Recent Advances in Comparative Linguistic Reconstruction
THIS EVENT IS ARCHIVED
Date: 26 March 2019Time: 9:20 AM
Finishes: 27 March 2019Time: 5:20 PM
Venue: Paul Webley Wing (Senate House) Room: S211
Type of Event: Workshop
Schedule
| Time | Description |
| Tuesday 26 March 2019 | |
| 9:20am | Coffee and Tea |
| 9:50am | Dr Nathan W. Hill (SOAS, University of London): Welcome |
| 10:00am | Prof. Juliette Blevins (City University of New York), "Advances in Proto-Basque reconstruction: Internal and comparative evidence for initial *sC clusters" |
| 10:40am | Dr Tim Bodt (SOAS), "Proto-Western Kho-Bwa onsets from the perspective of Duhumbi and Khoitam" |
| 11:20am | Coffee and Tea |
| 12:20pm | Dr Ander Egurtzegi (LMU Munich), "How phonetics can complement the comparative method in sound change research: reconstructing Basque laryngeals" |
| 1:00pm | Lunch |
| 2:20pm | Dr Hannes Fellner (Vienna), "Indo-European nominal morphology and subgrouping" |
| 3:00pm | Mei Shin Wu (MPI-SHH Jena), "Workflows for computer-assisted language comparison. State of the Art" |
| 3:40pm | Coffee and Tea |
| 4:00pm | Prof. Eugen Hill (Cologne), "Sound change and subgrouping in the Hindu Kush region: Dardic vs. Nuristani and beyond" |
| 4:40pm | Dr Gong Xun (SOAS): Summation |
| 5:00pm | End |
| Wednesday 27 March 2019 | |
| 9:20am | Coffee and Tea |
| 10:00am | Dr Laura Grestenberger (Vienna), "Reconstructing selectional properties of derivational morphology: case studies from the Indo-European verbal system" |
| 10:40am | Dr Julen Manterola (Royal Academy of the Basque Language), "The contribution of medieval data to the reconstruction of proto-Basque: lexicon and morphology" |
| 11:20am | Coffee and Tea |
| 11:40am | Dr Nohara Masaki (Seiki University), "Applying the comparative method to reconstruct some basic words in Old Chinese" |
| 12:20pm | Dr Dieter Gunkel (Richmond), "Poetic meter, lexical distributions, and linguistic reconstruction." |
| 1:00pm | Lunch |
| 2:20pm | Dr Tom Hoogervorst (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies), "Language contact and Austronesian protoforms: Some methodological difficulties" |
| 3:00pm | Prof. Peter Schrijver (Utrecht), "Northeast Caucasian historical phonology and language speciation" |
| 3:40pm | Coffee and Tea |
| 4:00pm | Dr Nathan W. Hill (SOAS, University of London): Summation |
| 4:20pm | End |
Registration
Registration is required of all participants.
Organiser: SOAS University of London
Contact email: centres@soas.ac.uk
Contact Tel: +44 (0)20 7879 4892/3
Sponsor: European Research Council