Dynamics of Hunter-Gatherer Language Change Workshop 2009

Workshop held March 26-28, 2009

Public Program

Thursday March 26

Morning session: Sánchez Room 426

9:30-10:15 Jane Hill (University of Arizona): Becoming Hunter-Gatherers? Uto-Aztecans in California and the Great Basin

10:30-11:15 John Ives (University of Alberta): Archaeological, Linguistic and Genetic Evidence for Apachean Migration from the Canadian Subarctic

11:15-12:00 Patience Epps and Cynthia Hansen (UT Austin): Amazonian numeral systems: language contact and socio-economic parameters

Afternoon session: Garrison Room 1.134

3-3:45 Claire Bowern (Yale University) Flora and fauna reconstruction from Dampier land languages

Friday March 27

CBA 4.330

9:45-10:45 Keith Hunley (University of New Mexico): Genetic and linguistic coevolution in Native America and Island Melanesia and implications for prehistoric reconstruction

2-2:45 Russell Gray (University of Auckland): What does evolutionary biology have to offer historical linguistics?

Sat March 28

CBA 4.330

9:00-10:45 Patrick McConvell (AIATSIS/Australian National University): Marriage patterns, kinship systems and language maintenance and shift: western Pama-Nyungan, Athapaskan and northern Uto-Aztecan