Transalpine Typology Meeting (TTM)

[Sonia Cristofaro]

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TRANSALPINE TYPOLOGY MEETING

Bern, 22.1.2009 – 24.1.2009

Organizers: Sonia Cristofaro (Pavia) & Bernhard Waelchli (Bern)

Invited speakers: Antoine Guillaume (Lyon) & Frans Plank (Konstanz)

Description
This typology meeting aims at intensifying the contacts between students of
linguistic typology on both sides of the Alps and grew out of a
collaboration between the linguistic departments of Pavia and Bern.
Contributions cover a large variety of topics in linguistic typology,
including the expression of motion, compounds, duals, alignment and
grammatical relations, clause combining and switch-reference, evidentiality,
deixis, syllable structure and morphological complexity, parts of speech,
and the nature of grammatical categories. 


Program

Thursday 22.1.09

15.00-16.00 Antoine Guillaume (Lyon): Cavineña Associated Motion Suffixes:
Their Meanings and Discourse Function

16.00-16.40 Arnd Sölling (Bern): Encoding Motion and Directionality in North
West American Languages

16.40-17.10 Coffee break

17.10-17.50 Raphael Berthele (Fribourg): On the Typology of the Expression
of Motion and Posture in Varieties of Germanic and Romance

17.50-18.30 Giorgio Francesco Arcodia (Milano): Coordinating Compounds
between SAE and East Asia

18.30-19.10 Nicola Grandi (Bologna): On the Difference Between Coordinate and
Hierarchical Compounds: a Typological Survey


Friday 23.1.09

8.40-9.40 Frans Plank (Konstanz): Two or Three Things about Duals

9.40-10.20 Deborah Edwards (Bern): Simultaneous Double Alignment in Kuni,
or, How Many Agreement Patterns does a Language Need?

10.20-10.50 Coffee break

10.50-11.30 Caterina Mauri (Pavia): How Basic is the Notion of Alternative?
A Diachronic Typology of Disjunction

11.30-12.10 Maddalena Menchi (Pavia): Considerations on European Converbs
Based on a Parallel Corpus

12.10-12.50 Felix Haller (Bern): Switch-Reference in Tibetan

12.50-14.20 Lunch

14.20-15.00 Andrea Sansò (Como): Men, Women, and Birds. An Embryonic System
of Noun Classification in Ancient Greek

15.00-15.40 Sonia Cristofaro (Pavia): Grammatical Categories and Relations:
Universality vs. Language-Specificity and Construction-Specificity

15.40-16.20 Bernhard Wälchli (Bern): Toward a Typology of Distributional
Parts of Speech in Circum-Alpine Languages and Beyond

16.20-16.50 Coffee break

16.50-17.30 Manana Topadze: (Pavia) Evidential Structures in South Caucasian
Languages

17.30-18.10 Caterina Guardamagna (Pavia): Marking Reportive Evidentiality in
Italian: A Corpusbased Study

18.10-18.50 Athanassios Moustakas (Freiburg i. Br.): Language typology from
the Nostratic perspective:nominal sentences in Russian, Turkish and Arabic


Saturday 24.1.09

8.40-9.20 Iwar Werlen (Bern): Subjecthood in Karay'a

9.20-10 Fernando Zúñiga (Zurich): Benefactives: Form and Function from a
Cross-Linguistic Perspective

10-10.40 Giorgio Iemmolo (Pavia): Differential Object Marking and
Topicality: Evidence from Romance and Beyond

10.40-11.10 Coffee break

11.10-11.50 Federica DaMilano (Milano): Deixis in East-Asian Languages

11.50-12.30 Thomas Mayer (Konstanz): The Co-Variation of Syllable Structure
and Morphological Complexity


For the complete program and abstracts please consult the conference website:

http://www.isw.unibe.ch/index/Transalpine-Typology-Meeting.pdf