Program

 

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Wednesday, July 22nd

08:00 - 09:00

registration

08:45 - 09:00

opening remarks / welcome address

09:00 - 10:00

On Bilingualism as Cause of Diachronic Change in Syntax

INVITED SPEAKER: Jurgen Meisel - U. Hamburgo/Calgary

10:00 - 10:30

coffee break

10:30 - 11:10

Language Acquisition in German and Phrase Structure Change in Yiddish

Joel C. Wallenberg - U. Penn

11:10 - 11:50

A Diachronic Shift in the Expression of Person

Judy Bernstein & Rafaella Zanuttini - William Patterson U. & Yale

11:50 - 12:30

The Formal Syntax of Alignment Change: the Case of Old Japanese

Yuko Yanagida & John Whitman - U. of Tsukuba & Cornell University

12:30 - 14:30

lunch

14:30 - 15:30

Brazilian Portuguese and Caribbean Spanish: Similar Changes in România Nova

INVITED SPEAKER: Mary Kato - U. of Campinas / CNPq

15:30 - 16:10

From Modern to Old Romance: the Interaction Between Information Structure and Word-Order

Silvio Cruschina & Ioanna Sitaridou - U. of Oxford & U. of Cambridge, Queens’ College

16:10 - 16:50

Old Romance Word Order: a Comparative Minimalist Analysis

Guido Mensching - Freie Universität Berlin

16:50 - 17:20

coffee break

17:20 - 18:00

The Comparative Evolution of Word Order in French and English

Anthony Kroch & Beatrice Santorini - U. Penn

18:00 - 18:40

Word Order Change as a Trigger for Grammaticalization

Susann Fischer - U.of Stuttgart/Goethe Universität Frankfurt

 

Thursday, July 23rd

09:00 - 10:00

Parametric Convergences: Homoplasy or Principled Explanation?

INVITED SPEAKER: Pino Longobardi - U. Trieste

10:00 - 10:30

coffee break

10:30 - 11:10

Prepositional Genitives in Romance and the Issue of Parallel Development

Chiara Gianollo - U. of Konstanz

11:10 - 11:50

Macroparameters, "Deep" Analycity, and Shifting Phases

Chris Reintges - CNRS / U. Paris 7 - Denis Diderot

11:50 - 12:30

The Impact of Failed Changes

Gertjan Postma - Meertens Institute Amsterdam / Academy of Sciences

12:30 - 14:30

lunch

14:30 - 15:30

Deictic Locatives, Emphasis and Metalinguistic Negation

INVITED SPEAKER: Ana Maria Martins - U. of Lisbon

15:30 - 16:10

Doubling-QUE Embedded Constructions in Old Portuguese: a Diachronic Perspective

Ilza Ribeiro & M. Aparecida T. Moraes - Federal University of Bahia & U. of Sao Paulo

16:10 - 16:50

Extraposition of Relative Clauses in the History of Portuguese

Adriana Cardoso - U. of Lisbon

16:50 - 17:20

coffee break

17:20 - 18:00

Information Structure and Syntatic Change in Early Bulgarian

Virginia Hill & Olga Mladenova - U. of New Brunswick-SJ & U. of Calgary

18:00 - 18:40

The Emergence of the Infinitival Left Periphery

Joachim Sabel - Université Catholique de Louvain

 

Friday, July 24th

09:00 - 10:00

Language Acquisition in Creolization and, thus, Language Change

INVITED SPEAKER: Michel DeGraff - MIT

10:00 - 10:30

coffee break

10:30 - 11:10

On the Origin of VO in Berbice Dutch Creole

Denice Goddard & Hedde Zeiljstra - Amsterdam

11:10 - 11:50

Negative Changes: a Parametric Account of the Diachrony of Afrikaans Negation

Theresa Biberauer & Hedde Zeiljstra - Cambridge University

11:50 - 12:30

Morphological Change Due to Syntactic Reanalysis: From Deponents to Voice Gaps

Dalina Kallulli - University of Viena

12:30 - 14:30

lunch

14:30 - 15:10

Grammaticalization and the Pragmatic Field: the Romanian "Can"

Virginia Hill - U. of New Brunswick-SJ

15:10 - 15:50

Report Verbs, Complementation, and Serial Verb Constructions

Rosmin Mathew - CASTL, Tromso

15:50 - 16:30

Old Irish Standard-of-Comparison Constructions

Elliott Lash  - Cambridge University

16:30 - 17:00

coffee break

17:00 - 17:40

The Verbal Complex from Middle High German to Modern German

Christopher Sapp - U. of Mississipi

17:40 - 18:40

Micro-parameters, Macro-parameters and Markedness

INVITED SPEAKER: Ian Roberts - Cambridge University