Program
Monday, 27.03.2017
Harald Hammarstöm: Invited Talk
Søren Wichmann & Vladimir Bochkarev: Beyond the Swadesh list: measuring semantic change in thousands of English words over two centuries
Kaj Syrjänen, Terhi Honkola, Jadranka Rota, Unni-Päivä Leino and Outi Vesakoski: Optimizing phylogenetic analyses with data partitioning: a case study of Uralic
Marian Klamer & Gereon Kaiping: Invited Talk
Ezequiel Koile, Maya Inbar, Damian Blasi and Eitan Grossman: Lexical borrowing in the world's languages: A quantitative study of the sociolinguistic and morphosyntactic factors
Balthasar Bickel: Invited Talk
Tuesday, 28.03.2017
Jotun Hein: Invited Talk
Nancy Retzlaff: Length Dependent Alignments in Historical Linguistics
A. K. Fischer, Jilles Vreeken and Dietrich Klakow: What can Shared Structures tell us about Linguistic Similarity?
Dan Dediu: Invited Talk
Stephan Eekman: The DNA of language
Andrew Meade: Invited Talk
Wednesday, 29.03.2017
Gerhard Jäger: Further evidence for punctuated language evolution
Ruprecht von Waldenfels: Building histories of Slavic on parallel texts
Peter Dekker: Reconstructing language ancestry by performing word prediction
Jyri J. F. Lehtinen: Sound change phylogeny in Uralic family trees and networks
Taraka Rama: t.b.a.
Hugo Reyes-Centeno: Invited Talk
Thursday, 30.03.2017
Gereon Kaiping and Johann-Mattis List: Simulating Lexical Evolution with Semantic Shifts
Johannes Dellert: Causal Inference of Evolutionary Networks
Martine Robbeets and Remco Bouckaert (canceled): Bayesian phylolinguistics and the classification of the Transeurasian languages