10. June 2013
Workshop on electronic dictionaries of minor languages
Workshop at the Department of Linguistics
Speaker: Martin Haspelmath et al.
 Website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/2013_electronic_dict
ionaries/index.html
04. June 2013
S/TAM/P Morphs in the Macro-Sudan Belt
Speaker: Gregory D. S. Anderson
(Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages (Oregon) & University of South Africa (UNISA))
29. April 2013
Towards ethnogrammar
Speaker: Daniel Everett (Bentley University, Massachusetts)
29. April 2013
The grammar of happiness
Speaker: Daniel Everett (Bentley University, Massachusetts)
10. April 2013
Multilingual behaviours in sign language users
Speaker: Ulrike Zeshan (University of Central Lancashire, International Centre for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies)
04. April 2013
Genome-wide data substantiate Holocene gene flow from India to Australia
Speaker: Irina Pugach and Mark Stoneking
28. March 2013
Semantic and Syntactic Bootstrapping and the Formation of Grammatical Categories: Arguments from Tolai of New Britain
Speaker: William A. Foley (University of Sydney)
08. March 2013
On the relationship between articulatory, acoustic and perceptual properties of vowels and its consequence for annotating the timber of vowels
Speaker: Jacqueline Vaissière (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle & CNRS-LPP)
03. December 2012
Referential markers in Oceanic nominalized constructions
Speaker: Claire Moyse-Faurie (Lacito-CNRS, Paris)
29. November 2012 - 01. December 2012
Workshop "Mainland Southeast Asian Languages: The State of the Art in 2012"
Speaker: Please consult workshop website given below.
Website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/2012_MSA_Languages/
26. November 2012
Session on Southern New Guinea languages
Speaker: Nicholas Evans & Christian Döhler
20. November 2012
Cross-linguistic diversity and patterns of variation in primate tool use: Drawing the analogy
Speaker: Anneliese Kuhle (Freie Universität Berlin)
12. November 2012
(Non)-Parasitic Mirativity and Markedness
Speaker: Tyler Peterson
(University of Toronto)
18. October 2012
Yeniseian historical linguistics
Speaker: Edward Vajda (Western Washington University & MPI-EVA)
10. October 2012
A Construction Grammar perspective on how word order is established in creole genesis
Speaker: Claire Lefebvre and Renée Lambert-Brétière (Université du Québec à Montréal)
28. September 2012 - 29. September 2012
Workshop: Tone: Theory and Practice
Speaker: Please consult website for more information.
Website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/2012_Tone/
24. September 2012
Markedness effects in valency alternations
Speaker: Andrej Malchukov (University of Mainz & MPI-EVA)
21. September 2012
Designing spoken corpora for cross-linguistic research in lesser-known languages
Speaker: Amina Mettouchi (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris & MPI-EVA)
17. September 2012
Causatives in Marathi
Speaker: Prashant Pardeshi (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo & MPI-EVA)
31. August 2012
Khoisan comparative phonology
Speaker: Hirosi Nakagawa (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan / MPI-EVA)
29. August 2012
Sound change across generations: the rise of vowel neutralisation in the North Russian variety
Speaker: Alexander Krasovitsky (University of Oxford & University of Surrey & Humboldt Foundation)
27. August 2012
Japanese transitivity pairs through time
Speaker: Heiko Narrog (Tohoku University, Sendai & MPI-EVA)
24. August 2012
Documenting Laz, an endangered language
Speaker: René Lacroix (Université Paris 3 & MPI-EVA)
22. August 2012
Complex sentences: Clause order, syntactic structure, and grammaticalization
Speaker: Holger Diessel & Karsten Schmidtke-Bode (University of Jena)
09. August 2012
The interaction of state, prosody and linear order in Kabyle (Berber): Grammatical relations and information structure
Speaker: Amina Mettouchi (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris & MPI-EVA)
02. August 2012
What sound change, phonotactics and aglossic speech reveal about the essence of speech communication
Speaker: John J. Ohala (University of California, Berkeley)
25. July 2012
Natural selection in morphosyntax: How attractor states persist and expand diachronically
Speaker: Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley & MPI-EVA)
20. July 2012
Word-Shape Alternations in Sumatran Malay
Speaker: Timothy Mckinnon, Peter Cole & Gabriella Hermon (University of Delaware / MPI-EVA (Jakarta field station)
20. July 2012
Computational Geolinguistics and Diasystemic Modelling of Meso-American Languages: Scope and Results
Speaker: Jean Léo Léonard (Paris 3-CNRS & IUF) & Vittorio dell’Aquila (CELE, Milan & Vaasa)
18. July 2012
Combinatorial model of Russian intonation (to be held in Russian)
Speaker: Sandro Kodzasov (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Philology, Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics)
16. July 2012
The Diachrony of 'say' in Jamaican Creole: The Convergence of Theories of Creolisation
Speaker: Joseph Farquharson (University of the West Indies & MPI-EVA)
12. July 2012
Pseudo-incorporation doesn't preclude incorporation
Speaker: Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University & MPI-EVA)
11. July 2012
Jesuit Grammarians in the Chaco: Their Analytical Strengths and Weaknesses
Speaker: Willem de Reuse (University of North Texas & MPI-EVA)
(in collaboration with Raoul Zamponi, University of Macerata)
10. July 2012
Laryngeal-pharyngeal ontogeny: Speech in the first several months
Speaker: John Esling (University of Victoria, British Columbia)
09. July 2012
Typological Diversity in Anaphoric Systems
Speaker: Peter Cole, Gabriella Hermon and Yanti (U Delaware & MPI-EVA (Jakarta fieldstation))
03. July 2012
What is gained from documentation of some languages in the Chaco (Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina)?
Speaker: Lyle Campbell (U Hawai'i)
02. July 2012
"Workshop on language cataloguing and language reference collections"
Speaker: Martin Haspelmath (MPI-EVA), Sebastian Nordhoff (MPI-EVA), Harald Hammarström (MPI-EVA & U Nijmegen), Gisela Lausberg (MPI-EVA library), Lyle Campbell (U Hawai'i, ELCat), Debbie Garside (GeoLang Ltd, Wales), Jost Gippert (U Frankfurt/Main)
27. June 2012
"Auxiliary verbs in languages of the Tarahumara area: A typological continuum of internal diversity"
Speaker: Zarina Estrada (University of Sonora, Mexico, and MPI-EVA)
25. June 2012
"Mediaeval conceptions of time and Old Croatian verb lexical aspect (aktionsart) in the Slavic context"
Speaker: Amir Kapetanović (Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Zagreb & MPI-EVA)
15. June 2012
"How do languages keep their selves straight?"
Speaker: David Kamholz (UC Berkeley)
12. June 2012
"A semantic typology of complement insubordination"
Speaker: An Van linden
(Catholic University of Leuven & MPI-EVA)
(in collaboration with Jean-Christophe Verstraete & Sarah d’Hertefelt)
11. June 2012
"Languages with more second language speakers tend to have reduced case systems"
Speaker: Bodo Winter (University of California, Merced / MPI-EVA)
30. May 2012
"The cultural dimension of pidgin and creole genesis"
Speaker: Christine Jourdan (Concordia University, Montreal)
22. May 2012
"Speaker perspective as a catalyst for change in case systems"
Speaker: Shobhana L. Chelliah (University of North Texas)
09. May 2012
"Mood and modality in Zamucoan languages (Bolivia and Paraguay)"
Speaker: Luca Ciucci
(Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa & MPI-EVA)
28. April 2012
Morphological complexity: Workshop on Diachrony
Website: http://www2.surrey.ac.uk/english/smg/researchprojects/morpho
logicalcomplexity/workshop_2012/
27. April 2012
Anna Siewierska Memorial Workshop
Website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/2012_ASMW/
16. April 2012
"On nominal and verbal morphology in Harakmbut (Amazonian, Peru)"
Speaker: An Van linden (Catholic University of Leuven & MPI-EVA)
27. March 2012
"The effect of linguistic distance on learning Dutch as a second language: towards feature configurations in L2 learnability"
Speaker: Job Schepens (Radboud University, MPI Nijmegen / MPI-EVA)
21. March 2012
The antipassive function of the middle forms in a cross-linguistic perspective
Speaker: Katarzyna Janic
(University of Lyon & MPI-EVA)
20. March 2012
Phonology of two Eastern Tukanoan (Amazonian) languages in typological perspective
Speaker: Elsa Gomez-Imbert
(Université de Toulouse & ERSS)
14. March 2012
Tense-Aspect-Modality and evidential categories in Chechen
Speaker: Zarina Molochieva
(University of California, Berkeley & MPI-EVA)
16. February 2012
"Learning, Skill and Language: Acquisition and Dissolution"
Speaker: Henri Cohen (MPI-EVA)
13. February 2012
"Is Ts'ixa (Eastern Kalahari Khoe) a case language?"
Speaker: Anne-Maria Fehn (Universität zu Köln)
13. February 2012
“Say What?”: Grammaticalization Paths of Say in some Formosan and Philippines Languages
Speaker: Lawrence A. Reid (University of Hawai‘i)
09. February 2012
The Development of “Applicative” Constructions in Western Austronesian Languages: Toward a Comparison and Reconstruction
Speaker: Ritsuko Kikusawa
(National Museum of Ethnology, Japan & The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan)
06. February 2012
"Historical, Darwinian and contemporary perspectives on the evolution of language"
Speaker: Henri Cohen (MPI-EVA)
02. February 2012
"The Lexical Typology of Qualities"
Speaker: Ekaterina Rakhilina (Institute for Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences) & Tatiana Reznikova (VINITI, Russian Academy of Sciences)
30. January 2012
Position classes re-evaluated
Speaker: Barbara Stiebels (ZAS Berlin/Universität Leipzig)
26. January 2012
"When is ‘regular sound change’ regular?"
Speaker: Mark Donohue (Australian National University/MPI-EVA)
23. January 2012
Towards a Cross-Disciplinary Prehistory? What Linguists Can Learn from Archaeologists — And What They Can Learn from Us …
Speaker: Paul Heggarty & David Beresford-Jones (MPI-EVA)
18. January 2012
"Towards a Typology of Countability: Grammatical Number in Dagaare (Gur, Ghana) and Beyond"
Speaker: Scott Grimm (Stanford University/Humboldt University Berlin)
15. December 2011
Bremen-Leipzig Meeting
Website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/events.html
12. December 2011
"Towards new large scale models of a functional neuroanatomy of language"
Speaker: Henri Cohen (Université du Québec à Montreal/MPI-EVA)
05. December 2011
The most resistant Arawakan feature: the person marking paradigm?
Speaker: Swintha Danielsen (University of Leipzig)
30. November 2011 - 01. December 2011
Third conference of the "European Network for the Study of Andean Languages"
Website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/2011_REELA/index.htm
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27. November 2011 - 29. November 2011
Population Prehistory of the Andes: A Cross-Disciplinary Conspectus
Website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/2011_PPA/index.html
24. November 2011
The "Occupy Prefix " Movement in the Western Apache verb
Speaker: Willem de Reuse (University of North Texas/MPI-EVA)
09. November 2011
"A couple of morphologies: verb structure and argument alternations in Maltese"
Speaker: Michael Spagnol (University of Konstanz/MPI-EVA)
03. November 2011 - 04. November 2011
Potentials of Language Documentation: Methods, Analyses, and Utilization
Website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/2011_DOBES/
17. October 2011
Lexical Competition and Language Evolution
Speaker: Andreea Calude, University of Reading, UK
10. October 2011
On the typology of differential object marking and differential object indexation: a case study on the syntax-information structure interface
Speaker: Giorgio Iemmolo, University of Pavia/University of Zurich
05. October 2011
The syntax of yes and no
Speaker: Anders Holmberg, Newcastle University, GB
13. September 2011
The passive and related constructions in Marathi (Indo-Aryan)
Speaker: Prashant Pardeshi, NINJAL Tokyo
26. August 2011
Language Endangerment and Documentation in Sudan
Speaker: Abdel Rahim Mugaddam,
University of Khartoum, Sudan
26. July 2011
Kana Passives in Kota Kinabalu (Sabah) Malay
Speaker: Gabriella Hermon & Peter Cole (University of Delaware)
13. July 2011
Exploring finiteness and non-finiteness in Pima Bajo (Uto-Aztecan)
Speaker: Zarina Estrada (University of Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico)
11. July 2011
Diagnosing contact processes from their outcomes: How far can we go?
Speaker: Malcolm Ross (Australian National University/MPI-EVA)
30. June 2011
Aspectual system in Thai: A corpus-based study
Speaker: Kachen Tansiri (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok)
28. June 2011
Prepositions and articles in Kara, an Oceanic language of New Ireland
Speaker: Matthew S. Dryer (University at Buffalo)
27. June 2011
Spatial Semantics in Dene Chipewyan (Athapaskan) and Eipomek (Trans-New Guinea)
Speaker: Martin Thiering (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & MPIWG)
15. June 2011
Lexical Root classes in Yuhup (Nadahup family, Amazonia)
Speaker: Ana Maria Ospina (National University of Colombia)
30. May 2011
A response to Dunn et al's paper in Nature on word order correlations
Speaker: Matthew Dryer (University at Buffalo)
18. May 2011
Paradigms: representing and understanding
Speaker: Greville Corbett (Surrey)
13. May 2011 - 15. May 2011
Conference on Caucasian languages
Website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/2011_caucasian_langu
ages/
20. April 2011
The morphosyntax of nominal suffixation in Chamacoco
Speaker: Luca Ciucci (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
14. April 2011 - 17. April 2011
Conference on Valency Classes in the World's Languages
Website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/valency/files/events/2011_conf_
on_valency_classes.php
25. March 2011
Learnable and unlearnable languages
Speaker: Kees Hengeveld (Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication)
09. March 2011
Subordination strategies in South American languages: an interim report
Speaker: Rik van Gijn (Radboud University Nijmegen/MPI-EVA)
12. February 2011 - 13. February 2011
"Conference on Electronic Grammaticography"
Website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/11-grammaticography2
011/index.html
28. January 2011
Technical infrastructure for comparative linguistics and linguistic fieldwork: some cases studies
Speaker: Steven Moran (University of Michigan & LMU Munich)
24. January 2011
Lexical stress in Wichí (Mataco-Mataguayan, Argentina) and its interactions with word formation processes
Speaker: Verónica Nercesian (Universidad Nacional de Formosa, Argentina/MPI-EVA)
13. December 2010
The hierarchical function of cardinal and ordinal numerals
Speaker: Maksym Gorshenin (University of Bremen/MPI-EVA)
03. December 2010
Mini-colloquium on Cashinahua
Speaker: Eliane Camargo, Philippe Erikson & Barbara Keifenheim
29. November 2010
An atlas of language contacts in Daghestan: a pilot project
Speaker: Mikhail Daniel (Moscow State University) & Nina Dobrushina (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
23. November 2010 - 25. November 2010
Conference on "COMPETING MOTIVATIONS"
Website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/10-CompetingMotivati
ons/index.html
11. November 2010 - 14. November 2010
"APiCS Conference"
Website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/2010_APiCS/index.htm
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10. November 2010
"Workshop on Sri Lanka Malay"
Website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/10-slm2010/index.htm
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31. October 2010 - 01. November 2010
Workshop on the Acquisition of Ergativity
Website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/2010_Acquisition/ind
ex.html
29. October 2010 - 30. October 2010
"Conference on Phonetic Universals"
Website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/10-PhoneticUniversal
s/index.html
04. October 2010
"Nominalized constructions in Uto-Aztecan languages from Sonora (Northwestern Mexico) with special attention to Pima Bajo."
Speaker: Zarina Estrada (University of Sonora, Mexico)
17. September 2010 - 19. September 2010
"Conference on Language Classification" (The First Conference on ASJP and Language Prehistory (ALP-I))
Website: http://email.eva.mpg.de/~wichmann/conferences.htm
15. September 2010
"Split-P soup: grammatical relations in Taba, an Austronesian language of Halmahera"
Speaker: John Bowden (MPI-EVA/Jakarta Field Station)
13. September 2010
"Impact of human vocal fold vibratory asymmetries on acoustic characteristics of vowel phonation"
Speaker: Daryush Mehta (Harvard University/ Massachusetts General Hospital)
06. September 2010
"Phonetic iconicity in evaluative morphology from a cross-linguistic perspective"
Speaker: Pavol Štekauer & Lívia Körtvélyessy
(P. J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia)
21. August 2010
Workshop on Valency Classes
Website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/10-ValencyClasses/in
dex.html
15. August 2010 - 03. September 2010
Summer School on Linguistic Typology
Website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/2010_summerschool/in
dex.html
23. July 2010
"Nouns and Verbs in Kerinci Malay"
Speaker: Gabriella Hermon & Peter Cole (University of Delaware / MPI-EVA)
22. July 2010
"Suspended affixation and identical verb ellipsis: Directionality and word order in Turkish coordination"
Speaker: Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University / MPI-EVA)
21. July 2010
"Analysis of the spatial nominals 'back', 'front' and 'side' in Savosavo (Non-Austronesian, Solomon Islands)"
Speaker: Aurélie Cauchard (University of Manchester / MPI-EVA)
12. July 2010
"Positional slots in serial verb constructions, data from Ughele (Solomon Islands)"
Speaker: Benedicte Haraldstad Frostad (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
22. June 2010
"The lexical semantics of English speech-act verbs (and the implications for lexical typology)"
Speaker: Cliff Goddard (University of New England, Australia / MPI-EVA)
21. June 2010
"Loanword integration and the role of productivity: A cross-linguistic perspective"
Speaker: Francesco Gardani (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien)
08. June 2010
"Argument marking in lower Munda"
Speaker: Arun Kumar Ghosh (University of Burdwan, India & MPI-EVA)
20. May 2010
"Actance en cachinawa"
Speaker: Eliane Camargo (CNRS-CELIA Paris/Université de Paris X)
05. May 2010
"Linguistics, molecular anthropology, and the spread of Slavic"
Speaker: Julia McAnallen (University of California, Berkeley / MPI-EVA)
03. May 2010
"The evolution of the Na-Dene verb template"
Speaker: Jeff Leer (Alaska Native Language Center / MPI-EVA)
20. April 2010
NSM perspectives on lexical typology, with special reference to English verbs of physical activity
Speaker: Cliff Goddard
(University of New England, Armidale/MPI-EVA)
19. April 2010
"Reconstructing a passive in Proto-Oceanic"
Speaker: René van den Berg (Papua New Guinea)
06. April 2010
"Objective diagnosis of voice disorders by quantitative analysis of laryngeal high-speed recordings"
Speaker: Dipl.-Inf. Daniel Voigt (University Hospital Erlangen, Department of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology, Computational Medicine Research Group)
29. March 2010
"The vertical archipelago in typology: Altitude, population size, and complexity in the Caucasus"
Speaker: Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley & MPI-EVA)
24. March 2010
"Contact-induced change beyond the lexicon: a comparison of some heavily borrowing languages"
Speaker: Anthony Grant (Edge Hill University, UK)
15. March 2010
An overview of the grammatical features of Ayoreo (Bolivia/Paraguay)
Speaker: Pier Marco Bertinetto (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa & MPI-EVA)
08. March 2010
A usage-based theory of grammatical status and grammaticalization
Speaker: Kasper Boye (University of Copenhagen)
01. March 2010
"Tonosyntax in Dogon (Mali)"
Speaker: Jeffrey Heath
(University of Michigan)
04. February 2010
"Towards a typology of case in head-marking languages"
Speaker: Peter Arkadiev (Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences / Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow / MPI-EVA)
27. January 2010
"Quantifying inner form"
Speaker: Bernhard Wälchli (University of Berne)
06. January 2010
"Languages of southern New Guinea: a first field report"
Speaker: Nicholas Evans (Australian National University)
16. December 2009
"Language contact in eastern central India: Jharkhand as a Sprachbund"
Speaker: John Peterson
(University of Leipzig)
04. December 2009
"Searching for the place of Tapiete within the Tupí-Guaraní language family: some data on reduplication"
Speaker: Hebe González (Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina)
23. November 2009
"Word classes in Sliammon Salish"
Speaker: Honoré Watanabe (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
23. November 2009
"The case for Akedoid (in West Benue-Congo)"
Speaker: Benjamin Elugbe (Ibadan, Nigeria / MPI-EVA)
04. November 2009
Relational Verbs of Alaskan Yupik Eskimo — the warp and weft of its morphosyntax
Speaker: Osahito Miyaoka
02. November 2009
"Approaching the morphosyntax of non-finite verb forms"
Speaker: Peter Juul Nielsen (Roskilde Universitet / MPI-EVA)
30. October 2009
"Laughter as a non-verbal vocalisation - from primates to human spoken interaction"
Speaker: Dr. Jürgen Trouvain (Universität Saarbrücken / Universität Luxemburg)
28. October 2009
"SO THERE!
Manner deixis as a source of semantic change and grammaticalization: Some tentative generalizations"
Speaker: Ekkehard König (Freie Universität Berlin & MPI-EVA)
27. October 2009
"Conflicts and their resolutions in syntactic theory"
Speaker: Edith A. Moravcsik (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee & MPI-EVA)
02. September 2009
Topics in the Phonetics of South American Languages
Speaker: Didier Demolin
(Université Libre de Bruxelles)
27. August 2009
"A typological feature of Khoisan phonotactics: a case study of G|ui"
Speaker: Hirosi Nakagawa (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies / MPI-EVA)
24. August 2009
"A linguistic geography of the south-western Niger-Benue confluence area"
Speaker: Benjamin Elugbe (University of Ibadan/MPI-EVA)
05. August 2009
Linguistic and imagistic representations of motion events
Speaker: Kawai Chui (National Chengchi University, Taipei)
04. August 2009
"Jointly inherited or just borrowed? A case study of structural transfer between three closely related languages in contact (Romanian, Castilian, Valencian)"
Speaker: Kim Schulte (University of Exeter/MPI-EVA)
15. July 2009
"Object Agreement and Extraction in Tanjung Pauh Mudik Kerinci"
Speaker: Gabriella Hermon & Peter Cole (University of Delaware/MPI-EVA)
08. July 2009
An interdisciplinary approach to the study of historical documents in Tarahumara
Speaker: Zarina Estrada Fernández & Aarón Grageda Bustamente (University of Sonora, Mexico / MPI-EVA)
24. June 2009
"The grammar of positive and negative purpose: Towards a usage-based typology"
Speaker: Karsten Schmidtke (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
15. June 2009
Factorizing lexical relatedness
Speaker: Andrew Spencer (Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex)
28. May 2009
The Great Lexical Type Shift from verb-based to noun-based in Slavic
Speaker: Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley)
19. May 2009
On the order of demonstrative, numeral, adjective, and noun: an alternative to Cinque
Speaker: Matthew Dryer, Recipient of a Humboldt Research Award, University at Buffalo
07. May 2009
Матричное исследование сложного предлож
Speaker: Rasul Mutalov (Daghestan State University, Makhachkala, Russia)
30. April 2009
Music and Language. ...wie die Zeit vergeht...
Speaker: Helena López Palma, University of La Coruña
30. April 2009
Greenberg’s tetrachoric table revisited
Speaker: Bingfu Lu, Shanghai Normal University
22. April 2009
Agentless transitive verbs in Georgian
Speaker: Kevin Tuite, Université de Montréal, Canada
17. April 2009
Linguistic cycles in language change: head and dependent marking, tense-mood-aspect and negatives
Speaker: Elly van Gelderen, Arizona State University, USA
04. February 2009
Hallmarks of Ossetic syntax: clitics, wh-movement, negation
Speaker: David Erschler (The Independent University of Moscow)
17. January 2009 - 18. January 2009
The Swadesh Centenary Conference
Website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/09_SwadeshCentenary
15. October 2008
Language Contact along the Sepik River
Speaker: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (RCLT, La Trobe University, Australia)
08. October 2008
Language, archeology and genes: A new methodology for the ‘new synthesis’
Speaker: Paul Heggarty, University of Cambridge
27. August 2008
Typical behaviors of some frequent phonologically active classes
Speaker: Jeff Mielke
(University of Ottawa)
06. August 2008
Khoe perception verbs: "It tastes like a lion's roar.
Speaker: Hirosi Nakagawa
(Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
29. July 2008
Change in kinship and marriage systems and its reflection in languages and genes
Speaker: Patrick McConvell
14. July 2008
"Clause combining in Pima Bajo (Uto-Aztecan)"
Speaker: Zarina Estrada
(University of Sonora, Mexico)
09. July 2008
"On the absence of number and counting in Pirahã: the relative roles of culture and language in cognitive technology"
Speaker: Daniel L. Everett
(Illinois State University, Normal)
26. June 2008
"The Cyclops. Typological Observations on Asia Minor Greek"
Speaker: Mark Janse
(Ghent University)
23. June 2008
"Another verb-second SOV language"
Speaker: Johanna Nichols
(University of California, Berkeley)
18. June 2008
"The Order of Verbal Affixes and Functional Structure in Imbabura Quichua"
Speaker: Peter Cole and Gabriella Hermon
(University of Delaware/MPI EVA)
09. June 2008
Experiments in Morphological Evolution
Speaker: Richard Sproat (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
26. May 2008
"Substrate features in the properties of verbs in three Atlantic creoles:
Haitian Creole, Saramaccan and Papiamentu"
Speaker: Claire Lefebvre
(Universié du Québec à Montréal)
21. May 2008
How to Model Spread: the case of "doch"
Speaker: Henk Zeevat (University of Amsterdam)
19. May 2008
"The penumbra of morphosyntactic feature systems"
Speaker: Greville G. Corbett (University of Surrey)
11. April 2008
"First and second person nominal subjects"
Speaker: Marcel Erdal (University of Frankfurt/Main)
26. March 2008 - 04. April 2008
Website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/08_springschool/
17. March 2008
"Towards a typology of polar interrogatives"
Speaker: Matti Miestamo
(University of Helsinki)
20. February 2008
"Register and terminance in the phonology of Kri (Vietic, Laos)"
Speaker: Nick Enfield Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
18. February 2008
"Remoteness distinctions in tense-aspect systems"
Speaker: Östen Dahl (Stockholms Universitet)
13. February 2008
"Qualifying strategies in Kabyle (Berber): between verbiness and nouniness"
Speaker: Amina Mettouchi (Université de Nantes and Institut Universitaire de France)
12. February 2008
"The (ir)reality of directives"
Speaker: Caterina Mauri (University of Pavia) & Andrea Sansò (Insubria University, Como)
11. February 2008
"Counting entities and counting processes in Gawwada (Cushitic)"
Speaker: Mauro Tosco (Università di Napoli "L'Orientale"/MPI-EVA)
22. January 2008
"Non-topical subjects in Molalla (Oregon) and the typology of 'passive' constructions"
Speaker: Nicholas J. Pharris (University of Michigan/MPI-EVA)
09. January 2008
"Who does what to whom in Magdalena (Itonama; Isolate, Bolivia)"
Speaker: Mily Crevels (Radboud University/MPI-EVA)
19. December 2007
"Mixed categories in Tungus and beyond: between nouns and adjectives"
Speaker: Irina Nikolaeva (SOAS, London)
07. December 2007 - 09. December 2007
"Conference on the Languages of the Caucasus"
Website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/07-CaucasusConferenc
e/index.html
05. December 2007
"Words and 'bound phrases' in special reference to Eskimo and Japanese"
Speaker: Osahito Miyaoka
(Osaka Gakuin University/MPI-EVA)
23. November 2007 - 25. November 2007
"Conference on ditransitive constructions"
Website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/07_DitransitiveConst
ructions/index.html
22. November 2007
"Production of Turkish relative clauses in first language acquisition"
Speaker: Gabriella Hermon (University of Delaware/MPI-EVA) & Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University/MPI-EVA)
07. November 2007
"Diachronic Typology of Applicative Constructions in Austronesian Languages"
Speaker: Ritsuko Kikusawa
(National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka)
06. November 2007
"Inclusory Constructions and Their Development in
Philippine Languages"
Speaker: Lawrence Reid
(University of Hawai'i)
02. November 2007
"Hierarchy variation in the Algonquian family"
Speaker: Thomas Wier (University of Chicago/MPI-EVA)
25. October 2007
"Distributional patterns of parts-of-speech classes and dependent clauses"
Speaker: Eva van Lier (University of Amsterdam/MPI-EVA)
23. October 2007
"Anatomy of Polysynthetic Word Formation in Nuuchahnulth"
Speaker: Toshihide Nakayama
(ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
16. October 2007
"Verbal system of Enets (Northern Samoyedic)"
Speaker: Anna Yu. Urmanchieva (Institute of Linguistics, Moscow)
21. September 2007
"Functions of the Bǎ-construction in Mandarin: In the light of typology of resultative constructions"
Speaker: Picus Sizhi Ding (Macao Polytechnic Institute)
13. September 2007
"Reexamining the principle of temporal sequence: a dynamic view"
Speaker: Zhang Min
(The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology/MPI-EVA)
04. September 2007 - 07. September 2007
"The 5th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL-5)"
Website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/eacl5/index.html
09. August 2007
"Typological variation in the ergative domain in the Iranian languages"
Speaker: Mohammad Dabir-Moghaddam
(Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran/MPI-EVA)
09. July 2007
"Relative clauses in Pima Bajo (Uto-Aztecan; Mexico)"
Speaker: Zarina Estrada (University of Sonora, Hermosillo/MPI-EVA)
22. June 2007 - 23. June 0000
Nouns cross-linguistically
Website: http://serviziweb.unimol.it/pls/unimol/consultazione.mostra_
pagina?id_pagina=2585
20. June 2007
"The historical semantics of English _must_"
Speaker: David Kamholz (MPI-EVA)
14. June 2007
Substrate Reinforcement and the Retention of Pan-Pacific Pidgin Features in Modern Contact Languages
Speaker: Jeffrey Siegel, University of New England (Armidale New South Wales, Australia)
08. June 2007
Multilingualism and polyethnicity in Arch (Daghestan): Data from a sociolinguistic questionnaire
Speaker: Nina Dobrushina
(State University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
30. May 2007
"Morphosyntactic features: issues in typology and theory"
Speaker: Greville Corbett (University of Surrey)
22. May 2007
"Remo Phonology: Some preliminary observations"
Speaker: Arun Ghosh (The University of Burdwan, India)
10. May 2007 - 13. May 2007
"Language Contact and the Dynamics of Language: Theory and Implications"
Website: http://www.unice.fr/ChaireIUF-Nicolai/Archives/Symposium/Ind
ex_Symposium.html
08. May 2007 - 09. May 2007
Loanword Typology Workshop
27. April 2007
"Linguistic divergence in South Asia: the case of finite complementizers"
Speaker: Manideepa Patnaik (Institute of Language, Literature and Culture, Bhubaneswar, India)
12. April 2007 - 14. April 2007
"Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable"
Website: http://email.eva.mpg.de/~gil/complexity/index.html
02. April 2007
"Workshop on Typological Databases"
Website: http://email.eva.mpg.de/~haspelmt/typdat.html
19. March 2007
"An interpretive history of phonological science"
Speaker: John Ohala
(University of California, Berkeley)
26. February 2007
"Exploring the sources of correlations in crosslinguistic and lexical sound frequencies"
Speaker: Andy Wedel (University of Arizona)
20. February 2007
"Constructing semantic maps from parallel text data"
Speaker: Bernhard Wälchli
(Universität Konstanz)
14. February 2007
"The interaction of the definite article with the case system in Basque"
Speaker: Julen Manterola Agirre
(University of the Basque Country)
06. February 2007
"On the diachronic development of the verbal system in Basque"
Speaker: Céline Mounole Hiriart-Urruty
(University of the Basque Country)
14. December 2006
Spoken discourse and natural grammar
Speaker: Andrej A. Kibrik
MPI-EVA/Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
01. December 2006
"Agriculture, animal protein, and the balance of power in pre-Columbian North America"
Speaker: Richard Rhodes (University of California at Berkeley)
27. October 2006
"Japanese and the Altaic controversy"
Speaker: Martine Robbeets
(University of Mainz)
26. September 2006
"Assumptions about correlations of contact phenomena in some heavy borrowing languages: the Swadesh list and beyond"
Speaker: Anthony Grant (Edgehill University, UK)
20. September 2006
"Compartmentalized grammar: the variable (non)-integration of Turkish verbal conjugation in Romani dialects"
Speaker: Victor Friedman (University of Chicago)
19. September 2006
"A linear order preference from the point of view of linguistic complexity"
Speaker: Kaius Sinnemäki (University of Helsinki)
14. September 2006
"From documentation to computation"
Speaker: Steven Moran (University of Washington)
06. September 2006
"The diachrony of desideratives in Turkic"
Speaker: Olesya Khanina
(MPI-EVA)
16. August 2006
"Aspects of the verb morphology of Itonama (isolate, Bolivia)"
Speaker: Mily Crevels (MPI-EVA)
24. July 2006
"Evolutionary stability in syntax: the case of information structure"
Speaker: Elena Maslova (Stanford University, California & Universität Bielefeld)
24. July 2006
"Contact-induced word order change without word order change"
Speaker: Bernd Heine (Universität zu Köln)
21. July 2006
"Syllable reduction in Motuna (South Bougainville family, Papua New Guinea)"
Speaker: Masayuki Onishi (MPI-EVA)
11. July 2006
"The substrate hypothesis and creole typology"
Speaker: Silvia Kouwenberg (University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica/MPI-EVA)
10. July 2006
"Language attrition and remembering: the case of Vilela (Argentina)"
Speaker: Lucía Golluscio (U Buenos Aires/MPI-EVA)
23. June 2006
"Why Proto-Berber was indeed Marked Nominative or The genesis of a factoid: A response to Galand, Aikhenvald, and König"
Speaker: Orin Gensler (MPI-EVA)
08. May 2006
"Diversity of cases: Using the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS)"
Speaker: Masahiko Nose (Tohoku University, Japan/MPI-EVA)
26. April 2006
" 'Want' clauses in Evenki (Tungusic, Siberia)"
Speaker: Igor Nedjalkov (University of St. Petersburg/MPI-EVA)
25. April 2006
"WHENCE THE DORSAL R? (A WHODUNIT)"
Speaker: Mikael Parkvall (Stockholm University/MPI-EVA)
24. April 2006
"A typology of relative clauses in Mainland Southeast Asian languages"
Speaker: Natchanan Yaowapat & Amara Prasithrathsint
(Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok)
20. April 2006
"Principia Creolica"
Speaker: Mikael Parkvall (Stockholm University/MPI-EVA)
18. April 2006
"To é or not to é: the distribution of nominal markers in several languages of western Indonesia"
Speaker: Thomas J. Conners
(MPI-Jakarta Field Station/Yale University)
13. April 2006
"The current Classification of the Sinitic languages and the mutual unintelligibility of the numeral systems amongst the Sinitic languages"
Speaker: Eugene Chan (Hong Kong/MPI-EVA)
29. March 2006 - 01. April 2006
"Rara & Rarissima — Collecting and interpreting unusual characteristics of human languages"
Speaker: Larry Hyman (University of California, Berkeley)
Frans Plank (Universität Konstanz)
Ian Maddieson (University of California, Berkeley)
Dan Everett (University of Manchester)
Website: http://rara.linguist.de/
25. March 2006 - 26. March 2006
"Leipzig Students Conference in Linguistics"
20. March 2006 - 28. March 2006
"Leipzig Spring School on Linguistic Diversity"
Website: http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/SpringSchool2006/
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