20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHLXX) 第20回国際歴史言語学会 July 25-30,2011 National Museum of Ethnology,Osaka,Japan

Program and Abstracts

Conference Program
Plenary Speakers
Workshops
International Symposium (July 30, 2011)

Conference Program

In addition to the general program outline shown below, a final program is now available (July 25, 2011). Click on the icon to view or download it.  (226KB)
July 24 (Sunday)
Noon–18:30	Registration
17:15–19:00	Welcome Drinks
July 25 (Monday): Workshops A0020, A0032, A0035, A0037, A0041, A0046
08:15–09:00	Registration (counter open until noon)
09:00–09:15	Welcome
09:15–10:15	Plenary Talk: YOSHIDA Kazuhiko
10:30–12:50	Sessions
13:50–14:50	Plenary Talk: Frank LICHTENBERK
15:00–18:30	Sessions
July 26 (Tuesday): Workshops A0020, A0034, A0037, A0040, A0046
08:30–09:30	Plenary Talk: Willem F.H. ADELAAR
09:40–18:40	Sessions
July 27 (Wednesday): Workshops A0033, A0039, A0042, A0043
08:30–09:30	.Plenary Talk: Suzanne ROMAINE
09:40–12:40	Sessions
12:50–	Excursions
July 28 (Thursday): Workshops A0010, A0013, A0033, A0038, A0039, A0041, A0043, A0044
08:30–09:30	Plenary Talk: Ted SUPALLA
09:40–18:40	Sessions
19:15–	Conference Dinner
July 29 (Friday): Workshops A0033, A0036, A0045, A0047, A0051
08:30–09:30	Plenary Talk: Bjarke FRELLESVIG
09:40–18:40	Sessions
July 30 (Saturday)
09:00–18:30	Symposium: Historical Linguistics in the Asia–Pacific Region and the Position of Japanese

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Plenary Speakers

Willem F.H. ADELAAR (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden, The Netherlands)
Searching for Unexpected Genetic Links between the Languages of South America  (45KB)

Bjarke FRELLESVIG (University of Oxford, UK)
Corpus Based Studies in Japanese Historical Syntax  (58KB)

Frank LICHTENBERK (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
The Rise and Demise of Possessive Classifiers in Austronesian  (62KB)

Suzanne ROMAINE (University of Oxford, UK)
Grammaticalization in Socio-historical Perspective: Social Conduits and Vectors of Diffusion of Linguistic Change  (46KB)

Ted SUPALLA (University of Rochester, USA)
The Role of Historical Research in Building a Model of Sign Language Typology and Variation  (53KB)

YOSHIDA Kazuhiko (Kyoto University, Japan)
The Mirage of Apparent Morphological Correspondence: A Case from Indo-European  (45KB)

 

Workshops

Papers are now invited for the following workshops. If you want your paper to be included in one, please submit your abstract through the form by January 15, making sure you specify the title of the workshop as you submit.

Download all workshop proposals in a single file here (1,193KB), or click on a workshop proposal number to view its description.

A0010 (50KB):	Computational Historical Linguistics (Simon GREENHILL, July 28)
A0013 (87KB):	Historical Sign Language Database Architecture and Historical Linguistics Methodology (OSUGI Yutaka, Ted SUPALLA, July 28)
A0020 (54KB):	Exaptation (Muriel NORDE, Freek VAN DE VELDE, July 25, 26)
A0032 (52KB):	Toward Greater Objectivity in Historical Linguistics: Probability, Statistics, and Algorithmic Methods, (Robert RATCLIFFE, July 25)
A0033 (58KB):	Ibero-Romance Historical Linguistics (Miriam BOUZOUITA, Enrique PATO, July 27, 28, 29)
A0034 (54KB):	Mesoamerican Historical Linguistics (MATSUKAWA Kosuke, John S. JUSTESON, George A. BROADWELL, July 26)
A0035 (56KB):	Re-Examining Tree-Based Models of Evolution: Issues of Areal Diffusion and Convergence in Dialectal Continua (John PHAN, July 25)
A0036 (77KB):	Etymology and Reconstruction in the Languages of Australia and the Pacific (Robert MAILHAMMER, Harold KOCH, July 29)
A0037 (82KB):	The Diachrony of Referential Null Arguments (Silvia LURAGHI, Dag HAUG, July 25, 26)
A0038 (60KB):	Person Forms across Time and Space: Divergence or Convergence (SHIBASAKI Reijirou, July 28)
A0039 (75KB):	The Diachrony of Negation (Maj-Britt Mosegaard HANSEN, Jacqueline VISCONTI, July 27, 28)
A0040 (56KB):	Drift and Long-term Morphosyntactic Change (David WILLIS, Ioanna SITARIDOU, July 26)
A0041 (77KB):	Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change (Evie COUSSÉ, Ferdinand VON MENGDEN, July 25, 28)
A0042 (52KB):	Stability and Borrowability of Interrogative Pronominals (Dmitry IDIATOV, July 27)
A0043 (58KB):	The Diachrony of TAM System as a Paradigm (WATANABE Kazuha, July 27, 28)
A0044 (49KB):	The Nominalization Cycle (Daniel KAUFMAN, John WHITMAN, July 28)
A0045 (55KB):	Advances in Ryukyuan Historical Linguistics (Thomas PELLARD, July 29)
A0046 (50KB):	Syntactic Reconstruction (Jóhanna BARÐDAL, Spike GILDEA, July 25, 26)
A0047 (61KB):	The Role of Autonomous Morphology in Language Change (Martin MAIDEN, John Charles SMITH, July 29)
A0051 (52KB):	Genealogical and Areal Linguistic Relations in The Kalahari Basin (Tom GÜLDEMANN, July 29)

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International Symposium: Historical Linguistics in the Asia-Pacific Region
 and the Position of Japanese (July 30, 2011)

 

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