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List of accepted talks:

• Peter Arkadiev: Advancing the typology of polygrammaticalisation: Prefixes and suffixes from the same source

• Sandra Auderset: Are Mixtec pronouns and classifiers parts of speech, and if so, how many?

• Silvia Ballarè, Guglielmo Inglese, Simone Mattiola: Where goes WHERE: Locative relative markers in the languages of Europe

• Jules Bouton, Sacha Beniamine: Measuring the typological similarity of inflection class systems: the Finnic languages

• Jeremy Bradley: The rise of “the pretentions of literacy” in Uralic (Mari, Udmurt, Mansi)

• Giacomo Bucci: Bantu locative class markers as Negative Polarity Items

• Anna Bugaeva and Tatiana Nikitina: Different paths, similar outcomes: Toward a diachronic typology of logophoric systems

• Denis Creissels: Adnumeratives in typological perspective

• Nina Dobrushina: Nominal optatives in Nakh-Daghestanian languages

• Jens Fleischhauer: Suppletive kinship possession: The African perspective

• Valentin Gusev: Double marking as a highlighting tool: a case study from Nganasan

• Martin Haspelmath: Nounless adnominal constructions and the diversity of substantivizers

• Christoph Holz: Adpositional classifiers: A new type of classifier

• Guglielmo Inglese: Lability and the spontaneity scale: a reassessment

• Linda Konnerth: Diachronic alignment change: From accusative to ‘hierarchicality’ in verbal person indexation

• Simone Mattiola: When repeating means ‘(a) little’: On diminutive reduplication in the languages of the Northwest Coast Sprachbund

• Lidia Federica Mazzitelli: Towards a morphosyntactic typology of P demotion in Oceanic: incorporation and transitivity discord

• Miri Mertner, Nour Efrat-Kowalski, I-Ying Li, Matías Guzmán Naranjo: Modeling language contact with detailed speaker territories

• Jesus Olguin-Martinez, Yihan, Darius Adjong: Polarity-based TAM (a)symmetries beyond simple clauses: Counterfactual conditionals in Mesoamerica

• Pavel Ozerov, Tim Zingler: The non-arbitrariness of demonstratives: Attention shift, prosody, and intensification

• Naomi Peck: Variation and change in demonstrative determiners in Sümi: A corpus study

• Filippo Maria Sergio: Disentangling structural, genealogical, and areal factors in Indigenous North America: An integrated approach to Distributive Markers

• Barbara Sonnenhauser, Margarita Wolf, Paul Widmer: At the interface of verbal art and grammar. Gauging the diversity of poetic language

• Thomas Stolz: From the archive: Adverbial subordinate clauses affected by MAT-borrowing from Spanish in Mesoamerica

• Albert Simon Tallai: Paradigm formation in Uralic case systems: an exploratory statistical approach

• Giorgia Troiani: Analyzing the convergence of syntax, intonation units, and interaction in Italian and Kazakh conversation

• Johan van der Auwera, Hartmut Haberland: Disjunctive indefinites - a first crosslinguistic analysis

• Niklas Wiskandt: Morphological typology of voice marker stacking

• Aigul Zakirova: Differential P marking in Moksha modal constructions

• Tim Zingler, Phillip Rogers: Skew ratios: The language-specific dimension of the suffixing preference

List of accepted posters:

• Luca Alfieri, Diego Luinetti, Leonardo Montesi, Marianna Pozza: The quality modifier construction in five ancient Indo-European languages and the typology of PIE adjectives

• Gilles Authier, Gasangusen Sulaibanov: Differential property predicate marking in East Caucasian

• Jocelyn Aznar: Beyond Uniqueness: Discursivity as a Criterion for Identifying Proper Names in Nisvai-Malesip (Vanuatu)

• Daniela Baldassarre, Diego Luinetti: Adjectival Constructions in the Languages of the Caucasus: A Typological Perspective

• Frederic Blum: The contextual probabilities of irregular sound change: New cross-linguistic pathways in evolutionary phonology

• Tom Bossuyt: Towards a typology of para-hypotactic concessives

• Diana Forker: A closer look at person indexing in Jar Avar

• Jerzy Gaszewski: Split at the Source: Areal patterns of marking valency positions

• Sofya Glavatskikh: Future-Habitual clitic =ta in Shughni and beyond

• Laura Horváth: Grammaticalized converb constructions in Udmurt: the cases of negation

• Olesya Khanina: Typology of language spreads

• Inbal Mayo: A typological survey of Differential Object Marking as a consequence of language contact

• Jacob Menschel: Depragmaticized clefts and pervasive nominalization: Characterizing Andoke clausal syntax

• Fabio Meroni: On the Typology of Doubly Articulated Labial-Velar Consonants, with New Evidence from Melanesia

• Polina Padalka: Gender assignment in languages with two sex-based genders

• Varvara Petrova: Vowel features as acoustic cues for contrast in airstream mechanism of the preceding affricates: evidence from the East Caucasian languages

• Jonathan Reich: First insights into Vaiphei tonology

• Tabea Reiner, Sonja Quehenberger, Lars Bülow: Connecting the Accessibility Hierarchy to single-language, psychophysiological, and sociostylistic factors: The case of relative clauses in Bavarian

• Ilja A. Seržant, Kirill Kozhanov: Frequency better explains the grammatical–lexical distinction than surprisal or informativity

• Anna Sjöberg: How to pick languages?: An evaluation of variety sampling methods

• Michele Tron, Elia Calligari: How close can Romance get to propositional (pro)nominal TAM? Clitic pronouns and shape alternants in an Occitan variety

• Carlos Ugarte: Language evolution, genealogies, and long-term contact: The Northern Peruvian region and its importance for the study of lineage diversity in North-West Amazonia

• Alexander Zahrer: Co-flagging patterns in Trans New Guinea

• Marius Zemp: Insubordination is common ground management

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Abstracts for presentations (oral/poster) can address a broad range of topics within typology and comparative linguistics, including (but not limited to):

• cross-linguistic comparison of specific phenomena on any level of analysis (phonology, morphosyntax, semantics, lexicon, pragmatics, ...)

• areal typology and language contact

• diachronic typology and language change

• typological perspectives on endangered and minority languages and language documentation

• quantitative and computational approaches to typological research

• methodology of typological research

• investigation of language-specific phenomena from a typological perspective

Submission Guidelines

Submissions should be anonymous and meet the following requirements:

• abstract length: max. 500 words (including examples and figures, excluding references)

• format: PDF, 12-point font

• language: English

Please submit your abstract through easyabs: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/TTM26/

Stipends

The best two submissions by students (PhD but also BA/MA) will be awarded a stipend of 300€ each to support them in attending the conference. When submitting your abstract, please indicate in the comment field if you are eligible for the stipend and want to be considered.