Workshop introduction

What do bioinformatics have to offer linguistics? Exploration in the new science of lexomics

Classification and the tempo of language evolution

Areal effects on classification

Thus far and no further? Why should there be a limit on how far back we can recover language histories?

On the role of typology in the history of languages

Areal typology, language families and linguistic reconstruction: The case of proto-Bantu and proto-Niger-Congo

Loanword typology: Lexical borrowing in cross-linguistic and quantitative perspective

Drawing historical conclusions from verbal systems: Evidence from Bantu

Diachrony and typology in Chinese grammar

Grammaticalization of verba dicendi in East and Southeast Asian languages: a (recursive) case of clause integration

Phylogenetic approaches to language variation: Correlated evolution of structural traits of language

Concluding remarks

Ecology and exaptation all the way in language evolution

Language ecology and genetic diversity on the African continen

Accounting for the pattern of Amerindian languages: What role did agriculture play in phylic dispersals?

Languages of hunter-gatherers, consequence of ecology or social environment? A view from Central African rainforest

Genetic perspectives on prehistoric social practises

Reconstructable vocabulary and the time, homeland and way of life of proto-Sino-Tibetan

Bantu expansion and hunter gatherers

Lexical reconstruction and early African history: Insights from Bantu crafts vocabulary and plant names

Using findings on language contact for linguistic reconstruction

Interpretation of reconstructed kin lexicons

Towards a model of the spread of innovations in language (and some consequences for recent language contact models)

Concluding remarks

The dating of Proto-Berber and its (lack of) implications

Applying the Comparative Method in Afroasiatic (Afrasian)

Homelands and migrations: The Nilo-Saharan diaspora

Niger Congo as a playground for lexiacl comparison

The western Bantu expansion

Khoisan classification and early population history in southern Africa

Discussant

Discussant

Areal syntactic features of east and southeast Asia

Some Hypotheses on the formation of east Asian language families

Specialized vocabularies, genes and homelands: The new linguistic technology

Recent Work on the Indo-European homeland: criteria and evidence

Calling the bluff on linguistic paleontology: the horse, the wheel and the king ?

Scientific conclusion

OMLL and after ...