ETT 2024

Program

All the talks will be held in Språkparken (E231), the keynotes will be held in Hörsal 9. More information about the rooms can be found under Conference venue. The times are given in Stockholm time (CEST).

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Monday, June 10

time talk mentor
9:00-9:30 Organising Committee  
  Introduction  
9:30-10:00 Samuel Chakmakjian John Peterson
  An areal-typological overview of voicing contrasts in Western Asia (on-site)  
10:00-10:30 Holly Drayton Peter Arkadiev
  Is Western Austronesian Symmetrical Voice Split Ergativity? Preliminary evidence from Belait (North Borneo) (online)  
10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00-11:30 Miri Mertner Michael Dunn
  Variation in the spatial diffusion of structural aspects of language: A case study (on-site)  
11:30-12:00 Althea Löfgren, Natalia Levshina Harald Hammarström
  Testing trade-offs between gender and number indexing and other cues to A and P arguments: A corpus-based perspective (on-site)  
12:00-12:30 Tessa Vermeir, Marc Allassonnière-Tang Annemarie Verkerk
  Lexical cluster analysis of 10 Bantu A80 languages (on-site)  
12:30 – 13:45 LUNCH
13:45 – 14:45 KEYNOTE TALK in Hörsal 9 / online  
  Laura Becker  
  Spoken typology: Integrating phonetics and grammar  

 

15:00-15:30 Cat Butz Mary Walworth
  Dalkalaen (Oceanic): Articulatory variation shaped by phonological contrastivity, and vice-versa (online)  
15:30-16:00 Anne van Schie Nicolas Quint
  A new approach to Yawa-Saweru prosody (on-site)  
16:00-16:30 David Ginebra Sandra Auderset
  The third high vowel in Yamalero (Guahiban): arguments favouring /ɯ/ instead of /ɨ/ (online)  
16:30 – 17:00 COFFEE BREAK
17:00-17:30 Juan Pablo Jauregui Sandra Auderset
  The place of Cora ritual chants in a typology of poetic metrics (online)  
17:30-18:00 Samira Hamzehei Henrik Liljegren
  Metathesis in Colloquial Persian: Co-Phonologies of Loanwords Adaptation (online)  

 


 

Tuesday, June 11

time talk mentor
9:30-10:00 Tom Bossuyt Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm
  Concessive conditionals, indefinite pronouns, and the semantic map of additivity (on-site)  
10:00-10:30 Omri Amiraz Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm
  The scope of negation and universal quantifiers: A cross-linguistic and diachronic investigation (online)  
10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00-11:30 Wakweya Olani Gobena Henrik Bergqvist
  The verbs ‘to have’ and ‘to exist’ in Oromo with comparison to Amharic: periphrastic possessive predicates (on-site)  
11:30-12:00 Silvie Strauss Anetta Kopecka
  From knowledge to possibility: structural correlates of semantic change (on-site)  
12:00-12:30 Alice Bondarenko Annika Tjuka
  Reciprocal-sociative coexpression and lexical semantics (on-site)  
12:30 – 13:45 LUNCH
13:45 - 14:45 KEYNOTE TALK in Hörsal 9 / online  
  Hedvig Skirgård  
  Two ways in which linguistic typology is not butterfly collection  

 

15:00-15:30 Anastasia Panova Ellison Luk
  Correlative clauses in Gawarbati (Indo-Aryan): multifunctionality and possible evolution (on-site)  
15:30-16:00 Amanda Kann Hedvig Skirgård
  Translationese in the Parallel Bible Corpus: Evaluating Extracted Word Order Features from Translated Texts (on-site)  
16:30-17:00 Frederic Blum Laura Becker
  Generalizability and Reproduction in Quantitative Typology: A Case Study on Sound Symbolism (on-site)  
16:30 – 17:00 COFFEE BREAK
17:00-17:30 John Hutchinson Volker Gast
  The Typology of Case Systems: evidence from Gàidhlig and Hungarian (on-site)  
17:30-18:00 Anastasiia Dmitrieva Östen Dahl
  Accounting for the variation of causal meaning across clause types in Polybian Greek (on-site)  
18:15 CONFERENCE DINNER in Gula Villan

 


 

Wednesday, June 12

time talk mentor
9:00-9:30 Timofey Mukhin, An Van Linden, Dana Louagie Seppo Kittilä
  A typological study of applicative uses of spatial markers (on-site)  
9:30-10:00 Adæmrys Chihjen Cheng Östen Dahl
  The Strategy of Comparative Constructions in Enlhet (online)  
10:00-10:30 Niklas Wiskandt Dana Louagie
  A typological perspective on morphological and periphrastic combinations of valency operations (online) (CANCELLED)  
10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00-11:30 Anita Obenaus Antoine Guillaume
  Investigating the flexibility of the classifier-to-noun assignment in Terena (Arawakan) (on-site)  
11:30-12:00 Saskia Dunn Henrik Liljegren
  Inheritance and contact in the Arawakan classifier system(s) (on-site)  
12:00-12:30 Sandra Cronhamn, Anna Hjortdal Frank Seifart
  The predictive function of Baniwa classifiers (hybrid)  
12:30 – 13:45 LUNCH
13:45 – 15:15 Masterclass on parallel corpora and computational methods in Studio 2 / online  
  Robert Östling  
  Masterclass resources  
16:30 EXCURSION