March 26 – April 4, 2008

Schedule

Arrival day

Time

Tuesday, March 25

14.00 - 19.00
(2 - 7pm)

Preferred time window for arrival and on-site registration, central railway station ("Leipzig Hauptbahnhof"), at the "Nachtwarteraum" past track 24. Details have been e-mailed to all registered participants.

If you arrive at a different time, please let us know so that we can make individual arrangements with you.

from 19.30
(from 7.30 pm)

“Warming up”: First inofficial get-together at the restaurant Alte Nikolaischule, central Leipzig

First week of courses

Venue: Beethovenstraße 15.
(Rooms will be detailed in the information package we provide upon your arrival.)

Time	Wednesday March 26	Thursday March 27	Friday March 28
09.00 - 10.30	Courses A (Farquharson; Handschuh/ Witzlack-Makarevich; Schiering)	Courses A (Farquharson; Handschuh/ Witzlack-Makarevich; Schiering)	Courses A (Farquharson; Handschuh/ Witzlack-Makarevich; Schiering)
10.30 - 11.00	Break	Break	Break
11.00 - 12.30	Courses B (Löhr; Malchukov; Stilo)	Courses B (Löhr; Malchukov; Stilo)	Courses B (Löhr; Malchukov; Stilo)
12.30 - 14.00	Lunch Break	Lunch Break	Lunch Break
14.00 - 15.30	Courses C (Haspelmath; Kornfilt)	Courses C (Haspelmath; Kornfilt)	Courses C (Haspelmath; Kornfilt)
15.30 - 16.00	Break	Break	Break
16.00 - 17.30	Courses C (Haspelmath; Kornfilt)	Courses B (Löhr; Malchukov; Stilo)	Courses A (Farquharson; Handschuh/ Witzlack-Makarevich; Schiering

18.30 - 19.30	Official opening & PEL 1 Martin Haspelmath (MPI EVA): “Why is language typology possible?”	PEL 2 Mark Stoneking (MPI EVA): “Disentangling genes, geography, and language”	PEL 3 Tom Güldemann (MPI EVA & University of Zurich): “African macro-areas and geography”
			LSSLD Party

*PEL: Plenary Evening Lecture. Venue: Hörsaal Anatomie, Liebigstraße 13.

Saturday/Sunday, March 29/30

Workshop on Scales
Guided tour of Leipzig
Excursion to Dresden

(all entirely optional)

Second week of courses

Venue: Beethovenstraße 15.
(Rooms will be detailed in the information package we provide upon your arrival.)

Time	Monday March 31	Tuesday April 1	Wednesday April 2	Thursday April 3	Friday April 4
09.00 - 10.30	Courses D (Cysouw; Michaelis)	Courses D (Cysouw; Michaelis)	Courses D (Cysouw; Michaelis)	Courses D (Cysouw; Michaelis)	Courses H (Wohlgemuth; Diessel/ Schmidtke)
10.30 - 11.00	Break	Break	Break	Break	Break
11.00 - 12.30	Courses E (Lieven/Stoll; Wichmann; Wier)	Courses E (Lieven/Stoll; Wichmann; Wier)	Courses E (Lieven/Stoll; Wichmann; Wier)	Courses H (Wohlgemuth; Diessel/ Schmidtke)	Courses E (Lieven/Stoll; Wichmann; Wier)
12.30 - 14.00	Lunch break	Lunch break	Lunch break	Lunch break	Lunch break
14.00 - 15.30	Courses F (Bickel; Müller)	Courses F (Bickel; Müller)	Courses H (Wohlgemuth; Diessel/ Schmidtke)	Courses F (Bickel; Müller)	Courses F (Bickel; Müller)
15.30 - 16.00	Break	Break	Break	Break	Break
16.00 - 17.30	Courses G (Bornkessel/ Schlesewsky; Gil; Wolff)	Courses H (Wohlgemuth; Diessel/ Schmidtke)	Courses G (Bornkessel/ Schlesewsky; Gil; Wolff)	Courses G (Bornkessel/ Schlesewsky; Gil; Wolff)	Courses G (Bornkessel/ Schlesewsky; Gil; Wolff)

18.30 - 19.30	PEL 4 Mauro Tosco (University of Naples ‘L'Orientale’): “Finding one's way: on the grammar of space of a language of Southwest Ethiopia”	PEL 5 Jochen Trommer (University of Leipzig): “Affix order”	PEL 6 Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University & MPI EVA): “Some cross-linguistic and historical observations on Turkic (and other Altaic) relative clauses”	PEL 7 Juliette Blevins (MPI EVA & UC Berkeley): “Explaining Diversity in Geminate Consonant Inventories: An Evolutionary Approach”	PEL 8 David Gil (MPI EVA): “Associational Semantics and the Typology of Isolating Languages”
			LSSLD Movie Night

*PEL: Plenary Evening Lecture. Venue: Hörsaal Anatomie, Liebigstraße 13.