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:
- 10:50 am-11:20 am Morning tea
- 13:00 pm-14:00 pm Lunch
- 15:45 pm-16-15 pm Afternoon tea
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.
Great Hall sessions - Workshop: Agriculture-driven language spread in North and East Asia
11:20-11:50 |
P. Bellwood Early Farmers and the Initial Spreads of Language Families: Yes, No, |
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 |
16:20-16:50 |
D. Fuller |
16:55-17:25 |
Workshop discussion |
Drawing Room sessions - Australian languages
11:20-11:50 |
H. Koch Lessons form a century of Australian linguistic classification 1919-2019 |
11:55-12:25 |
M. Harvey & R. Mailhammer |
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 |
15:10-15:40 |
P. McConvell |
Common Room sessions - Syntactic 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. |
12:30-13:00 |
J. Carrier |
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 |
Torrance Room sessions - Grammaticalisation
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. |
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 |
Fellows Room sessions - Workshop: Multiple causation in language change: mechanisms under the magnifying glass
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 |
14:00-14:30 |
C. Melis & S. Ibáñez Cerda On the intersection of multiple source constructions in the |
14:35-15:05 |
I. De Smet & F. Van de Velde Why are participles more resilient than preterites in Germanic weakening? |
15:10-15:40 |
J. Brown The selection mechanism redefined as multiple causation: on the formation |
16:25-16:55 |
Workshop discussion |
North Room sessions - Workshop: Reconstructing Austroasiatic syntax
11:20-11:50 |
M. Jenny et al. Syntactic reconstruction in Austroasiatic - overview, perspectives, |
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, |
14:00-14:30 |
M. Alves |
14:35-15:05 |
H. Ring |
15:10-15:40 |
Workshop discussion |
Scarth Room sessions - Workshop: The history of Papuan languages and their speakers
11:20-11:50 |
G. Kaiping & M. Klamer How different methods lead to different trees for the |
11:55-12:25 |
B. Palmer The phylogenetic status of the Kaure languages of |
12:30-13:00 |
O. Edwards |
14:00-14:30 |
M. Carroll et al. |
14:35-15:05 |
N. Evans et al. |
15:10-15:40 |
D. Daniels Reconstructing social dynamics with kin terms: The Sogeram case |
16:20-16:50 |
D. Hoenigman & B. Evans |
16:55-17:25 |
T. Denham Projecting genetic and linguistic horizons into the past: |