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2-day workshop, 8 and 9 November 2018
Department of Comparative Linguistics at the University of Zurich
The Department of Comparative Linguistics at the University of Zürich (IVS) is hosting a two-day workshop, “Perspectives On Word Order Evolution” from 8-9 November, organized by IVS graduate students and postdocs. This is a working meeting to present relevant work relating to word order and its development in multiple languages and families, and to build an integrated theory of word order evolution based on insights from typology and computational modeling, language processing and acquisition, and historical syntactic reconstruction. Besides presenters from the department, three invited speakers speakers will present keynotes: Ted Gibson (MIT), Julia Uddén (Stockholm), and Tatiana Nikitina (Lyon). The workshop will conclude with a roundtable discussion on the second day.
The workshop schedule (subject to finalization via the IVS website) is listed below, as is the location and time. Interested attendees are welcome.
Day 1
| Time | Location | Talk | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09.00-09.10 | KOL-F-123 | Welcome/Introduction | |
| 09.10-10.10 | KOL-F-123 | Keynote 1 Crosslinguistic dependency length minimization |
Ted Gibson |
| 10.10-10.40 | KOL-F-123 | Phylogenetic perspectives on V2 and subject-drop in Indo-European | Chundra Cathcart |
|
10.40-11.00 |
KOL-E-12 | Coffee Break | |
|
11.00-11.30 |
KOL-F-123 | Word order and population history | Balthasar Bickel |
| 11.30-12.00 | KOL-F-123 | Word order change across main and subordinate clauses in Indo-European and Tupí-Guaraní | Rik van Gijn |
| 12.10-13.40 | KOL-E-12 | Lunch Break | |
| 13.40-14.40 | KOL-E-13 | Keynote 2 Word order consistency and word order change: Some unsolved issues |
Tatiana Nikitina |
| 14.40-15.10 | KOL-E-13 | Reconstructing word order in Austroasiatic: methodology and implications | Wei-Wei Lee |
| 15.10-15.40 | KOL-E-13 | Nicobarese word order: historical and areal perspectives | Paul Sidwell |
| 15.50-16.10 | KOL-E-12 | Coffee Break | |
| 16.10-16.40 | KOL-E-13 | There and back again - a history of verb-initial word orders in Celtic | Stefan Dedio |
| 16.40-17.10 | KOL-E-13 | Evolutionary rates and directions of noun modifiers in Sino-Tibetan languages | André Müller |
| 18.30 | Conference Dinner | ||
Day 2
| Time | Location | Talk | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09.00-09.30 | KOL-E-12 | Coffee | |
| 09.30-10.30 | KOL-E-13 | Keynote 3 Neurobiological constraints on language processing and learning: investigating the push-down stack |
Julia Uddén |
| 10.30-11.00 | KOL-E-13 | Word order and sentence comprehension: An EEG study on an object-initial language (Äiwoo) | Sebastian Sauppe |
| 11.10-11.30 | KOL-E-12 | Coffee Break | |
| 11.30-12.00 | KOL-E-13 | Harmony, locality and dependency direction in syntax | Yingqi Jing |
| 12.00-12.30 | KOL-E-13 | Deep history of word order biases | Damián Blasi |
| 13.00-14.30 | Dozentenfoyer | Lunch Break | |
| 14.30-15.00 | KOL-E-13 | Does order matter for ontogeny? | Sabine Stoll |
| 15.00-15.30 | KOL-E-13 | Brief outlook: order effects in animal call combinations? | Sabrina Engesser |
| 15.30-17.30 | KOL-E-13 | Concluding remarks and round table discussion |
