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26 January

08:50-09:00 Opening
09:00-09:30 The LiMiTS team Linguistic morphology in time and space
09:30-10:30 Andrew Spencer (University of Essex) Words and their relations
10:30-11:00 Sander Lestrade (Radboud University Nijmegen) Simulating morphological change
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:00 Daven Hobbs (University of New Mexico) The Collapse of the Old Indo-Aryan Case System: A Usage-Based Account
12:00-12:30 John Lumsden (Université du Québec à Montréal) Analogical Contamination in the Procedural Grammar of OE Declensions
12:30-13:00 Carlos García Castillero (University of the Basque Country) A tale of two deponents: Deponency, sound change, paradigm split, canonicity
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:00 Gordana Hržica (University of Zagreb), Tomislava Bošnjak & Jurica Budja (both Institute for Croatian Language and Linguistics) When blocking does not block: the case of Croatian
15:00-15:30 Lotta Jalava (University of Helsinki) Finitization of participles in Uralic languages: grammaticalization of modals and evidentials
15:30-16:00 Riho Grünthal & Lotta Jalava (University of Helsinki) Diachrony of spatial postpositions in Uralic languages
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:00 Irina Monich & Matthew Baerman (University of Surrey) Non-concatenative mophology in Nuer in diachronic perspective
17:00-17:30 Rikker Dockum (Yale University) Double marking in Tai Khamti: reanalysis and reinforcement
19:30 Workshop dinner Weisser Wind (www.weisserwind.ch)

 

27 January

09:00-10:00 Marianne Mithun (UC Santa Barbara) Unpacking the vertical, the horizontal and their interaction
10:00-10:30 Gilles Authier (EPHE Paris) Divergent typologies in 'North Caucasian': bridging the morphological gap
10:30-11:00 Agnes Korn (CNRS) Unstable morphology: Bashkardi in context
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:00 Michael Everdell (The Univeristy of Texas at Austin) A Quantitative Analysis of Morphological Features of the Greater Southwest
12:00-12:30 Chingduang Yurayong (University of Helsinki) Mapping the postposed demonstrative in North Eurasia with a special focus on North Russia
12:30-13:00 Felicity Meakins (University of Queensland) Typology trumps constraints: Case transfer in Australian languages
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:00 Barbara Sonnenhauser (University of Zurich) Laying it on the line. Morphological transparency in the Balkan linguistic area
15:00-15:30 Helen Sims-Williams, Matthew Baerman, Greville Corbett & Oliver Bond (University of Surrey) Loss of inflection from the perspective of areal typology
15:30-16:00 Jason D. Haugen (Oberlin College) & Michael Everdell (University of Texas at Austin) Areality and Suppletion
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:00 Discussion