Time and Space in Linguistics: Interdisciplinary Computational Approaches & Cross-Creole Comparisons
Richard Mortensen Stue, Aarhus University 15-16 January 2014
DAY 1: Wednesday, January 15th 2014
8.00-9.00
Registration
9.00-9.05
Conference opening
Peter Bakker, Finn Borchsenius & Aymeric Daval-Markussen
9.05-9.50
William J. Sutherland (University of Cambridge):
Global distribution and changes of languages and biodiversity
9.50-10.20
Rebecca Grollemund, Simon Branford & Mark Pagel (University of Reading):
Bantu expansion follows the Savannah Corridor through the Equatorial rainforest slides
10.20-10.45
Coffee break
10.45-11.15
Jeremy Collins, on behalf of Harald Hammarström (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen):
Basic word order and language contact slides
11.15-11.45
Michel Généreux & Tjerk Hagemeijer (Lisbon University):
Experiments with the basic vocabulary of the Gulf of Guinea Creoles slides
11.45-13.00
Lunch break
13.00-13.45
Søren Wichmann (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig):
Worldwide patterns of language migration
13.45-14.15
Erich Round (University of Queensland):
Dataset design processes need to be scientifically reported: The sensitivity of Bayesian
clustering and ‘researcher degrees of freedom’ slides
14.15-14.45
Coffee break
14.45-15.30
Michael Dunn (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen):
A time and place for languages: new perspectives from Bayesian Phylogeography
15.30-16.00
Susanne Michaelis (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig):
Sampling in contact linguistics: What is a typical creole feature? slides
16.00-16.30
Aymeric Daval-Markussen (Aarhus University):
Creole typology in the age of the APiCS slides
19.00- : Conference dinner at the restaurant Flammen, Tolbodgade 6 (the precise location of the restaurant is indicated on the event map at http://tasil2014.com/location.html).
Time and Space in Linguistics: Interdisciplinary Computational Approaches & Cross-Creole Comparisons
Richard Mortensen Stue, Aarhus University 15-16 January 2014
DAY 2: Thursday, January 16th 2014
9.00-9.45
Vittorio Loreto (Sapienza University of Rome):
Modelling the emergence of creole languages slides
9.45-10.15
Stéphane Goyette (Brandon University, Manitoba):
On the genesis of French and non-French Creoles of the Americas
10.15-10.45
Coffee break
10.45-11.15
Eeva Sippola & Abigail Tiny (Aarhus University & Lisbon University):
Noun phrases in Iberian-lexifier creoles slides
11.15-13.00
Lunch break
13.00-13.30
Peter Bakker (Aarhus University):
European creoles versus non-European creoles
13.30-14.00
Kees Versteegh (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen):
The expression of future tense in Arabic pidgins and creoles
14.00-14.30
Coffee break
14.30-15.00
Angela Bartens & Eeva Sippola (Helsinki University & Aarhus University):
Subject null arguments in creole languages slides
15.00-15.30
Adrienne Bruyn (Utrecht University):
Suriname versus the rest of the world: a comparison of functional elements based on
the APiCS slides
15.30-16.00
Conclusions and closure of conference