar Grammaticalization of
(U. of Tuebingen) functional properties into
subject positions
12:30-13:00
Elke Nowak On subordination and
(U. of Stuttgart) coordination
13:00-13:15 WELCOME! - by local organizers
LUNCH BREAK (13:15-15:00)
***
AFTERNOON
Chair: Pello Salaburu (U. of the Basque Country / R.
Academy of the Basque Language)
SYMPOSIUM ON INCORPORATION (15:00-16:30)
15:00-15:30
Adele Goldberg Persian complex predicates
(U. of California, San Diego)
15:30-16:00
Maria Polinsky Noun incorporation and the
(U. of Southern California) reference to incorporated
nominals
16:00-16:30
Andrew Spencer On syntactic accounts of
(U. of Essex) noun incorporation
COFFEE BREAK (16:30-17:00)
BUSINESS MEETING (17:00-19:00)
***
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
(Yale U.) applicative universal grammar
9:00-9:30
Rajendra Singh Towards a word-based approach
(U. of Montreal) to morphological typology
9:30-10:00
Simon Kirby Competing motivations and
(U. of Edinburgh) the invisible hand: a
computational model of the
emergence of hierarchies
10:00-10:30
Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon and Self-organization and
August Fenk (U. of natural typology
Klagenfurt)
10:30-11:00
Frans Plank A catalogue of allegations
(U. of Konstanz) concerning 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 (Center for On word order in Archaic
Linguistic Research on Chinese
Oriental Asia, Paris)
12:00-12:30
Nicholas Ostler Some apparent cases of
(Linguacubun Ltd., London) wh-fronting in SOV
languages: form, function, and
history
12:30-13:00
Dik Bakker Flexibility and consistency
(U. of Amsterdam) in word order patterns in the
languages of Europe
13:00-13:30
Anna Siewierska On word order flexibility,
(U. of Lancaster) case, and agreement marking
LUNCH BREAK (13:30-15:00)
***
AFTERNOON
SESSION ON WORD CLASSES (15:00-16:45)
Chair: Ines Pagola (U. of the Basque Country)
15:00-15:45
Juergen Broschart Why Tongan does it
(U. of Koeln) differently: categorial
distinctions in a language
without nouns and verbs
15:45-16:15
Walter Bisang Areal typology and grammat-
(U. of Mainz) icalization: processes of
grammaticalization based on
nouns and verbs in East and
South East Asian languages
16:15-16:45
Lilly L. Chen A typological study of the
(Rice University) copula verb system in the
Chinese languages
COFFEE BREAK (16:45-17:15)
SESSION ON CASE AND SPACE (17:15-20:15)
Chair: Jose Luis Alvarez Enparantza (U. of the Basque
Country)
17:15-18:00
Casper de Groot (U. of The Absentive. The grammat-
Amsterdam) icalized expression of absence
in European languages
18:00-18:45
Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm Partitives and pseudo-
(U. of Stockholm) partitives in the European
languages: typology and gram-
maticalization
.
18:45-19:30
Thomas Stolz Toward a typology of
(U. of Bochum) with-relations: comitatives,
instrumentals, and privatives
in the languages of the world
19:30-20:15
Christel Stolz (Max Planck Towards a typology of spatial
Institute, Nijmegen) frames of reference:
comparing frames of reference
in different spatial subdomains
SONG RECITAL (20:15-21:15) - by Bernardo Atxaga, Mikel Laboa
and Ruper Ordorika
***
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 10
Palacio de Villa Suso
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 multi-
(U. of Colorado) functional 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
(U. of Groningen) and negation
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
(U. of Antwerpen) Average European
15:30-16:15
Leon Stassen The typology of predicative
(Catholic U. of Nijmegen) possession
16:15-16:45
Kathryn Howard and The "Perf" grammaticization
Benjamin Wang (U. of pathway in Chinese and Thai
California, Los Angeles)
16:45-17:15
Kylie Hsu, Motoko A cross-linguistic analysis of
Ezaki, Amy Meepoe, and imperfectivity in natural
David Olsher (U. of spoken discourse
California, Los Angeles)
17:15-18:00
Vladimir Nedjalkov The correlation between
(Institute of Linguistic semantic and formal
Research, St. Petersburg) oppositions in verbal
derivation
3.
The Business Meeting at ALT-1
The proposals formulated at the Business meeting (about the
Charter, Offices and officers, Policies, ...) will be
subsequently voted upon by (e-)mail by the entire 'real'
membership.
Preliminary agenda
i. Charter
In preparation of this point members are asked to send
comments on the present version of the Charter to Frans
Plank. He will lead the discussion, the result of which should
be a final text. Contact Frans Plank for copies of the original
version.
ii. Members
iii. Finances
Report by Johan van der Auwera. Discussion.
iv. Structure of the association, Offices and officers
The present acting officers suggest that ALT ought to try to
do with as few offices as possible. The minimum could be the
following:
- President (to serve for 3 years)
- Secretary-Treasurer (to serve for 5 years, and if re-
elected longer)
- Executive Committee (4 or 5 members, plus President,
Secretary-Treasurer, and Editor-in-Chief as ex officio
members; to serve for 5 years, with staggered
replacements)
- Editorial board (6 or 7 members, including Editor-in-
Chief; to serve for 5 years, with staggered replacements)
- Editor(s) of ALT News
The Executive Committee, expanded with the local
organizer(s), also serves as a Program Committee.
In addition, ALT should estabish ad hoc committees
whenever there is a need for them (e.g., for projects such as
the The Good Grammar Guide).
At the business meeting the acting officers will propose a
slate of officers. We welcome nominations and suggestions.
v. Journal
Report by Frans Plank. Discussion.
vi. Future ALT meetings and activities
viii. Any other business
4.
Kartvel workshop
Those eager to be introduced to the Kartvel family or to
report on their own Kartvel research, please get in touch
with Frans Plank. In association with the Kartvel Section of
the University of Jena, Germany, ALT can offer a workshop in
Jena on December 14-18 1995.
Frans Plank
Fachgruppe Sprachwissenschaft
Universitaet Konstanz
Postfach 5560
D-78434 Konstanz
Germany
frans.plank at uni-konstanz.de
fax: +49-7531-882741
&
Johan van der Auwera
Linguistiek (GER)
Universiteit Antwerpen (UIA)
B-2610 Antwerpen
Belgium
auwera at uia.ua.ac.be [NEW!]
fax: +32-3-8202762 [NEW!]
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