Program
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 |
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 |