 Rara
& Rarissima —
Collecting and interpreting unusual characteristics of human languages Leipzig (Germany), 29 March - 1 April 2006 |
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Timeframe: 90 minutes of presentation and discussion.
Frans Plank : 3rd Person Plural in Distancing Pronominal Address for Individuals: Rare by Chance or Necessity?
Larry Hyman : Affixation by Place of
Articulation: Rare and mysterious
Ian Maddieson : Phonetic Rara (lecture in memory of Peter Ladefoged)
Daniel L. Everett : Case studies of rara: the general vs the specific in the formation of American linguistics and philosophy
Timeframe: 30 minutes of presentation, plus 15 minutes of discussion.
This is a tentative schedule and subject to change.
Please don't forget to check back shortly before the conference for an up-to-date version.
Slot - Day Time |
MPI EVA Lecture Hall |
BioCity Lecture Hall |
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Session: Number and Reduplication
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Session: General Issues I |
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| 01 - 29/3 1400-1445 |
Jeff Good |
Rarum begets rarum: A rare clitic and morphosyntactic reduplication in Chechen and Ingush. [pdf] | Jan Rijkhof |
Rara and Linguistic Theory. [pdf] |
| 02 - 29/3 1450-1535 |
Hein van der Voort |
Reduplication of person suffixes in Kwaza (isolate, Brazil). [pdf] | Kaius Sinnemäki | Languages with SOV word order and no morphological marking of core arguments. [pdf] |
| 03 - 29/3 1600-1645 |
Sebastian Nordhoff |
The Subtractive Plural Morpheme in Sinhala. [pdf] | Matthew Baerman | Tracking the amphisbaenic paradigm: morphological polarity. [pdf] |
| PL - 29/3 1700-1830 |
Frans Plank |
3rd Person Plural in Distancing Pronominal Address for Individuals: Rare by Chance or Necessity? | ||
Session: Phonetics/Phonology I
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Session: Negation |
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| 04 - 30/3 0900-0945 |
Didier Demolin & Marie Vuillermet |
Voiceless implosives: a comparison between South American and African languages. [pdf] | Christiane Pilot-Raichoor |
The Dravidian zero negative : conceptualisation and diachronic context of its morphogenesis. [pdf] |
| 05- 30/3 0950-1035 |
Christian DiCanio |
The Phonetics of Laryngealization in Takean Thong Chong. [pdf] | Matti Miestamo |
Negatives without negators. [pdf] |
Session: Phonetics/Phonology II
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Session: Agreement/Tracking I
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| 06 - 30/3 1100-1145 |
Pavel Iosad |
Right at the Left Edge: Initial Consonant Mutations in the World's Languages. [pdf] | Anna Berge |
Unexpected non-anaphoric marking in Aleut. [pdf] |
| 07 - 30/3 1150-1235 |
Siri Tuttle | Syllabic obstruents in Ahtna Athabaskan. [pdf] | Peter Schmidt |
Agreeing adverbials: rare but (mostly) areal. [pdf] |
Session: Lexical Classes
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Session: Agreement/Tracking II
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| 08 - 30/3 1400-1445 |
Matthias Gerner & Walter Bisang |
Classifiers in Weining Ahmao: a fully inflectual system in an isolating language. [pdf] | Gunther De Vogelaer & Johan van der
Auwera |
When typological rara become productive: the extension of grammatical agreement in Dutch dialects. [pdf] |
| 09 - 30/3 1450-1535 |
Teresa McFarland (paper read by Christian DiCanio) |
Ideophones and templatic morphology in Totonaco de Filomeno Mata. [pdf] | Ruth Singer |
Mawng lexicalized agreement in typological perspective. [pdf] |
Session: Lexical Classes (cont.)
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Session: Agreement/Tracking II (cont.)
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| 10 - 30/3 1600-1645 |
Dmitry Idiatov |
Rare and nonexistent interrogative pro-word types: interrogative pro-verbs and Co. [pdf] | Tom Güldemann |
"Janus-headed" nominals: the
morphosyntax of agreement in Taa. [pdf] |
| PL - 30/3 1700-1830 |
Larry Hyman | Affixation by Place of
Articulation: Rare and mysterious [pdf] |
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Session: Case & Roles I |
Session: Phonetics/Phonology III
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| 11 - 31/3 0900-0945 |
Seppo Kittilä |
Ablative as a marker of benefaction. [pdf] | Urmas Sutrop |
Ternary oppositions, Estonian three-way quantity contrast, and the Baltic polytonic Sprachbund. [pdf] |
| 12 - 31/3 0950-1035 |
Sylvie Voisin |
An uncommon type of valency operator in Wolof. [pdf] | Johannes Helmbrecht |
The accentual system of Hocank (Winnebago) - a typological rarity. [pdf] |
Session: Case & Roles II
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Session: Phonetics/Phonology IV
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| 13 - 31/3 1100-1145 |
Søren Wichmann |
A cross-linguistically rare case system in Tlapanec. [pdf] | Didier Demolin |
The production of bilabial trills. [pdf] |
| 14 - 31/3 1150-1235 |
Michael Daniel |
Monotransitivity in 'give'-constructions (exploring the periphery of ditransitives). [pdf] | Maria Butskhrikidze |
The nature of consonant sequences in Modern Georgian. [pdf] |
Session: Agreement/Tracking III
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Session: Numerals
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| 15 - 31/3 1400-1445 |
Alice Harris |
Explaining Exuberant Agreement. [pdf] | Harald Hammarström | Rarities in Numeral Systems. [pdf] |
| 16 - 31/3 1450-1535 |
Denis Creissels |
Person agreement in Akhvakh [pdf] |
Thomas Hanke | The rarity scale of addition. [pdf] |
Session: Lexical Semantics |
Session: General Issues II
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| 17 - 31/3 1600-1645 |
Mari Bogatkin-Uusküla
& Urmas Sutrop |
The puzzle of two terms for red in Hungarian. [pdf] | Frederick Newmeyer |
Accounting for Rare Typological Features in Formal Syntax: Three Strategies and Some General Remarks. [pdf] |
| PL - 31/3 1700-1830 |
Ian Maddieson | Phonetic rara Lecture in memory of Peter Ladefoged |
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Session: Case & Roles I
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Session: Verbs and Events I
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| 18 - 01/4 0900-0945 |
Márcia Cançado |
Talking about Agents and
Beneficiaries in Brazilian Portuguese. [pdf] |
Bernhard Wälchli |
Positive and negative rarities in the cross-linguistic encoding of motion events. [pdf] |
| 19 - 01/4 0950-1035 |
Andrej Malchukov |
“Quirky case”: cross-linguistically rare phenomena in case-marking. [pdf] | Marian Klamer & František
Kratochvíl |
Classifying events and referents: Rarissima in Abui verbs. [pdf] |
Session: Case & Roles II
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Session: Verbs and Events II
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| 20 - 01/4 1100-1145 |
Richard Rhodes |
A unique grammatical relation in Algonquian syntax. [pdf] | Katharina Haude |
Nominal tense in Movima. [pdf] |
| 21 - 01/4 1150-1235 |
Nicole Kruspe |
Split marking in Semelai. [pdf] | Boštjan Dvořák & Ilse Zimmermann | Imperative Subordination in Slovenian. [pdf] |
Session: Historical Linguistics
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Session: Verbs and Events III |
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| 22 - 01/4 1400-1445 |
Orin Gensler | Shared quirks, ancient areality, and homelands: A case study from Afroasiatic. [pdf] | Valentin Goussev & Maria Brykina |
Three Rara from Nganasan. [pdf] |
| 23 - 01/4 1450-1535 |
Balthasar Bickel | What favors the development of
rara? A
Himalayan case study. [pdf] |
Leena Kelkar-Stephan | Future to express habitual actions in the past or present, and past to express immediate future! [pdf] |
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Session: General Issues III
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Session: General Issues IV
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| 24 - 01/4 1600-1645 |
Michael Cysouw |
The importance of rara for a theory of linguistics
[pdf] |
Jan Wohlgemuth | Rare today – gone tomorrow |
| PL - 01/4 1700-1830 |
Daniel L. Everett | Case studies of rara: the general vs the specific in the formation of American linguistics and philosophy Lecture in memory of Peter Ladefoged |
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Last updated: March 25, 2006