ESF-OMLL Workshop NDHL: Recordings
Labo /
12/05/2008

This event, as part of the European Science Foundation EUROCORES Programmme OMLL, was supported by funds from the EC Sixth Framework Programme under Contract no. ERAS-CT-2003-980409

Workshop introduction by Jean-Marie Hombert

Durée: 15 minutes

Workshop introduction

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Russel Gray

Durée: 33 minutes

What do bioinformatics have to offer linguistics? Exploration in the new science of lexomics

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Quentin Atkinson

Durée: 30 minutes

Classification and the tempo of language evolution

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John Nerbonne

Durée: 28 minutes

Areal effects on classification

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Paul Heggarty – Thus far and no further?

Durée: 41 minutes

Thus far and no further? Why should there be a limit on how far back we can recover language histories?

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Bernd Heine – On the role of typology in the history of languages

Durée: 29 minutes

On the role of typology in the history of languages

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Tom Güldemann – Areal typology, language families and linguistic reconstruction

Durée: 38 minutes

Areal typology, language families and linguistic reconstruction: The case of proto-Bantu and proto-Niger-Congo

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Martin Haspelmath

Durée: 26 minutes

Loanword typology: Lexical borrowing in cross-linguistic and quantitative perspective

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Derek Nurse

Durée: 29 minutes

Drawing historical conclusions from verbal systems: Evidence from Bantu

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Alain Peyraube

Durée: 20 minutes

Diachrony and typology in Chinese grammar

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Hilary Chappell

Durée: 39 minutes

Grammaticalization of verba dicendi in East and Southeast Asian languages: a (recursive) case of clause integration

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Michael Dunn

Durée: 28 minutes

Phylogenetic approaches to language variation: Correlated evolution of structural traits of language

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Denis Creissels

Durée: 14 minutes

Concluding remarks

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Salikoko Mufwene

Durée: 28 minutes

Ecology and exaptation all the way in language evolution

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Gerrit Dimmendaal – Language ecology and genetic diversity on the African continen

Durée: 30 minutes

Language ecology and genetic diversity on the African continen

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Roger Blench

Durée: 33 minutes

Accounting for the pattern of Amerindian languages: What role did agriculture play in phylic dispersals?

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Serge Bahuchet

Durée: 37 minutes

Languages of hunter-gatherers, consequence of ecology or social environment? A view from Central African rainforest

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Brigitte Pakendorf

Durée: 23 minutes

Genetic perspectives on prehistoric social practises

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Laurent Sagart – Reconstructable vocabulary and the time, homeland and way of life of proto-Sino-Tibetan

Durée: 32 minutes

Reconstructable vocabulary and the time, homeland and way of life of proto-Sino-Tibetan

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Gérard Philippson – Bantu expansion and hunter gatherers

Durée: 45 minutes

Bantu expansion and hunter gatherers

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Koen Bostoen

Durée: 39 minutes

Lexical reconstruction and early African history: Insights from Bantu crafts vocabulary and plant names

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Bernd Heine – Using findings on language contact for linguistic reconstruction

Durée: 27 minutes

Using findings on language contact for linguistic reconstruction

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Christopher Ehret – Interpretation of reconstructed kin lexicons

Durée: 18 minutes

Interpretation of reconstructed kin lexicons

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Maarten Kossmann

Durée: 38 minutes

Towards a model of the spread of innovations in language (and some consequences for recent language contact models)

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