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. |
11:15-11:45 |
E. Round & J. Macklin-Cordes Clouded vision: Why insights improve when uncertainty |
11:50-12:20 |
R. Dockum The Tonal Comparative Method: Leveraging Lexical Tone in |
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. |
14:10-14:40 |
C. Ebert et al. |
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 |
11:15-11:45 |
L. Denk The stability of morphological discontinuity in Athabascan languages |
11:50-12:20 |
A. Pounder |
13:00-13:30 |
V. Orqueda et al. |
13:35-14:05 |
C. Hamans |
14:10-14:40 |
M. Juge |
14:45-15:15 |
T. Eythorsson Revolution on the Left Edge: Morphosyntactic leveling |
15:50-16:20 |
M. Camilleri Grammaticalisations out of possessive constructions |
Common Room sessions - Workshop: Reconciling lingusitic and genetic pasts
10:40-11:10 |
Workshop introduction |
11:15-11:45 |
C. Bowern |
11:50-12:20 |
R. Gray et al. |
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 |
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 |
11:50-12:20 |
J. Van Gysel |
13:00-13:30 |
K. Van Bik |
13:35-14:05 |
M. Sakai Historical Development of Nominalization Construction |
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 |
15:50-16:20 |
N. Gisborne & R. Truswell |
16:25-16:55 |
L. Cerqueglini |
Fellows Room sessions - Workshop: Alignment change in different frameworks
10:40-11:10 |
Workshop introduction |
11:15-11:45 |
E. Dahl |
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 |
14:45-15:15 |
A. Coupe |
15:50-16:20 |
P. Noorlander |
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 |
11:15-11:45 |
M. Nose The verb "finish" as a perfect in the Trans New Guinea languages: |
11:50-12:20 |
A. Pick Proto Waskia-Amako and its relation to other |
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 |
11:15-11:45 |
I. Igartua Typological change in inflectional morphology and language contact |
11:50-12:20 |
R. Schaefer & F. Egbokhare |
13:00-13:30 |
S. Gaglia |
13:35-14:05 |
A. Lahiri & F. Plank |
14:10-14:40 |
L. Gaeta |
14:45-15:15 |
B. Hansen Cause, consequence and indexicality in Middle Danish case-system changes |
15:50-16:20 |
E. Hill |
16:25-16:55 |
Workshop discussion |