Advances in Phylogenetic Linguistics
Advances in Phylogenetic Linguistics
International workshop
Ragusa Ibla, July 15-17, 2013
Organized by:
Meeting Darwin’s last challenge: toward a global tree of human languages and genes (ERC Advanced Grant n. 295733 LANGELIN - LANguages-GEnes LINeages, PI Giuseppe Longobardi, University of York)
Presentations:
David Lightfoot (Georgetown)
Nothing in linguistics makes sense except in the light of change
Giuseppe Longobardi (York), Andrea Sgarro (Trieste), Luca Bortolussi (Trieste), Giuseppina Silvestri (Cambridge), Andrea Ceolin (Trieste), Cristina Guardiano (Modena e Reggio Emilia)
The historical reality of parametric variation
Russel Gray (Auckland)
Language phylogenies: Rates, dates & structural traits
Cedric Boeckx (Barcelona)
The locus of logodiversity: Implications for phylogenetic linguistics
Hilda Koopman (UCLA), Dominique Sportiche (UCLA)
Grounding the study of linguistic variation
Silvia Ghirotto (Ferrara), Francesca Tassi (Ferrara), Andrea Benazzo (Ferrara), Cristina Guardiano (Modena e Reggio Emilia), Guido Barbujani (Ferrara), Giuseppe Longobardi (York)
Across language families: exploration in genomic and linguistic variation in Europe
Charles Yang (Philadelphia)
Predicting language change
Theresa Biberauer (Cambridge), Ian Roberts (Cambridge)
Emergent parameters: hierarchies and phylogenies
Cristina Guardiano (Modena e Reggio Emilia), Alessio Boattini (Bologna), Stefania Sarno (Bologna), Marilisa Carta (Bologna), Donata Luiselli (Bologna), Davide Pettener (Bologna)
Insights into genetic and linguistic structures of Sicily and Southern Italy. First steps towards an integrated perspective
Posters:
A. Ceolin (Trieste): Syntactic Trees and Parsimony analysis
M. Irimia (York): Non canonical, but still structural
D. Michelioudakis (York): Rethinking the syntactic status and patrametrising possessive clitics. Evidence from the diachrony of Greek
F. Tassi (Ferrara): Early human dispersal from Africa. A model-based test of two hypotheses
Contact email:
cristina.guardiano@unimore.it, giuseppe.longobardi@york.ac.uk.
Links:
- LanGeLin website: http://www.york.ac.uk/language/research/projects/langelin/
- Workshop website: http://www.centrostudifelicianorossitto.it/langelin/Home.html