Recent talks and conference presentations by Matti Miestamo

2009

• 'Polar interrogatives: Typological and Uralic perspectives', Uralic Typology Days, Institute of the Estonian Language, Tallinn, November 26-27, 2009.
• 'Negative interrogatives', 8th Biennial Meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT VIII), Workshop on negation, Berkeley, July 26, 2009.
• 'Kieliotoksista ja kielistä tutkimuksen kohteena kielitypologiassa' (On language samples and languages as the object of study in language typology), 36. kielitieteen päivät (36th Finnish conference of linguistics), Jyväskylä, May 14-16, 2009.
• ‘SKY Journal of Linguisticsin 10 vuotta fennistin ja typologin näkemänä’ (10 years of SKY Journal of Linguistics seen by a fennist and a typologist), together with Ilona Herlin, Annual lecture organized in connection with the business meeting of the Linguistic Association of Finland, Helsinki, February 20, 2009.

2008

• ‘Negation: Typology and Uralic languages’, together with Beáta Wagner-nagy, Uralic Typological Database (UTDB) Kick-off Conference, Vienna, September 27, 2008. [slides]
• ‘Tense-Aspect-Mood in Polar Interrogatives’, 18th International Congress of Linguists (CIL18), Seoul, July 22, 2008.
• ‘Typology and dialectology: The case of Finnish negation’, Workshop on Typology and Nordic dialect variation, Department of Nordic Languages and Nordic Literature, Helsinki University, June 5-6, 2008
• ‘Skolt Saami negatives, interrogatives and imperatives in a typological perspective’, Functional approaches to lesser-studied Uralic Languages, Theme session at the conference Cognitive and Functional Perspectives on Dynamic Tendencies in Languages, Tartu, May 31, 2008.
• ‘Implicational hierarchies, grammatical complexity, and processing cost’, Scales workshop, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, March 29, 2008.
• ‘Towards a typology of polar interrogatives’, Talk at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, March 17, 2008.

2007

• ‘Towards a typology of polar interrogatives’, 7th Biennial Meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT VII), Paris, September 24–29, 2007. [slides]
• ‘Suomen kielen typologisista piirteistä’ (On the typological characteristics of Finnish), 34. kielitieteen päivät (34th Finnish conference of linguistics), Oulu, May 24-25, 2007.
• ‘Implicational hierarchies and grammatical complexity’, Workshop on language complexity as an evolving variable, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, April 12, 2007.

2006

• ‘Asymmetries between declarative and imperative negation’, together with Johan van der Auwera, presented as a honorary lecture (Francqui-leerstoel 2006–2007) by Johan van der Auwera at the University of Leuven, November 28, 2006.
• 'Types of negative structures, with reflections on taxonomies and categorization in language typology', Interdisciplinary Symposium on Taxonomies and Categorization, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, September 29, 2006.
• 'Negation and perfective vs. imperfective aspect', together with Johan van der Auwera, keynote lecture, Chronos 7, Antwerp, September 18, 2006.
• 'Negation and perfective vs. imperfective aspect', joint paper with Johan van der Auwera, 39th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Bremen, August 30, 2006.
• 'Negative declaratives and negative imperatives, similarities and differences', joint paper with Johan van der Auwera, Linguistics Festival, Bremen, May 24, 2006.
• 'Symmetria ja asymmetria kielen rakenteiden kuvauksessa ja selittämisessä' (Symmetry and asymmetry in the description and explanation of linguistic structure), 33. kielitieteen päivät (33rd Finnish Conference of Linguistics), Turku, May 4, 2006.
• 'Negatives without negators', Rara & Rarissima, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, March 30, 2006.
• 'On the Typology of Negation: How Negatives Differ from Affirmatives in the World's Languages', Guest lecture, University of Ghent, February 1, 2006.

2005

• 'On the Typology of Negation: How Negatives Differ from Affirmatives in the World's Languages', Guest lecture, University of Antwerp, December 2, 2005.
• 'Approaching Grammatical Complexity from a Cross-Linguistic Point of View', Approaches to complexity in language, Helsinki, August 25, 2005.
• 'Symmetry vs. Asymmetry: Standard Negation and Beyond', Keynote Address, Joseph Greenberg Award, 6th Biennial Meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT VI), Padang, July 25, 2005. [slides]
• 'Complexity in Functional Domains', 6th Biennial Meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT VI), Padang, July 24, 2005.
• 'Grammatical Hierarchies and Grammatical Complexity', 32. kielitieteen päivät (32nd Finnish Conference of Linguistics), Tampere, May 20, 2005.
• 'Konteksti kielitypologiassa' (Context in language typology), Konteksti-työpaja (Context-workshop), organized by the Linguistic Association of Finland, 32. kielitieteen päivät (32nd Finnish Conference of Linguistics), Tampere, May 19, 2005.

2004

• 'On Negation in the World's Languages: Symmetry and Asymmetry', Burgen Scholar lecture, accompanied by a poster, 16th Annual Conference of the Academia Europaea, University of Helsinki, September 4, 2004.
• 'Asymmetry within and across Functional Domains with Special Reference to Yes-No Questions, Commands, Negation and Tense-Aspect-Mood', Syntax of the World's Languages (SWL 1), Leipzig, August 6, 2004. [handout]
• 'Kielten kieliopillisen kompleksisuuden vertailusta' (On comparing the grammatical complexity of languages), 31. Kielitieteen päivät (31st Finnish and Estonian Conference of Linguistics), Tallinn, May 7, 2004.
• 'Typologiasta ja uralistiikasta, esimerkkinä kieltorakenteet' (On typology and the study of Uralic languages with special reference to negative structures). Talk given at the meeting of the Finno-Ugrian Society, Helsinki, April 16, 2004.
• 'Affirmaation ja negaation suhteesta -- kielitieteellinen näkökulma' (On the relationship between affirmation and negation -- a linguistic point of view). KIELTO -- Suomen Filosofisen Yhdistyksen tutkijakollokvio (NEGATION -- Research Colloquium of the Philosophical Society of Finland), Helsinki, January 8, 2004.
• 'Grammatical Complexity of Languages: A Cross-Linguistic Point of View', 20th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Helsinki, January 7, 2004. [slides]