Building Integrative Models of Linguistic Change - Agenda

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Sunday, February 17, 2008

7:00pm - 9:00pm Welcome reception (Hotel Santa Fe)

Monday, February 18, 2008

Breakfast (8:00am)

Welcome by Dan Hruschka (8:30am)

Introductory Remarks by Chris Wood (8:40am)

Session A. Change across Levels

9:00 - 9:50 Andrew Wedel

Modeling sublexical contrast maintenance as an emergent effect of lexical category competition

9:50 -10:40 Dan Slobin

Usage-based language change: Interactions of morphosyntax, lexicon, and pragmatics

Tea Break

10:55 - 11:45 Joan Bybee

Mechanisms of change and frequency effects across levels

11:45 - 12:15 Discussant: Paul Smolensky

Lunch

Session B. Engines of Language Change

1:15-1:45 Murray Gell-Mann

The Evolution of Human Languages Program

1:45-2:25 George Starostin

The importance of morphology vs. lexicon in micro- and macrocomparative studies

Tea Break

2:40-3:30 William Croft

What drives language change?

3:30p-4:20 Peter Culicover

Aspects of a Theory of Grammatical Change

4:20-5:00 Discussant: Marcus Feldman

Gala dinner together at Coyote Cafe (6:30pm)

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Breakfast (8:30am)

Session C. Change over Differing Time Scales

9-9:50 Shana Poplack

Variationist tools for the study of language change

9:50-10:40 Tania Kuteva

What is the relationship between grammaticalization and long-term evolution of language?

Tea Break

10:55-11:45 Simon Kirby

Language as an Adaptive System: are models of cultural evolution really modelling change?

11:45-12:15 Discussant: D. Eric Smith

Lunch

Session D. Next Steps in Modeling Change

1:30-2:20 Russell Gray

On the pleasures and perils of simplicity

2:20-3:10 Mark Pagel

Tea Break

3:30-4:20 Jon Wilkins:

Probabilistic models of sound change

4:20-5:00 Discussant: Tanmoy Bhattacharya

Dinner on your own

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Breakfast (8:30am)

Session E. Review, Synthesis and Where To Go From Here

9am-10:50am Small group breakout session

Tea Break

11am-11:30am Discussant: Ray Jackendoff

11:30am-noon Wrap-up discussion

Lunch

1pm-4pm Excursions

For those interested, there will be planned excursions to Bandelier Monument or Museum Hill

Note: talks will include 30 minutes of formal presentation with 20 minutes reserved for questions and discussion