The updated programme and abstract booklet can be consulted here.
Workshop
The determinants of diachronic stability
28 June 2016
8:30-9:00 | Registration |
9:00-9:10 | Welcome |
9:10-10:00 | Invited speaker: Sheila Watts: Token stability and type stability: What happened to German? |
10:00-10:15 | Coffee break |
10:15-10:50 | Þorhallur Eyþorsson and Sigriður Saeunn Sigurðardottir: Arguments in a cold climate: Stability and change in Icelandic weather verbs |
10:50-11:25 | Pierre Rucart: Arabic loans in the verbal system of Afar |
11:25-12:00 | Susanne Vejdemo and Thomas Hörberg: The role of frequency in measuring the rate of lexical replacement |
12:00-13:10 | Lunch break (on site) |
13:10-13:45 | Charlotte Galves: Competition, stability and change in the emergence of Brazilian Portuguese |
13:45-14:20 | Theresa Biberauer:Contact and acquirers: the “exotic” factors that have shaped Afrikaans V2 |
14:20-14:55 | Waltraud Paul & Redouane Djamouri: Disharmony in harmony with diachronic stability: The case of Chinese |
14:55-15:10 | Coffee break |
15:10-16:00 | Invited speaker:Joel Wallenberg: Variational specialization: towards an acquisition-based model of diachronic stability |
16:00-16:35 | Henri Kauhanen:Stable variation arises from noisy across-population bias distributions in the absence of global bias |
18:00 | Reception at Townhall |