SYNTAX OF THE WORLD'S LANGUAGES (SWL 1)Leipzig (Germany), 5-8 August 2004
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Thursday, 05 August |
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| 10.00 | Geschwister Scholl Haus | ||
| Registration begins | |||
| 14.00 - 14.15 | Geschwister Scholl Haus - Lecture Hall | ||
| Welcome |
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| 14.15 - 15.15 | Geschwister Scholl Haus - Lecture Hall | ||
| Plenary Talk Marianne Mithun (UC Santa Barbara) "The non-universality of obliques" |
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| 15.15 - 15.45 | Break |
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| 15.45 - 16.25 | Seminar room K-37 | Seminar room 00-91 | Seminar room 00-99 |
| Kotorova, Elizaveta and Nefedov, Andrey (Tomsk State Pedagogical University) "The head-marking nature of Ket: an alternative view" |
Vanhove, Martine (CNRS-LLACAN, Paris) "Beyond the sentence in Beja" |
Cunningham, Graham (University of Oxford) "The syntax of Sumerian multiword verbs" |
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| 16.25 - 17.00 | Coffee Break |
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| 17.00 - 17.35 | Seminar room K-37 | Seminar room 00-91 | Seminar room 00-99 |
| Schmidt, Peter (Universität Trier) "Multiple marking of designated arguments by resumptive agreement" |
Bril, Isabelle (CNRS-LACITO, Paris) "Scope and domains of clause-linking markers in Oceanic languages" |
Huang, Shuanfan (National Taiwan University) "Emotion and affect in the grammar of Formosan languages" |
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| 17.40 - 18.15 | Seminar room K-37 | Seminar room 00-91 | Seminar room 00-99 |
| Michaelis, Susanne (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology) "Encoding PATH in creole languages" |
Guerrero, Lilian (University at Buffalo & Universidad de Sonora) "Complement-taking predicates in Yaqui" |
Simeone-Senelle, Marie-Claude (CNRS-LLACAN, Paris) "The polyfonctional morpheme /-h/ in Afar" |
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Friday, 06 August |
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| 9.15 - 10.15 | Geschwister Scholl Haus - Lecture Hall | ||
| Plenary Talk Peter Austin (SOAS London) "Argument encoding and clause linkage - aspects of a cross-linguistic typology" |
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| 10.15 - 10.45 | Break |
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| 10.45 - 11.20 | Seminar room K-37 | Seminar room 00-91 | Seminar room 00-99 |
| Khanina, Olesya (Moscow State University) "Balkar constructions governed by -gan 'verbal' form. Its syntax and semantics in Turkic perspective" |
Lüpke, Friederike (SOAS London) "Arguments about verbs - what data from Jalonke can contribute to a theory of argument structure" |
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| 11.25 - 12.00 | Seminar room K-37 | Seminar room 00-91 | Seminar room 00-99 |
| Peterson, John (Universität Osnabrück) "Transitivity" in Kharia - What makes an event an activity?" |
Wichmann, Søren (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology) "The reference-tracking system of Tlapanec in light of the local-global parameter" |
Lyutikova, Ekaterina and Izmailova, Anna (Moscow State University) "Valence-changing derivations and actionality: The case of Balkar passive" |
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| 12.05 - 12.40 | Seminar room K-37 | Seminar room 00-91 | Seminar room 00-99 |
| Nordhoff, Sebastian (Universität Köln) "Stative Verbs and Possession in Guarani" |
Cristofaro, Sonia (Università di Pavia) "Implicational patterns in the cross-linguistic coding of subordination" |
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| 12.40 - 14.30 | Lunch Break |
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| 14.30 - 15.05 | Seminar room K-37 | Seminar room 00-91 | Seminar room 00-99 |
| Jahangiri, Nader (University of Mashhad, Iran) "Preposition deletion and word order in Persian - A sociolinguistic approach to a syntactic variable" |
Schapansky, Nathalie (University of Alberta) "Categorical/thetic, thematic/non-thematic and the position of NPs in Breton" |
Zinn, Marina A. (Tomsk State Pedagogical University) "Basic Valence-Changing Operations Coding Argument Transfer in Ket" (the paper will be read by A. Nefedov) |
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| 15.10 - 15.45 | Seminar room K-37 | Seminar room 00-91 | Seminar room 00-99 |
| Hattori, Ryoko (University of Hawaii at Manoa) "Pingilapese particles e and ae: Their grammatical categories and functional differences" |
Zólyomi, Gábor (Universität München & ELTE BTK Budapest) "Topicalized and external possessors in Sumerian" |
Creissels, Denis (Université Lumière Lyon 2) "Non-canonical applicatives and focalization in Tswana" |
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| 15.45 - 16.15 | Coffee Break |
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| 16.15 - 16.50 | Seminar room K-37 | Seminar room 00-91 | Seminar room 00-99 |
| Miestamo, Matti (University of Helsinki) "Asymmetry within and across functional domains with special reference to yes-no questions, commands, negation and tense-aspect-mood" |
Tsukida, Naomi (Aichi Prefectural University, Japan) "Seediq subject-voice assignment in transitive clauses and causative clauses" |
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| 16.55 - 17.30 | Seminar room K-37 | Seminar room 00-91 | Seminar room 00-99 |
| Subbarao, K.V. (University of Delhi) "The Role of Particles and Clitics in disambiguation" |
Cole, Peter and Hermon, Gabriella and Tjung, Yassir
and Sim, Chang-Yong and Kim, Chonghyuck (University of Delaware) "Are all anaphors subject to the Binding Theory?" |
Kittilä, Seppo (University of Turku) "A typology of tritransitives: alignment types and motivations" |
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Saturday, 07 August |
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| 9.15 - 9.50 | Seminar room K-37 | Seminar room 00-91 | Seminar room 00-99 |
| Sabel, Joachim (Université Catholique de Louvain) "Tense Agreement in Malagasy" |
Abdoulaye, Mahamane L. (University of Antwerp) "Four uses of the relative marking in Hausa" |
Filchenko, Andrei (Rice University) "Non-canonical Agent-Marking in Eastern Khanty. Functional-Pragmatic Perspective" |
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| 9.55 - 10.30 | Seminar room K-37 | Seminar room 00-91 | Seminar room 00-99 |
| Stilo, Don (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology) "Double-Duty Pronominal Clitics in Gazi" |
Meira, Sergio (University of Leiden) "The Structure of Possessive Predicates in Satere-Mawe (Tupian)" |
Nikitina, Tatiana and Maslova, Elena (Stanford University & Fremont, CA) "Case marking patterns in diachronic perspective" |
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| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee Break |
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| 11.00 - 11.35 | Seminar room K-37 | Seminar room 00-91 | Seminar room 00-99 |
| Slomanson, Peter (City University of New York) "The Sri Lankan Malay Verb as Morphosyntactic Compromise" |
Guillaume, Antoine (La Trobe University) "Revisiting 'Split Ergativity' in Cavineña" |
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| 11.40 - 12.15 | Seminar room K-37 | Seminar room 00-91 | Seminar room 00-99 |
| Gessner, Suzanne (University of Victoria, Canada) "Relative Clause Structure in Dakelh (Athapaskan)" |
Bouchard, Denis and Rinfret, Julie (Université du Québec à Montréal) "The syntax of Noun modification in Langue des Signes Québécoise" |
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| 12.20 - 12.55 | Seminar room K-37 | Seminar room 00-91 | Seminar room 00-99 |
| Felix Armendáriz, Rolando (Rice University) "Constituent order, Focus, and Grammatical Relations in Warihio" |
Hiraiwa, Ken (MIT & University of Ghana) "The Syntax of Head-Internal Relativization in Gur" |
Cabredo Hofherr, Patricia (CNRS Paris) "A comparative study of impersonal pronouns in Somali, French and German" |
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| 12.55 - 14.30 | Lunch Break |
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| 14.30 - 15.05 | Seminar room K-37 | Seminar room 00-91 | Seminar room 00-99 |
| Robert, Stéphane (CNRS-LLACAN Paris) "When aspect meets syntax: null tense and “situational dependency” in Wolof" |
Lander, Yury A. (Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow) "A relative intrigue in Adyghe" |
Tadmor, Uri (Universitas Atma Jaya, Jakarta) "The relationship between agent, passive, and locative marking in Malayic" |
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| 15.10 - 15.45 | Seminar room K-37 | Seminar room 00-91 | Seminar room 00-99 |
| Ebeling, Jarle (University of Oxford) "Sumerian word order alterations" |
Skribnik, Elena (Universität München) "Participial relative clauses in Siberian languages" |
Dabir-Moghaddam, Mohammad (Allameh Tabataba University Tehran) "Ergativity patterns in the Iranian Languages of Iran" |
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| 15.45 - 16.15 | Coffee Break |
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| 16.15 - 16.50 | Seminar room K-37 | Seminar room 00-91 | Seminar room 00-99 |
| Lewis, Marshall (Cleveland Heights, OH) "Verb serialization as voice: fresh grist for syntactic typology" |
Maslova, Elena (Fremont, CA) "Double nominalization in Yukaghir: structural ambiguity as semantic complexity" |
Kroeger, Paul R. (GIAL Dallas) "Backwards resultatives in Kimaragang Dusun" |
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| 16.55 - 17.30 | Seminar room K-37 | Seminar room 00-91 | Seminar room 00-99 |
| Vidal, Alejandra (CONICET) "Viewpoint and trajectory of events: coalescence of semantic parameters in Pilagá subject-marking system." |
Tseng, Yu-Ching (University at Albany) "Syntactic OCP effects and phonological phrasing in Hakka" |
Holmberg, Anders and Odden, David (Ohio State University) "Ergativity and Role-Marking in Hawrami" | |
| ca. 19.00 | Banquet in the restaurant "Palermo". | ||
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Sunday, 08 August |
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| 9.30 - 10.05 | MPI Lecture Hall | MPI Seminar room | |
| Comrie, Bernhard and Guirardello-Damian, Raquel (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology & UCSB; MPI for Psycholinguistics & University of Bristol) "Trumai and the internal syntax of numeral expressions" |
Gil, David (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology) "Islands without Dependencies: how Riau Indonesian does it" |
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| 10.10 - 10.45 | MPI Lecture Hall | MPI Seminar room | |
| Haspelmath, Martin (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology) "Ditransitive alignment splits and inverse patterns" |
Bickel, Balthasar (Universität Leipzig) "Constraining focus and extraction domains, or: never underestimate syntactic diversity!" |
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| 10.45 - 11.15 | Coffee Break |
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| 11.15 - 11.50 | MPI Lecture Hall | MPI Seminar room | |
| Gensler, Orin (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology) "The Arabic ma¯-min construction: Rethinking the priority of restricted relatives" |
Güldemann, Tom (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology) "Linear order as a basic morphosyntactic factor in Non-Khoe Khoisan" |
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| 12.00 - 13.00 | MPI Lecture Hall | ||
| Plenary Talk Maria Polinsky (UC San Diego) "D-linking from a cross-linguistic perspective" |
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| 13.00 | Farewell |
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