Upcoming events
March 2019
19 March: Leipzig-Bremen workshop on grammatical universals and typology
Core participants:
Bremen: Thomas Stolz, Benjamin Saade, Nicole Hober, Deborah Arbes, Julia Nintemann, Nataliya Levkovych, Beke Seefried, Julian Rott (Berlin), Maja Robbers (Uppsala)
Leipzig: Martin Haspelmath, Katarzyna Janic, Natalia Levshina, Susanne Maria Michaelis, Karsten Schmidtke-Bode, Ilja Seržant, Darja Dërmaku-Appelganz, Dan Ke, Jingting Ye, Ksenia Shagal (Helsinki)
This workshop will take place in Nikolaistraße 8-10 (Strohsack), 5th floor, seminar room 5.55.
Programme:
9:00: Nicole Hober, Julia Nintemann, Maja Robbers : Asymmetric coding in the spatial deictic systems of the world’s languages
9:30: Jingting Ye: Coding asymmetry in property concepts and some cross-linguistic generalizations
10:00: Deborah Arbes: Asymmetric coding in grammatical number categories of Modern Welsh
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11:00: Susanne Maria Michaelis: On raining constructions in creole languages
11:30: Benjamin Saade: From Maltese pronouns towards a typology of pronominal cellmates
12:00: Katarzyna Janic: Asymmetric coding of self- and other-benefactive meanings in cross-linguistic perspective
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14:30: Thomas Stolz & Nataliya Levkovych & Beeke Seefried: Progress report on the phonological atlas of Europe
15:00: Ksenia Shagal: A typological study of participles
15:30: Thomas Stolz & Nataliya Levkovych: Increasing vs decreasing segmental complexity in morphological paradigms
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16:30: Dan Ke: Progress report on universals of nominal classification systems
17:00: Julian Rott: Valence orientation in the psych domain: Some implications for typology
17:30: Ilja A. Seržant: Factors constraining the rate of change of person-number indexes
Linguists from outside these two groups are welcome to attend, but it would be nice if they told us in advance (send an e-mail to Darja Dërmaku-Appelganz)
Past events
January 2018 (25)
January 2018, 25th (Thursday), 9:00-12:30h: Informal mini-workshop on tense-aspect typology and coding asymmetries, with presentations by Martin Haspelmath, Olav Mueller-Reichau, Natalia Levshina, Michael Richter & Giuseppe Celano, Susanne Maria Michaelis, and Karsten Schmidtke-Bode (Nikolaistraße 6-10, meeting room 5.55)
January 2018 (18-19)
Bremen University workshop on “Typology of zero coding“, organized by Thomas Stolz & Martin Haspelmath
July 2017 (11-12)
Susanne Maria Michaelis, Martin Haspelmath, and Martine Robbeets organized a workshop on the topic “Language shift and substrate interference in (pre)history” at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena.
March 2017 (27-28)
Martin Haspelmath and Iren Hartmann organized a conference on the topic “Vielfaltslinguistik“, especially targeting fieldworkers and typologists working in German speaking countries.
March 2017 (8-10)
Martin Haspelmath organized a workshop at the DGfS conference in Saarbrücken, on the topic “Linguistic coding asymmetries, usage frequency and informativeness” (http://dgfs2017.uni-saarland.de/wordpress/arbeitsgruppen/).
September 2016
September 1-2: Workshop on Functional Motivations and Diachronic Explanation in Typology at the Annual Meeting of the SLE, with talks by Martin Haspelmath, Susanne Michaelis, Natalia Levshina, Karsten Schmidtke-Bode and Ilja Serzant (http://sle2016.eu/list-of-workshops).