The field of linguistic typology and language evolution is constantly evolving, driven in part by the work of young researchers. The Emerging Topics in Typology (ETT) conference aims at bringing together those young researchers and discuss up-and-coming research in the field. Fully organized by and for PhD students, the conference includes talks and keynotes, covering a wide range of topics. Speakers at the conference present work on quantitative and qualitative typology, language evolution, and language documentation and description from a comparative perspective. Two keynotes from post-docs with outstanding contributions to linguistic typology add to the focus of the ETT to increase the visibility of the work of Early Career Researchers. A special feature of ETT is its mentoring system: every talk is assigned a senior researcher as a mentor, who is an expert in the respective field. The role of the mentor is to provide feedback to the speaker before the conference.
Call for Abstracts
The deadline for submission of abstracts has passed.
Following the success of the 2021 workshop series and the 2024 conference, Emerging Topics in Typology (ETT) 2025 will return for a third edition, this time at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, from the 3rd to 5th of June 2025. This is a conference organised by and for PhD students in diversity linguistics and typology. We welcome abstracts on a range of topics in diversity linguistics (quantitative and qualitative typology, language documentation and description), and particularly welcome talks on ongoing projects and works in progress.
Abstracts should be a maximum of 500 words (excluding references). Additional examples and figures (up to one A4 page total) may also be included. Abstracts should demonstrate a link to typological and/or descriptive themes. The call for abstracts is open to all current PhD students, and the deadline for submissions is 31st January 2025. Abstracts should be submitted via OpenReview. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by the 1st of March 2025.
Accepted abstracts will be presented at the conference as 20-minute oral presentations, followed by 10 minutes for discussion.
Conference registration will be free for all participants, and will be open to anyone with an interest in the conference topics (including non-PhD students). Registration will open on the 1st of March 2025.
Keynote Speakers
Registration
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Program
You can download the latest version of our book of abstracts here.
DAY 1
| 8.45-9.00 | REGISTRATION | ||
| 9.00-9.30 | Frederic Blum, Saskia Dunn, Anita Obenaus, Silvie Strauss | Introduction | |
| 9.30-10.00 | Session 1 | Dinah Adom Mac-Arthur | Definiteness in Avatime |
| 10.00-10.30 | Ting Zhang | Intensifier Adjective Constructions in Sintic languages from a typological perspective | |
| 10.30-11.00 | COFFEE | ||
| 11.00-11.30 | Session 2 | Saskia Dunn | Modelling the Arawakan multilocus classifier systems |
| 11.30-12.00 | Jurriaan Wiegertjes | Countability and distributivity in interaction with classifiers in Vaímajã | |
| 12.00-12.30 | Albert Badosa Roldós | The typology of the nominal classifier system of Malieng (Austroasiatic, Vietnam): a preliminary study on the syntax and semantics of body parts and fruits | |
| 12.30-14.00 | LUNCH | ||
| 14.00-15.00 | Keynote: Annika Tjuka | ||
| 15.00-15.30 | COFFEE | ||
| 15.30-16.00 | Session 3 | Shuvam Dutta | Typological Diversity and Areal Convergence in Grammatical Local Case Marking: A Cross-Genetic Study of the Languages in West Bengal |
| 16.00-16.30 | Shogo Mizuno | Coding asymmetries between plain and axial locations | |
| 16.30-17.00 | Elia Calligari | Toward a comprehensive typology of nominal TAM | |
DAY 2
| 9.30-10.00 | Session 1 | Kristina Bilbao | Non-canonical reflexive and reciprocal constructions in Basque: new insights into reflexive and reciprocal voices |
| 10.00-10.30 | Lennart Chevallier | Middle voice in Kannada: Markers in competition | |
| 10.30-11.00 | COFFEE | ||
| 11.00-11.30 | Session 2 | Urmet Lepasson | Adjunct clause and complement order in English-Estonian translation |
| 11.30-12.00 | Silvie Strauß | Finding your niche in the complementation system: the distribution of Basque verbal noun complements | |
| 12.00-12-.30 | Zhencao Zhong | Postverbial construction with a deictic motion verb kel- ‘come’ in Western Yugur | |
| 12.30-12.40 | GROUP PHOTO SHOOTING | ||
| 12.40-14.00 | LUNCH | ||
| 14.00-15.00 | Keynote: Sandra Auderset | ||
| 15.00-15.30 | COFFEE | ||
| 15.30-16.00 | Session 3 | Carlo Y. Meloni | Writing does not Impact the Evolutionary Dynamics of Syntax |
| 16.00-16.30 | Alejandro García-Matarredona | Morphological complexity of Catalan: a diachronic and sociolinguistic perspective | |
| 16.30-17.00 | Carolyn Siegman | Classifying trans-phonologization: a typological study | |
DAY 3
| 9.30-10.00 | Session 1 | David Ginebra | The pervasive reality status distinction in the grammar of Yamalero (Guahiban, Colombia) |
| 10.00-10.30 | ZHANG Qibin | Volitional forms in Mongolic languages | |
| 10.30-11.00 | COFFEE | ||
| 11.00-11.30 | Session 2 | Yana Aquilina | Looking outwards and hearing inwards: on SENSORY PATH in a typological perspective |
| 11.30-12.00 | Damiana Porcellato | A Semantic Map of Negation in Indo-European | |
| 12.00-12.30 | Rebecca Arkell | Conceptualising and Categorising Body Parts in Cape Verdean Creole: A Semantic Typology | |
| 12.30-14.00 | LUNCH | ||
| 14.00-14.30 | Session 3 | Jacob Menschel | Reviewing the Andoke pre-auxiliary position: neither subject nor focus? |
| 14.30-15.00 | Ante Petrović | Content interrogative constructions compared to narrow focus declarative constructions: A cross-linguistic view | |
| 15.00-15.30 | COFFEE | ||
| 15.30-16.00 | Session 4 | Sebastian Nordhoff | Open Science in Linguistics |
| 16.00-16.30 | Frederic Blum, Saskia Dunn, Anita Obenaus, Silvie Strauss | Closing | |
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Organizers
- Frederic Blum (MPI-EVA)
- Saskia Dunn (Leiden University)
- Anita Obenaus (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
- Silvie Strauß (Universität Leipzig)