20.14, Confs: Typology/Switzerland

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Date: 23-Dec-2008
From: Sonia Cristofaro < sonia.cristofaro at unipv.it >
Subject: Transalpine Typology Meeting

 

	
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Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:19:34
From: Sonia Cristofaro [sonia.cristofaro at unipv.it]
Subject: Transalpine Typology Meeting

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Transalpine Typology Meeting 
Short Title: TTM 

Date: 22-Jan-2009 - 24-Jan-2009 
Location: Bern, Switzerland 
Contact: Bernhard Waelchli 
Contact Email: bernhard.waelchli at isw.unibe.ch 
Meeting URL: http://www.isw.unibe.ch/index/Transalpine-Typology-Meeting.pdf 

Linguistic Field(s): Typology 

Meeting Description: 

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

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

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

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

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 Corpus-based 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







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