Confirmed invited speakers
Walter Bisang (U Mainz)
The languages of Mainland Southeast Asia and their typological characteristics between hidden and overt complexity
Abstract
Roger Blench (Kay Williamson Educational Foundation)
Austroasiatic and Sino-Tibetan: convergence or contact? A speculative history of
noun class affixes
Abstract
Marc Brunelle (U Ottawa)
Tonal diversity in Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA)
Abstract
David Gil (MPI EVA)
The Mekong-Mamberamo Linguistic Area
Abstract
Mathias Jenny (U Zurich)
The far Northwest of Southeast Asia - the languages of Myanmar
Abstract | Paper
James Matisoff (UC Berkeley)
Re-examining the genetic position of Jingpho: can the Sal hypothesis be reconciled with the Jingpho/Nungish/Luish grouping?
Abstract | Paper
Pittayawat Pittayaporn (Chulalongkorn U)
Sesquisyllabicity: the role of structural analysis in the study of linguistic diversity in Mainland Southeast Asia
Abstract | Paper
Mark Post (U Bern)
Morphological typology, North East India, and Mainland South East Asia
Abstract | Paper
Martha Ratliff (Wayne State U)
A reexamination of initial prenasalized stops as an areal feature of mainland Southeast Asia
Abstract
Paul Sidwell (ANU)
Diversity, discontinuity and asymmetry in the typological restructuring of Mainland Southeast Asian languages
Abstract | Paper
Hilário de Sousa (EHESS)
The Southern-most Sinitic languages as part of Mainland Southeast Asia
Abstract | Paper
Alice Vittrant (U Aix-Marseille)
Defining the Satellite as a functional category: the contribution of Burmese and Arakanese
multi-verbal constructions
Abstract
Other abstracts
Mark Alves (Montgomery College)
Morphological variety among Mon-Khmer languages
Abstract
Christian Bauer (Humboldt U)
MSEA convergence phenomena in a diachronic perspective (6th to 18th century AD)
Abstract
Niclas Burenhult (Lund U / MPI Psycholinguistics)
Semantic typology: a view from Mainland Southeast Asia
Abstract
Becky Butler (Cornell U)
A gestural deconstruction the minor Syllable
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