Friday, May 1

0830 - 0835

welcome

0835 - 0935

open plenary
Bernard Comrie (MPI EVA)
TBA

0940 - 1010

Parallel Session A

Parallel Session B

Parallel Session C

Dryer, Matthew (U at Buffalo)

Corbett, Greville with Sebastian Fedden (U Surrey)

Heath, Jeffrey (U Michigan)

Affix as a comparative concept

Two systems or one? A Canonical Typology approach

Typology and extreme languages

Dabir-Moghaddam, Mohammad (Allameh Tabataba'i

Blevins, Juliette (CUNY)

U, Tehran)

Proto-Basque *Dh clusters and the Proto-Indo-

Patterns of variation in word order and agreement in

European-Euskara Hypothesis: Evidence from direct

modern Western Iranian languages

comparison of Historic Basque and Sanskrit

Garcia-Miguel, Jos with Carmen Cabeza (Vigo

Zand-Moghadam, Amir with Aylar Adeh (Allameh

Brown, Cecil (Pensacola, Florida)

U)

Tabataba'i U, Tehran)

Eskutian: A phylogenetic language group of the

Approaching valency patterns in Spanish Sign

Speech act realization strategies in Persian, English,

Arctic and California

Language (LSE)

and Turkmen: A case of monolingual and bilingual

1010 - 1040

refreshments

1040 - 1110

Zeshan, Ulrike (U Central Lancashire)

Early pidginization of incipient signed jargon

1115 - 1145

learners
1150 - 1220

Stoll, Sabine (U Zurich) with Elena Lieven (U

Piryaee, Shiva (CGIE & Payam-e Noor U, Tehran)

Sidwell, Paul (ANU)

Manchester)

The effects of Lori (Borujerdi) dialect on Borujerd

A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of the

Jews dialect

Austroasiatic languages

What does speech add to points and vice versa?

Preschoolers and their surrounding environment in
three cultures
1220 - 1330

lunch

1330 - 1400

Michaelis, Susanne Maria (MPI EVA)

Rieler, Michael (U Freiburg) with Evgenia

Stoynova, Natalya (Moscow)

Inflectional complexity in creole languages:

Zhivotova (MPI EVA), Niko Partanen (U Freiburg)

Double again-expressions

Evidence from the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole

Kildin Saami documentary sociolinguistics:

Language Structures

Investigations on the variation and change in function

words

1405 - 1435

Maurer, Philippe (U Zurich)

Shluinsky, Andrey (RAS Moscow) with Olesya

Wlchli, Bernhard (Stockholm U)

Reflexive voice in Sutsilvan (Romansh)

Khanina (Moscow)

Toward a typology of sociatives

Encoding direct object in Enets

1440 - 1510

1515 - 1545

Lefebvre, Claire (UQAM, Montreal)

Filtchenko, Andrej with Olga Potanina (Tomsk U)

Weber, Tobias (U Regensburg & U Zurich)

What does the Relabeling-based theory of creole

Forward to the past: Multimodality of temporal

Differential A Marking: diachronic developments and

genesis account for?

marking in Eastern Khanty

restrictions from a typological perspective

Polinsky, Maria (Harvard U)

Potanina, Olga with Andrej Filtchenko (Tomsk U)

Handschuh, Corinna with Christian Rapold (U

Scope under language contact

Tomsk Eastern Khanty and Southern Selkup

Regensburg)

Documentation Program: Interim report

Pragmatic demarking of clefts: When and where

1545 - 1615

refreshments

1615 - 1645

Levinson, Stephen (MPI Nijmegen)

Bickel, Balthasar with Sabine Stoll, Taras

Haspelmath, Martin (MPI EVA)

Language usage, language processing and typology

Zakharko, Steven Moran, Robert Schikowsky (U

The serial verb construction: Comparative concept

Zurich)

and cross-linguistic generalizations

Syntactic mixing across generations in a

Chintang/Nepali bilingual environment
1650 - 1720

Cristofaro, Sonia (U Pavia)

van Driem, George (U Berne)

Anderson, Gregory (Living Tongues Institute for

Synchronic vs. diachronic explanations of

The Himalayan Corridor: Cradle of ethnogenesis

Endangered Languages)

typological universals: redefining the role of

frequency

Sources for double and split inflectional patterns in

auxiliary verb constructions

1725 - 1755

Dahl, sten (Stockholm U)

Ghosh, Arun Kumar (Burdwan U & U Gttingen)

Arkadiev, Peter with Andrey Shluinsky (RAS

How WEIRD are WALS languages?

Noun phrase construction in Remo and Gutob

Moscow)
Towards a typology of derivational viewpoint aspect
systems

1800 - 1830

Gil, David (MPI EVA)

Abbi, Anvita (JNU New Delhi)

Nevskaya, Irina (U Frankfurt)

Typology reflects phylogeny

Tai Kadai languages of India: A probe into the Seventh

The prospective as a cross-linguistic grammatical

Language Family

category

1835 - 1905

Erschler, David (U Mass, Amherst)

A universal on generalized sluicing

Saturday, May 2
0830 - 0900

Nichols, Johanna (UC Berkeley)

Comrie, Bernard (MPI EVA) with Diana Forker (U

Hagge, Claude (Collge de France, Paris)

Pan-Eurasian typological clines

Bamberg), Zaira Khalilova (MPI EVA), Madzhid

Illustrations and violations of the syntax-phonology

Khalilov (RAS Daghestan)

interface: Data and theoretical interpretation

Antipassives in Tsezic and beyond

0905 - 0935

Wichmann, Sren (MPI EVA)

Daniel, Mikhail (HSE & MSU Moscow)

Lancia, Leonardo (MPI EVA) with Georgy

Worldwide patterns of language migration

Agreement of personal pronouns in Nakh, Dargwa and

Krasovitskiy (U Oxford), Franziska Stuntebeck

Archi (East Caucasian)

(Osnabrck U), Sven Grawunder (MPI EVA)

Toward a complex systems approach to the analysis
of rhythmic types

0940 - 1010

Kortmann, Bernd (U Freiburg)

Mutalov, Rasul (RAS Moscow)

Ladd, Robert (U Edinburgh)

The contribution of (e)WAVE to continent-wide

Mood in Dargwa languages

On the place of stress in prosodic typology

typology
1010 - 1040

refreshments

1040 - 1110

Conners, Thomas with Claudia Brugman, Nikki

Molochieva, Zarina (U Regensburg)

Cysouw, Michael (U Marburg)

Adams, Amalia Gnanadesikan, Brook Hefright

Natural speech vs. controlled-stimulus narratives:

Induction to the max: Typology through parallel texts

(U Maryland)

Referential density in Chechen

A typological overview of strategies that aid in

reference tracking
1115 - 1145

Knig, Ekkehard (FU Berlin)

Letuchiy, Alexander (HSE Moscow)

Mettouchi, Amina (EPHE Paris)

Systems and uses of articles: Patterns of variation

Agreement with sentential arguments in Adyghe

Corpus-based typology: Perspectives for crosslinguistic comparison

1150 - 1220

Stolz, Thomas (U Bremen)

Rostovtsev-Popiel, Alexander (U Mainz)

Karjus, Andres (U Tartu, Estonia)

Spatial interrogatives: Cross-linguistic aspects of

Subjects of cecreased control in Kartvelian

A semi-automatic, semi-supervised Method for small

an understudied paradigm

anticausatives

data document clustering

1220 - 1330

lunch

1330 - 1400

Veselinova, Ljuba (Stockholm U)

Matic, Dejan (MPI Nijmegen)

Mous, Maarten (Leiden U)

'Not-yet'-expressions in the languages of the world:

Expectations and Common Ground as grammatical

Laws of in-law languages

Special negators or a separate cross-linguistic

categories: The Tundra Yukaghir case

category
1405 - 1435

KoptjevskajaTamm, Maria (U Stockholm) with

Kotorova, Elizaveta (U Zielona Gora) with Andrej

Dingemanse, Mark (MPI Nijmegen) with Simeon

Matti Miestamo (U Helsinki)

Nefedov (Tomsk)

Floyd (MPI Nijmegen), Nick Enfield (U Sydney)

Antonyms and word-level negation

Typological accommodation in Ket: The case of

subordinate clauses

1440 - 1510

Pragmatic typology: Unity and diversity in systems of

language use

Dobrushina, Nina (HSE Moscow)

Aralova, Natalia (MPI EVA)

Seuren, Pieter (MPI Nijmegen)

Negation in the complement clauses of fear-verbs

On developments in the vowel systems of two Even

Between language and thinking

dialects

1515 - 1545

Kuteva, Tania (U Dsseldorf & SOAS London)

Malchukov, Andrej (U Mainz)

Nicolai, Robert (U Nice)

with Bas Aarts (UC London), Geri Popova

Verbalization and insubordination in Siberian

Langues, langage dynamiques et pertinences:

(Goldsmith U London) and Anvita Abbi (JNU New

languages

Rflexions sur la dynamique smiotique et la

Delhi)

construction du sens

On five counter-to-fact grammatical categories

1545 - 1615

refreshments

1615 - 1645

Grant, Anthony (Edge Hill U, UK)

Naumann, Christfried (MPI EVA) with Robert

Crevels, Mily (Leiden U) with Pieter Muysken

Selection of element sources in the verbal syntagms

Forkel (MPI EVA), Steven Moran (U Zurich)

(Radboud U, Nijmegen)

of some stable mixed languages

Tsammalex

The Lenguas de Bolivia project: Typological

prospects

1650 - 1720

1725 - 1755

Farquharson, Joseph (U Bielefeld)

Wolff, Ekkehard (U Leipzig)

De Reuse, Willem (U of North Texas) with Raoul

A typological analysis of loan translation in contact

Vocalogenesis in Chadic languages (West and Central

Zamponi (U Macerata, Italy)

languages

Africa)

Bakker, Dik (U Amsterdam) with Ewald Hekking

Williams, Robert (American U, Cairo)

Golluscio, Lucia (U Buenos Aires) with Willem De

(Quertaro, Mexico)

The Uncunwee Documentation Project: Language

Reuse (U of North Texas), Felipe Hasler (U of

In borrowing, anything goes, but not really

documentation in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan

Chile, Santiago)

Relative clause formation in Lule (Argentine Chaco)

Relative clause syntax in the Gran Chaco and the

Andes: Overlapping typologies
1800 - 1830

Pakendorf, Brigitte (DDL-CNRS & U Lyon)

Genetic perspectives on prehistoric language
contact: A way forward or a dead-end?

Gldemann, Tom (HU Berlin) with Christfried

Bertinetto, Pier Marco with Luca Ciucci (Scuola

Naumann (MPI EVA)

Normale Superiore, Pisa)

Grammatical relations in Taa (West !Xoon)

On rare typological features of the Zamucoan

languages, in the framework of the Chaco linguistic
area

1900

evening reception

Sunday, May 3
0830 - 0900

Schulte, Kim (UJI, Castell de la Plana, Spain)

Sauppe, Sebastian (MPI Nijmegen)

Kibrik, Andrej (Moscow State U) with Mira

Finding out what really drives change: The

Symmetry and asymmetry in voice systems: Evidence

Bergelson (HSE Moscow)

importance of multivariate analysis in historical

from Tagalog and German sentence production

Alaskan Russian: A special result of language

linguistics

0905 - 0935

contact

Kumar, Pramod (Tezpur U, India)

Cole, Peter with Tim Mckinnon, Gaby Hermon,

Estrada Fernndez, Zarina (U Sonora) with Jesus

Why are we linguistically so diverse?

Yanti (U Delaware & MPI EVA Fieldstation Jakarta)

Villapando (U of Colorado, Boulder)

The typology of voice in Malayic: The development of

agent-demoting passives

Clause chaining and nominalization in Tarahumara:

Towards a diachronic source of clausal nominalizing
suffixes

0940 - 1010

Heggarty, Paul (MPI EVA)

Yuditha, Tessa (Radboud U, Nijmegen)

Sakel, Jeanette (UWE Bristol)

Comparative and diversity linguistics: Where next?

Sensory language in Indonesian, Minangkabau and

The impact of language contact on Mosetn and

Javanese

Pirah

1010 - 1040

refreshments

1040 - 1110

Anderson, Cormac (U Leipzig & MPI EVA)

Soriente, Antonia (Naples U LOrientale)

Kornfilt, Jaklin (Syracuse U, NY)

Minimal vowel systems in cross-linguistic

A new look at the Kayanic branch: Data from Merap

NEED-ing HAVE, and BE-ing NEED-less: Turkish

perspective

1115 - 1145

evolving away from imposed patterns

Moran, Steven with Balthasar Bickel und Taras

van Lier, Eva (U Amsterdam)

Stapert, Eugenie (Leiden U)

Zakharko (U Zurich)

Property words in Oceanic languages

System of orientation in Dolgan

Grawunder, Sven (MPI EVA)

Moyse-Faurie, Claire (Lacito-CNRS, Paris)

Kim, Soung-U (SOAS London)

The Central Eastern German KL>*TL cluster shift

Expressing (non)existence in some Oceanic languages

A look at Jeju language and ideologies of diversity-

Phonological features from a quantitative

typological perspective
1150 - 1220

in a perspective of areal phonetic typology

oriented linguistic research

1220 - 1330

lunch

1330 - 1400

Hammarstrm, Harald (Radboud U, Nijmegen)

Valenzuela, Pilar (Chapman U, California)

Senft, Gunter (MPI Nijmegen)

The basic word order typology: An exhaustive study

Applicative constructions and double derivation in

Classifiers in Kilivila: Introducing referents and

Shiwilu (Kawapanan)

keeping track of them

Seifart, Frank (MPI EVA & U Amsterdam) with

Zariquiey, Roberto (PCUP, Lima)

Brown, Lea with Matthew Dryer (U at Buffalo)

Jan Strunk (U Amsterdam)

Transitivity harmony in Panoan and elsewhere

Semantic factors governing the order of object and

1405 - 1435

Noun to verb ratio and word order

1440 - 1510

verb in Walman, a language of Papua New Guinea

Diessel, Holger (U Jena)

Epps, Patience (U of Texas at Austin)

Emkow, Carola (MPI EVA)

Role recovery in subject and object relative clauses

The dynamics of linguistic diversity: Language contact

Abstract causatives and causation in Benabena

and language maintenance in Amazonia

1515 - 1545

Kittil, Seppo (U Helsinki)

Carvalho, Fernando Orpho de (MN/UFRJ), Rio de

Siegel, Jeff (U of New England, Australia)

Salience and transitivity

Janeiro)

How to lose an argument in Nama: Transitive and

Morphophonological diversity in the Arawak family:

intransitive verbs in a Papuan language of Southern

The diachronic origins of the Mehinaku absolute

New Guinea

markers
1545 - 1615

refreshments

1615 - 1645

Steinkrger, Patrick (HU Berlin)

Wohlgemuth, Jan (U Mnster)

Drude, Sebastian (MPI Nijmegen)

Intragenetic typology: The case of Romance

A typology of language naming principles

Languages, languoids, ISO-codes and the

Glottolog: Creating reference systems for language
diversity and variation

1650 - 1750

closing plenary
Russell Gray
TBA