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1998 International
Workshop:
The connection between areal
diffusion and the genetic model of language relationship
17th - 22nd August
A volume including revised versions of papers
presented at the workshop, Areal
diffusion and genetic inheritance: problems in comparative lingustics
edited by Aikhenvald and Dixon, was published in October 2001
by Oxford University Press. Following the editors' Introduction there
are the following chapters:
Peter Bellwood, 'Archaeology and the historical determinants of punctuation
in language family origins';
Calvert Watkins, 'An Indo-European linguistic area and its characteristics:
ancient Anatolia - areal diffusion as a challenge to the comparative method?';
R.M.W. Dixon, 'The Australian linguistic area';
Alan Dench, 'Descent and diffusion: the complexity of the Pilbara situation,
Western Australia';
Malcolm Ross, 'Contact-induced change in Oceanic languages in northwest
Melanesia';
Alexandra Aikhenvald, 'Areal diffusion, genetic inheritance and problems
of subgrouping: a North Arawak case study';
Geoffrey Haig, 'Linguistic diffusion in present-day East Anatolia: from
top to bottom';
Randy LaPolla, 'The role of migration and language contact in the development
of the Sino-Tibetan language family';
Nicholas J. Enfield, 'On genetic and areal linguistics in mainland Southeast
Asia: parallel polyfunctionality of "acquire"';
James A. Matisoff, 'Genetic versus contact relationship: prosodic diffusability
in Southeast Asian languages';
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, 'Areal diffusion versus genetic inheritance: an
African perspective';
Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva, 'Convergence and divergence in the development
of African languages'; and
Timothy J. Curnow, 'What language features can be "borrowed'?'
Click here for the
group photo
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