DLCE Workshop "Language shift and substratum interference in (pre)history"

DLCE Workshop

Beginn: 11.07.2017 09:00
Ende: 12.07.2017 18:00
Ort: MPI SHH Jena
Raum: Villa V14
Gastgeber: Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
Kontakt: schueck@shh.mpg.de

Invited speakers: John Peterson (University of Kiel), Sarah Thomason (University of Michigan), Lars Johanson (University of Mainz)

Organizers: Martine Robbeets, Susanne Maria Michaelis, Martin Haspelmath

If you want to attend the workshop, please register as soon as possible by writing to Kerstin Schück-Tittmann: schueck@shh.mpg.de

Workshop programme

Venue: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (Jena), seminar room V14 in the villa on the first floor

Tuesday, 11 July 2017

8.00-9.00	Registration
9.00-9.15	Welcome
9.15-10.00	plenary talk Sarah G. Thomason (U Michigan): On establishing ancient shift-induced interference: Problems and prospects
10.00-10.45	plenary talk Lars Johanson (Mainz U): Carry-over code copying and genealogical relatedness
10.45-11.15	Martine Robbeets, Nataliia Neshcheret, Chuanchao Wang, Choongwon Jeong & Tao Li (MPI-SHH, Jena): A Pacific North East Coast substratum in the Transeurasian languages?
11.15-11.45	Coffee break
11.45-12.15	Anna Berge (U Alaska Fairbanks): Late prehistoric language contact effects in Unangam Tunuu (Aleut)
12.15-12.45	David Gil (MPI-SHH, Jena): The Austronesianization of Indonesia
12.45-13.15	Antoinette Schapper (KITLV Leiden): Substratum inference through lexical patterns: A case study from Sunda-Sahul
13.15-14.15	Lunch
14.15-14.45	K. Alexander Adelaar (U Melbourne): Malagasy: The result of language shift and limited borrowing from Bantu
14.45-15.15	Jeffrey Heath (U Michigan): Two cruxes of W/NW African linguistic prehistory (Songhay, Moroccan Arabic)
15.15-15.45	Dmitry Idiatov & Mark Van de Velde (LLACAN – CNRS, Paris): The lexical frequency of labial-velar stops as a window on the linguistic prehistory of northern sub-Saharan Africa
15.45-16.15	Coffee break
16.15-16.45	Tom Güldemann (MPI-SHH (Jena), HU Berlin): Toward a more systematic investigation of substrates: the case of Afrabia
16.45-17.15	Koen Bostoen & Hilde Gunnink (Ghent U): The impact of autochthonous languages on Bantu language variation: A comparative view on Southern and Central Africa
17.15-17.45	Francesca Di Garbo & Annemarie Verkerk (MPI-SHH (Jena), Stockholm U): Radical restructuring of gender systems in the northern Bantu borderlands as a potential substrate effect

Wednesday, 12 July 2017

9.00-9.45	plenary talk John Peterson (U Kiel): The prehistorical spread of Austro-Asiatic in South Asia
9.45-10.15	Marlyse Baptista, Jinho Baik, Ken Kollman & Alton Worthington (U Michigan): Modelling dynamic processes and language shift in creole genesis
10.15-10.45	Susanne Maria Michaelis (Leipzig U, MPI-SHH): Explaining the features of creole languages: Language shift and the division of labor between substrates and lexifiers
10.45-11.15	Coffee break
11.15-11.45	Marwan Kilani (U Oxford): Language interferences in Egyptian: A semantic diachronic perspective
11.45-12.15	Lameen Souag (LACITO – CNRS, Paris): The distribution of substratum interference in Maghrebi Arabic
12.15-12.45	Rodrigo Hernáiz (U Marburg, U Barcelona): From prehistorical language convergence to (early) historical language shift: The Sumero-Akkadian contact scenario
12.45-14.15	Lunch
14.15-14.45	Eugen Hill (U Cologne): Language shift, substratum interference and the historical phonology of Slavonic
14.45-15.15	Björn Wiemer (U Mainz): Did Finno-Ugric and Turkic substrata and adstrata help consolidate the Slavic aspect system?
15.15-15.45	Fabian Dustin Zuk (U Montréal, U Lyon III): Reprendre sa langue au chat: The Gaulish substrate resonates in modern Gallo-Romance vernaculars
15.45-16.15	Coffee break
16.15-16.45	Russell Gray, Mary Walworth, Adam Powell & Annemarie Verkerk (MPI-SHH, Jena): Waves of history and layers of evidence: what can the combination of linguistics and genetics tell us about the nature, timing and impact of Papuan contact on the Austronesian languages of Vanuatu?
16.45-17.15	Martin Kümmel (U Jena): Substrates and the development of Indo-Iranian
17.15-17.45	Jarich Hoekstra (U Kiel): On the fringe between West and North Germanic: The Danish substrate in North Frisian