Theme sessions

A cross-linguistic perspective on the role of the lexicon in actionality, convenors: Thera Crane, Johanna Nichols, and Bastian Persohn

  • Walter Breu, The degree of temporal dynamics as the overall basis for aspect and actionality and their interaction
  • Benidiktus Delpada and František Kratochvíl, The Role of the Lexicon in Aspectuality in Abui
  • Andrej Malchukov, Actionality classes and aspectual hierarchies
  • Johanna Mattissen, A cross-linguistic view on lexically inherent actional classes
  • Leora Bar-El and Malin Petzell, On the application of actionality diagnostics across Bantu languages
  • Jurica Polančec, Two-phase verbs: a crosslinguistic look at an actional class
  • Anna Pompei, Accomplishment motion nouns and the selection of ‘to do’ or ‘to give’ in Latin and Romance languages light verbs
  • Alexander Rostovtsev-Popiel, Dedicated (im)perfectives in Megrelian

Current research in phonological typology, convenors: Eitan Grossman and Steven Moran

  • Cormac Anderson, Uses and misuses of the phoneme in phonological typology
  • Kirsten Culhane, A typology of consonant/zero alternations
  • Shelece Easterday, Expanding phonotactic typology: the role of morphological context
  • Eitan Grossman, Dmitry Nikolaev, Elad Eisen, Ronén Júda, Schwartz Layla, Yoav Yosef and Steven Moran, The typology of phonological segment borrowing
  • Tom Güldemann, Florian Lionnet, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich and Hirosi Nakagaw, Khoisan Phonological Typology database and the relative frequency of consonants in the Khoisan languages
  • Nataliya Levkovych and Thomas Stolz, The phonological landscape of Europe in areal-typological perspective
  • Dmitry Nikolaev, Sound changes and synchronic alternations: A comparative survey
  • Erich Round, Canonical Phonology
  • Inna Sieber, Assibilation typology (based on languages of Russia)

Lexical restrictions on grammatical relations in voice constructions, convenors: Eva van Lier and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich

  • Erika Bellingham, Juergen Bohnemeyer, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Yu Li, Alice Mitchell, Sang-Hee Park, Anastasia Stepanova, The semantic typology of causatives: new approaches to data collection and analysis
  • Jeremy Bradley, András Czentnár and Nikolett F. Gulyás, Causatives and reflexives in the languages of the Volga-Kama region
  • Isabelle Bril, Lexical restrictions on grammatical relations in Amis
  • Atsuko Kanda Utsumi, Semantic Typology of Voice Systems in Western Malayo-Polynesian Languages
  • Lunella Mereu and Valentina Piunno, A usage- and corpus-driven study of valency-changing and voice-related constructions in Italian
  • Maria Messerschmidt, Increasing the valency of motion verbs
  • Roland Pooth, Pre-causative detransitivization and the restriction of causatives to intransitives or to non-agentive intransitives
  • Sergey Say, Natural antipassives

Towards a diachronic typology of individual person markers, convenors: Linda Konnerth and Andrea Sansò

  • Gilles Authier, Inclusiveness as an attractor: evidence from replacements and syncretisms in some East Caucasian pronominal sets
  • Jonah Bates, Typology of Change in Person Marker Reference
  • Sonia Cristofaro, Typological explanations in synchrony and diachrony: on some possible origins of 1st/2nd vs. 3rd person marking asymmetries
  • Scott Delancey, Innovations in 2nd person indexation in Tibeto-Burman languages
  • Yingqi Jing, Nico Neureiter, Peter Ranacher, Erik van Gijn, Erika Weinberger, Manuel Widmer and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, On the evolution of so-called hierarchical person-marking systems in Tupian and Sino-Tibetan
  • Linda Konnerth and Pavel Ozerov, The instability of the inclusive: Evidence from South-Central Trans-Himalayan languages
  • František Kratochvíl, Diachronic development of individual person markers in the Alor-Pantar family
  • Johanna Nichols, Evolutionary pathways for attractors in pronominal systems (poster)
  • Marie-Caroline Pons, On the origin of 2nd person prefix #tV- in Trans-Himalayan languages
  • Ilja Seržant, Evolutionary Typology of Bound Verbal Person-Number Indexes
  • Natalia Stoynova, First person pronouns in the impersonal construction in Nanai and Ulch: from valency-changing to modals

Typologising the noun phrase: Beyond (non-)configurationality, convenors: Dana Louagie and Uta Reinöhl

  • Antonio Magana Macias, Determiners in Tojolabal
  • Eva Schultze-Berndt, When subjects frame the clause: Discontinuous noun phrases as an iconic strategy of marking sentence focus
  • Mark Van de Velde, The AMAI cycle in the Bantu languages