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The Swadesh Centenary Conference
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Program

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January 17

Introducing the conference

09.00 - 09.15

Søren Wichmann
General welcome

09.15 - 09.30

Anthony Grant
Morris Swadesh and his relevance today
 abstract
 handout
 slides

Methodology

09.30 - 10.30

Tandy Warnow
Computational methods for inferring evolutionary histories of languages (keynote address)
abstract
 slides

10.30 - 11.00

Coffee/tea break

11.00 - 12.00

Søren Wichmann
State of the art of the ASJP project
abstract
 handout
 slides

12.00 - 12.30

Anthony Grant
On making more of qualitative lexicostatistics
abstract
 handout

12.30 - 14.00

Lunch

14.00 - 14.30

Jennifer Sullivan & April McMahon
Phonetic comparison, varieties, and networks: Swadesh’s influence lives on here too
abstract
 slides

14.30 - 15.00

Paul Heggarty
Beyond lexicostatistics: how to get more out of ‘word list’ comparisons
abstract

15.00 - 15.30

Uri Tadmor & Martin Haspelmath
Measuring the Borrowability of Word Meanings
abstract

15.30 - 16.00

Coffee/tea break

16.00 - 16.30

Mihail Vasilyev
Glottochronology and lexicostatistics. Starostin’s method: past and present perspectives
abstract
 handout

16.30 - 17.00

Margaret J. Blake & Harald Hammarström
Swadesh, meet Levenshtein: a quantitative method from dialectology applied to phonetic glottochronological data
abstract

17.00 - 17.30

Daniel Cazés-Menache
Swadesh and prehistoric linguistics
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January 18

Applications/case studies

09.00 - 10.00

Eric W. Holman
Do languages originate and become extinct at constant rates? (keynote address)
abstract
 slides

10.00 - 10.30

Gary Holton, Marian Klamer, and František Kratochvil
Lexicostatistical and Comparative method applied to the Papuan languages of Alor-Pantar (Eastern Indonesia): A (re)assessment
 abstract

10.30 - 11.00

Coffee/tea break

11.00 - 11.30

Cesare de Filippo, Roger Mundry, Koen Bostoen, and Brigitte Pakendorf
Lexical and geographical distances as a tool to address the demographic history underlying the Bantu migrations
abstract

11.30 - 12.00

Filippo Petroni & Maurizio Serva
Indo-European and Austronesian trees reconstruction
abstract

12.00 - 12.30

Juliette Blevins
Lexical stability across deep divides: lessons from Austronesian-Ongan comparisons
abstract

12.30 - 14.00

Lunch

14.00 - 14.30

Harald Hammarström
A full-scale test of the language farming dispersal hypothesis
abstract
 slides

14.30 - 15.00

Bart Jacobs
A diachronic and comparative analysis of Papiamentu’s Swadesh list
abstract
 handout
 slides

15.00 - 15.30

Coffee/tea break

Typostatistics

15.30 - 16.00

Vladimir Polyakov
New approaches to language similarity measures
abstract
 slides

16.00 - 16.30

Valery Solovyev
Is grammochronology possible?
abstract

16.30 - 17.00

Oleg Belyaev
Temporal stability of features in Jazyki Mira
abstract
 handout
 slides

Final words

17.00 - 18.00 (or earlier)

General discussion/book planning/valedictions

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