Confirmed invited speakers

Walter Bisang (U Mainz)
The languages of Mainland Southeast Asia and their typological characteristics between hidden and overt complexity
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Roger Blench (Kay Williamson Educational Foundation)
Austroasiatic and Sino-Tibetan: convergence or contact? A speculative history of
noun class affixes
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Marc Brunelle (U Ottawa)
Tonal diversity in Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA)
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David Gil (MPI EVA)
The Mekong-Mamberamo Linguistic Area
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Mathias Jenny (U Zurich)
The far Northwest of Southeast Asia - the languages of Myanmar
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James Matisoff (UC Berkeley)
Re-examining the genetic position of Jingpho: can the Sal hypothesis be reconciled with the Jingpho/Nungish/Luish grouping?
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Pittayawat Pittayaporn (Chulalongkorn U)
Sesquisyllabicity: the role of structural analysis in the study of linguistic diversity in Mainland Southeast Asia
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Mark Post (U Bern)
Morphological typology, North East India, and Mainland South East Asia
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Martha Ratliff (Wayne State U)
A reexamination of initial prenasalized stops as an areal feature of mainland Southeast Asia
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Paul Sidwell (ANU)
Diversity, discontinuity and asymmetry in the typological restructuring of Mainland Southeast Asian languages
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Hilário de Sousa (EHESS)
The Southern-most Sinitic languages as part of Mainland Southeast Asia
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Alice Vittrant (U Aix-Marseille)
Defining the Satellite as a functional category: the contribution of Burmese and Arakanese multi-verbal constructions
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Other abstracts

Mark Alves (Montgomery College)
Morphological variety among Mon-Khmer languages
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Christian Bauer (Humboldt U)
MSEA convergence phenomena in a diachronic perspective (6th to 18th century AD)
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Niclas Burenhult (Lund U / MPI Psycholinguistics)
Semantic typology: a view from Mainland Southeast Asia
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Becky Butler (Cornell U)
A gestural deconstruction the minor Syllable
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