Conference Presentations

2012

Gildea, Spike & Fernando Zúñiga. Referential hierarchies: A new look at some historical and typological patterns. EuroBabel Final Conference, Leiden, NL. August 23–26, 2012.
Iemmolo, Giorgio & Robert Schikowski. Differential object marking and differential object indexation. EuroBabel Final Conference, Leiden, NL. August 23–26, 2012.
van Lier, Eva & Katharina Haude. Referential hierarchies and three-participant constructions. EuroBabel Final Conference, Leiden, NL. August 23–26, 2012.

2011

Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena, Lennart Bierkandt, Taras Zakharko & Balthasar Bickel. Decomposing hierarchical alignment: participant scenarios as conditions on alignment. Workshop "Referential Hierarchies in Alignment Typology" at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Logroño, Spain.
Gildea, Spike & Katharina Haude. Accepted. The Origins of the Movima Hierarchical Alignment: Internal Reconstruction. Oral presentation at the workshop Diachronic Syntax, International Congress on Historical Linguistics. Osaka, July 25-29, 2011.
Haude, Katharina. Antipassive and Possessor in Movima. Atélier de morphosyntaxe, DDL, Lyon. January 14, 2011.

2010

Bickel, Balthasar. Referential effects on grammatical relations. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 26 March, 2010.
Bickel, Balthasar & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich. Is differential case marking caused by a universal referential scale? 8th Biennial Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, UC Berkeley, 23-26 July, 2010.
Genetti, Carol & Spike Gildea. 2010. Training at the University Level: From linguistic description to language documentation. Workshop: Documentary Linguistics: Retrospective and Prospective, Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Baltimore, MD, January 8-9.
Gildea, Spike. Merger of lineages to create innovative main clauses in the Cariban Family. Workshop: Multiple source constructions in language change, Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Vilnius University, September 3, 2010.
Gildea, Spike. Referential Hierarchies as a grammatical reflection of Orientation of Attention. RHIM Meeting, Leipzig, Germany, August 28-29, 2010.
Gildea, Spike. The Givón Text-Counting Method. EuroBABEL Cross-CRP Meeting, Leipzig, Germany, March 15, 2010.
Gildea, Spike. Hierarchies and Attention. EuroBABEL Cross-CRP workshop Referential hierarchy effects on the morphosyntax of verbal arguments. University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, August 28-29, 2010.
Gildea, Spike. Orienting Attention as the basis for linguistic Referential Hierarchies. Faits de Langue Workshop: Saillance. CNRS Campus, Villejuif, December 11, 2010.
Gildea, Spike. From Participant Nominalization to Main Clause Verb: Three Distinct Outcomes in Three South American Languages. Invited talk, CELIA - SEDYL, CNRS Campus, Villejuif, September 10, 2010.
Gildea, Spike, Natalia Cáceres & Racquel Yamada. Explaining Counter-Universal Split Ergativity: Cariban Progressive/Imperfective Ergatives. Keynote lecture, Ninth High Desert Linguistics Society Conference, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, November 4-6, 2010.
Gildea, Spike & Sérgio Meira. Valence Increase in the Cariban family. Amazónicas III: Fonología y sintaxis, Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Bogotá, April 19-24, 2010.
Haude, Katharina. Ontological salience vs. discourse prominence in Movima. EuroBABEL Cross-CRP workshop Referential hierarchy effects on the morphosyntax of verbal arguments, Leipzig, August 28-29, 2010.
Haude, Katharina. Saillance en movima (Bolivie): ontologie, agentivité et discours. Séminairde du Cercle de Linguistique de l'Inalco, Paris, February 2, 2010.
Haude, Katharina, Eva van Lier & Anna Siewierska. The encoding of three-participant constructions in languages with hierarchically determined argument realization. Societas Linguistica Europeae 43, Vilnius, September 1-5.
Haude, Katharina, Eva van Lier & Anna Siewierska. Hierarchical systems and three-participant constructions. 43rd annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europeae, Vilnius, September 2-5, 2010.
Himmelmann, Nikolaus. Symmetrical voice in Totoli (Sulawesi, Indonesia). Séminaire de recherche du SeDyL, Paris, December 10, 2010.
Jansen, Joana. The grammatical coding of the inverse category in Sahaptin. Poster presented at the 8th meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology, University of California, Berkeley, 2009.
Jansen, Joana. Plurality and inverse marking in 3>3 scenarios in Northwest Sahaptin. Presented at the EuroBABEL Cross CRP-Workshop, Referential hierarchy effects on the morphosyntax of verbal arguments, University of Leipzig, August 2010.
Schikowski, Robert. Frame swapping in Chintang. 16th Himalayan Languages Symposium, London, 4 September 2010.
Schikowski, Robert. Factors conditioning object fading in Chintang. Talk given at Referential hierarchy effects on the morphosyntax of verbal arguments, Institute of Linguistics, University of Leipzig, 28 August, 2010.
Schikowski, Robert, Netra Paudyal & Balthasar Bickel. Fluid transitivity in Chintang. Talk given at the Workshop on Valency Classes, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, 21 August, 2010.
Siewierska, Anna. Local persons in tri-valent scenarios: corpus perspectives from English and Polish. Workshop 'Between you and me - local pronouns across modalities' at the MPI for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, June 7-9, 2010. (→slides)
Siewierska, Anna & Eva van Lier. Non-prototypical Ditransitives. Workshop on Variation and Change in Argument Structure, Naples/Capri, May 27-31, 2010. (→slides)
Siewierska, Anna & Eva van Lier. Three-participant scenarios: assessing the combined effects of verb classes and referential hierarchies. Syntax of the World’s Languages IV. Lyon 23-26th September 2010.
Siewierska, Anna & Eva van Lier. Referential hierarchies in Morphosyntax. Talk at colloquium of the Research Group for Theoretical Linguistics, Lancaster University. 28th January 2010.
Siewierska, Anna & Eva van Lier, in collaboration with Alex Francois, Diana Schakow, and Robert Schikowski. A lexicalist perspective on the ditransitive topicality-role constraint. EuroBABEL workshop on Referential hierarchy effects on the morphosyntax of verbal arguments, Leipzig 28-29th August 2010.
Siewierska, Anna, Balthasar Bickel, Alena Witzlack-Makaravic, & Eva van Lier. Assessing referential effects in ditransitives. 1st workshop on Referential Hierarchies in Morphosyntax. Leipzig, 15th March 2010, Leipzig.
van Lier, Eva. Referential hierarchies in morphosyntax. Optimal Communication Colloquium. Radboud University Nijmegen, 6th January 2010.
van Lier, Eva & Katharina Haude. The encoding of three-participant events in languages with referentially determined argument realization. Syntax of the World's Languages IV, Lyon, September 23-26, 2010.
Witzlack-Makarevich, A., T. Zakharko, L. Bierkandt & B. Bickel. Dissecting hierarchical alignment. Workshop on Referential Hierarchy Effects on the Morphosyntax of Verbal Arguments, Leipzig, 28 August 2010.
Zúñiga, Fernando. Not all inverses are born equal. Dealing with direction marking patterns and empathy hierarchies in order to capture their synchrony and explain their diachrony. Workshop “The typology and diachrony of hierarchical alignment systems.” 8th Biennial Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, UC Berkeley, 23-26 July, 2010.
Zúñiga, Fernando. Mapudungun and the general theory of inversion. Talk at the colloquium series, Department of Linguistics, University of Calgary, Canada, August 9, 2010, and at the colloquium series, Department of Modern Languages, University of Lethbridge, August 11, 2010.
Zúñiga, Fernando. A closer look at Mapudungun inversion and differential object marking. Talk at the RHIM-OUP Cross-CRP Workshop, Leipzig, Germany, August 28-29, 2010.
Zúñiga, Fernando. On symmetrical voice systems. Keynote lecture, Syntax of the World’s Languages IV, Lyon, September 23-26, 2010.
Zúñiga, Fernando. Symmetrical voice systems, inverse systems, and voice typology. Séminaire de recherche du SeDyL, Paris, December 10, 2010.
Zúñiga, Fernando. Unipersonal and bipersonal verb forms in Mapudungun. Colloquium series, Romance Languages Department, University of Zurich, Switzerland, December 16, 2010.

2009

Cáceres, Natalia and Spike Gildea. Innovative ergative main clause grammar in Ye'kwana (Cariban). Workshop on Ergative Markers. Centre d'Etudes des Langues Indigènes d'Amérique, Université de Paris 7, November 9. (→handout)
Gildea, Spike. Reconstructing Sources for Hierarchical Alignment in Main Clause Grammar. 8th Biennial Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, UC Berkeley, 23-26 July, 2009. (→handout)