Papers and Workshops at SLE 2025
Members of the ISLE institute have been accepted to present at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2025), 26 – 29 August 2025 at the Université Bordeaux Montaigne as follows:
Workshops:
"Disentangling contact and inheritance in lexical semantics"; convenors: John Mansfield, Paul Widmer
"From Linguistics to Animal Communication and Back" ; convenors: Jacob Ayers, Alexandra Bosshard, Maël Leroux, Remo Nitschke, Simon Townsend
"Taking time seriously: The temporal dynamics of language"; convenors: Guido M. Linders, Catalina Torres, Stefan Schnell, Frank Seifart
Papers:
Anna Graff, Chiara Barbieri, Balthasar Bickel: "Exploring the global impact of isolation and contact on linguistic structures through population genetics"
John Mansfield, Ruth Singer, Frank Seifart: "Areal semantic patterns in nominal classification"
Eva Huber, Balthasar Bickel, Sabine Stoll: "The effects of cross-linguistic word order differences on semantic role interpretation in human sentence processing: an ontogenetic perspective"
Alexandru Craevschi, Sarah Babinski, Chundra Cathcart: "Semantics drives morphological change in Germanic strong verbs: a phylogenetic study"
Catalina Torres, Sebastian Sauppe, Balthasar Bickel: "Separate in time but united by structure: The case of cross-serial and nested dependencies"
Alexandra Bosshard, Erik Ringen, Nikhil Phaniraj, Monika Mircheva, Judith Burkart, Simon W. Townsend, Balthasar Bickel: "Processing perspectives on animal call compositionality"
Borja Herce: "Adapting the AIS for geographic and phylogenetic research on language change dynamics"
Kim Gfeller, Paul Widmer: "Investigating drivers of lexical change by following colexification patterns"
Clayton Marr, Borja Herce: "Quantifying the long-term effect of sound change and analogy by forward reconstructing paradigms"
Natalia Morozova, Sabine Stoll, Adrian Bangerter: "Language-invariant patterns of using coordination markers for joint action navigation"
Giuachin Kreiliger, Sabine Stoll, Sebastian Krapp: "Temporal clustering of language input to children"
Laura Dees, Shelece Easterday, Balthasar Bickel, Paul Widmer, Chundra Cathcart: "Evolutionary dynamics of maximal syllable complexity"
Tai Hong, Alena Witzlack-Mackarevich, Balthasar Bickel: "The Evolutionary Dynamics of Ergative Case"
Balthasar Bickel: "Syntax in Time"
Guido M. Linders, Stefan Schnell: "Time guides referential choice in anaphora across diverse spoken languages"
Poster:
Carlo Y. Meloni, Chundra Cathcart, Jessica K. Ivani, Taras Zakharko, Guanghao You, Balthasar Bickel: "Writing does not Impact the Evolutionary Dynamics of Syntax"