《International Research Forum》Linguistic Substrata in Tibeto-Burman Area

Tuesday, September 9 ～Thursday, September 11, 2008
《International Research Forum》Linguistic Substrata in Tibeto-Burman Area

13:30 - 14:00	Keynote speech Y. Nagano
Pronominals and Directives
14:00 - 14:40	Directional prefixes in nDrapa and neighboring languages: An areal feature of Western Sichuan S. Shirai
14:40 - 15:20	Verbal affixes in West Himalayan Y. Takahashi
16:00 - 16:40	On the rise of the numeral classifier system in Newar K. Kiryu
16:40 - 17:20	Origin of non-Tibetan words in Tibetan dialects of the Ethnic Corridor in West Sichuan H. Suzuki

Zhangzhung and Old Tibetan
10:00 - 10:40	Some notes on 'gold' and 'road' in Zhangzhung and Tamangic I. Honda
10:40 - 11:20	Is there a Himalayan tone typology? J. Evans
11:20 - 12:00	Shared morphology in Qiang and Tibetan Huang Chenglong
13:00 - 13:40	Zhang-zhung and Qiangic languages G. Jacques
13:40 - 14:10	Zhangzhung and Gyarong Y. Nagano
14:10 - 14:40	Present stage of deciphering Old Zhangzhung T. Takeuchi &A. Nishida
14:40 - 15:20	Formation an

Comparison, Typology and Sub-grouping
10:00 - 10:40	When the ﾔmajority ruleﾕ does not apply: Ergative to accusative drift in Austronesian languages and how we know R. Kikusawa
10:40 - 11:20	Drift in TB R. LaPolla
11:20 - 12:00	Challenging the status-quo: Drift, direct inheritance and reconstruction L. Reid
Some Critical Eyes on Linguistic Substrata
13:00 - 13:40	Historical development of Youle Jino and linguistic substratum of Tibeto-Burman N. Hayashi
13:40 - 14:20	Application of substrate theory in the research of ethnic languages in China Dai Qingxia
14:20 - 15:00	Stable roots in Sino-Tibetan/Tibeto-Burman J. Matisoff
15:00 - 15:40	How (not) to establish substratum interference S. Thomason
16:00 - 16:30	Discussion