The conference has been moved to Palazzo Malvezzi (Via Zamboni 22), Sala delle Armi.
Registration
Welcome/Introduction
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
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
Language variety as the minimal grammatical system in a typological perspective
Alessandro Vietti and Massimo Cerruti
Round table
Lunch break
Word order and information structure: new insights from conversational corpora
Natalia Levshina, Rowena Garcia and Yevheniy Skyra
Typology and its data: functional monoculture or structural diversity?
John W. Du Bois and Giorgia Troiani
Coffee break
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
Ze ma she-'ani tsarix ‘that’s what I need’: 'Reversed pseudo-clefts' in Hebrew conversation
Yael Maschler and Hilla Polak-Yitzhaki
Round table
Social dinner
Typology and usage: explanatory perspectives with special reference to negation
Matti Miestamo, Ksenia Shagal, Olli Silvennoinen and Chingduang Yurayong
Relatively complex or relatively simple? Toward new ways of analyzing language variation
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
Coffee break
Embodied typology: gesture and prosody in traditional storytelling
Amina Mettouchi
The mighty demonstrative
Marianne Mithun
Round table
Lunch break
Object omission in naturally occurring data and antipassives
Caterina Mauri, Andrea Sansò and Silvia Ballarè
Typology and variation of subjunctive mood. On shared (probabilistic) constraints
Salvio Digesto
Coffee break
Sociolinguistics meets typology: the value of vernacular speech to account for cross-linguistic patterns
Sali A. Tagliamonte
Cross-linguistic patterns of causal adverbial clauses in grammar-based typology and corpus linguistics
Holger Diessel
Round table
Closing