Prof. William S-Y. WANG, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies

Words & genes and their complementary tales. Workshop on Population Movements, Language Contact in East Asia and Southeast Asia, and Evolutionary Linguistics. The University of Chicago, The University of Hong Kong and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (online), 8-11 June 2022.

Abstract
Recently, several important papers on the evolution of languages and peoples in Asia appeared in the most prestigious science journals. The two types of primary data used in these papers are words and genes. I will review their major findings, examining how these types of data may complement each other toward eventually yielding a complex history for this part of the world.