XX International Conference on Historical Linguistic
Sesiones plenarias:- Willem F.H. Adelaar (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden, The Netherlands): Searching for Unexpected Genetic Links between the Languages of South America- Bjarke Frellesvig (University of Oxford, UK): Corpus Based Studies in Japanese Historical Syntax- Frank Lichtenberk (University of Auckland, New Zealand): The Rise and Demise of Possessive Classifiers in Austronesian- Suzanne Romaine (University of Oxford, UK): Grammaticalization in Socio-historical Perspective: Social Conduits and Vectors of Diffusion of Linguistic Change- Ted Supalla (University of Rochester, USA): The Role of Historical Research in Building a Model of Sign Language Typology and Variation- Yoshida Kazuhiko (Kyoto University, Japan): The Mirage of Apparent Morphological Correspondence: A Case from Indo-European