The Australian National University
ANU
Historical Linguistics
Seminar Series
The Centre for Research on Language Change runs at least two series of seminars annually. Previous series (2001-2004) have been very successful. See below for details of past and current seminars.
Time: Tuesdays 11am–12.30pm
Place: HC Coombs Building, Seminar Room B
Co-ordinator Rachel Hendery
email: rachel.henderyATanu.edu.au
phone: 6125 2899
Seminar Series 2007
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Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Abstract |
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30 Mar |
Erich Round (Yale University) |
“Reconstructing Tangkic truncation and augmentation” |
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17 Apr |
William Steed (SLS, ANU) |
“Aspects of Chu Tone Sandhi” |
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24 Apr |
Felicity Meakins (University of Melbourne) |
“Alternational Code-switching and mixed language genesis” |
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20 Nov |
Yaron Matras (University of Manchester, |
“Toward an integrated theory of grammatical borrowing” |
Seminar Series 2, 2006
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Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Abstract |
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25 Jul |
Adrian Clynes, Alex Henry and Maslin Jukin (Universiti Brunei Darussalam) |
“The evolution of the Brunei Malay Wedding Invitation: from a British model to a Bruneian one” |
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1 Aug |
Frank Lichtenberk (University of Auckland) |
“Attributive possessive constructions and the relational - non-relational noun distinction in Oceanic languages and in English” |
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4 Aug (Special Slot) |
Russell Gray (University of Auckland) |
“Out of Taiwan? Genes, languages and the peopling of the Pacific” |
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8 Aug |
Dianne Jonas (Harvard University) |
“The Scots language in Shetland - A diachronic perspective” |
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15 Aug |
Erma Vassiliou (Visiting Fellow, ANU) |
“Romance NPs with Greek Morphology in Medieval Cypriot” |
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22 Aug |
Bill McGregor (Aarhus University) |
“Grammaticalisation of verbs into temporal and modal markers in Australian languages” |
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12 Sep |
Phil Rose (SLS, Arts, ANU) |
“Zooming-in on Oujiang Wu: tonal homogeneity and acoustic reconstruction in a small subgroup of Chinese dialects” |
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26 Sep |
Jennifer Hendriks (SLS, Arts, ANU) |
“The possessive doubling construction Jan z’n boek in Dutch: its origins and implications for developments in other Germanic languages” |
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22 Nov |
Patrick McConvell (AIATSIS) |
“Lenition and the identification of loanwords in Gurindji ” |
Seminar Series 1, 2006, Summary
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Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Abstract |
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2 May |
Sander Adelaar (University of Melbourne) |
“A multidisciplinary perspective on the settlement of Madagascar” |
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30 May |
Maarten Mous (Leiden University) |
“Reconstructing sociolinguistic situations: Test case East Africa” |
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6 June |
Rachel Hendery (School of Languages, ANU) |
“When discourse elements become relative clause markers” |
Seminar Series 3, 2005, Summary
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Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Abstract |
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8 Nov. |
Jacinta Smallhorn (Linguistics, RSPAS) |
“Comparative reconstruction of Proto-Binandere” |
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15 Nov. |
Patrick McConvell (AIATSIS) |
“The Archaeolinguistics of Migration: Hunter-Gatherers and Farmers” |
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22 Nov. |
Peter Trudgill (University of Fribourg) |
“Dialect archaeology and predicting the past” |
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6 Dec. |
Matthew Toulmin (Linguistics, RSPAS) |
“Reconstructing in a dialect continuum: sorting out chronology of changes in Kamota, Rajbanshi and North Bengali” |
Seminar Series 2, 2005
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Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Abstract |
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19 July |
Claire Bowern and Barry Alpher (Rice University) |
“Yolngu Matha subgrouping” |
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26 July |
Peter Bakker (University of Aarhus, Visiting Fellow at La Trobe) |
“Borrowing of verbs in Michif” |
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11 Aug. |
Jay Jasanoff (Harvard University) |
“Reduplicated preterites in Germanic” |
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16 Aug. |
Russell Gray (Auckland University) |
“How old is the European language family? Progress or more moths to the flame?” |
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23 Aug. |
Harold Koch (SLS Fac. Arts) |
“Divergent regularity in word-initial truncation in the Arandic languages” |
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30 Aug. |
Jutta Besold
(SLS, Fac. Arts) |
“Language Recovery of NSW South Coast Indigenous Languages - Philology, Analysis and Application to Community Reclamation” |
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6 Sept. |
Malcolm Ross (Linguistics, RSPAS) |
“Negative verbal clause constructions in Puyuma ” |
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20 Sept |
Stefan Engelberg (University of Wuppertal) |
“German language contact in Micronesia and Polynesia” |
Seminar Series 1, 2005, Summary
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Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Abstract |
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22 Mar. |
Malcolm Ross (Linguistics, RSPAS) |
“Towards a reconstruction of the history of tone in languages of the Trans New Guinea family” |
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5 Apr. |
Bevan Barrett (SLS, Fac. Arts) |
“Beyond the reconstruction of Proto-Maric: the search for higher level genetic relationships among the languages of Queensland” |
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12 Apr. |
Andrew Pawley (Linguistics, RSPAS) |
“Where and when was Proto Oceanic spoken? Linguistic and archaeological evidence” |
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26 Apr. |
Peter Hill (SLS, Fac. Arts) |
“Post-1989 lexical changes in Slavonic languages” |
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Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Abstract |
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15 Oct. |
Victor Friedman (University of Chicago and Research Centre for Linguistic Typology) |
“Salads of Fruit and Mountains of Tongues: Comparative Perspectives on the Balkans and the Caucasus” |
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22 Oct. |
Andrew Pawley (Dept. Linguistics, RSPAS, ANU) |
"The meaning(s) of Proto Oceanic *panua. An exercise in lexical semantics" |
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29 Oct. |
Stefan Elders (Universität Bayreuth and Research Centre for Linguistic Typology) |
"Verbal derivative suffixes in Mundang and their cognates: a case study in morphological evidence in comparative Niger-Congo" |
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5 Nov. |
Paul Sidwell (Dept. Linguistics, RSPAS, ANU) |
"The Early Mainland Austronesian Complex (EMAC) hypothesis - Moken/Moklen and Aceh.-Chamic" |
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19 Nov. |
Bevan Barrett (School of Language Studies, Arts, ANU) |
"Innovations and the Maric languages of Central Queensland" |
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26 Nov. |
Rachel Hendery (School of Language Studies, Arts, ANU ) |
"Towards a diachronic typology of relative clauses" |
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3 Dec. |
Alan Rumsey (Dept. Anthropology, RSPAS, ANU) |
"Some arguments for genetic relatedness among the Worrorran languages of the northern Kimberly region of Western Australia". |
Seminar Series 1, 2004, Summary
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Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Abstract |
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26 Mar. |
Andrew Pawley |
“On the history of the Papuan-speaking populations of Near Oceania: What can linguistics add to the evidence of archaeology and other historical disciplines?” |
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7 Apr. |
Kim Schulte |
“On Frequency and Finiteness: a universal path from pragmatics to syntax?” |
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23 Apr. |
Patrick McConvell |
“Mood swings and downward migration in South Slavic and Ngumpin-Yapa (Pama-Nyungan)” |
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| 21 May | Harold Koch (School of Language Studies, Arts, ANU) |
“Languages in contact in the Canberra region in the 19th century. Towards a description of the local Aboriginal language” | |
| 26 May | Barry J. Blake & Gavan Breen (Presented by Barry Blake, La Trobe University) |
“The relationship between Yalarnnga and Kalkutungu” | |
| 28 May | Francesca Merlan & Pascale Jacq (Dept. Anthropology, RSPAS & School of Language Studies, Arts, ANU) |
“Comparative Issues in Endophora and Exophora: Jawoyn (southern Arnhem Land) and wider implications” | |
| 4 Jun. | Paul Sidwell (Dept. Linguistics, RSPAS, ANU) |
“Mon-Khmer Creaky voice: ancient relic or structural tendency? A discussion of the evidence from Bahnaric, Katuic and Vietic” | |
| 11 Jun. | Bethwyn Evans (Dept. Linguistics, RSPAS, ANU) |
“Recovering linguistic prehistory in the Solomon Islands: the use of complementary methods” | |
| 18 Jun. | Matthew Toulmin (School of Language Studies, Arts, ANU) |
“From linguistic to socio-linguistic reconstruction: a study of the ‘Kamata’ or ‘Rajbanshi’ lects of north Bengal” | |
| 25 Jun. | Patrick McConvell (AIATSIS) |
“Catastrophic change in current English: Emergent Double-be’s and Free-be’s” |
Seminar Series 3, 2003, Summary
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Abstract |
| 26 Nov. |
Anna Zalizniak |
“A "Catalogue of Semantic
Parallels": towards a Typology of Semantic Change” |
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| 19 Dec. |
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(to be announced) |
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Patrick McConvell and Mary Laughren |
“Comparative and diachronic syntax of Ngumpin-Yapa (Australia): mood, negation and clitic placement” |
Abstract |
Seminar Series 2, 2003, Summary
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Abstract |
| 5 Sept |
Bethwyn Evans |
“The value of applied phonology in morphological reconstruction” |
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| 12 Sept |
Harold Koch |
“Particles and proto-paradigms: extending the catchment area for the reconstruction of pronominal inflection” |
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| 19 Sept |
Kate Laffan |
“Getting to the core of the Proto Wakka-Kabic case system” |
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| 17 Oct | Claire Bowern (Department of Linguistics, Harvard University) | “Devolution of noun incorporation” | Abstract |
Seminar Series 1, 2003, Summary
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Abstract |
| 30 April |
Evershed Amuzu |
“Beyond surface grammatical structures: A language-production based grammatical analysis of mixed constitutents in Ewe-English Codeswitching” |
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| 7 May |
Cynthia Allen |
“Our this fascinating construction: investigating the interaction of determiners and possessives in the history of English” |
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| 14 May |
Paul Sidwell |
“Looking for Su': the adventures, surprises and rewards of finding a language when you don't really know where it is, or who speaks it” |
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| 21 May |
Andrew Pawley |
“Inanimate he and she in the history of English” |
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| 28 May |
Harold Koch & Pascale Jacq |
“Towards the reconstruction
of Pama-Nyungan verb inflection” |
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| 4 June |
Malcolm Ross |
“Possession in Oceanic” |
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| 18 June |
Helen McLagan |
“Of White Body and Fair Face Men”:
placement of adnominal genitive phrases in Old English. |
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| 16 July |
Angela Terrill |
“Testing Punctuated Equlibrium in the Solomon Islands” TIME CHANGE: Wed. 2pm-2.30pm |
Seminar Series 2, 2002, Summary
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Abstract |
| 6 Nov. |
Paul Sidwell |
“Identifying the language(s) of the Mon-Khmer strata in Chamic” |
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| 13 Nov. |
Phil Rose |
“Bayesian inference and historical linguistics” |
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| 20 Nov. |
Daniel Martín |
“The demographic dimension of Migrant Language Maintenance and Shift: Some conclusions based on the Australian case” |
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| 27 Nov. |
Laura Daniliuc |
“On Latin Deponent Verbs” |
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Abstract |
| 27 March |
Michael Dunn |
“Chukchi-Russian language contact in the mind of the bilingual” |
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| 3 April |
Malcolm Ross |
“Constructions: continuity and contact” |
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| 10 April |
Andrew Pawley |
“On grammatical categories and grammaticisation in Oceanic languages: synchronic and diachronic perspectives” |
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| 17 April |
Laura Daniliuc |
“Auxiliary selection in diachrony: Case studies from the Romance languages” ROOM CHANGE: Rm 107. |
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| 24 April |
Patrick McConvell (AIATSIS) & Kim Akerman |
‘“Wommera”: the spread of the multi-purpose spearthrower’ |
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| 1 May |
Peter Hill (School of Language Studies, Arts) |
“Dõgan pipl: English is in, but Turkish is cool: Developments in Standard Macedonian in the Post-Independence Era” |
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| 8 May |
Luisa Miceli |
Australian Comparative Linguistics: rethinking the working assumptions |
Seminar Series 2, 2001, Summary
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Abstract |
| 8 Nov. |
Andrew Pawley |
“Proto-Polynesian *-Cia” |
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| 14 Nov. |
Jennifer Hendriks |
“On the use and abuse of social history in the history of the Dutch language” |
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| 21 Nov. |
Lawrence A. Reid |
“Austric: Is it a real language family or not?” |
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| 28 Nov. |
Ritsuko Kikusawa |
“Taking Advantages of both the Comparative Method and Syntactic Typology: An examination of the development of Indonesian basic sentence structures” |
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| 5 Dec. |
Mark Dras |
“Evolution of Turkic vowel harmony: a computational simulation” |
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| 12 Dec. |
Patrick McConvell (AIATSIS) & Jane Simpson |
“Language change among Central Australian Aboriginal children” |
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| 19 Dec. |
Bethwyn Evans |
“Proto Oceanic *akin[i]: reconstructing a process of grammaticalisation” |
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Abstract |
| 6 June |
Paul Sidwell |
“How do we genetically classify morphologically impoverished languages? Lexicostatistics, ‘distinctive vocabulary’, or comparative phonology?” | Abstract |
| 13 June |
Ritsuko Kikusawa |
“Determining the cognacy of two ‘similar’ grammatical forms: A case study” | Abstract |
| 27 June |
Harold Koch |
“Morphological reconstruction as an etymological method: lessons from reconstructing Proto-Arandic” | Abstract |
| 4
July |
Patrick McConvell |
“A Miller’s tale: the archaeo-linguistic stratigraphy of seed-grinding in Australia” | Abstract |
| 11 July |
Claire Bowern |
“Nyulnyulan pronouns and pronoun-like things” | Abstract |
| 18 July |
Evershed Amuzu |
“Code-Switching among Ewe-English bilinguals” | Abstract |
| 25 July |
Laura Daniliuc |
“History of the compound perfect tense in the Romance languages” | Abstract |
| 1 August |
Anna Wierzbicka |
“Right and wrong: a study in historical semantics and historical pragmatics” | Abstract |
| 8 August |
Jerold Edmondson |
“Borrowing, Shift, and Convergence: Some cases of Asian Tone in Contact” | Abstract |
| 12-18
August |
15th International
Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL),
Melbourne |
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| 22 August |
Brian Joseph |
“On the nature of Analogical Change: Regularization/ Simplification/ Optimization or Not?” | Abstract |
| 29 August |
Nick Riemer |
“Meaning changes in verbs: The case of strike” | Abstract |
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