Subject: conf : alt inaugural meeting / k . mitxelena i . ihardunaldiak

inaugural meeting of the association for linguistic typology ( alt ) k . mitxelena i . ihardunaldiak september 7-10 ( thursday through sunday ) , l995 vitoria - gasteiz , spain venue : the university institute where the meeting will take place ( filologia eta geografi - historia fakultatea ) is right behind the railway station . we will send a map upon registration , but , in any case , it is easy to find ( ask about dato street / calle dato , pedestrian street leading to the railway station ; once there , cross the station , you will then see two red brick buildings facing you : walk to the one on the left ) . further information & registration : alt antolamendu taldea ( organizing committee ) filologia eta geografi - historia fakultatea euskal filologia saila upv / ehu marques de urquijo , s / n e-01006 vitoria - gasteiz ( spain ) e-mail : fvalt @ vh . ehu . es fax : + 34 45 144290 tel . : + 34 45 139811 program wednesday september 6 ( filologia eta geografi - historia fakultatea ) 18 : 00-21 : 00 registration ( university hall : facultad de filologia y geografia e historia / filologia eta geografi - historia fakultatea ) september 7 ( filologia eta geografi - historia fakultatea ) basque workshop thursday morning chair : endrike knoerr ( u . of the basque country / r . academy of the basque language ) 9 : 00-10 : 00 benat oyharcabal on basque syntax ( c . n . r . s . paris ) 10 : 00-11 : 00 miren azkarate on basque morphology ( u . of the basque country ) coffee break ( 11 : 00-11 : 30 ) 11 : 30-12 : 30 miren lourdes onederra on basque phonology ( u . of the basque country ) 12 : 30-13 : 00 agurtzane elordui language decay and ( u . of the basque country ) typological change in a biscayan dialect lunch break ( 13 : 00-15 : 00 ) * * * thursday afternoon chair : inaki camino ( u . of the basque country ) 15 : 00-15 : 30 karmele rotaetxe scission de l ' ergativite en basque ? ( u . of the basque country ) 15 : 30-16 : 00 juan carlos moreno lexicotelic and syntactotelic ( autonomous u . of madrid ) grammaticalization in basque 16 : 00-16 : 30 andolin eguzkitza indirect questions and other ( u . of the basque country ) adnominals in the grammar of basque coffee break ( 16 : 30-17 : 00 ) 17 : 00-17 : 30 frans plank abbe darrigol 's basque grammar ( u . of konstanz ) 17 : 30-18 : 00 manfred ringmacher the new edition of humboldt 's ( freie u . berlin ) linguistic writings 18 : 00-18 : 30 bernhard hurch " abteilung ii : baskisch und ( graz u . ) and romanisch " a sketch of m . jose kerejeta humboldt 's writings on basque ( u . of the basque country ) * * * 18 : 30-21 : 00 registration ( hall of the institute : facultad de filologia y geografia e historia / filogia eta geografi - historia fakultatea ) friday september 8 ( filologia eta geografi - historia fakultatea ) morning chair : miren azkarate ( u . of the basque country / r . academy of the basque language ) welcome ! ( by alt officers ) ( 8 : 45 - 9 : 00 ) session on reference , number , and distributives ( 9 : 00-10 : 30 ) 9 : 00-10 : 00 greville corbett distributives and number in the world 's ( u . of surrey ) and languages marianne mithun u . of california , santa barbara ) 10 : 00-10 : 30 referring phrases from a typological jan rijkhoff perspective ( u . of konstanz ) coffee break ( 10 : 30-11 : 00 ) session on grammatical relations ( 11 : 00-13 : 00 ) chair : benat oyharcabal ( c . n . r . s . / r . academy of the basque language ) 11 : 00-12 : 00 aleksandr e . kibrik toward a holistic typology of languages ( moscow state u . ) 12 : 00-12 : 30 wolfram schaffar grammaticalization of functional ( u . of tuebingen ) properties into subject positions 12 : 30-13 : 00 elke nowak on subordination and coordination ( u . of stuttgart ) welcome ! ( by local organizers ) 13 : 00-13 : 15 lunch break ( 13 : 15-15 : 00 ) * * * friday afternoon chair : pello salaburu ( u . of the basque country / r . academy of the basque language ) symposium on incorporation ( 15 : 00-17 : 00 ) 15 : 00-15 : 30 farrell ackerman systemic patterns in a hierarchical and lexicon : preverbs and incorporation phil lesourd ( u . of california , san diego ) 15 : 30-16 : 00 adele goldberg persian complex predicates ( u . of california , san diego ) 16 : 00-16 : 30 maria polinsky noun incorporation and the reference ( u . of southern to incorporated nominals california ) 16 : 30-17 : 00 andrew spencer on syntactic accounts of noun ( u . of essex ) incorporation coffee break ( 17 : 00-17 : 30 ) business meeting ( 17 : 30-19 : 30 ) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * saturday september 9 ( palacio de villa suso ) morning chair : xabier artiagoitia ( u . of the basque country ) session on global issues ( 8 : 30-11 : 00 ) 8 : 30 - 9 : 00 sebastian shaumyan linguistic typology and applicative ( yale u . ) universal grammar 9 : 00 - 9 : 30 rajendra singh towards a word-based approach to ( u . of montreal ) morphological typology 9 : 30-10 : 00 gertraud fenk-oczlon self - organization and natural typology and august fenk ( u . of klagenfurt ) 10 : 00-10 : 30 simon kirby competing motivations and the in - ( u . of edinburgh ) visible hand : a computational model of the emergence of hierarchies 10 : 30-11 : 00 frans plank a catalogue of allegations concerning ( u . of konstanz ) the co-variation of sound and of meaningful form coffee break ( 11 : 00-11 : 30 ) session on word order ( 11 : 30-13 : 30 ) chair : karmele rotaetxe ( u . of the basque country ) 11 : 30-12 : 00 alain peyraube on word order in archaic chinese ( center for linguistic research on oriental asia , paris ) 12 : 00-12 : 30 nicholas ostler some apparent cases of wh-fronting in ( linguacubun ltd . , sov languages : form , function , and history london ) 12 : 30-13 : 00 dik bakker flexibility and consistency in word ( u . of amsterdam ) order patterns in the languages of europe 13 : 00-13 : 30 anna siewierska on word order flexibility , case , ( u . of lancaster ) and agreement marking lunch break ( 13 : 30-15 : 00 ) * * * saturday afternoon session on word classes ( 15 : 00-17 : 30 ) chair : ines pagola ( u . of the basque country ) 15 : 00-15 : 45 dietmar zaefferer a typology of proposition coding ( university of muenchen ) 15 : 45-16 : 30 juergen broschart why tongan does it differently : ( u . of koeln ) categorial distinctions in a language without nouns and verbs 16 : 30-17 : 00 walter bisang areal typology and grammaticaliza - ( u . of mainz ) tion : processes of grammaticaliza - tion based on nouns and verbs in east and south east asian languages 17 : 00-17 : 30 lilly l . chen a typological study of the copula verb ( rice university ) system in the chinese languages coffee break ( 17 : 30-18 : 00 ) session on case and space ( 18 : 00-20 : 15 ) chair : jose luis alvarez enparantza ( u . of the basque country ) 18 : 00-18 : 45 maria koptjevskaja - partitives and pseudo-partitives in tamm ( u . of stockholm ) the european languages : typology and grammaticalization . 18 : 45-19 : 30 thomas stolz toward a typology of with-relations : ( u . of bochum ) comitatives , instrumentals , and privatives in the languages of the world . 19 : 30-20 : 15 christel stolz towards a typology of spatial frames ( max planck institute , of reference : comparing frames of nijmegen ) reference in different spatial subdomains song recital ( 20 : 15-21 : 15 ) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * sunday september 10 morning chair : javier ormazabal ( u . of the basque country ) session on multiple functions ( 8 : 30-11 : 00 ) 8 : 30 - 9 : 00 zygmunt frajzyngier grammaticalization of a multifunctional ( u . of colorado ) dependent clause : a cross-categorial approach 9 : 00-10 : 00 nick evans insubordination and its uses ( u . of melbourne ) 10 : 00-11 : 00 david gil patterns of polyfunctionality in noun - phrase constructions coffee break ( 11 : 00-11 : 30 ) session on mood , modality , and negation ( 11 : 30-13 : 00 ) chair : andolin eguzkitza ( u . of the basque country ) 11 : 30-12 : 15 ferdinand de haan the interaction of modality and negation ( u . of groningen ) 12 : 15-13 : 00 kees hengeveld mood and modality ( u . of amsterdam ) lunch break ( 13 : 00-15 : 00 ) * * * session on verbs and verb satellites ( 15 : 00-18 : 00 ) chair : igone zabala ( u . of the basque country ) 15 : 00-15 : 30 johan van der auwera phasal adverbials and standard average ( u . of antwerpen ) european 15 : 30-16 : 15 leon stassen the typology of predicative possession ( catholic u . of nijmegen ) 16 : 15-16 : 45 kathryn howard and the " perf " grammaticization pathway in benjamin wang chinese and thai ( u . of california , los angeles ) 16 : 45-17 : 15 kylie hsu , motoko a cross-linguistic analysis of ezaki , amy meepoe , and imperfectivity in natural spoken discourse david olsher ( u . of california , los angeles ) 17 : 15-18 : 00 vladimir nedjalkov correlation between semantic and ( institute of linguistic formal oppositions in verbal research , st . petersburg ) derivation
