Anna Siewierska Memorial Workshop, Leipzig, 2012 April 27

[Martin Haspelmath]

Anna Siewierska Memorial Workshop
2012 April 27, Leipzig

To commemorate the eminent typologist Anna Siewierska (1955-2011), the 
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology is organizing a 
one-day workshop on language typology:

http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/2012_ASMW/index.html

The invited speakers are colleagues and friends of Anna's, who will talk 
about their typological research, stressing connections to Anna's 
interests and contributions where possible. A list of speakers and talk 
titles is now online: 
http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/2012_ASMW/files/schedule.html

At the end of the day, there will be a one-hour remembrance session.

Anyone is welcome to attend. There is no registration fee. If you want 
to come for this workshop, please inform the workshop manager Claudia 
Schmidt (cschmidt at eva.mpg.de).

Note that the workshop is immediately adjacent to another workshop in 
Leipzig on April 28, on "Growth and decline of morphological 
complexity", organized by the Surrey Morphology Group 
(http://www2.surrey.ac.uk/english/smg/researchprojects/morphologicalcomplexity/workshop_2012/).

-- 
Martin Haspelmath (haspelmath at eva.mpg.de)
Max-Planck-Institut fuer evolutionaere Anthropologie, Deutscher Platz 6	
D-04103 Leipzig
Tel. (MPI) +49-341-3550 307, (priv.) +49-341-980 1616