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Thursday June 8th, morning session

  09:00-09:30 REGISTRATION
  09:30-10:30 INVITED SPEAKER: Edward Keenan, UCLA
English Reflexives: A Typological Novelty?
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  10:30-10:40 WELCOME ADDRESS

  10:40-11:00 COFFEE BREAK
  11:00-11:40 Chris H. Reintges (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics)
Spontaneous syntactic change
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  11:40-12:20 Marit R. Westergaard (University of Tromsø)
Many Small Catastrophes: Gradualism in a Microparametric Perspective
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  12:20-13:00 Hedde Zeijlstra (University of Tübingen)
Diachronic change and constant complexity
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Thursday June 8th, afternoon session
  14:30-15:10 Edith Aldridge (Northwestern University)
From Operator to Nominalizer: Grammaticalization of old Chinese zhe
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  15:10-15:50 Redouane Djamouri & Waltraud Paul (CNRS-EHESS, CRLAO, Paris)
Verb-to-preposition reanalysis in Chinese
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  15:50-16:10 COFFEE BREAK
  16:10-16:50 Jaume Mateu (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Lexical Syntax and Auxiliary Selection in Old Catalan and Old Spanish
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  16:50-17:30 Eric Mathieu (University of Ottawa)
Old French Quirkies
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  17:30-18:10 Denis Delfitto & Paola Paradisi (Università di Verona - Universiteit Leiden)
For a diachronic theory of genitive assignment in Romance
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Friday June 9th, morning session
  9:30-10:10 Theresa Biberauer & Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge)
The Return of the Subset Principle
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  10:10-10:50 Thomas McFadden & Artemis Alexiadou (Universität Stuttgart)
Structures of the have and be ‘perfects’ in the history of English
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  10:50-11:10 COFFEE BREAK

  11:10-11:50 Fred Weerman (University of Amsterdam)
Deflection and arbitrary reference
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  11:50-12:30 Griet Coupé & Ans van Kemenade (Radboud University Nijmegen)
The origin and rise of the IPP effect in Dutch dialects
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  12:30-13:30 INVITED SPEAKER: Abdelkader Fassi Fehri, Université Mohammed V - Rabat
Parameters in the Semitic diglossia
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Friday June 9th, afternoon session
  14:45-15:10 BUSINESS MEETING

  15:10-15:50 Agnes Jäger (University of Jena)
Syntactic patterns of negation in the history of German
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  15:50-16:30 Katrin Axel (University of Tübingen)
The left sentence periphery in Old High German – origins of a V2 grammar
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  16:30-16:50 COFFEE BREAK
  16:50-17:30 Victor Manfredi (Boston University)
Morphosyntactic parameters and the internal classification of Benue-Kwa (Niger-Congo)
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  17:30-18:10 Edward Stabler (UCLA)
Structure and change in the space of possible grammars
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  20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER

 
 


Saturday June 10th, morning session
  9:45-10:25 Susan Pintzuk & Eric Haeberli (University of York - University of Geneva)
Head-final structure in Old English root clauses
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  10:25-11:05 Kleanthes K. Grohmann & Richard Ingham (University of Cyprus - University of Central England)
Tracking Agreement Mismatches in Middle English
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  11:05-11:20 COFFEE BREAK

  11:20-12:00 Alice Davison (University of Iowa)
Syntactic effects of correlative clause features in Sanskrit and Hindi/Urdu
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  12:00-12:40 Lucio Melazzo, Emanuele Lanzetta, Rossella Li Mandri, Annamaria Bartolotta (University of Palermo)
Relative Clauses in the Evolution of Latin
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  12:40-13:20 Akira Watanabe (University of Tokyo)
A Parametric Shift in the D-system during the Middle English Period: Indeterminates, Relativization, Articles, and Adjectival Inflection
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Saturday June 10th, afternoon session
 
THE SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSION WILL BE HELD
IN THE AULA MAGNA IN ANDRONA BACIOCCHI 4

  15:00-15:40 Ana Maria Martins & Jairo Nunes (Universidade de Lisboa - Universidade de São Paulo)
Syntactic change without a syntactic trigger: (apparent) hyper-raising in Brazilian Portuguese
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  15:40-16:20 Juanito Avelar (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
On the emergence of ter as an existential verb in Brazilian Portuguese
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  16:20-17:00 Zenaide Carneiro & Charlotte Galves (Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana - Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
Clitic-placement in the history of Brazilian Portuguese: a case of three-grammar competition
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  17:00-17:20 COFFEE BREAK

  17:20-18:00 Heidi Quinn (University of Canterbury - NZ)
Downward reanalysis and the rise of stative HAVE got
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  18:00-19:00 INVITED SPEAKER: Richard Kayne, NYU
To be announced

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Alternates
 
Elly van Gelderen (Arizona State University)
The Linguistic Cycle: Grammaticalization as Economy
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David Willis (University of Cambridge)
Reanalysis and directionality
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Judy B. Bernstein (William Paterson University of New Jersey)
The Expression of Third Person in Older and Contemporary Varieties of English
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Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova & Dalina Kallulli (NTNU - University of Vienna)
There’s more to (non-)agreement
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