Friday 5 July

Friday will commence with a Plenary session: Language and the sweep of Indigenous history with Nick Evans and Jaky Troy from 9.00 am-10.00 am in the Great Hall.

Session streams will then take place from 10.40 am-16.55 pm

Breaks for the day will be at:

10.05 am-10.35 am morning tea;
12.25 pm-12.55 pm lunch; and
15.15 pm-15.45 pm afternoon tea.

The last session of the day will be a Plenary talk by Nigel Vincent - The diachrony of control... and the control of diachrony from 17.00 pm-18.00 pm in the Great Hall.

Great Hall sessions - Computational and phylogenetic historical linguistics

10:40-11:10	S. Greenhill et al. Lexibank: a global database of the world's languages
11:15-11:45	E. Round & J. Macklin-Cordes Clouded vision: Why insights improve when uncertainty about data is made explicit
11:50-12:20	R. Dockum The Tonal Comparative Method: Leveraging Lexical Tone in Historical Linguistics
13:00-13:30	J. Macklin-Cordes & E. Round Historical signal beyond the cognate: Phonotactics in linguistic phylogenetics
13:35-14:05	Y. Jing et al. Evolutionary rates and directions of word order change across main and subordinate clauses in Indo-European
14:10-14:40	C. Ebert et al. Patterns of non-basic word order in Indo-European
14:45-15:15	C. Evans et al. The Stability of Grammatical Structures in Major Language Families

Drawing Room sessions - Morphology

10:40-11:10	M. Juge Markedness does not account for patterns of replacement in suppletive paradigms
11:15-11:45	L. Denk The stability of morphological discontinuity in Athabascan languages
11:50-12:20	A. Pounder Grammatical Restructuring in Morphology
13:00-13:30	V. Orqueda et al. Again on PIE se-/s(e)we-; again on the Latin evidence
13:35-14:05	C. Hamans Blends as a borderline case
14:10-14:40	M. Juge How suppletive are stem-changing verbs?
14:45-15:15	T. Eythorsson Revolution on the Left Edge: Morphosyntactic leveling and the loss of verbal prefixes in Early Norse
15:50-16:20	M. Camilleri Grammaticalisations out of possessive constructions in Arabic

Common Room sessions - Workshop: Reconciling lingusitic and genetic pasts

10:40-11:10	Workshop introduction
11:15-11:45	C. Bowern Reconciling Australia's Linguistic and Genetic Past(s)
11:50-12:20	R. Gray et al. Waves of history and layers of evidence: what can the combination of linguistics and genetics tell us about the nature, timing and impact of Papuan contact on the Austronesian languages of Vanuatu?
13:00-13:30	O. Vesakoski et al. Genes and language in the prehistory of Uralic-speaking peoples
13:35-14:05	A. Berge Signs of Prehistoric Language Shifts Involving Unangam Tunuu (Aleut)
14:10-14:40	U. Ansaldo & L. Lim Language shift through typological adaptation
15:50-16:55	Workshop discussion

Torrance Room sessions - Semantic change

10:40-11:10	J. Law Iconic and indexical semantical change in Romance body-part terms
11:15-11:45	J. Nuyts & W. Caers (Inter)subjectification, fast and slow
11:50-12:20	J. Van Gysel Causative-Applicative Polysemy and its Sources
13:00-13:30	K. Van Bik The origin of simulative suffix ter in Hakha Lai
13:35-14:05	M. Sakai Historical Development of Nominalization Construction in Japanese
14:10-14:40	R. Obe On the Semantic System of a Modal Verb, skulu / skulle, in Early Modern Danish
14:45-15:15	R. Hendery & P. McConvell Diachronic dimensions of semantic maps
15:50-16:20	N. Gisborne & R. Truswell Parallel evolution of relative clauses in Indo-European
16:25-16:55	L. Cerqueglini Non-Arabic Names of Utensils in Traditional Palestinian Dialects Spoken in Israel: Toward a Historical Sociolinguistics of the Holy Land

Fellows Room sessions - Workshop: Alignment change in different frameworks

10:40-11:10	Workshop introduction
11:15-11:45	E. Dahl Mixed Alignment and Alignment Change: The Rise of Neutral and Split Alignment Patterns in Indo-European
11:50-12:20	G. Carling & C. Cathcart Alignment stability and change: arguments from a Bayesian evolutionary angle
13:00-13:30	E. Aldridge Syntactic Conditions on Alignment Change in Austronesian Languages
13:35-14:05	Kikusawa R. Alignment Change and Its Effect on "Subjecthood" in Austronesian Languages
14:10-14:40	K. Janic & C. Hemmings A distributional markedness approach to alignment change
14:45-15:15	A. Coupe Case syncretism and the grammaticalization of case alignments: Diachronic sources and pathways of development in Tibeto-Burman and beyond
15:50-16:20	P. Noorlander Resultatives and asymmetries in Aramaic alignment change
16:25-16:55	Y. Yanagida Alignment change and the psych causative alternation: the case of earlier Japanese

North Room sessions - Workshop: The history of Papuan languages and their speakers

10:40-11:10	B. Olsson & P. Rogers Noun classification in a Trans-New Guinean outlier: the Anim gender systems in historical perspective
11:15-11:45	M. Nose The verb "finish" as a perfect in the Trans New Guinea languages: a diachronic explanation
11:50-12:20	A. Pick Proto Waskia-Amako and its relation to other Papuan languages
13:00-14:05	Workshop discussion

Scarth Room sessions - Workshop: Trends in the development and evolution of inflection

10:40-11:10	E. Hill & P. Widmer Towards a typology of diachronic trends in inflection
11:15-11:45	I. Igartua Typological change in inflectional morphology and language contact
11:50-12:20	R. Schaefer & F. Egbokhare Benue Congo Agreement: Its Historical Shift to Tone
13:00-13:30	S. Gaglia What a temporal analysis of analogical extensions may tell us about the nature of morphomes: the case of Old French and Old Italian verbal roots
13:35-14:05	A. Lahiri & F. Plank The pertinacity of silent inflections
14:10-14:40	L. Gaeta Iconicity principles from an evolutionary perspective
14:45-15:15	B. Hansen Cause, consequence and indexicality in Middle Danish case-system changes
15:50-16:20	E. Hill Towards an integrative model of Watkins’s law and Watkins’s transformations in person-indexing systems
16:25-16:55	Workshop discussion

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