The abstracts of the presentations are available through links on the Program page. A combined pdf abstract book can be downloaded here: histlex-abstracts-A5.pdf.
Presentation slides:
Mikko Heikkilä: (Seeming) irregularity as a clue to the origin of a word
Vladislav Knoll: On the history of Low German Influence in Slavonic languages
Juha Kuokkala: Statistics and stratistics of the Germanic loanwords in Finnic
Jyri Lehtinen: Assessing computational linguistic phylogeny with Uralic historical phonology
Joseba Lakarra & Julen Manterola: Basque etymological studies: loanwords, roots and a new etymological dictionary
Johanna Nichols: The interaction of word structure and lexical semantics
Juho Pystynen: The state of the Finno-Permic lexicon
Michael Rießler et al.: Basic vocabulary and the phylogenetic approach to the study of Uralic language history
Janne Saarikivi: Towards the typology of etymologies
Janne Saarikivi: Defining Baltic and Slavic in Finnic vocabulary
Johan Schalin: The notorious cruxes of Common Scandinavian umlaut and breaking: A metaphonic feature-based unified solution (Slides on Researchgate) — (Handout on Researchgate)
Kai Syrjänen et al.: Revisiting the quantitative phylogeny of the Uralic languages
Martine Vanhove: Lexical typology and polysemy patterns in African languages