Transalpine Typology Meeting (TTM), University of Zurich

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3rd TRANSALPINE TYPOLOGY MEETING
UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH, SWITZERLAND
30-31 MAY 2013
http://www.spw.uzh.ch/3ttm/program.html

Organisers: Giorgio Iemmolo, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Balthasar Bickel & Robert Schikowski (Zurich)

Description:
This typology meeting aims at intensifying the contacts and collaboration between students and researchers of linguistic typology on both sides of the Alps and originally grew out of a collaboration between the linguistics departments of the universities of Pavia and Berne.
Contributions cover a large variety of topics in linguistic typology, such as the diachronic nature of universals, borrowing and language contact, morphological changes in auxiliary verb constructions, subordination, modality, gender, number, as well as computational approaches to morphology.
The present meeting is the third of the series. The 1st Transalpine Typology Meeting took place in Berne (Switzerland) in January 22–24, 2009. The 2nd Transalpine Typology Meeting was held in Pavia (Italy) in December 10–11, 2010. Both meetings were organised by Sonia Cristofaro (Pavia) and Bernhard Waelchli (Berne, now Stockholm). 
The TTM will be closed by an interdisciplinary workshop on "Landscape through the prism of language", to be held on June 1st, which aims to bring together linguists and geographers to discuss the representation of natural landscape in language(s) from both a linguistic and a geographical perspective as well as the methodologies employed by these disciplines in collecting data on landscape. More information can be found here: http://www.spw.uzh.ch/3ttm/landscape.html

Programme:
30 May 2013

09.30 – 09.45 Introduction

Case and grammatical relations I
09.45-10.15  Ilja A. Seržant (Konstanz): Some denotational properties of the independent partitive genitive in Lithuanian
10.15 – 10.45 Katarzyna Janic (Lyon) “A typology of the antipassive uses of reflexive marking in Slavic languages”
10.45 – 11.15 Fernando Zúñiga (Berne) “PolySynthesis 6.0 - bicentennial edition”

11.15 – 11.45 Coffee break

Case and grammatical relations II
11.45 – 12.15 Marie Renaudier (Lyon) “A rare type of external possession strategy in Sereer (Atlantic, Senegal)
12.15 - 12.45 Aude Soubrier (Lyon) “The verb ‘put’ in Kposo serial verb constructions: grammaticalisation and lexicalisation”
12.45 – 14.00 Lunch

Gender, number, and evaluative morphology
14.00 – 14.30 Michele Loporcaro (Zurich) “Novel acqusitions on gender in Romance languages”
14.30 – 15.00 Steffen Haurlholm-Larsen (Berne) “The expression of nominal number in Garifuna”
15.00-15.30  Brigitte Pakendorf (Lyon) "Lamunkhin Even evaluative morphology in a cross-linguistic perspective"

15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break

Phonetics/Phonology
16.00 – 16.30 Rachele Delucchi and Lorenzo Filipponio (Zurich) “Interplay between vowel harmony and rhytmic patterns in Swiss Italian dialects”
16.30 – 17.00 Stephan Schmid (Zurich) “Vowel systems, syllable structure, and speech rhytm: towards a phonological typology of Italo-Romance dialects”
17.00-17.30 Michael Riessler (Freiburg im Breisgau) “Palatal and palatalized consonants in East-Saamic: typology and evolution”

19.30 Dinner

31 May 2013
Typology and Universals I
09.30 – 10.00 Denis Creissels (Lyon) “Coding frames in typological perspective and the ergativity /accusativity parameter”
10.00 – 10.30 Frans Plank (Konstanz) “On the temporal nature of universals”

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

Computational approaches
11.00 – 11.30 Paola Merlo (Geneva) “Multilingual computational models and their relevance for typology”
11.30 – 12.00 Rupert von Waldenfels (Berne/Zurich) “Using a parallel corpus for areal typology: towards automating procedures”
12.00 – 12.30 Bruno Cartoni (Geneva) “Contrastive analysis: a first step towards a typology of word formation”

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch

Historical linguistics and typology
14.30 - 15.00 Eleanor Coghill (Konstanz): “Borrowing of verbal derivational morphology between Semitic languages: the case of Arabic verb derivations in Neo-Aramaic”
15.00 - 15.30 Caterina Mauri and Andrea Sansò (Pavia/Insubria) “Towards a typology of conditional constructions”
15.30 - 16.00 Elisabetta Voli (Pavia) “Progressive periphrases in medieval Spanish. A quantitative approach to grammaticalization”
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Giorgio Iemmolo
Seminar für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Universität Zürich
Plattenstrasse 54
CH-8032 Zürich, Switzerland
Tel: +41 44 63 40228
e-mail: giorgio.iemmolo at uzh.ch
Homepage: http://www.spw.uzh.ch/iemmolo_en.html