Advances in phylogenetic linguistics - Workshop [Organizzazione]

The workshop was organised by the project Meeting Darwin’s last challenge: toward a global tree of human languages and genes (ERC Advanced Grant n. 295733 LANGELIN (LANguages-GEnes LINeages), PI Giuseppe Longobardi, University of York, and was held in Ragusa (Sicily) on July 15th-17th 2013. The topic was "Advances in Phylogenetic Linguistics". Along with presentations by the LANGELIN team, a restricted number of invited speakers gave plenary addresses and discussed the most recent methodological discoveries and procedures in the field of phylogenetic reconstruction of languages and formal syntax. Invited speakers: Robert Berwick (MIT), Theresa Biberauer (Cambridge), Cedric Boeckx (Barcelona), Tecumseh Fitch (Vienna), Peter Forster (Cambridge), Russel Gray (Auckland), Hilda Koopman (UCLA), David Lightfoot (Georgetown), Ian Roberts (Cambridge), Robin Ryder (Paris), Dominique Sportiche (UCLA), Charles Yang (UPenn). A poster session open to young scholars who presented their current research on the topic of the workshop was also organised.