Monday 1 July

Monday will commence at 9:00 am with a Welcome followed by a Plenary talk by Mary Walworth - Language contact and change on the Ocean(ic) highway at 9:45 am in the Great Hall.

Session streams will then take place from 11:20 am-16:55 pm.

Breaks for the day will include:

The last session of the day will be a Plenary talk by Anita Auer - Urbanisation, supralocalization and the emergence of Standard English from 17:30 pm-18:30 pm in the Great Hall.

The conference welcome reception will be held in the Common Room from 6.30 pm - 7.30 pm. Please register for the reception here.

11:20-11:50	P. Bellwood Early Farmers and the Initial Spreads of Language Families: Yes, No, or Something In-Between?
11:55-12:25	M. Robbeets The speakers of proto-Transeurasian: pastoralists or farmers?
12:30-13:00	M. Hudson Farming Avoidance Language Dispersals, With Special Reference to Transeurasian
14:00-14:30	G. van Driem The origins of the Japanese people: Insights from language and population genetics
14:35-15:05	E. de Boer The role of migration in the branching and spread of the Japonic language family
15:10-15:40	A. Savelyev Agricultural vocabulary in Turkic: contact vs. inheritance
16:20-16:50	D. Fuller Squeezed at the edges: Archaeobotanical evidence and agronomic factors in demographic growth and agricultural expansion in Neolithic and Bronze Age China
16:55-17:25	Workshop discussion

11:20-11:50	H. Koch Lessons form a century of Australian linguistic classification 1919-2019
11:55-12:25	M. Harvey & R. Mailhammer Verbal reconstruction and subgrouping in Proto-Australian
12:30-13:00	D. Nash A test of Pama-Nyungan phylogenies: how close are Mirniny and Wirangu
14:00-14:30	A. Baker & M. van Egmond The history of lenition in Wubuy and Enindhilyakwa, North Australia
14:35-15:05	J. Simpson Marine terms in Pama-Nyungan languages
15:10-15:40	P. McConvell Lexical Borrowing in Pre-Colonial Australia From Austronesian and Papuan Languages: Linguistic Stratigraphy Using Sound and Meaning Change

11:20-11:50	U. Reinöhl & T.M. Ellison Syntactic obligatorification stems from universal communicative requirements
11:55-12:25	J. Barðdal et al. Non-Nominative Subjects in Latin and Ancient Greek
12:30-13:00	J. Carrier Gradual morphosyntactic alignment change in Inuktitut
14:00-14:30	H. Booth & T. Breban Expletives in competition: diverging pathways of change in English and Icelandic
14:35-15:05	F. Yoshikawa The Uses of Nou: Its Styles and Genres in Middle English Texts
15:10-15:40	Yamamura S. Two Sources of "A N & A" Construction in Coordinated DPs in the History of English
16:20-16:50	N. Matsumoto Ongoing Historical Development of the Gonna-V and the Go-V Sequences in English
16:25-16:55	A. Thomas The development of double past participle forms in Portuguese

11:55-12:25	Shi Y. & Wang T. The grammaticalization process from the 'eat' verb to passive morpheme in Chinese
12:30-13:00	K. Börjars et al. Decategorialisation and Chinese nouns
14:00-14:30	B. Gravely Presentative adverbs in Western Iberian: The creation of base-generated C-elements
14:35-15:05	S. Sigurðardóttir Nascent change in Modern Icelandic: The emergence of an indefinite article
15:10-15:40	S. Rhee What can we do with our share: The journey of ppwun 'share' in Korean
16:20-16:50	M. Padilla-Moyano Reconstructing the case system of Medieval Basque: evidence from the genitive

11:20-11:50	Workshop introduction
11:55-12:25	M. Delicado Cantero & P. Amaral Multiple causation in Ibero-Romance: the case of ao passo que/al paso que
12:30-13:00	S. Prevost Evolution of the syntax of the subject in French: An interplay between morphological, syntactic and pragmatic factors
14:00-14:30	C. Melis & S. Ibáñez Cerda On the intersection of multiple source constructions in the development of verbal polysemy
14:35-15:05	I. De Smet & F. Van de Velde Why are participles more resilient than preterites in Germanic weakening? A quantitative approach
15:10-15:40	J. Brown The selection mechanism redefined as multiple causation: on the formation of historical standards
16:25-16:55	Workshop discussion

11:20-11:50	M. Jenny et al. Syntactic reconstruction in Austroasiatic - overview, perspectives, methodology
11:55-12:25	P. Sidwell Austroasiatic in Island Southeast Asia - proto-Nicobarese syntax
12:30-13:00	G. Anderson et al. Munda Historical Syntax: What is inherited, what is innovated, what is copied?
14:00-14:30	M. Alves Reconstructing Early Vietic Clause and Phrase Structure
14:35-15:05	H. Ring Khasian clause structure and word order
15:10-15:40	Workshop discussion

11:20-11:50	G. Kaiping & M. Klamer How different methods lead to different trees for the Timor-Alor-Pantar languages
11:55-12:25	B. Palmer The phylogenetic status of the Kaure languages of northeastern West Papua
12:30-13:00	O. Edwards Stochastically Austronesian
14:00-14:30	M. Carroll et al. Untangling the coronals in Proto-Yam
14:35-15:05	N. Evans et al. Reconstructing liquids in proto-Pahoturi
15:10-15:40	D. Daniels Reconstructing social dynamics with kin terms: The Sogeram case
16:20-16:50	D. Hoenigman & B. Evans Arafundi pasts through myth, oral history and language
16:55-17:25	T. Denham Projecting genetic and linguistic horizons into the past: A view from New Guinea

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