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Workshop "Mainland Southeast Asian Languages: The State of the Art in 2012" |
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ProgramDownload program [pdf]
Thursday, 29 November
10.15-10.45 |
Introductory remarks
Bernard Comrie, Nick Enfield |
10.45-11.30 |
David Gil (MPI EVA)
The Mekong-Mamberamo Linguistic Area |
break |
12.00-12.45 |
Mark Post (U Bern)
Morphological typology, North East India, and Mainland South East Asia |
lunch |
14.00-14.45 |
Roger Blench (Kay Williamson Educational Foundation)
Austroasiatic and Sino-Tibetan: convergence or contact? A speculative history of noun class affixes |
14.45-15.30 |
Martha Ratliff (Wayne State U)
A reexamination of initial prenasalized stops as an areal feature of mainland Southeast Asia |
break |
16.00-16.45 |
Marc Brunelle (U Ottawa)
Tonal diversity in Mainland Southeast Asia |
16.45-17.15 |
General discussion |
Friday, 30 November
10.00-10.45 |
Pittayawat Pittayaporn (Chulalongkorn U)
Sesquisyllabicity: the role of structural analysis in the study of linguistic diversity in Mainland Southeast Asia |
10.45-11.30 |
Becky Butler (Cornell U)
A gestural deconstruction of the minor syllable |
break |
12.00-12.45 |
Paul Sidwell (ANU)
Diversity, discontinuity and asymmetry in the typological restructuring of Mainland Southeast Asian languages |
lunch |
14.00-14.45 |
Christian Bauer (Humboldt U)
MSEA convergence phenomena in a diachronic perspective (6th to 18th century AD) |
14.45-15.30 |
James Matisoff (UC Berkeley)
Re-examining the genetic position of Jingpho: can the Sal hypothesis be reconciled with the Jingpho/Nungish/Luish grouping? |
break |
16.00-16.45 |
Mark Alves (Montgomery College)
Morphological variety among Mon-Khmer languages |
16.45-17.15 |
General discussion |
Saturday, 1 December
10.00-10.45 |
Walter Bisang (U Mainz)
The languages of Mainland Southeast Asia and their typological characteristics between hidden and overt complexity |
10.45-11.30 |
Niclas Burenhult (Lund U / MPI Psycholinguistics)
Semantic typology: a view from Mainland Southeast Asia |
break |
12.00-12.45 |
Alice Vittrant (U Aix-Marseille)
Defining the Satellite as a functional category: the contribution of Burmese and Arakanese multi-verbal constructions |
lunch |
14.00-14.45 |
Mathias Jenny (U Zurich)
The far Northwest of Southeast Asia - the languages of Myanmar |
14.45-15.30 |
Hilário de Sousa (EHESS)
The Southern-most Sinitic languages as part of Mainland Southeast Asia |
break |
16.00-17.00 |
Commentary, General discussion |
17.00-17.30 |
Further matters, closing |
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