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='''Thursday July 12'''= | ='''Thursday July 12: Focus on Linguistic Data and Databases'''= | ||
<br/> | <br/>2:00 - 2:15 PM Welcome and Logistical Details (Chris Wood and Wayne Cote, SFI) | ||
<br/>2:15 - 3:15 PM Documenting Endangered Languages (Joan Maling, NSF) | |||
<br/>3:15 - 3:30 PM Break | |||
<br/> Inferring Language History and | <br/>3:30 - 4:30 PM Overview of the EHL Database and Etymological Dictionaries | ||
(George Starostin, RSU) | |||
<br/>4:30 - 6:00 PM Discussion | |||
<br/>7:00 PM Dinner at Santacafe | |||
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='''Friday July 13: Focus on Inferring Language History and Prehistory'''= | |||
<br/>8:30 - 9:00 AM Breakfast | |||
<br/>9:00 - 10:00 AM Language as a Complex System: Implications for Inferring | |||
Distant Relationships (David Lightfoot, NSF) | |||
<br/>10:00 - 11:00 AM Applying the Comparative Method to Distant Relationships | |||
(George Starostin, RSU) | |||
<br/>11:00 - 11:15 AM Break | |||
<br/>11:15 - 12:15 PM Constraints on Inferring Linguistic Prehistory | |||
(Lyle Campbell, Utah) | |||
<br/>12:15 - 1:15 PM Working Lunch: Title TBA (Bonny Sands, NAU) | |||
<br/>1:15 - 2:15 PM Origin and Evolution of Language and Languages | |||
(Merritt Ruhlen, Stanford) | |||
<br/>2:15 - 3:15 PM "Bottlenecks" in Linguistic Prehistory | |||
(Murray Gell-Mann, SFI) | |||
<br/>3:15 - 3:30 PM Break | |||
<br/>3:30 - 5:30 PM Discussion | |||
<br/>7:00 PM Dinner at Pink Adobe | |||
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='''Participants'''= | |||
Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Santa Fe Institute, tanmoy@santafe.edu | |||
Lyle Campbell, University of Utah, lyle.campbell@linguistics.utah.edu | |||
Doug Ewrin, Smithsonian Institution and Santa Fe Institute, ERWIND@si.edu | |||
Murray Gell-Mann, Santa Fe Institute, mgm@santafe.edu | |||
David Lightfoot, National Science Foundation, dlightfo@nsf.gov | |||
Joan Maling, National Science Foundation, jmaling@nsf.gov | |||
Ilia Peiros, ilia@santafe.edu | |||
Merritt Ruhlen, Stanford University, ruhlen@stanfordalumni.org | |||
Bonny Sands, Northern Arizona University, sands@lowell.edu | |||
George Starostin, Russian State University, gstarst@yandex.ru | |||
Eric Smith, Santa Fe Institute, desmith@santafe.edu | |||
Geoffrey B. West, Santa Fe Institute, gbw@santafe.edu | |||
C. C. Wood, Santa Fe Institute, ccwood@santafe.edu | |||
Latest revision as of 15:59, 12 July 2007
Inferring Language History and Pre-History
A Santa Fe Institute Working Group
Thursday July 12 and Friday July 13, 2007
Thursday July 12: Focus on Linguistic Data and Databases
2:00 - 2:15 PM Welcome and Logistical Details (Chris Wood and Wayne Cote, SFI)
2:15 - 3:15 PM Documenting Endangered Languages (Joan Maling, NSF)
3:15 - 3:30 PM Break
3:30 - 4:30 PM Overview of the EHL Database and Etymological Dictionaries
(George Starostin, RSU)
4:30 - 6:00 PM Discussion
7:00 PM Dinner at Santacafe
Friday July 13: Focus on Inferring Language History and Prehistory
8:30 - 9:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00 AM Language as a Complex System: Implications for Inferring
Distant Relationships (David Lightfoot, NSF)
10:00 - 11:00 AM Applying the Comparative Method to Distant Relationships
(George Starostin, RSU)
11:00 - 11:15 AM Break
11:15 - 12:15 PM Constraints on Inferring Linguistic Prehistory
(Lyle Campbell, Utah)
12:15 - 1:15 PM Working Lunch: Title TBA (Bonny Sands, NAU)
1:15 - 2:15 PM Origin and Evolution of Language and Languages
(Merritt Ruhlen, Stanford)
2:15 - 3:15 PM "Bottlenecks" in Linguistic Prehistory
(Murray Gell-Mann, SFI)
3:15 - 3:30 PM Break
3:30 - 5:30 PM Discussion
7:00 PM Dinner at Pink Adobe
Participants
Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Santa Fe Institute, tanmoy@santafe.edu
Lyle Campbell, University of Utah, lyle.campbell@linguistics.utah.edu
Doug Ewrin, Smithsonian Institution and Santa Fe Institute, ERWIND@si.edu
Murray Gell-Mann, Santa Fe Institute, mgm@santafe.edu
David Lightfoot, National Science Foundation, dlightfo@nsf.gov
Joan Maling, National Science Foundation, jmaling@nsf.gov
Ilia Peiros, ilia@santafe.edu
Merritt Ruhlen, Stanford University, ruhlen@stanfordalumni.org
Bonny Sands, Northern Arizona University, sands@lowell.edu
George Starostin, Russian State University, gstarst@yandex.ru
Eric Smith, Santa Fe Institute, desmith@santafe.edu
Geoffrey B. West, Santa Fe Institute, gbw@santafe.edu
C. C. Wood, Santa Fe Institute, ccwood@santafe.edu