Programme
The main conference will take place on 20th-22nd May 2021.
Last updated: 18/05/2021
Wednesday 19th May
Workshop on Syntactic Change in Progress.
Thursday 20th May
Morning session:
| 09:00-09:10 | Welcome | |
| Session: Objects and extraposition (Chair: Ans van Kemenade) | ||
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| 09:10-09:45 | Raquel Montero & Joel Wallenberg | Using Parsed Metrical Corpora to Investigate the Prosody-Syntax Interface |
| 09:45-10:20 | Sophia Voigtmann & Augustin Speyer | Where to place a phrase? An informational and generative approach to phrasal extraposition |
| 10:20-10:55 | Tara Struik | Information Structure and OV-VO Variation in West-Germanic: A Comparative Perspective |
| 10:55-11:25 | Coffee break | Session (Chair: George Walkden) |
| 11:25-12:00 | Edith Aldridge | The loss of wh-movement in Early Middle Chinese |
| 12:00-13:00 | James Baker & Ian Roberts |
Keynote talk Extending Parametric Comparison: Some Preliminary Results |
Afternoon session:
13:00-15:25: Lunch break and poster session
- Tamas Halm, Why almost and almost ended up being different: The diachrony of approximatives in Hungarian
- Ingrid Konrad, When indirect questions look like relative clauses and behave as relative clauses: a syntactic and diachronic analysis of French ce que
- Alexandra Simonenko & Anne Carlier, Pragmatic drivers of word order changes: Game-theoretic simulations
| Session (Chair: Georg Kaiser) | ||
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| 15:25-16:00 | Afra Pujol i Campeny | Sí in the history of Catalan: from a manner adverb to an assertive marker |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee break | |
| Session: Grammaticalization paths (Chair: Miriam Butt) | ||
| 16:30-17:05 | Veronika Hegedűs | The paths that lead to verbal particles: Evidence from Hungarian |
| 17:05-17:40 | Ailís Cournane & Sandrine Tailleur | Where do maybes come from? The interaction of history and acquisition |
| 17:40-18:15 | Lieven Danckaert | Anticausatives and A-movement in the history of Latin |
Friday 21st May
Morning session:
| Session: Aspect and clause structure (Chair: Roland Hinterhölzl) | ||
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| 09:10-09:45 | Ulrike Demske & Ilaria De Cesare | Aspectuals between control and raising: a view from the history of German |
| 09:45-10:20 | Imola Farkas | On the diachrony of aspectual cognate objects in Hungarian |
| 10:20-10:55 | Ans van Kemenade | Syntactic change and pragmatic maintenance: discourse particle then over the history of English |
| 10:55-11:25 | Coffee break | Session (Chair: George Walkden) |
| 11:25-12:00 | Hannah Booth & Christin Beck | Information structure and word order change: verb-first and verb-second in Icelandic |
| 12:00-13:00 | Anne Breitbarth |
Keynote talk Spoken data as a source for diachronic syntax |
13:00-14:15: Lunch break
Afternoon session:
| Session: Verb-second and verb-third (Chair: Georg Kaiser) | ||
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| 14:15-14:50 | Espen Klævik-Pettersen & Ailís Cournane | The role of the conservative learner in the rise and fall of verb-second |
| 14:50-15:25 | Melissa Farasyn | It makes it (is) very interesting: V>2 patterns with 'het maakt' in spoken French Flemish |
| 15:25-16:00 | Eric Fuß & Roland Hinterhölzl | On the historical development of pronouns referring to situations: the case of so-called 'expletives' in Germanic |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee break | |
| Session: Grammatical relations and case (Chair: Anne Breitbarth) | ||
| 16:30-17:05 | Nicholas Catasso & Chiara De Bastiani | The diachrony of V3 in German (and what it tells us about the CP in Old English) |
| 17:05-17:40 | Morgan Macleod, Elena Anagnostopoulou, Dionysios Mertyris & Christina Sevdali | On the development of indirect passives in English and Greek |
| 17:40-18:15 | Miriam Butt, Ashwini Deo & Christin Beck | Tracking case innovation: a perspective from Marathi |
| 18:15-18:30 | DiGS Business Meeting | |
18:30-20:00: Physically distanced conference drinks (Gather; BYOB)
Saturday 22nd May
Morning session:
| Session: The morphology-syntax relationship (Chair: Ian Roberts) | ||
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| 09:10-09:45 | Chris Reintges | Residual verb movement in an analytic language: evidence from Coptic Egyptian (handout) |
| 09:45-10:20 | Barbara Meisterernst | The loss of morphology and the emergence of analytic structures in Chinese |
| 10:20-10:55 | Silvia Terenghi | Non-primary person features and the evolution of Romance ternary demonstrative systems |
| 10:55-11:25 | Coffee break | |
| Session: Adjectives, verbs and verbalizers (Chair: George Walkden) | ||
| 11:25-12:00 | Laura Grestenberger | The diachrony of verbal categorizers in Indo-European: where does v come from? |
| 12:00-12:35 | Alexander Pfaff | How to become an adjective if you're not strong (enough)? The development of weak "adjectives" in (North) Germanic |
| 12:35-13:10 | Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir | Góður þessi bjór 'Good this beer': A change without a change |
13:10-14:25: Lunch break
Afternoon session:
| Session (Chair: Miriam Butt) | ||
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| 14:25-15:00 | Guido Mensching | The Old Sardinian quantifier totu 'all': (Lack of) agreement and a ∀NumQ-construction |
| 15:00-16:00 | Ashwini Deo |
Keynote talk The emergence of split-oblique case systems: a view from the Bhili dialect continuum (Indo-Aryan) |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee break | |
| Session: Mechanisms of change (Chair: Ashwini Deo) | ||
| 16:30-17:05 | Dennis Wegner | The converging grammaticalisation paths of passive and perfect participles: deriving eventive past participles from decausative resultatives |
| 17:05-17:40 | Jordan Kodner | "Laissez-Faire" Analogical Change |
| 17:40-18:15 | Paul Kiparsky | When can misparsing cause syntactic change? |
| 18:15-18:30 | Closing remarks | |
