Eighth Biennial Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology

Typology and the Study of Language: Comparative Grammar and Beyond

University of California, Berkeley
July 23-26, 2009

Invited Speakers
Mark Baker (Rutgers University)
Balthasar Bickel (University of Leipzig)
Joan Bresnan (Stanford University)

Abstract Deadline
January 12, 2009

Program Committee
Ekkehard König, chair
Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest
Larry Hyman
Edith Moravcsik
Johanna Nichols
Martine Vanhove

Acknowledgements
The organizers of ALT8 are extremely grateful for financial support received from the
National Science Foundation and from the University of California, Berkeley: Dean of
Social Sciences; Dean of Arts and Humanities; Graduate Division; Department of Linguistics.