March 26 – April 4, 2008

Overview of courses

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Each course comprises four 90-minute sessions. The courses will be arranged in eight time slots (A-H), with two to three courses in each slot that take place simultaneously:

A	René Schiering	Joseph Farquharson	Corinna Handschuh Alena Witzlack-Makarevich
A	Prosodic typology	Morphology and word-formation in Pidgins and Creoles	Grammatical relations typology beyond standard alignment
B	Andrej Malchukov	Don Stilo	Doris Löhr
B	Competing motivations and case-marking typology	Typological Features and the Areal Dimension in the Languages of the Southern Caucasus, Northern Iran-Iraq and Eastern Turkey	Language contact in African languages
C	Jaklin Kornfilt	Martin Haspelmath
C	Topics in Turkic syntax	Syntactic universals and usage frequency
D	Michael Cysouw	Susanne Michaelis
D	Quantitative approaches to lexical comparison	Creole languages in a world-wide perspective
E	Elena Lieven Sabine Stoll	Søren Wichmann	Thomas Wier
E	Cross-linguistic approaches to language acquisition	Quantitative approaches to language change	Feature hierarchies in natural languages
F	Balthasar Bickel	Gereon Müller
F	Understanding typological distributions	Inflectional morphology
G	David Gil	Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky Matthias Schlesewsky	Ekkehard Wolff
G	How Different Can Languages Be?	Neurotypology	Issues in the Historical Phonology of Chadic languages (Afroasiatic)
H		Jan Wohlgemuth	Holger Diessel Karsten Schmidtke
H		The impact of language contact on typology	Converging Evidence: Linguistic Typology and Corpus Linguistics