Comparative-Historical
Linguistics of the XXIst Century:
Issues and Perspectives
Institute for Oriental
and Classical Studies,
Russian State University
for the Humanities
Moscow, March 20-22, 2013
International Conference Program
March 20.
Morning session (10.00
— 13.00).
Focus on Linguistic Area: Asia / America
1. Ilia Peiros (Santa Fe Institute). Linguistic contacts in ancient East Asia.
2. Oleg Mudrak (RSUH). Comparative-historical research
on the linguistic situation in Northeast Asia. [IN RUSSIAN].
3. Nikita Krougly-Encke (Paris,
Sorbonne). Contribution of Aleutian original and
borrowed lexica to the Nostratic
theory.
4. Yevgeniya Korovina (RSUH).
Vowel Development in the Mam Subgroup of Mayan.
5. Sergei Nikolayev (Institute
of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Science). Na-Dene
reconstruction: state of the art.
Afternoon session (14.00 — 17.00).
Focus on Theory and Method: [Lexico]statistical
Methods in Historical Linguistics
6. Alexei Kassian (Institute of
Linguistics, Russian Academy of Science / RSUH). The
Lezgian linguistic family within the framework of the Global Lexicostatistical Database.
7. Mikhail Zhivlov (Institute of
Linguistics, Russian Academy of Science / RSUH). The
Hokan family and lexicostatistics.
8. Johann-Mattis List (Philipps-University
Marburg). Investigating the Impact of Sample Size on
Cognate Detection.
March 21.
Morning session (10.00 — 13.00).
Focus on Linguistic Area:
Indo-European
9. Sergei Kullanda (Institute of
Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Science). Dialectal
Traits and External Relations of Scythian.
10. Alexander Lubotsky (Leiden
University). False Labels in Indo-European
Reconstruction: Laryngeal Loss in Compounds and Marginal Phonemes.
11. Vladimir Dybo (RSUH). Nikolayev & Starostin's «Paradigmatic Classes of
Indo-European Verbs» and new data from Indo-Aryan languages [IN RUSSIAN].
12. Sergei Boroday; Ilya Yakubovich (Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences). The Role of Corpus Linguistics in Language Decipherment.
13. Václav Blažek (Masaryk
University, Brno). Indo-European Declension in
Nostratic Perspective.
Afternoon session (14.00 — 17.00).
Focus on Theory and Method:
Macro-Comparative Linguistics
14. George Starostin (RSUH). Macro-Comparative Linguistics in the XXIst Century:
State of the art and perspectives.
15. Søren Wichmann (Max
Planck Institute, Leipzig). Probabilistic
Approaches to Long-Range Comparison. Methodology and Results.
16. Edward Vajda (Western
Washington University). Assessing the
Sino-Caucasian Hypothesis.
March 22.
Morning session (10.00 — 13.00).
Focus on Linguistic Area: Africa
17. Konstantin Pozdniakov (LLACAN, Paris). Perspectives for the reconstruction of noun classes in Proto-Niger-Congo.
18. Valentin Vydrin (LLACAN, Paris). Towards the reconstruction of Proto-Mande: current state of affairs.
19. Kirill Babaev (Institute of Oriental
Studies, Russian Academy of Science). TAM and negation marking in Mande: a
comparative overview.
20. Viktor Porkhomovsky (Institute
of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Science). Semitic
and Arabic TAM Systems from a Diachronic Typological Perspective.
21. Olga Stolbova (Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Science). Reflexes of Afroasiatic pharyngeals in Chadic: internal reconstruction and some complements to Afroasiatic / Indo-European comparisons.
Afternoon session (14.00 — 17.00).
Focus on Theory and Method: Historical
Semantics and Etymology
22. Anna Dybo (RSUH / Institute
of Linguistics). Semantic patterns and
semantic processes in the Swadesh list: preliminary results.
23. Elena Parina (Institute of
Linguistics / Philipps-University
Marburg). Welsh Polysemous Adjectives. A Case Study
in Semantic Reconstruction.
24. Alexander Militarev (RSUH). An
Attempt at a Systemic Evaluation of Etymologies.