Wednesday, 20 July
1400-1800	Registration
Thursday, 21 July
0800-0830	Registration
0830-0930	Opening Ceremony
0930-1030	Keynote Address Languages of Sumatra from a Geographical Perspective Matthew Dryer
1030-1100	Break
	Session 1A Workshop: Languages of Sumatra	Session 1B Workshop: Ditransitive Constructions
1100-1130	The Sociolinguistic Landscape of Sumatra D. Gil	The History of the Ditransitive Construction in North Germanic J. Barðdal
1130-1200	The Writing Systems of Sumatra U. Kozok	I Gave It Him On the Rationale of the 'Alternative Pronominal Double Obect Construction' in English and Other Germanic Languages V. Gast
1200-1230	Where Was the Homeland of Malay? U. Tadmor	From Intralinguistic Analysis to Implicational Universals: A CognitiveTypological Perspective on the Dative Alternation W. Hollmann
1230-1400	Lunch
	Session 2A Workshop: Languages of Sumatra	Session 2B Workshop: Ditransitive Constructions
1400-1430	Cheaper by the Dozen: Reassessing Linguistic Diversity in the Lampungic Language Cluster K. Anderbeck	The Indirect Object as an Indicator of Transitivity S. Kittila
1430-1500	[TBA] G. Diffloth	Double Object Constructions: The Division of Labor Between Semantics and Information Structure M. Polinsky
1500-1530	Vanishing Voices of the Andaman Islands: The Case of Intriguing Sounds of Great Andamanese, Jarawa and Onge A. Abbi	Three out of Two Ain't Bad: The Development of a Three-Participant Construction in Oceanic Languages J. Song
1530-1600	Break
	Session 3A Workshop: Languages of Sumatra	Session 3B Workshop: Ditransitive Constructions
1600-1630	The Typology of Voice in Gayo D. Eades	Bound Person Forms in Ditransitive Clauses Revisited A. Siewierska & D. Bakker
1630-1700	Variable Word Order in Toba Batak P. Cole & G. Hermon	Some Argument Structure Properties of 'Give' in the Languages of Europe and Central Asia B. Comrie
1700-1730	Ergative Case in Nias L. Brown	General Discussion
1730-1800	Nias in Typology Perspective W. Nazara
Friday, 22 July
	Session 4A Workshop: Languages of Sumatra	Session 4B
0830-0900	A Survey of Studies of the Minangkabau Language Rita Marnita	Systemic Typology – Systemic Optimality G. Fenk-Oczlon & A. Fenk
0900-0930	Grammatical Relations in Minangkabau: A Typological Analysis Jufrizal Jufrizal	Stories Behind Implications: On the Relationship between Typology and Diachrony F. Plank
0930-1000	The Portrait of Minangkabau Women as Depicted in Various Proverbs and Sayings Yusrita Yanti	Origin and Control of the Initial Phase of the Process: How Does Kashmir Cope with the Lack of Agent E. del Bon
1000-1030	Break
	Session 5A	Session 5B
1030-1100	Prolegomena Towards a Typology of Relexification Acts P. Wexler	10 with 2 is 12 (In Any Language?!) - Refinements to the Typology of Addition T. Hanke
1100-1130	Explaining the lack of formal differentiation between WHO? and WHAT? and between WHO? and WHERE? D. Idiatov	Did Colonial Valley Zapotec Numerals Violate a Linguistic Universal? B. Comrie & P. Munro
1130-1200	Lexical Typology of AQUA Motion Y. Lander, T. Maisa & E. Rakhilina	Vacuous Appeals to the Number Hierarchy M. Dryer
1200-1330	Lunch
	Session 6A	Session 6B Workshop: Sign Language Typology
1330-1400	Is Great Andamanese Typologically Divergent from Standard Average Andamanese? A. Abbi	Deaf Communities and Sign Languages Sibaji Panda	1330-1410
1400-1430	The Many Faces of SVO: Noun Phrase Structure in Chinese and Thai P. Jenks	Break	1410-1420
1430-1500	Comparing Constructions across Languages: A Case Study of the Relationship between the Inclusory Construction and Some Related Nominal Constructions R. Singer	Aims and Methods of Sign Language Typology: Case Studies in Interrogatives, Negatives and Possession U. Zeshan	1420-1500
1500-1530	Break
	Session 7A	Session 7B Workshop: Sign Language Typology
1530-1600	On Weak Government C. Hagege	Village-Based Sign Languages I Gede Marsaja	1530-1610
1600-1630	Madurese and a Typology of Raising W. Davies	Break	1610-1620
1630-1700	Renewing Connection with the Data: Reciprocal Constructions in Melanesian and Polynesian Languages E. König & C. Moyse Faurie	The Sign and the Word – Current Theoretical Problems in Sign Linguistics W. Schwager	1620-1700
1830-	Banquet
Saturday, 23 July
	Session 8A	Session 8B
0900-0930	Towards a Cross-Linguistic Typology of Extra-Clausal Constituents N. Smit	Deictics in Oma’ Lung, a Kenyah Language of Kalimantan A. Soriente
0930-1000	Typology and Universals of Comparative Correlatives T. Leung	The Verb for ‘And’ in Walman, a Torricelli Language of Papua New Guinea L. Brown & M. Dryer
1000-1030	Break
	Session 9A	Session 9B
1030-1100	Universalities and Diversities in Synaesthetic Metaphors Y. Shen & D. Gil	Reciprocality in a Polysythetic Language: Adyghe Reciprocals A. Letuchiy
1100-1130	Rebuilding Semantic Maps H. Narrog, S. Ito & E. Tokita	The Iwaidja/Mawng Reciprocal N. Evans, R. Singer & B. Birch
1130-1200	Syntactic Information on Semantic Maps: The Case of the Comitative A. Arkhipov	Core and Extended Meanings of the Reciprocal N. Evans et al.
1200-1330	Lunch
	Session 10A	Session 10B Workshop: World Atlas of Language Structures
1330-1400	Towards a Typology of Focus Quantifiers V. Gast	Introduction M. Haspelmath, M. Dryer, D. Gil, B. Comrie	1330-1345
		Politeness: an interpretation of the WALS-map J. Helmbrecht	1345-1400
1400-1430	Interpretation of the Notional Subject in Serial Verb Constructions in Seediq N. Tsukida	Associative Plurals: an interpretation of the WALS-map M. Daniel	1400-1415
		Optatives: an interpretation of the WALS-map N. Dobrushina	1415-1430
1430-1500	Grammatical and Semantic Variation in Serial Verb Constructions M. Owens	Preparing WALS for quantitative analyses M. Cysouw & M. Albu	1430-1445
		On the problem of feature compatibility G. G. Corbett & A. Kibort	1445-1500
1500-1530	Break
	Session 11A	Session 11B Workshop: World Atlas of Language Structures
1530-1600	When the CAUSEE is AGENT: From a Formosan Morphological Causative G.-j. Lin	Measuring typological distance in the WALS data Ö. Dahl
1600-1630	Causatives with Passive Meaings in Languages without Passives A. Prasithrathsint	The distribution of rare features in the WALS data M. Cysouw
1630-1700	Semantic Parameters for Typological Identification of Derivational Categories of the Ket Verb M. Zinn	Areal patterns in the WALS data B. Bickel & J. Nichols
1700-1830	Business Meeting
1830-1930	Party: WALS
Sunday, 24 July
	Session 12A	Session 12B
0830-0900	The Category of Destinative in Nganasna, North-Samoyedic and Typology of Prospective Possession M. Daniel	Evidence for a Major Typological Shift at the Dawn of History of Dravidian Languages C. Pilot-Raichoor
0900-0930	The Typology of ‘Possessive’ Subject-Indexing in Oceanic B. Palmer	Diversity in Phonological Word Domains: Testing the Prosodic Hierarchy Hypothesis B. Bickel & K. Hildebrandt
0930-1000	Sensory and Cognitive Perceptions in Cross-Linguistic Perspective: A Semantic and Lexical Analysis M. Vanhove	Areal Factors in Two Sets of Mobile Clitics in the Verbal Systems of the Languages of the South Caucasus D. L. Stilo
1000-1030	Break
	Session 13A	Session 13B
1030-1100	Differential Goal Marking: Concerning the Animacy Effects on the Encoding of Goals S. Kittila	Assymetries in Word Architecture: Another Look at the Suffixing Preference N. Himmelmann
1100-1130	Verb Type Hierarchies and a Typology of Transitivity Splits A. Malchukov	The Canonical Approach in Typology: Suppletion and Features G. Corbett
1130-1200	The Involvement Hiearchy J. Helmbrecht	"Detatched Head-Marking" in NPs Y. Lander
1200-1330	Lunch
	Session 14A	Session 14B
1330-1400	The Functions of Case: Unifying the Discriminatory and Indexing Approaches A. Naess	Perceptual Evidence for Missing Vowels in Defective Vowel Systems T. Andreas
1400-1430	Uncommon Patterns of Core Term Marking: Antiaccusative and Antiergative D. Creissels	The Nature of Labiovelar Obstruents M. Cahill
1430-1500	The Typology of Reported Speech: Semi-Indirect Speech in Papuan Languages R. Loughnane	Against a Parameter Setting Model of Typological Variation F. Newmeyer
1500-1530	Break
	Session 15A	Session 15B
1530-1600	The Life Cycle of Antipassive Constructions S. Say	How Exceptional is Riau Indonesian? D. Gil
1600-1630	Bitransitive Constructions in a Number of Languages Bambang Kaswanti Purwo	Trade-offs Between Linguistic Subsystems: Evidence for Equal Complexity of Languages? K. Sinnemäki
1630-1700	Functions in Passive, Functions of Passives in Tukang Besi M. Donohue	Complexity in Functional Domains M. Miestamo
Monday, 25 July
	Session 16A	Session 16B
0830-0900	Person Marking Systems in Dani Languages Y. Sawaki	An Inflecting Question Particle in Oroqen L. Whaley
0900-0930	Negation and the Typology of of Non-Verbal Predication P. K. Eriksen	On the Typology of Content Interrogatives M. Cysouw
0930-1000	On the Typology of the Prohibitive J. van der Auwera	Turkic Forms in *gaj: An Essay on the Evolution of a Modal Category N. Dobrushina
1000-1030	Break
1030-1130	Keynote Address ALT Junior Award Symmetry vs. Asymmetry: Standard Negation and Beyond Matti Miestamo
1130-1230	Keynote Address On the Distinction between Core and Oblique Arguments in the Austronesian Languages of Indonesia (abstract pdf) I Wayan Arka
1230-1400	Lunch
1400-1500	Closing Ceremony
1500-	Excursion
Tuesday, 26 July
0830-	Excursion