Program

Day 1 - Thursday 13 March

Time	Title Authors, Presenter
09:15-09:30	Welcome
09:30-10:45	Plenary 1: Filling the holes in language evolution and change: why and how? Dan Dediu
10:45-11:30	--- Coffee Break ---
11:30-12:00	The comparative method cannot tell us how languages evolve Steven Moran, Tiena Danner
12:00-12:30	Traditional ODE models of language change driven by individual-level interactions are often not accurate, but we can still learn something from them Andreas Baumann
12:30-14:00	--- Lunch Break ---
14:00-14:30	Agent-based simulations as process models of linguistic dynamics Frederik Hartmann
14:30-15:00	Evolutionary dynamics of maximal syllable structure Laura C. Dees, Shelece M. Easterday, Paul Widmer, Balthasar Bickel, Chundra A. Cathcart
15:00-15:30	Modeling language history as a graph: an exploratory paper Florian Wandl, Julia Ulrich
15:30-16:15	--- Coffee Break ---
16:15-16:45	Uncovering variation in the areality of morphosyntactic features in Africa: A Bayesian approach Miri Mertner
16:45-17:15	Writing does not impact the evolutionary dynamics of syntax Carlo Y. Meloni, Chundra A. Cathcart, Jessica K. Ivani, Taras Zakharko, Guanghao You, Balthasar Bickel
18:00	--- Conference Dinner (for contributors) at Moudi's Lecker Garten ---

Time	Title Authors, Presenter
10:00-10:30	Concept embeddings: Applying graph embedding techniques to colexification networks Arne Rubehn
10:30-11:00	Modeling the dynamics of societal multilingualism in the MULTILING-HIST project Amy Anderson, Bartłomiej Chromik, Joanna Maryniak
11:00-11:45	--- Coffee Break ---
11:45-12:15	Opening the garden: Modelling variation between South Slavic redactions of Church Slavonic and early vernacular-based Balkan Slavic literature Barbara Sonnenhauser, Ivan Šimko
12:15-12:45	Less is poor. When could the reducing effect lead to chaos? Anthe Sevenants, Dirk Speelman, Freek Van de Velde
12:45-14:00	--- Lunch Break ---
14:00-14:30	Population genetics as a window on macro-evolutionary effects of contact and isolation on language structure Anna Graff, Erik Ringen, Kentaro Shimizu, Chiara Barbieri, Balthasar Bickel
14:30-15:00	The impact of morphology-external factors on Germanic preterite regularization: converging evidence from historical language data, population size and agent-based simulations Dirk Pijpops, Isabeau De Smet, Freek Van de Velde
15:00-15:30	Ergodicity and the difference between micro- and macro-evolution Balthasar Bickel
15:30-16:15	--- Coffee Break ---
16:15-17:30	Plenary 2: Should we model language change using replicator equations? Henri Kauhanen
17:30-18:15	Round table discussion on major workshop themes; closing