DGfS AG8: The role of
variation in language evolution.
Regine Eckardt, Gerhard Jäger
DGFS Annual Conference, Siegen 2007>
| 14.00-15.00 | Andy Wedel (plenary speaker): Explaining cross- and within-language sound frequency correlations in a rich-memory, evolutionary model |
| 15.00-16.00 | Paul Boersma & Silke Hamann: The evolution of auditory contrast. |
| 16.30-17.30 | Gunther de Vogelaer: Lamarckian vs. "Darwinian" change: a dialectological perspective. |
| 17.30-18.30 | Tonjes Veenstra: Creolization and child language acquisition |
| 9.00-10.00 | Alexander Mehler: Quantitative lexical semantics and evolutionary game theory. |
| 10.00-11.00 | Olga Fischer (plenary speaker): The role of analogy in morphosyntactic change |
| 11.30-12.30 | Elke Diederichsen: The German "bekommen" passive: A discourse-based motivation for reanalysis. |
| 12.30-13.30 | Annette Rosenbach: The nature of selection in evolutionary approaches to language change. |
| 11.30-12.30 | Ruth Kempson: Production pressure, syntactic change, and language evolution |
| 12.30-13.30 | Frederick Newmeyer: Have the pressures shaping language remained constant over time? |
| 13.30-14.00 | General discussion |