VENUE: Campus Westend, SKW, Hörsaal B, Rostocker Str. 2, 60323
Frankfurt am Main
Online: https://uni-frankfurt.zoom-x.de/j/67314438241?pwd=VthT6Hv6iNbq7SqTx57XoYKSgbhqr9.1
PROGRAM
9—9.15 Gerd Carling (Goethe University,
Frankfurt am Main) Introduction and presentation of a new resource for
comparative linguistics
9.15—9.45 Annemarie Verkerk (University of Saarland) A phylogenetic analysis of numeral base choice in New Guinea and South America
9.45—10.15 Chundra Cathcart (Zurich University) Complexity counts: synchronic, diachronic and areal perspectives on Indo-Aryan numeral systems
10.15—10.45 Coffee Break
10.45—11.15 Marc Allassonnière-Tang (CNRS) The impact of historical events as
noise in quantitative typology: Examples from nominal classification systems
and numeral systems
11.15—11.45 Elena Anagnostopoulou (with
Dimitris Michelioudakis, Nikos Angelopoulos, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri &
Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, University of Crete and IMS-FORTH) A new look at
word order variation in the clausal and the nominal domain
11.45—12.15 Erik Elgh (with Johan Ulrik Nielsen, Uppsala University) Data types
in phylogenetics: A case study on Germanic
12.15—12.45 David Goldstein (UCLA, Los Angeles) Articles are inversely associated with case in Indo-European
12.45—14 Lunch
14—14.30 Johann-Mattis List (with Arne Rubehn, University of Passau) The Potential of Partial
Colexifications for Comparative Linguistics
14.30—15 Russell Gray (MPI Leipzig) Does group identity shape linguistic
diversification? A quantitative test of the schismogenesis hypothesis
15—15.30 Matías Guzman Naranjo (Tübingen University) Gradient in grammatical
structure of Indigenous languages reflects pathway of human expansion in the
Americas
15.30—15.45 Coffee Break
15.45—16.15 Miri Mertner (Tübingen University) Comparing the Diffusibility of
Structural Categories in Africa
16.15—16.45 Sören Wichmann (Kiel University) Linguistic speciation
16.45—17.15 Gerhard Jäger (Tübingen University) GAMs with wolves
17.15—17.45 John Mansfield (University of Zürich) Areal semantic patterns in
nominal classification
17.45—18 Juice Break
18—18.30 Erich Round (University of Surrey) Deep-time hypothesis testing with
both semantic and phonological divergence
18.30—19 Steven Moran (with Tiena Tanner, University of Zurich/University of Neuchâtel) Interindividual vocal tract
diversity influences the phonetic diversification of spoken languages
19.30 Dinner
