The programme of the Workshop Maps and Grammar has been announced. It contains eleven talks of an international group of scientists. If you want to attend the workshop, please fill in the registration form or notify erik.tjong.kim.sang(at)meertens.knaw.nl of your intention to participate. We are looking forward to this interesting event!
Wednesday September 17, 2014
| 13:30 – 14:15 | Sjef Barbiers (Meertens Instituut) Introduction to the Workshop |
| 14:15 – 15:15 | Hans Goebl (Universität Salzburg) Language in space and language on maps: some methodological and historical considerations |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | Break |
| 15:45 – 16:30 | Montserrat Adam-Aulinas (Universitat de Barcelona) Quantified morphematic maps and a dynamic view of dialectal space: its application to the northern area of central Catalan |
| 16:30 – 17:15 | Sean Roberts (MPI Nijmegen) Drawing Isogloss Lines |
Thursday September 18, 2014
| 09:30 – 10:30 | John Nerbonne (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) Abstractness and Rigor in Variation Studies |
| 10:30 – 11:15 | Erik Tjong Kim Sang (Meertens Instituut) Finding transition zones in dialect data |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Break |
| 11:30 – 12:15 | Nina Ouddeken, Marc van Oostendorp, Roberta d’Alessandro (Meertens Insituut / Universiteit Leiden) Between Voicing and Aspiration |
| 12:15 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:15 | Gotzon Aurrekoetxea (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea) Analysis of the morphological variation of Basque using the ‘Diatech’ tool |
| 14:15 – 15:00 | Wilbert Heeringa (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) Finding dialect areas by means of bootstrap clustering |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Break |
| 15:15 – 16:00 | Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (KU Leuven) Reverse Dialectometry: geography as a probe into linguistic theory |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Bettina Speckmann (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven) TBA |
| 17:00 | Drinks |