Greenberg Conference Abstracts
Joan Bybee
“Extensions of diachronic typology:
mechanisms of change as the true universals”
Luca Cavalli-Sforza
“Impact of Greenberg's
work on present and future research.”
Bernard Comrie
“Genes and Languages, with Special
Reference to Europe and the Caucasus”
William Croft
“A Typology of Social Evolution
and Language Change”
Chris Ehret
"Applying the Comparative
Method in Deep-Time Historical Linguistics"
Harold Fleming
“Afrasian and Its Closest Relatives:
the Borean Hypothesis”
Peter Forster, Antonio
Torroni, Colin Renfrew, Arne Röhl
“Asian
and American mtDNA Evolution”
Murray Gell-Mann
“Arrows of Time in the Evolution
of Human Languages”
Tom Givon
“On the diachronic underpinnings
of language universals”
Per Hage
“On the Evolution of American
Indian Kinship Systems in World Historical Perspective”
John A. Hawkins
“Cross-linguistic Patterns
and their Significance for the Performance-Grammar Interface”
Bernd Heine
“Linguistic Areas and Grammaticalization”
Carol F. Justus
“Mathematical Structures of
Early Indo-European Numeral Systems”
Suzanne Kemmer
“Language Typology and Human
Conceptualization”
Bh. Krishnamurti
“Language Typology and
Regular Sound Change”
Kay McCormick
“Now you see it, now you
don't”
Joanna Mountain
“African
Genetic Diversity and the Antiquity of Click Languages”
Paul Newman
“Teeth
and Tongues; Walkin' and Talkin'”
Merritt Ruhlen
“On
the Concept of "Fruitfulness" in Genetic Linguistics”
Masayoshi Shibatani
“A new perspective on grammatical
voice”
Susan Steele
“In a Word”
Elizabeth Traugott
“Regrammaticalization, exaptation
and legitimate counterexamples to grammaticalization
Christy G. Turner II
“Is the Divergence Between Europeans
and East Asians Temporally Deep or Shallow, and How Can Linguistics Help in
this Question?”
W. Wang
“The Bai Enigma: A Study in Linguistic
Classification”
Stephen L. Zegura
Y-Chromosomes and the Early
Peopling of the Americas”