Program

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The conference has been moved to Palazzo Malvezzi (Via Zamboni 22), Sala delle Armi.

18.05.2023 - room A

9:00

Registration

10:30

Welcome/Introduction

11:00

Linking typological and sociolinguistic data to draw inferences about contact effects: a worldwide comparative approach

Francesca Di Garbo, Eri Kashima , Ricardo Napoleão de Souza and Kaius Sinnemäki

11:30

How ubiquitous is complementation? A naturalistic cross-corpus study

Nicholas Evans, Wayan Arka, Danielle Barth, Henrik Bergqvist, Christian Döhler, Sonja Gipper, Dolgor Güntsetseg, Yukinori Kimoto, Dominique Knuchel, Hitomi Ōno, Eka Pratiwi, Saskia van Putten, Alan Rumsey, Andrea Schalley, Stefan Schnell, Asako Shiohara, Elena Skribnik, Yanti

12:00

Language variety as the minimal grammatical system in a typological perspective

Alessandro Vietti and Massimo Cerruti

12:30

Round table

13:00

Lunch break

15:00

Word order and information structure: new insights from conversational corpora

Natalia Levshina, Rowena Garcia and Yevheniy Skyra

15:30

Typology and its data: functional monoculture or structural diversity?

John W. Du Bois and Giorgia Troiani

16:00

Coffee break

16.30

Variation and typology in Romance: a cross-linguistic study of subjunctive selection in spontaneous speech

Shana Poplack, Rena Torres Cacoullos, Nathalie Dion, Rosane de Andrade Berlinck, Salvio Digesto, Dora Lacasse and Jonathan Steuck

17:00

Ze ma she-'ani tsarix ‘that’s what I need’: 'Reversed pseudo-clefts' in Hebrew conversation

Yael Maschler and Hilla Polak-Yitzhaki

17:30

Round table

20:00

Social dinner

19.05.2023 - room A

09:30

Typology and usage: explanatory perspectives with special reference to negation

Matti Miestamo, Ksenia Shagal, Olli Silvennoinen and Chingduang Yurayong

10:00

Relatively complex or relatively simple? Toward new ways of analyzing language variation

Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

10:30

Coffee break

11:00

Embodied typology: gesture and prosody in traditional storytelling

Amina Mettouchi

11:30

The mighty demonstrative

Marianne Mithun

12:00

Round table

12:30

Lunch break

14:30

Object omission in naturally occurring data and antipassives 

 Caterina Mauri, Andrea Sansò and Silvia Ballarè

15:00

Typology and variation of subjunctive mood. On shared (probabilistic) constraints

Salvio Digesto

15:30

Coffee break

16:00

Sociolinguistics meets typology: the value of vernacular speech to account for cross-linguistic patterns

Sali A. Tagliamonte

16:30

Cross-linguistic patterns of causal adverbial clauses in grammar-based typology and corpus linguistics

Holger Diessel

17:00

Round table

17:30

Closing