Typology, Theory: Caucasus is a 3-day conference on the languages of the Caucasus to be held at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul on November 29–December 1, 2012, co-hosted by the French Research Institute (IFEA). We welcome contributions on the analysis of the languages of the area, including diachronic aspects, as well as papers discussing the challenges these languages present to theoretical frameworks in linguistics.
Programme
The final programme is still in the making; below you can find the lists (main session & poster session) of accepted papers, ordered alphabetically by author.
Main session
Applebaum, Ayla. Prosodically Reduced Relative Clauses in Kabardian Bogomolova, Natalia. Cross-clausal person agreement in Tabasaran Cyrino, João Paulo. A Semantic Map Approach to the Georgian Pre-Radical Vowel -i- Daniel, Michael & Yury Lander. Relative clauses and processing complexity Demirok, Ömer. The Diachrony of Case Marking in Georgian: Ergativity and Specificity Dobrushina, Nina. Variation of plural imperative marking in Archi Erschler, David. Sluicing-like phenomena and the location of CP in Ossetic Ershova, Ksenia. The Besleney Masdar: Between a Noun and a Verb Forker, Diana & Belyaev, Oleg. Reflexive constructions in Dargi and other Daghestanian languages Ganenkov, Dmitry. Partial control with overt subjects Gérardin, Hélène & Arthur Laisis. Some thoughts on alignment change and grammatical categories in Ossetic Gérardin, Hélène. Hierarchy conflicts in Georgian argumental affixes Giunashvili, Elene. Studies on the language of Iranian Georgians Gordon, Michael & Ayla Applebaum. Typologically Rare and Endangered Consonants of Circassian Lander, Yury. Nominal complexes in Adyghe: between morphology and syntax Maisak, Timur. The functions of a borrowed marker -sa in Nizh Udi Makharoblidze, Tamar. The typological analysis of the category of version in Georgian verbs Molochieva, Zarina. Evidential categories in Chechen Pöchtrager, Markus A. A first look at Pazar Laz consonant clusters Rudnev, Pavel. Matrix constituent interrogatives in Avar Skopeteas Stavros. Syntactic change and language contact in Caucasian Urum Taylan, Eser & Balkız Öztürk. Transitive Intransitives in Pazar Vydrin Arseniy. Participant-internal vs. participant-external possibility opposition
Posters
Khalilov, Madzhid & Zaira Khalilova. Word formation in some Daghestanian languages Kikvidze, Zaal. E/N Pronouns of Formality and Informality Mazurova, Julia. Two locative preverbs in Adyghe Melikishvili, Irine. About the place of the Kartvelian languages on the continuum agglutination-fusion Pourtskhvanidze, Zakharia. Split verb Focalization in Georgian Topadze Gäumann, Manana. Hearsay in Georgian
