Plenarvorträge

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Jawun Research Centre, CQUniversity, Cairns, Australia): Dare to be different: linguistic diversity and change in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea

Alexandre François (LATTICE – CNRS, ENS-PSL, USN, Paris): Dialexification: an empirical tool for observing trends in semantic shift

Gerhard Jäger (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen): Tracking the change that leads to typological variation

Annemarie Verkerk (Universität des Saarlandes): The evolutionary dynamics of language: universals, rates of change, and explanations