When: Saturday 19 - Sunday 20 November 2011, 9:40am to 17:00pm

Where: SOAS, Russell Square Campus, College Buildings; Rooms G50, G51 and KLT | map

Programme: see below. Click on any title to view its abstract

Presentations: (other than plenaries) will be 20 minutes, with 10 minutes for questions and discussion

Refreshments: Morning and afternoon refreshments, and displays, will be in Room G3

Registration:

Where: the registration desk will be in the main SOAS foyer (Russell Square Campus, College Buildings) | map

When: Registration opens at 9.15 on Friday 18 November and Saturday 19 November

Note: please pre-register online before Tuesday 15 November 2011

 

See also: Workshop programme

This page last updated: 29 November 2011

	Saturday 19 November 2011
09.15	Registration SOAS, Russell Square Campus, College Buildings, main foyer | map
09.40	Welcome - Khalili Lecture Theatre
	RESEARCH DESIGN & OUTCOMES G50 Chair: Mandana Seyfeddinipur	PRONOUNS G51 Chair: Peter Austin
10.00	Language documentation in repeated-observations design Stavros Skopeteas, University of Bielefeld	Pronouns and postpositions in Hiaki Heidi Harley & Alex Trueman, University of Arizona
10.30	Lexical frequency in British Sign Language conversation: a corpus-based approach Kearsy Cormier, Jordan Fenlon, Ramas Rentelis & Adam Schembri, University College London & LaTrobe University, Melbourne	Universal Grammar, language evolution, and documenting an ancient language Anvita Abbi, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Dehli & School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London
11.00	Break Refreshments in G3
	INFORMATION STRUCTURE G50 Chair: Anju Saxena	LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION G51 Chair: David Nathan
11.30	Focus particles in endangered languages Elena Karvovskaya, Potsdam University	Is ex-situ documentation valid? Language documentation in immigrant and refugee communities Brent Henderson, University of Florida
12.00	Building and reshaping theory: object indexing without subject indexing in Blanga (Blablanga), an Austronesian language of the Solomon Islands Radu Voica, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London
12.30	Symmetrical voice and the linking of objective agents in Austronesian languages - an LFG approach Sonja Riesberg, University of Münster	The repair problem: diagnostics and competing orthographic subsystems in Suruí Andrew Nevins & Denny Moore, University College London & Museu Goeldi, Belém
13.00	Lunch
	EVIDENTIALITY G50 Chair: Henrik Bergqvist	PHONETICS, PHONOLOGY & METRE G51 Chair: Anvita Abbi
14.30	Evidentiality and new media in the Caucasus: the case of Hinuq Diana Forker, Universität Bamberg	Tone and voicing perception in Walungge Cathy Bartram, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London
15.00	Documenting evidentiality in Ecuadorian Siona Martine Bruil, Leiden University	A discussion of the interaction between tone and phonation, with special reference to Gurung J. Joseph Perry, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London
15.30		A database as a method of raising typological questions about poetic form Nigel Fabb & Stefano Versace, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
16.00	Break Refreshments in G3
	PLENARY LECTURE - BALTHASAR BICKEL Khalili Lecture Theatre Chair: Oliver Bond
16.30	Multivariate typology and field linguistics Balthasar Bickel, Zurich University
17.30	Reception
19.00	Conference dinner

	Sunday 20 November 2011
	SYSTEMS OF CLASSIFICATION G50 Chair: Lutz Marten	DOCUMENTATION DESIGN G51 Chair: Tony Woodbury
09.30	Preservation and innovation of numeral classifiers in Malto Chaithra Puttaswamy, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur	The context of the context (and other factors to consider in describing a language) Christina Willis, Rice University, Houston
10.00	Semantic categorisations in the Gújjolaay Eegimaa collectives and distributives Serge Sagna, University of Manchester	Interviews and discourse analysis in India: new methods for endangered language documentation Oriana Reid-Collins, Université de Provence
10.30	The many ways of falling down a cliff: culture- and language-specific ways of expressing path Dorothea Hoffmann, University of Manchester	Bringing 'interactivity' into language documentation studies Yuko Sugita, Potsdam University
11.30	Break Refreshments in G3
	GRAMMAR & DISCOURSE G50 Chair: Balthasar Bickel	NOMINALS G51 Chair: Serge Sagna
12.00	Negation in Nar discourse genres Oliver Bond & Kristine Hildebrandt, University of Salford & Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville (SIUE)	Plural words in the Papuan languages of Alor-Pantar Marian Klamer & Antoinette Schapper, Leiden University
12.30	Interactional functions as part of the grammar? The suffix -ba in Cha'palaa Simeon Floy & Martine Bruil, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen & Leiden University	Emphatic nominal morphology: a cross-linguistically rare phenomenon in Enets Olesya Khanina & Andrey Shluinsky, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig & Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow
13.00	Lunch
	PLENARY LECTURE - ANJU SAXENA Khalili Lecture Theatre Chair: Lutz Marten
14.30	Towards empirical classification of Kinnauri varieties Anju Saxena, Uppsala University
15.30	Break Refreshments in G3
	POSSESSION G50 Chair: Tania Kuteva	SYNTAX G51 Chair: Oliver Bond
16.00	Varieties of external possession in Chimwiini Brent Henderson, & Charles Kisseberth, University of Florida & University of Illinois	Conjunct/disjunct in Ika (Arwako) Henrik Bergqvist, Stockholm University
16.30	From possessive classifiers to agreement markers: micro-variation and diachronic depth Michael Franjieh & Kilu von Prince, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London & Humboldt University, Berlin	Substitutive applicatives in Bemba Lutz Marten, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London
17.00	Close