Invited speakers

Muriel Norde

Muriel Norde is a professor of Scandinavian Linguistics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She gained her PhD from University of Amsterdam in 1997 with a thesis titled The history of the genitive in Swedish – a case study in degrammaticalization. She has previously held positions at the University of Amsterdam and University of Groningen.  Her research centres around grammaticalization, with data primarily from Scandinavian languages, English and Dutch, in a cross-linguistic perspective.

Mark Van de Velde

Mark Van de Velde is a researcher specializing in Bantu languages. He has conducted extensive fieldwork especially on Bantu languages collectively referred to as Adamawa. He is particularly interested in interrelated grammatical change in different parts of grammar (syntax, morphology, phonology). He is the director of LLACAN, a research unit of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and INaLCO university, and co-editor of the second edition of The Bantu Languages.