On March 24, 10-17, the LUNDIC project organizes an international workshop: Linguistic Databases: Dictionary, Grammar, or Dataset Repository?, at SOL, H135b. The workshop celebrates the completion of the project and will release the database Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics https://diacl.ht.lu.se/.

All are welcome, but participation requires registration (to gerd.carling@ling.lu.se) no later than March 16. Coffee is included.

Programme

10.15-10.45 Presentation of DiACL - Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics, Gerd Carling (Lund University)
10.45-11.15 Grambank: A world-wide typological database, Harald Hammarström (Uppsala University and Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena)
11.15-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.00 Towards a multivariate database of morphological structure, Rik van Gijn, Francesco Gardani, Florian Sommer, Manuel Widmer, Balthasar Bickel, Taras Zakharko (University of Zürich)
12.00-12.30 CoBL and Sound Comparisons: comparative language databases for cognacy and phonetics, Paul Heggarty (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena)
12.30-14.00 LUNCH (invited speakers and DiACL collaborators) at Fakultetsklubben
14.00-14.30 Phylogenetic and areal dimensions of typological change, Chundra Cathcart (Lund University)
14.30-15.00 How to improve indigenous language data for historical comparative studies: the ALSIB case, Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral (Laboratorio de Linguas Indigenas, Universidade de Brasilia)
15.00-15.30 Description and documentation of minority languages and cultures of Hunan Province: The Hunan University Project, Chris Sinha (Hunan University)
15.30-15.45 Coffee
15.45-16.15 Language documentation, culture strengthening and empowerment: A personal narrative of my journey as an indigenous speaker from nonwriting
to a PhD, Wary Kamaiurá Sabino (University of Brasilia)
16.15-16.45 Documentary: Time-event based intervals documentary, Vera da Silva Sinha (University of East Anglia)
16.45-17.00 Discussion