URPP Language and Space www.spur.uzh.ch International Conference SPATIAL BOUNDARIES AND TRANSITIONS IN LANGUAGE AND INTERACTION Perspectives from Linguistics and Geography April 23 – 28, 2017 Monte Verità, Ascona http://www.spur.uzh.ch/boundaries PROGRAM MONDAY, 24. APRIL TUESDAY, 25. APRIL 08:00 Breakfast Breakfast 09:00 Welcome 09:15 1 KEYNOTE TALK: Tom Güldemann 9 KEYNOTE TALK: Setha Low Linguistic macro-areas in Africa: when Language, Discourse and Space: boundaries are areas themselves p. 01 A Conceptual Framework for the Ethnography of Space and Place p. 09 10:15 Break Break 10:45 2 INPUT TALK SESSION 1: Peter Auer 10 INPUT TALK SESSION 2: Alfred Lameli Walking and talking: how speakers jointly Intangible Borders – Linguistic Areas and manoeuver in space p. 02 Socio-Cultural Practices p. 10 11:30 3 Paul Luff, Christian Heath, Menisha Patel 11 Stefanie Siebenhuetter Boundaries in interaction spaces: embodied Conceptual transfer of spatial reference due interaction within a large working to language contact? A semantic approach environment p. 03 to cultural conceptualization in the linguistic area Mainland Southeast Asia p. 11 12:00 Lunch Lunch 14:00 4 Martin de Heaver, Paul Luff, 12 Grossenbacher, Britain, Leemann, Christian Heath Kolly, Blaxter, Wanitsch Crossing Boundaries: interactions through Smartphone app methodologies for regional locations within a moving environment p. 04 dialectology: the English North-South divide in data from the English Dialects App p. 12 14:30 5 Albert Acedo and Marco Painho: 13 Daan Hovens “You should participate” or “I want What is the language of the euregio to participate” – engaging spatial rhine-meuse-north? Euroregional integration boundaries p. 05 and the future of languages near the Dutch-German border p. 13 15:00 6 Randi Moore 14 Maja Miličević, Nikola Ljubešić, Defining "community" through spatial Tanja Samardžić reference: Communities of practice in the Establishing borders between states vs Isthmus of Tehuantepec p. 06 languages: Twitter data to the rescue p. 14 15:30 Coffee break Coffee break 16:00 7 Sabine Lehner 15 Arjen Versloot Representations of space and borders in the Isolation and archaisms: a GIS-case Austrian public discourse on Asylum and in study on Alemannic dialects of Wallis narratives of disPLACEd persons p. 07 and northern Italy p. 15 16:30 8 Paul Longley, Jens Kandt, Tian Lan 16 Balthasar Bickel, Curdin Derungs Surname geographies, socio-cultural Linguistic areas bottom-up p. 16 interaction and new functional regions p. 08 19:00 Dinner Dinner 20:30 17 PUBLIC EVENT: Ruth Wodak ‘The Language of Walls’ - Analyzing Rightwing Populist Discourse p. 17 WEDNESDAY, 26. APRIL THURSDAY, 27. APRIL 08:00 Breakfast Breakfast 09:15 18 KEYNOTE TALK: Christian Berndt 26 KEYNOTE TALK: Dan Montello Human geography's borders p. 19 The Cognition of Boundaries and Regions in Geography and Geographic Information Science p. 35 10:15 Break Break 10:45 19 INPUT TALK SESSION 3: Barbara Tversky 27 INPUT TALK SESSION 4: Frans Gregersen Clarity and Ambiguity p. 20 Changing relationships between cities and their surroundings - with special reference to dialect levelling and language mixing p. 36 11:30 20 Ditte Boeg Thomsen, Marc D.S. Volhardt 28 Jürg Fleischer Walking and wording the mountains Diffusion of (morpho)syntactic features in in Yuhu p. 20 Continental West Germanic: do traditional dialect areas play a role? p. 37 12:00 Lunch Lunch 14:00 21 Gaurav Sinha, David Mark 29 Veton Matoshi Exploring Landforms in Multiple Variation of clitic doubling in Albanian Representational Spaces p. 22 dialects p. 38 14:30 22 Jan Heegard Petersen 31 Li-Fang Lai, Shelome Gooden Boundaries in culture, physical Language ideologies and shifting landscape and language: boundaries: a case study of Yami The Kalasha (Northwest Pakistan) p. 23 diphthongs (ay) and (aw) p. 39 15:00 23 Ekaterina Egorova, Ross S. Purves 32 Péter Jeszenszky, Philipp Stoeckle, Investigating the Meaning of Landscape Elvira Glaser, Robert Weibel Terms through the Corpus-based Analysing the Effects of Geographic Semantics Approach p. 24 Factors on Syntax Variation inIndividual and Aggregate Phenomena of Swiss German p. 40 The time of talk 31 and 32 changed! and 32 The time of talk 31 15:30 Coffee break Coffee break 16:00 24 Elwys De Stefani Talking about place names: Tourist guides' practices of self- and other-categorization p. 25 16:30 25 Flurina Wartmann, Olga Chesnokova, Ross Purves Mountains, moors, hills, lakes and rivers: Comparing folk language categorizations across formal landscape typologies p. 26 17:30 POSTER SESSION* (see next page) p. 27 CSF AWARD CEREMONY p. 41 19:00 Conference Dinner Dinner FRIDAY, 28. APRIL 8:00 Breakfast 9:00 WORKSHOPS 9:00 Hiking Aurigeno p. 46 Inferring and Visualizing Boundaries from Empirical Data p. 43 12:00 Lunch WORKSHOPS Inferring and Visualizing Boundaries from Empirical Data p. 43 14:00 Leave take * POSTER SESSION (BALINT ROOM) A Mara Barbosa: L Johannes Kabatek: Reproducing and challenging language Differential object marking in Spanish: ideologies concerning Spanish in the U.S.: Emergence and tendencies of the the case of Indiana p. 27 current system p. 32 B Christian Freksa and Ahmed Loai Ali: M Michele Loporcaro, Diego Pescarini, Tania Geographic objects, relations among them, Paciaroni, Alice Idone, Serena Romagnoli: and conceptual categories p. 28 The Zurich database of agreement in Italo-Romance p. 33 C David Mark and Gaurav Sinha: Conceptualizations of The Horizon: N Nathalie Meyer: A fundamental Experiential Boundary p. 29 Massively Multimodal Communication and Space: A Case Study of Video Game D Claudia Posch and Gerhard Rampl: Livestreaming p. 33 Mit ‚– wärts‘ geht’s abwärts. The descent of a German Suffixoid p. 30 O Peter Ranacher, Curdin Derungs, Balthasar Bickel, Robert Weibel: E Dionysios Zoumpalidis and Julia Mazurova: Geographic isolation and morphological rich- Crossing boundaries: the role of language ness of languages in South-Eastern Asia p. 33 and space in (re)shaping identity of ethnic Georgian teenagers in Moscow p. 31 P Hanna Ruch: Assessing perceptual salience through a dia- F Christina Brandenberger and lect recognition task p. 33 Christoph Hottiger: Defining the Boundaries of Exhibits in Q Barbara Sonnenhauser and Martin Junge: Science Centres - Between Architecture Description, usage and origin - The Supine and Visitors’ Usage p. 32 in Slovene p. 33 G Ekaterina Egorova: R Elisabeth Stark, Beat Siebenhaar, Mountain Scenario in Alpine Route Simone Ueberwasser, Samuel Felder, Directions p. 32 Franziska Stuntebeck: Individuals in WhatsApp Communication: H Karina Frick: Aspects of Accommodation – Variation in Public Valediction: Grief in Virtual Space p. 32 Time p. 33 I David Paul Gerards: S Antonia Steger: The so-called partitive article in Old Lingering in Public. Interactive Practices Iberoromance p. 32 of Spatial Production on Urban Squares in Zurich p. 33 J Heiko Hausendorf, Marcel Näf, Kyoko Sugisaki, Nicolas Wiedmer: T Teodora Vukovic: The Zurich Postcard Corpus (ZPC): 15,000 Determination, definite article use Ways to overcome Spatial Boundaries p. 32 in Torlak dialects p. 33 K Kenan Hochuli: Interaction at markets p. 32 MONDAY 24. April 2017 Welcome address by the Conference Organizers, Dr Chiara Cometta (Administrative Manager Congressi Stefano Francini SF), and Lorenzo Sonognini (Director of the Monte Verità Foundation). Keynote Talk Tom Güldemann (Humboldt University Berlin) 1 Linguistic macro-areas in Africa: when boundaries are areas themselves Recent research on linguistic typology in Africa has identified a macro-areal lin- guistic profile of the continent comprising half a dozen large entities that are each geographically extensive and involve a great number of partly diverse languag- es. Their delimitation in space has to be addressed by means of a more abstract conceptualization, notably in terms of an internal areal structuring of cores vs. peripheries and a non-abrupt transition from one macro-area to another. Accord- ingly, the concept of areal “boundary” also assumes a more abstract meaning. In particular, boundaries are not clear-cut lines of demarcation but rather areas in their own right, namely “frontier zones” in between two macro-areas. The talk will discuss several such configurations and thereby elucidate the relationship between area and boundary in areal linguistics. Monday, 24. April – 1 SESSION 1 This session will discuss the ways in which physical boundaries are treated in linguistics, conversation analysis, social geography and the social sciences. Physical boundaries are most prominent as nat- ural boundaries (such as mountains or rivers) but also comprise built boundaries in terms of architecture (leading to entities such as cit- ies, districts, buildings or rooms). Physical boundaries are known to have impacts on linguistic and social differences and are accordingly claimed to establish relevant linguistic and social areas ranging from face-to-face interactional spaces to regional communities. Neverthe- less, their status as material givens has long been challenged from different points of view. Take, for instance, the classical sociological argument that boundaries should not be taken as spatial facts with social impact but as social facts with spatial forms. The theoretical as well as methodological and empirical question then is to account for the social construction of boundaries without neglecting their phys- ical and material manifestations. Talks related to this question may address the formation of physical boundaries