Wednesday 3 July
Wednesday will commence at 9:00 am in the Great Hall with a Plenary talk on History of tonal interaction across paradigms: new findings from Khoisan tonology by Hirosi Nakagawa.
Session streams will then take place from 10:40 am-12:20 pm.
Breaks for the day will include:
- 10:05 am-10:35 am Morning tea
- 12:25 pm-12:55 pm Lunch
Great Hall sessions - Workshop: Computational and phylogenetic historical linguistics
10:40-11:10 |
C. Bowern Phylogenetic signal in the lexicon: are parental terms |
11:15-11:45 |
L. Bromham Solving Galton's problem: analysing patterns of language |
11:50-12:20 |
X. Hua The ecological drivers of variation in global language diversity |
Drawing Room sessions - Pragmatics
10:40-11:10 |
L. Mycock & J. Misson 'Tis hard, that: On the ProTag Construction in Early |
11:15-11:45 |
M. Hansen |
Common Room sessions - Grammaticalisation
10:40-11:10 |
B. Joseph & A. Ralli Something out of Nothing: Degrammaticalizing grammaticalization |
11:15-11:45 |
C. Dalle Ceste |
11:50-12:20 |
P. Petré & F. Van de Velde Quantifiying grammaticalization beyond a variationist approach |
Torrance sessions - Phonological/sound change
10:40-11:10 |
F. Burroni & S. Maspong Contrast Emergence, Preservation, and Loss: |
11:15-11:45 |
O. Sayeed et al. |
11:50-12:20 |
R. Dockum Is Tone Phonologically Atomic? The Significance of Syllable |
Fellows sessions - Methods of reconstruction
10:40-11:10 |
M. Urban Towards an internal reconstruction of Mochica |
11:15-11:45 |
D. Daniels |
11:50-12:20 |
B. Hansen Shortcomings of the Comparative Method: two cases |
North Room sessions - Patterns of language diversification
10:40-11:10 |
B. Ricquier |
11:15-11:45 |
M. Boiko Hilst Innovation and conservation in peripheral dialectology: |
Scarth Room sessions - Syntax-semantics interface
10:40-11:10 |
S. Luraghi |
11:15-11:45 |
A. Piotrowska The diachrony of possessive expressions in |
11:50-12:20 |
J. Tiemann Syntactic variation in Old Norwegian and the role of |