Preliminary program

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

Piryaee, Shiva (CGIE & Payam-e Noor U, Tehran)

The effects of Lori (Borujerdi) dialect on the Borujerd Jews’ dialect

 Sidwell, Paul (ANU)

A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of the Austroasiatic languages

Lefebvre, Claire (UQAM, Montreal)

What does the Relabeling-based theory of creole genesis account for?

Filtchenko, Andrej with Olga Potanina (Tomsk U)

Forward to the past: Multimodality of temporal marking in Eastern Khanty

Weber, Tobias (U Regensburg & U Zurich)

Differential A Marking: Diachronic developments and restrictions from a typological perspective

Levinson, Stephen (MPI Nijmegen)

Language usage, language processing and typology

Bickel, Balthasar (U Zurich)

Detecting large and ancient linguistic areas

Haspelmath, Martin (MPI EVA)

The serial verb construction: Comparative concept and cross-linguistic generalizations

Cristofaro, Sonia (U Pavia)

Synchronic vs. diachronic explanations of typological universals: Redefining the role of frequency

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 understudies paradigm

Gil, David (MPI EVA)

Typology reflects phylogeny

Erschler, David (U Mass, Amherst)

A universal on generalized sluicing

Nevskaya, Irina (U Frankfurt)

The prospective as a cross-linguistic grammatical category

Wichmann, Søren (MPI EVA)

Worldwide patterns of language migration

Daniel, Mikhail  (HSE & MSU Moscow)

Agreement of personal pronouns in Nakh, Dargwa and Archi (East Caucasian)

Lancia, Leonardo (MPI EVA) with George Krasovitskiy (U Oxford), Franziska Stuntebeck (Osnabrück U), Sven Grawunder (MPI EVA)

Toward a complex systems approach to the analysis of rhythmic types

König, Ekkehard (FU Berlin)

Systems and uses of articles: Patterns of variation

Letuchiy, Alexander (HSE Moscow)

Agreement with sentential arguments in Adyghe

Mettouchi, Amina (EPHE Paris)

Corpus-based typology: perspectives for cross-linguistic comparison

Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (U Stockholm) with Matti Miestamo (U Helsinki)

Antonyms and word-level negation

Kotorova, Elizaveta (U Zielona Gora) with Andrej Nefedov (Tomsk)

Typological accommodation in Ket: The case of subordinate clauses

Dingemanse, Mark (MPI Nijmegen) with Simeon Floyd (MPI Nijmegen), Nick Enfield (U Sydney)

Pragmatic typology: Unity and diversity in systems of language use

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

Naumann, Christfried (MPI EVA) with Robert Forkel (MPI EVA), Steven Moran (U Zurich)

Tsammalex

Bertinetto, Pier Marco with Luca Ciucci (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

On rara typological features of the Zamucoan languages, in the framework of the Chaco linguistic area

Grant, Anthony  (Edge Hill U, UK)

Selection of element sources in the verbal syntagms of some stable mixed languages

Güldemann, Tom (HU Berlin) with Christfried Naumann (MPI EVA)

Grammatical relations in Taa (West !Xoon)

Crevels, Mily (Leiden U) with Pieter Muysken (Radboud U, Nijmegen)

The lenguas de Bolivia project: Typological prospects

Bakker, Dik (U Amsterdam) with Ewald Hekking (Querétaro, Mexico)

In borrowing, anything goes, but not really

Williams, Robert (American U, Cairo)

The Uncunwee Documentation Project: Language documentation in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan

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

Schulte, Kim (UJI, Castelló de la Plana, Spain)

Finding out what really drives change: The importance of multivariate analysis in historical linguistics

Sauppe, Sebastian (MPI Nijmegen)

Symmetry and asymmetry in voice systems: Evidence from Tagalog and German sentence production

Kibrik, Andrej (Moscow State U) with Mira Bergelson (HSE Moscow)

Alaskan Russian: A special result of language contact

Heggarty, Paul (MPI EVA)

Comparative and diversity linguistics:  Where next?

Yuditha, Tessa (Radboud U, Nijmegen)

Are you a butterfly or a spider?  A study of animal metaphors on Minangkabau woman as cultural models

Sakel, Jeanette (UWE Bristol)

The impact of language contact on Mosetén and Pirahã

Anderson, Cormac (Leipzig U & MPI EVA)

Minimal vowel systems in cross-linguistic perspective

Soriente, Antonia (Naples U L’Orientale)

A new look at the Kayanic branch: Data from Merap

Kornfilt, Jaklin (Syracuse U, NY)

NEED-ing HAVE, and BE-ing NEED-less: Turkish evolving away from imposed patterns

Grawunder, Sven (MPI EVA)

The Central Eastern German KL>*TL cluster shift in a perspective of areal phonetic typology

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

Bibiko, Hans-Jörg (MPI EVA)

Displaying geographical distribution of data within FileMaker™ and beyond ...

Hammarström, Harald (Radboud U, Nijmegen)

The basic word order typology: An exhaustive study

Valenzuela, Pilar (Chapman U, California)

Applicative constructions and double derivation in Shiwilu (Kawapanan)

Senft, Gunter (MPI Nijmegen)

Classifiers in Kilivila: Introducing referents and keeping track of them

Diessel, Holger (U Jena)

Role recovery in subject and object relative clauses

Epps, Patience (U of Texas at Austin)

The dynamics of linguistic diversity: Language contact and language maintenance in Amazonia