Presentations

accepted abstracts for download: [all abstracts] (version april 14, 2015)

• Opening Plenary
  Bernard Comrie (MPI EVA Leipzig)
  Now and then: What we know in 2015 that we didn't know in 1998
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• Closing Plenary
  Russell Gray (MPI SHH Jena)
  Think big! The bright furture of linguistics
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• Anderson, Cormac (Leipzig U & MPI EVA)
  Minimal vowel systems in cross-linguistic perspective
  
  
• Aralova, Natalia (MPI EVA)
  On developments in the vowel systems of two Even dialects
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• Arkadiev, Peter with Andrey Shluinsky (RAS Moscow)
  Towards a typology of derivational viewpoint aspect systems
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• Bakker, Dik (U Amsterdam) with Ewald Hekking (Querétaro, Mexico)
  In borrowing, anything goes, but not really
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• Bertinetto, Pier Marco with Luca Ciucci (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
  On rare typological features of the Zamucoan languages, in the framework of the Chaco linguistic area
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• Bibiko, Hans-Jörg (MPI EVA Leipzig)
  Displaying geographical distribution of data within FileMaker™ and beyond ...
  
  
• Bickel, Balthasar (U Zurich)
  Detecting large and ancient linguistic areas
  
  
• Brown, Lea with Matthew Dryer (U at Buffalo)
  Semantic factors governing the order of object and verb in Walman, a language of Papua New Guinea
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• Carvalho, Fernando Orphão de (MN/UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro)
  Morphophonological diversity in the Arawak family: The diachronic origins of the Mehinaku absolute markers
  
  
• Cole, Peter with Tim Mckinnon, Gaby Hermon, Yanti (U Delaware & MPI EVA Fieldstation Jakarta)
  The typology of voice in Malayic: The development of agent-demoting passives
  
  
• Comrie, Bernard (MPI EVA) with Diana Forker (U Bamberg), Zaira Khalilova (MPI EVA), Madzhid Khalilov (RAS Daghestan)
  Antipassives in Tsezic and beyond
  
  
• Conners, Thomas with Claudia Brugman, Nikki Adams, Amalia Gnanadesikan, Brook Hefright (U Maryland)
  A typological overview of strategies that aid in reference tracking
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• Corbett, Greville with Sebastian Fedden (U Surrey)
  Two systems or one? A canonical typology approach
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• Crevels, Mily (Leiden U) with Pieter Muysken (Radboud U, Nijmegen)
  The lenguas de Bolivia project: Typological prospects
  
  
• Cristofaro, Sonia (U Pavia)
  Synchronic vs. diachronic explanations of typological universals: Redefining the role of frequency
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• Cysouw, Michael (U Marburg)
  Induction to the max: Typology through parallel texts
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• Dahl, Östen (Stockholm U)
  How WEIRD are WALS languages?
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• Daniel, Mikhail  (HSE & MSU Moscow)
  Agreement of personal pronouns in Nakh, Dargwa and Archi (East Caucasian)
  
  
• De Reuse, Willem (U of North Texas) with Raoul Zamponi (Macerata, Italy)
  Relative clause formation in Lule (Argentine Chaco)
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• Diessel, Holger (U Jena)
  Role recovery in subject and object relative clauses
  
  
• Dingemanse, Mark (MPI Nijmegen) with Simeon Floyd (MPI Nijmegen), Nick Enfield (U Sydney)
  Pragmatic typology: Unity and diversity in systems of language use
  
  
• Dobrushina, Nina (HSE Moscow)
  Negation in the complement clauses of fear-verbs
  
  
• Doehler, Christian (ANU Canberra)
  Morphological complexity in Komnzo verbs
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• Drude, Sebastian (MPI Nijmegen)
  Languages, “languoids”, ISO-codes and the Glottolog: Creating reference systems for language diversity and variation
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• Dryer, Matthew (U at Buffalo)
  Affix as a comparative concept
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• Epps, Patience (U of Texas at Austin)
  The dynamics of linguistic diversity: Language contact and language maintenance in Amazonia
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• Erschler, David (U Mass, Amherst)
  A universal on generalized sluicing
  
  
• Estrada Fernández, Zarina (U Sonora) with Jesus Villapando (U of Colorado, Boulder)
  Clause chaining and nominalization in Tarahumara: Towards a diachronic source of clausal nominalizing suffixes
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• Farquharson, Joseph (U Bielefeld)
  A typological analysis of loan translation in contact languages
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• Filtchenko, Andrej with Olga Potanina (Tomsk U)
  Forward to the past: Multimodality of temporal marking in Eastern Khanty
  
  
• Garcia-Miguel, José with Carmen Cabeza (Vigo U)
  Approaching valency patterns in Spanish Sign Language (LSE)
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• Gil, David (MPI EVA)
  Typology reflects phylogeny
  
  
• Golluscio, Lucia (U Buenos Aires) with Willem De Reuse (U of North Texas), Felipe Hasler (U of Chile, Santiago)
  Relative clause syntax in the Gran Chaco and the Andes: Overlapping typologies
  
  
• Grant, Anthony  (Edge Hill U, UK)
  Selection of element sources in the verbal syntagms of some stable mixed languages
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• Grawunder, Sven (MPI EVA)
  The Central Eastern German KL>*TL cluster shift in a perspective of areal phonetic typology
  
  
• Güldemann, Tom (HU Berlin) with Christfried Naumann (MPI EVA)
  Grammatical relations in Taa (West !Xoon)
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• Hagège, Claude (Collège de France, Paris)
  Illustrations and violations of the syntax-phonology interface: Data and theoretical interpretation
  
  
• Hammarström, Harald (Radboud U, Nijmegen)
  The basic word order typology: An exhaustive study
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• Handschuh, Corinna with Christian Rapold (U Regensburg)
  Pragmatic demarking of clefts: When and where
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• Haspelmath, Martin (MPI EVA)
  The serial verb construction: Comparative concept and cross-linguistic generalizations
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• Heath, Jeffrey (U Michigan)
  Typology and extreme languages
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• Heggarty, Paul (MPI EVA)
  Comparative and diversity linguistics:  Where next?
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• Janic, Katarzyna (U of Lyon Lumière)
  Object–oblique alternations in French
  
  
• Karjus, Andres with Liisi Veski (U Tartu, Estonia)
  A semi-automatic, semi-supervised method for small data document clustering
  
  
• Kibrik, Andrej (Moscow State U) with Mira Bergelson (HSE Moscow)
  Alaskan Russian: A special result of language contact
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• Kittilä, Seppo (U Helsinki)
  Salience and transitivity
  
  
• König, Ekkehard (FU Berlin)
  Systems and uses of articles: Patterns of variation
  
  
• Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (U Stockholm) with Matti Miestamo (U Helsinki)
  Antonyms and word-level negation
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• Kornfilt, Jaklin (Syracuse U, NY)
  NEED-ing HAVE, and BE-ing NEED-less: Turkish evolving away from imposed patterns
  
  
• Kortmann, Bernd (U Freiburg)
  The contribution of (e)WAVE to continent-wide typology
  
  
• Kotorova, Elizaveta (U Zielona Gora) with Andrej Nefedov (Tomsk)
  Typological accommodation in Ket: The case of subordinate clauses
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• Kuteva, Tania (U Düsseldorf & SOAS London) with Bas Aarts (UC London), Geri Popova (Goldsmith U London) and Anvita Abbi (JNU New Delhi)
  On five counter-to-fact grammatical categories
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• Ladd, Robert (U Edinburgh)
  On the place of ‘stress’ in prosodic typology
  
  
• Lancia, Leonardo (MPI EVA) with Georgy Krasovitskiy (U Oxford), Franziska Stuntebeck (Osnabrück U), Sven Grawunder (MPI EVA)
  Toward a complex systems approach to the analysis of rhythmic types
  
  
• Lefebvre, Claire (UQAM, Montreal)
  What does the Relabeling-based theory of creole genesis account for?
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• Letuchiy, Alexander (HSE Moscow)
  Agreement with sentential arguments in Adyghe
  
  
• Levinson, Stephen (MPI Nijmegen)
  Language usage, language processing and typology
  
  
• Lieven, Elena (U Manchester) with Sabine Stoll (U Zurich)
  What does speech add to points and vice versa? Preschoolers and their surrounding environment in three cultures
  
  
• Matic, Dejan (MPI Nijmegen)
  Expectations and Common Ground as grammatical categories: The Tundra Yukaghir case
  
  
• Maurer, Philippe (U Zurich)
  Reflexive voice in Sutsilvan
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• Mettouchi, Amina (EPHE Paris)
  Corpus-based typology: perspectives for cross-linguistic comparison
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• Michaelis, Susanne Maria (MPI EVA)
  Inflectional complexity in creole languages: Evidence from the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures
  
  
• Molochieva, Zarina (U Regensburg)
  Natural speech vs. controlled-stimulus narratives: Referential density in Chechen
  
  
• Moran, Steven with Balthasar Bickel,Taras Zakharko (U Zurich)
  Phonological features from a quantitative typological perspective
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• Mous, Maarten (Leiden U)
  Laws of in-law languages
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• Moyse-Faurie, Claire (Lacito-CNRS, Paris)
  Expressing (non)existence in some Oceanic languages
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• Mutalov, Rasul (RAS Moscow)
  Mood in Dargwa Languages
  
  
• Naumann, Christfried (MPI EVA) with Robert Forkel (MPI EVA), Steven Moran (U Zurich)
  Tsammalex
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• Nevskaya, Irina (U Frankfurt)
  The prospective as a cross-linguistic grammatical category
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• Nichols, Johanna (UC Berkeley)
  Pan-Eurasian typological clines
  
  
• Nicolai, Robert (U Nice)
  Langues, langage dynamiques et pertinences: Réflexions sur la dynamique sémiotique et la construction du sens
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• Pakendorf, Brigitte (DDL-CNRS & U Lyon)
  Genetic perspectives on prehistoric language contact: a way forward or a dead-end?
  
  
• Piryaee, Shiva (Iran)
  The effects of Lori (Borujerdi) dialect on the Borujerd Jews’ dialect
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• Polinsky, Maria (Harvard U)
  Scope under language contact
  
  
• Potanina, Olga with Andrej Filtchenko (Tomsk U)
  Tomsk Eastern Khanty and Southern Selkup Documentation Program: Interim report
  
  
• Rießler, Michael (U Freiburg) with Evgenia Zhivotova (MPI EVA), Niko Partanen (U Freiburg)
  Kildin Saami documentary sociolinguistics: Investigations on the variation and change in function words
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• Rostovtsev-Popiel, Alexander (U Mainz)
  Subjects of decreased control in Kartvelian anticausatives
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• Sakel, Jeanette (UWE Bristol)
  The impact of language contact on Mosetén and Pirahã
  
  
• Sauppe, Sebastian (MPI Nijmegen)
  Symmetry and asymmetry in voice systems: Evidence from Tagalog and German sentence production
  
  
• Schulte, Kim (UJI, Castelló de la Plana, Spain)
  Finding out what really drives change: The importance of multivariate analysis in historical linguistics
  
  
• Seifart, Frank (MPI EVA & U Amsterdam) with Jan Strunk (U Amsterdam), Balthasar Bickel (U Zurich), Swintha Danielsen (U Leipzig), Iren Hartmann (MPI EVA), Brigitte Pakendorf (CNRS & U Lyon-Lumière 2), Søren Wichmann (MPI EVA), Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (U Kiel), Taras Zakharko (U Zurich)
  Noun to verb ratio and word order
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• Senft, Gunter (MPI Nijmegen)
  Classifiers in Kilivila: Introducing referents and keeping track of them
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• Seuren, Pieter (MPI Nijmegen)
  Between language and thinking
  
  
• Shluinsky, Andrey (RAS Moscow) with Olesya Khanina (Moscow)
  Encoding direct object in Enets
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• Sidwell, Paul (Australian National University)
  A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of the Austroasiatic languages
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• Siegel, Jeff (U of New England, Australia)
  How to lose an argument in Nama: Transitive and intransitive verbs in a Papuan language of Southern New Guinea
  
  
• Soriente, Antonia (Naples U L’Orientale)
  A new look at the Kayanic branch: Data from Merap
  
  
• Stapert, Eugenie (Leiden U)
  System of orientation in Dolgan
  
  
• Stoll, Sabine with Taras Zakharko, Steven Moran, Robert Schikowsky, Balthasar Bickel (U Zurich)
  Syntactic mixing across generations in a Chintang/Nepali bilingual environment
  
  
• Stolz, Thomas, with Natalia Levkovych, Aina Urdze (U Bremen)
  Spatial interrogatives: Cross-linguistic aspects of an understudied paradigm
  
  
• Stoynova, Natalya (Moscow)
  Double ‘again’-expressions
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• Valenzuela, Pilar (Chapman U, California)
  Applicative constructions and double derivation in Shiwilu (Kawapanan)
  
  
• van Lier, Eva (U Amsterdam)
  Property words in Oceanic languages
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• Veselinova, Ljuba (Stockholm U)
  'Not-yet'-expressions in the languages of the world: Special negators or a separate cross-linguistic category
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• Wälchli, Bernhard (Stockholm U)
  Toward a typology of sociatives
  
  
• Weber, Tobias (U Regensburg & U Zurich)
  Differential A Marking: Diachronic developments and restrictions from a typological perspective
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• Wichmann, Søren (MPI EVA)
  Worldwide patterns of language migration
  
  
• Williams, Robert (American U, Cairo)
  The Uncunwee Documentation Project: Language documentation in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan
  
  
• Wohlgemuth, Jan (U Münster)
  A typology of language naming principles
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• Wolff, Ekkehard (Leipzig U)
  Vocalogenesis in Chadic languages (West and Central Africa)
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• Yuditha, Tessa (Radboud U, Nijmegen)
  Are you a butterfly or a spider? A study of animal metaphors on Minangkabau as cultural models
  
  
• Zand-Moghadam, Amir with Aylar Adeh (Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran)
  Speech act realization strategies in Persian, English, and Turkmen: A case of monolingual and bilingual learners
  
  
• Zariquiey, Roberto (PCUP, Lima)
  Transitivity harmony in Panoan and elsewhere
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