Invited Speakers
(listed in alphabetical order by first presenter's last name; co-presenters listed in one row)
- Marc Allassonnière-Tang
- Frederic Blum & Johann-Mattis List
- Angela Chira
- Jeremy Collins
- Russell Dinnage
- Michael Dunn, Outi Vesakoski & Miina Norvik
- Rui Dong
- David Goldstein
- Robert Forkel
- Anna Graff
- Harald Hammarström & Philipp Rönchen
- Martin Haspelmath
- Hannah Haynie & Annemarie Verkerk
- Nataliia Hübler
- Gerhard Jäger
- Jakob Lesage
- Samuel Passmore
- Sean Roberts
- Olena Shcherbakova
- Kaius Sinnemäki & Francesca Di Garbo
- Hedvig Skirgård
Programme
Wednesday, September 13
| 08:50 - 09:15 | everyone | registration: picking up name tags, lunch & reception tickets |
| SESSION 1 | chair: Russell Gray | |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | Russell Gray | Welcome & opening remarks |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Hedvig Skirgård | Grambank stepping onto the scene: results from the release paper on spatiophylogenetic effects on language structure, unusual languages and language endangerment |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Olena Shcherbakova | The evolution of grammatical complexity |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| SESSION 2 | chair: Angela Chira | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Sean Roberts | Population size and morphological complexity: a causal inference approach |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Nataliia Hübler | Deep signal in structural features |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Jakob Lesage & Hedvig Skirgård | Beyond zeros and ones: how Grambank informs grammar writing |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | LUNCH BREAK | |
| SESSION 3 | chair: Martin Haspelmath | |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Gerhard Jäger | Major word order reconsidered - with better data and better models |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Robert Forkel | Grambank 2.0 - integrating typological datasets with CLDF |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Russell Dinnage | Surfing the grammar manifold: Ancestral state estimation and evolutionary rate estimation of Grambank characters on a phylogeny using latent generative models |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| SESSION 4 | chair: Susanne Maria Michaelis | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Michael Dunn, Outi Vesakoski & Miina Norvik | URATYP: Extending Grambank for regional studies |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | David Goldstein | The evolutionary dynamics of article inventories |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Rui Dong | The shapes of languages |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | everyone | Wrapping up for the day |
| 17:30 | WORKSHOP RECEPTION |
Thursday, September 14
| SESSION 5 | chair: Russell Gray | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Martin Haspelmath | Introducing CrossGram, a complementary project |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Jeremy Collins | Detecting Language Contact Events Using Grambank Data |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Kaius Sinnemäki, Francesca Di Garbo & Hedvig Skirgård | Exploring the likelihood of linguistic convergence in contact situations: Comparing the GramBank and GramAdapt data |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| SESSION 6 | chair: Hedvig Skirgård | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Frederic Blum & Johann-Mattis List | Using Lexibank and Grambank to Automatically Affiliate Languages to Families |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Marc Allassonnière-Tang & Olena Shcherbakova | Using Grambank data to investigate the evolutionary trends of complexity in gender systems |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Annemarie Verkerk & Hannah Haynie | Global-scale inference of typological universals using Grambank |
| 12:30 - 13:45 | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | everyone | group photo shooting (ENTRANCE HALL) |
| SESSION 7 | chair: Frederic Blum | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Harald Hammarström & Philipp Rönchen | Explorations in grammatochronology |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Anna Graff | Using Grambank to detect linguistic areas |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| SESSION 8 | chair: Olena Shcherbakova | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Samuel Passmore | The disproportionate impact of language endangerment on child acquisition research: Using Grambank to quantify the extent of unstudied and endangered diversity |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Angela Chira | On the evolution of linguistic disparity |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Russell Gray | Wrapping up |
Registration
Registration has now closed.
Deadline for registrations was July 21st, 2023.
Practicalities
- the workshop will take place at MPI-EVA in our lecture hall
- we have booked hotel rooms for all presenters
- non-presenters are advised to book their own accommodations in Leipzig soon, as hotels are currently filling up fast
- there is no registration fee
- coffee breaks (coffee, tea, refreshments) will be provided free of charge to all registered participants in our entrance hall
- lunch can be purchased on-site at our cafeteria (presenters will be getting lunch for free)
- there will be a workshop reception on Sept 13 directly after the afternoon session at MPI-EVA (non-presenters can purchase a ticket to attend this event, presenters are automatically invited)
Organizer
Training
Are you interested in how your data could be added to Grambank?
As a sattelite event to our workshop, we will offer a one day Grambank coding training on September 11th, 2023 (on Zoom).
At the training we welcome language experts who know something about a language and their way around linguistic terminology to come and code our questionnaire alongside our coding expoerts. This will help you in turning your knowledge into part of the Grambank database.
We will have experts and assistants available to show you the ropes and help out with specifics. Your coding will be credited to you specifically.
Registration for our Coding Training has now been closed.
Contact
Questions? Please send any queries regarding this workshop to us here.