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
abstract |
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 |