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Thursday June 8th,
morning session
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09:00-09:30 |
REGISTRATION
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09:30-10:30 |
INVITED
SPEAKER: Edward Keenan, UCLA
English Reflexives: A Typological Novelty?
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10:30-10:40 |
WELCOME
ADDRESS
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10:40-11:00 |
COFFEE
BREAK |
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11:00-11:40 |
Chris
H. Reintges (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics)
Spontaneous syntactic change
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abstract |
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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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abstract |
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12:20-13:00 |
Hedde
Zeijlstra (University of Tübingen)
Diachronic change and constant complexity
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abstract |
Thursday June 8th,
afternoon session |
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14:30-15:10 |
Edith
Aldridge (Northwestern University)
From Operator to Nominalizer: Grammaticalization of old
Chinese zhe
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abstract |
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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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abstract |
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15:50-16:10 |
COFFEE
BREAK |
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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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abstract |
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16:50-17:30 |
Eric
Mathieu (University of Ottawa)
Old French Quirkies
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abstract |
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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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abstract |
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Friday June 9th,
morning session |
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9:30-10:10 |
Theresa
Biberauer & Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge)
The Return of the Subset Principle
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abstract |
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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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abstract |
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10:50-11:10 |
COFFEE
BREAK
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11:10-11:50 |
Fred
Weerman (University of Amsterdam)
Deflection and arbitrary reference
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abstract |
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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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abstract |
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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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abstract |
Friday June 9th,
afternoon session |
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14:45-15:10 |
BUSINESS
MEETING
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15:10-15:50 |
Agnes
Jäger (University of Jena)
Syntactic patterns of negation in the history of German
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abstract |
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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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abstract |
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16:30-16:50 |
COFFEE
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16:50-17:30 |
Victor
Manfredi (Boston University)
Morphosyntactic parameters and the internal classification of
Benue-Kwa (Niger-Congo)
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abstract |
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17:30-18:10 |
Edward
Stabler (UCLA)
Structure and change in the space of possible grammars
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abstract |
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20:00 |
CONFERENCE
DINNER
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Saturday June 10th,
morning session |
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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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abstract |
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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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abstract |
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11:05-11:20 |
COFFEE
BREAK
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11:20-12:00 |
Alice
Davison (University of Iowa)
Syntactic effects of correlative clause features in Sanskrit
and Hindi/Urdu
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abstract |
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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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abstract |
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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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abstract |
Saturday June 10th,
afternoon session |
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THE
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSION
WILL BE HELD
IN THE AULA MAGNA IN ANDRONA BACIOCCHI 4 |
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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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abstract |
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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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abstract |
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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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abstract |
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17:00-17:20 |
COFFEE
BREAK
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17:20-18:00 |
Heidi
Quinn (University of Canterbury - NZ)
Downward reanalysis and the rise of stative HAVE got
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abstract |
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18:00-19:00 |
INVITED
SPEAKER: Richard Kayne, NYU
To be announced
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abstract |