Post on 22-Aug-2020
8:30
9:30-10:20
10:30 - 10:45
Panel: Spanish Socio-historical Linguistics:
Isolation and ContactSyntax in Scandinavian Languages Ancient Languages & Proto-Langauges Corpus Analysis Phonology Onomastics, Orthography, & Lexicon Grammaticalization
10:45-11:10 Introduction Hannah Booth: Expletive subjects in Icelandic: A
diachronic study
Jóhanna Barðdal, Laura Bruno, Cynthia A.
Johnson, Roland Pooth, and Elisabeth
Witzenhausen: Oblique Anticausatives in the
Early/Archaic Indo-European Languages: A
Morphosyntactic Isogloss
Julia Hübner: A corpus of multilingual textbooks
of the Early Modern Age – A new perspective on
questions of historical linguistics
Andreas Baumann, Christina Prömer and
Nikolaus Ritt: Interpolating diachronic
phonotactic data: on the logistic spread of Middle
English schwa loss
Barbara Kryk Kastovsky: Proper names revisited:
Some evidence from Early Modern English
courtroom records
Hongyuan Dong: A Formal Semantic Analysis of
the Grammaticalization of the Durative Aspect
Marker Zai in Chinese
11:15-11:40 Maria Angeles GallegoHenrik Rosenkvist: Final negative particles in
Swedish – distribution and etymology
Eugenio R. Luján and Julia M. Mendoza: The
externalization of inflection in indoEuropean
pronouns
Hannah Booth and Christin Schätzle: Subjects,
case and word order change in Icelandic: A
corpus study
Lameen Souag Verb final vowel loss in Korandje
Marco Condorelli and Patrick Schultz: A
preliminary database of early Modern English
spelling (ca. 1500–1700)
Johanita Kirsten: Changes in the Afrikaans
genitive since standardization
11:45-12:10Alvaro Octavio de Toledo y Huerta: Historical
syntax needs dialectology: Lessons from Spanish.
Jan Terje Faarlund: Word order change in
Norwegian: One factor with several consequences
Domenica Romagno: The Accusative of Respect
in Ancient Greek: Semantic Properties, Situation
Types and Actionality
Edgar W. Schneider and Sarah Buschfeld:
Meanderings of one: functional changes Early
Modern English into modern World Englishes
Kurt Goblirsch: Gemination in Germanic
Lisa Dücker, Stefan Hartmann and Renata
Szczepaniak: The emergence of sentence-internal
capitalization in German
Andriy Danylenko: On the Grammaticalization of
the Nominative with Infinitive Construction in
Baltic and Slavic
12:15 - 1:30
Subjectification
Vittorio Tantucci: From immediate to extended
intersubjectification: Semasiological change as
gradient codification of a 3rd party
2:30-2:55 Maria Irene Moyna
Ulla StrohWollin: Noun phrase word order in Old
Swedish from pragmatic fronting to
determinerfirst word order
Thanasis Georgakopoulos and Stéphane Polis:
Dynamicized semantic maps of content words:
Comparing longterm lexical changes in Ancient
Egyptian and Greek
Hanne Martine Eckhoff: A corpus approach to
the history of Russian po delimitatives
Don Daniels and Joseph Brooks: On the
Possibility of Reconstructing Prosodic Structure
John Charles Smith: Onomasiological
subjectification: the semantic redistribution of
Spanish copular verbs
Johanna Wood: From Noun to
Determiner/Quantifier: Pseudopartitives and
Language Change
2:55 - 3:20
Bilignualism & Micro-Variation
T. Mark Ellison and Luisa Miceli: The Impacts of
bilingual production monitoring on non-dominant
language lexica
German Syntax
Andreas Jäger: Syntactically independent
exclamative zu-infinitives in Modern German:
Diachrony and crosslinguistic comparison
5:00-5:50
Julen Manterola and Joseba Lakarra: The new
Basque Historical-Etymological Dictionary:
Advancements on the reconstruction of the
Basque lexicon
1:30-1:55 Uta Reinöhl: Towards a typology of old grams
José María Oliver: An approach to diachronic
verb typology
Natalie Weber: Blackfoot reflexes of Proto-
Algonquian clusters
Remus Gergel, Martin KopfGiammanco and
Jonathan Watkins: Annotating Presuppositional
Information in Historical Corpora
Luca Alfieri: The birth of a grammatical category:
the case of the adjective class
Thorhallur Eythorsson and Sigridur Saeunn
Sigurdardottir: Keeping up with the arguments:
Continuity and change in Icelandic weather verbs
Malte Rosemeyer: The expression of subject
pronouns in Spanish and Portuguese wh-
interrogatives
4:20 - 4: 50
3:50-4:15
Coffee Break
3:20-3:45Patrícia Amaral: Scalar meaning in diachrony: the
case of bocado
Osamu Ishiyama: Grammaticalization and the
Emergence of Personal Pronouns
Plenary Lecture Rena Torres Cacoullos: Synchrony meets diachrony: Reconsidering convergence
Gabriel Antunes De Araujo and Manuele
Bandeir: The ProtoCreoleof the Gulf of Guinea
and its daughter
Hannah Gibson, Rozenn Guérois, Lutz Marten
and Francisca Everduim: Morphosyntactic
microvariation in Bantu languages
Karen Dakin: UtoAztecan sources for wordfinal
constructions
Peter Alexander Kerkhof and Guus Kroonen:
When Push Comes to Shove: The Neglected Role
of Historical Syntax for German and Indo-
European Etymology
Andreas Baumann and Lotte Sommerer:
Layering as an effect of asymmetric priming
Juan M. Hernández-Campoy, Juan C.
CondeSilvestre, Tamara GarcíaVidal and Belén
ZapataBarrero: Tracing Patterns of Intra Speaker
Variation in Historica Corpora of English
Correspondence: Data from HiStylVar Project
Discussion Ulrike Demske: Syntax and Information Structure:
Vfinal Root Clauses in German
Teigo Onishi: Umbrian <rs> and <rf>: synchronic
and diachronic analysisDiscussion led by Rena Torres Cacoullos
Marlies Jansegers and Stefan Th. Gries: Towards
a dynamic Behavioral Profile
Sandro SessaregoJohn Sundquist: The Diachrony of Light Verb
Constructions in Old Swedish
Andrea Pham: The Emergence of a New
Phoneme: the Vietnamese Case
Jerzy Nykiel: Onmang þat – incipient
grammaticalization in Old and Middle English2:00-2:25
Chantal Melis and Marcela Flores: Transmission,
contact, leveling, and innovation. A histrocial
perspective on the accusative/dative opposition
in Spanish
Signe Laake: How to move objects Old Norwegian
style
Marina Benedetti and Chiara Gianollo: Criteria
for subjecthood and noncanonical subjects in
Ancient Greek
Stefan Savić: Boundedness and Deixis as the
Source of the Temporal, Aspectual, Modal
Categories in Xhosa
Jiayin Gao and Martine Mazaudon:
Transphonologizations and the retention of
"redundant" features: a case study in the Tamang
dialect of Taglung
Lunch
Monday, July 31
Introductions, Introductory Keynote
Plenary Lecture Patience Epps: Language contact, maintenance, and diversification: A view from Amazonia
Coffee Break
8:30-9:20
Panel: AAVE & The Ecology of Language
ChangeAncient Languages Grammaticalization Morphology Syntax in Germanic Languages Perfects and Futures Alignment & Argument Structure
9:30-9:55 Sonja Lanehart, IntroductionMarc-Olivier Hinzelin: Subject clitics in Romance: from
adjoined pronouns to incorporated agreement markers
Katerina Naitoro: Bound yet free: the double life of
POc *akin[i] and its Southeast Solomonic reflexes
Jan Nuyts: Reautonomization
in the system of the Dutch modals – further
perspectives
Beatrice Rea: A diachronic account of variation in
Romance auxiliary selection, with new evidence from
Montréal French
Andrea Mojedano Batel: The Evolution of Argument
Structure: Psychological Verbs of Liking in the History
of Spanish
10:00-10:25 John SinglerRobin Meyer: Shift-induced pattern replication:
Parthian–Armenian bilinguals in Late Antiquity
Livio Gaeta: Remotivating inflectional classes: an
unexpected effect of grammaticalization
Karl Velik: Emergent wordclass morpheme structure
constraints and the {/0/, / st/} alternation of English
adverbs and prepositions
Isabeau De Smet, Katrien Beuls, Dirk Pijpops and
Freek Van de Velde: Language specific differences in
regularization rates of the Germanic preterite
Jac Conradie: The loss and renewal of inflection: the
case of the Afrikaans auxiliary het ‘have’
Cynthia Johnson, Peter Alexander Kerkhof, Leonid
Kulikov, Esther Le Mair and Jóhanna Barðdal: Walking
the path of success: Reconstructing from variation in
meaning and argument structure
10:30 - 10:45
Syntax in English
Anna Cichosz: V-final conjunct clauses in the Old
English Bede: the role of Latin
11:45-12:10Discussion session, led by Salikoko Mufwene and Guy
Bailey
Eitan Grossman and Stéphane Polis: Universally
dispreferred structures through change: The
diachrony of affix ordering in Egyptian Coptic
Anna Řehořková: Czech complementizer zda(li)
‘whether, if’: The path of grammaticalization
Danica Macdonald and Amanda Pounder: Animacy
and optionality in number systems: A diachronic
perspective
John Sundquist: The Rich Get Richer: Preferential
Attachment and the Diachrony of Light Verbs in the
History of American English
Mansour Rahimifar: Development of Present Perfect
in contemporary Persian
Eva Skafte Jensen: It is me – Old Danish subject
complements in the oblique form
12:15 - 1:30
Roundtable: New Directions for Historical
LinguisticsSemantics Reconstruction & Methodology
1:30 Introduction: Marc Pierce
1:40-2:20 Keynote addresses:
William Labov: Building on Empirical Foundations:
Community change in apparent timeSpanish Morphosyntax Endangered Languages
Gillian Sankoff: Building on Empirical Foundations:
Community change in real time
2:55-3:20 Coffee Break
3:20-3:55
Jose Ignacio Hualde and Manuel Perez Saldanya:
From time to cause and condition: the Basque
conjunction
gero
Camiel Hamans: Language change at a distance
Laura Margarita Merino Hernández: Conditionals past
and present: A semantic account of the retention of
the imperfect subjunctive in Mexican Spanish
Martine Robbeets: Grammaticalization and the
cultural reconstruction of Proto-Transeurasian
Mateus Carvalho: Development of auxiliaries in Deni
(Arawá)
4:00-4:25Vicotr Parra-Guinaldo and John Ryan: The Diminutive
Relexification Cycle: Historical robust generator of new
words in Spanish
Javier Puerma Bonilla and Rodrigo Flores Dávila:
Characterization of the subject and direct object of
transitive
sentences in the history of Spanish
Benedikt Winkhart: A documentation of the remnant
Baka-Gundi language Limassa
4:30-4:55Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia: The social history of Shawi,
a Token-Based Approach
5:00 - 6:00
Plenary Lecture: Michela Cennamo The
Actualization of 'new' voice patterns in
Romance: Persistence in diversity
6:00 - 6:15
6:15-6:35
6:35-6:55
6:55-7:15
7:15-7:35
7:35-7:55
8:00- 8:30
Marc Pierce: Contextualizing the Study of Texas German
On the descriptive adequacy of linguistic terminology: Possibilities for labeling linguistic minorities –
especially concerning Texas German
Discussion session
Panel: The History of Texas German
Marc Pierce. Introduction
Joseph Salmons: Verticalization and the Shift from German to English in Texas
Christopher Wickham and Daniel J. Gelo: Comanche and German on the Texas Frontier
Glenn Gilbert
3:35- 4:55--Discussion by Roundtable members and
audience; Paul Hopper, Video Retrospective
2:30-2:55
1:30-1:55Peter Petré: The extravagant progressive. An
experimental corpus study on the history of emphatic
[BE Ving]
Matthew Juge: Romance genitive plural remnants
show that sound change alone didn’t cause Latin loss
of case
Gregory Anderson and Bikram Jora: Why morphology
matters in comparative-historical linguistics,
phylogenetics and language prehistory
research
Siva Kalyan and Mark Donohue: A
“pseudogeographic” approach to reconstructing the
histories of words: Application to Germanic languages
2:00 - 2:25Natalia Cáceres: Syntactic sources for the
development of a typologically unique property
concepts class
Margaret Winters and Geoffrey Nathan: On the Lack
of Uniformity in the Uniformitarian Principle
2:20-2:55 -- Discussion of key questions: Brian
Joseph, Sarah Thomason, Elizabeth Traugott, and Walt
Wolfram
Egle Mocciaro and William Short: Diachronic Aspects
of Metaphor in Latin Semantics: Two Case Studies
Mariko Goto: Is the English Progressive Incompatible
with a Stative Construal?
Ilona Rauhala: The adjective attribute marking system
in Proto-Saami
Tomohiro Yanagi: Object Movement and Two Topic
Positions in Old English
Yahya Mobarki: From Locative Existential Construction
fi(ih) to TMA/Progressive Marker: Grammaticalization
of fi(ih) in Gulf Arabic Pidgin
Kristin Hagemann: Recomplementation and Atopics in
Old Spanish
Rebecca Arana: La evolución del gerundio de
posterioridad
Danica MacDonald: Korean –tul: A comparative
development between North and South Korean
Yang Huang: Spatial Marking in the Muya Language
Julen Manterola: Split Ergativity in Basque: the Axis of
NumberHongyuan Dong: A formal study of extensional
broadening in historical semantics
Tuesday, August 1
Plenary Lecture Salikoko Mufwene: Evolutionary or Historical Linguistics: What’s in a Name?
Coffee Break
11:15-11:40 Walt Wolfram Yourdanis Sedarous: The Construct State in Bohairic
Coptic
Tim Zingler: From obligatory to zero: Iconicity in
grammaticalization
Magnus Breder Birkenes, Jürg Fleischer and Stephanie
Leser Cronau:
The development of agreement in
Germanic: evidence from a parallel text analysis
Maria Bylin: Loss of future semantics and raising
properties of an auxiliary verb
Stefan Dedio and Paul Widmer: Antipassives and
other argument demoting constructions in Insular
Celtic
10:45-11:10
Elly van Gelderen: The Diachrony of ditransitives in
English
Lunch
Concepción Company Company: Four Directionalities
for Grammaticalization: Evidence from SpanishNa'ama Pat-El: Afro-Asiatic: A Family or Sprachbund?Edgar Schneider
Robin Turner: The Evolution of the Periphrastic Future
in Dialogue with the Subjunctive Future in Romance
Hans Henrich Hock: Passives, Anticausatives, and
“Aorist Passives” in Vedic Sanskrit: Synchronic and
Diachronic Perspectives
Mireille Tremblay and Monique Dufresne: Gender
Asymmetries in Old French Determiners
8:30-9:20
Special Session: Evolutive vs. Adaptive
ChangeConstruction Grammar Morphology & Paradigms Endangered Languages & Documentation Romance Morphosyntax Socio-Historical & Contact
9:30-9:55Daniel Collins: The Slavic Reflexes of the PIE Syllabic
Sonorants
Yueh Hsin Kuo: Reinforcement or Constructional
Realignment: Quantifier Yixie in Mandarin Chinese
Uta Reinöhl: Syntactic Paradigmatization as a
Constraint on Grammaticalization -On the Rise
of Participial Predicates in Indo-Aryan
Valentina Schiattarella: Accent on Nouns in Siwi
(Afroasiatic) and its Historical Development
Rosa Maria Ortiz Ciscomani: Dative Possessor in
Ditransitive Spanish Predication, in Diachronic
Perspective
Savithry Namboodiripad: Language Contact as a
Source of Reduced Flexibility in Malayalam
Constituent Order
10:00-10:25Brian Joseph and Hope Dawson: Dichotomies of
Change: Where to Draw the Line(s), if at All?
Jong-Bok Kim: English what with absolute
constructions: A corpus-based and diachronic
perspective
Walter Bisang: Radical Pro-drop—
a Historical Account Based on Morphological
Paradigms
Phillip Rogers: Building a Foundation for Papuan
Historical Linguistics: Documentation and
Description of the Bitur and Abom Languages of
Southern New Guinea
Scott Schwenter: Diachrony of Variable Past
Participles in European Portuguese
Israel Sanz-Sánchez
and María Irene Moyna: Children as Agents of
Language Change – Diachronic Evidence
from Latin American Spanish
10:30 - 10:45
10:45-11:10Keiko Mitano: H. Andersen's Abductive and
Reductive Change and Croation Idioms
Lotte Sommerer: Constructionalization and
Constructional Competition: Investigating Old
English NP Ecology
and the Development of the Indefinite Article
Lars Heltoft: Word Order Paradigms and
Grammaticalization
Carlo Dalle Ceste: Mapping pockets of Retention in
the Western Oceanic Linkage: What do They Tell us
(and HowLanguage Documentation Fits in)?
Brigitte L.M. Bauer: Old French Grammar, Old
French Sources, and Language Evolution
Carola Trips: Copying of Argument Structure: a
Gap in Borrowing Scales and a New Approach to
Contact- Induced Change
11:15 - 11:40 Motoki NomachiTim Zingler: A Diachronic Constructional Approach
to German Modal Particles
Dariusz Piwowarczyk and Katarzyna Jasińska:
Towards a Typology of Paradigm Leveling – a
Computational
Approach
Jorge Emilio Roses Labrada: Language
Documentation and Language Classification:
Disentangling the Past of
the Jodï Language
Karina High and Cinzia Russi: The Emergence of
Gascon Negative Tripartite Construction ne…pas
jamei ‘never’
Mary Ann Walter: Neuters to None: A Diachronic
Perspective on Loanword Gender in
Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian
11:45 - 12:10
Manuel Delicado Cantero and Patrícia Amaral:
Diachrony and Nominal Constructions: Tracking the
Evolution of Spanish El Hecho de (Que)
Matthew Maddox: Spanish and French HOMŌ-
derived Impersonal Pronouns: Stalled
Grammaticalization
Ander Egurtzegi: The Loss of a Typologically Rare
Opposition in Two Endangered Dialects: /h/ vs. /h̃/ in
Mixean and Zuberoan Basque
Cristina Guardiano et al. Language comparison
and population history
Manuel Padilla-Moyano:
Presentatives in Eastern Basque: Change in Deixis
System and Language Contact
12:15 - 1:30
1:30-4:30
Wednesday, August 2
Plenary Lecture Henning Andersen: Paradigms: Synchrony, Diachrony, and History
Coffee Break
Lunch
Half-Day Excursions
8:30-9:25
Panel: Endangered Languages &
Historical Linguistics
Workshop: Development of Aspect
and Tense
Workshop: Logical Vocabulary and
Logical ChangeWorkshop: Paradigm Leveling Morphology and Suppletion Languages in Contact Pragmatics
9:30-9:55Patience Epps: Introduction and Panel
Overview
Jadranka Gvozdanovic: Development of
Aspect and Tense
Ritsuko Kikusawa and Keiko Sagara:
Paradigm Levelling in Japanese Sign
Language and Related Languages
Matthew Juge: Expanding the Canon: The Unrecognized
Role of Alignment in the Typology of Suppletion
Bing Zhu and Kaoru Horie: Diffusional
Change of the Chinese Scalar Additive
Construction Derived from Prohibitives
Jasper De Kind: Word Order in Kikongo
(Bantu, H16): On the Origins of a Pre-
Verbal
Focus Position and the
Pragmatic Neutralization of SOV
10:00-10:25 Lev Michael
Don Daniels: Redrawing the Boundaries:
Fluctuating Time Reference in the
Sogeram Languages of Papua New Guinea
Moreno Mitrović Mitrović: Address
Brian Joseph: Analogy as Local
Generalization: The Solution to (almost)
all our Problems
Xavier Bach: Suppletion in Diachrony: Kin Terms
Possessive Paradigms in South Halahera-West New
Guinea Languages
Yang Zhou: Constructional Change and
Variation in an Areal Perspective:
Evidence from the Potential
Complement Construction in Min
Kazuko Tanabe: The Regularization
Change of Language Use of IRASSHARU in
Japanese Honorifics
10:30 - 10:45
Semantics
Rodrigo Flores Dávila: Diachronic Delocativization and
Abstraction of Phrases Headed by the Spanish
Preposition a. “Domino Effect” in a Lexical and Semantic
Change
11:15 - 11: 40 Gerrit Dimmendaal
Martin Joachim Kümmel: The
Development of Tense and Aspect in Old
Iranian
Anna Szabolcsi: Disjunctive and
Conjunctive Particles Meet Their Negative
Concord Relatives
David Fertig: The Role of Perception in
Paradigm Leveling and Beyond
Josep Alba-Salas:
Caer en Temores Infundados: On the Historical Evolution
of Spanish Collocations with the
Verb Caer 'Fall' and Stative Nouns
Guido Seiler: The Development of
Standard Average European: Evidence
from Varieties of German
Amalia Rodriguez: The Evolution of the
Confirmation Markers c’est mon, ce a
mon, ce ne fait mon from
Medieval to Classical French
11:45 - 12:10 Eleanor Coghill
Vit Bubenik and Leila Ziamajidi: On the
Rise of the Analytic Perfect Aspect in the
West Iranian Languages
Ricardo Etxepare: How Can Whoever it is
Manage to Become Someone in Basque
Jessica Nowak: Ablaut Pattern Extension
as Partial Regularization Strategies in
Germanic Languages
Silvia Luraghi: Radial Categories and the Limits of
Polysemy
Daria V. Konior: Osmosis in Small
Languages of the Balkan Peninsula: the
Case of the Commune Carașova
(Romania)
Yael Reshef: From Written to Spoken
Usage: The Contribution of Prerevival
Linguistic Habits to the Formation of the
Colloquial Register fo Modern Hebrew
12:15 - 1:30
Computational
Phillip Barnett: Determining Unattested Forms in
Ancient Greek Using Computational Linguistics
2:00 - 2:25Nicolas Jansens: Tracing the Periphrastic
Progressive in Early Germanic and Slavic
Moreno Mitrović and Andrei Sideltse:
Allosemies of the Anatolian Conjunction
Particle
Carlos García Castillero: The Place of
Paradigm Leveling in Diachronic
Morphology
Ans van Kemenade: Word Order Change Online:
Language Change, Second Language Acquisition,
Computational Modelling and Simulation
Ian Hancock: Cryptolects and Janmaican
Maroon Spirit Language
2:30 - 2:55 Edward Vajda
Silvio Cruschina and Anna Kocher: A
Surprise in the Past: The Historical Origins
of the Catalan GO-Past
Benjamin Slade and Anikó Csirmaz:
Adding Meaning to Indo-Aryan
Aspectual Adverbials Then and Again
Freek Van de Velde: Retropredicting
language change with binomial regression analysis
Manuele Bandeira: Phonological
Reconstruction of the Proto-Creole of Gulf
New Guinea
2:55 - 3:20
3:20 - 3:45
Eric Campbell: Do tones change faster
than segments? Perspectives from recent
documentation of the Chatino languages
(Zapotecan, Mexico)
Svetlana Kleyner: The Demise of the
Gothic Mediopassive and the Rise of a
New Passive Paradigm
Enrico Flor, Nina Haslinger, Magdalena
Roszkowski, Viola Schmitt and Eva
Rosina. Distributive and nondistributive
conjunction: Formal semantics meets
typology
Shirley Freitas: The Sephardic Linguistic
Agency in the Formation of Papiamentu
3:50 - 4:15 Danny LawKazuha Watanabe: Reduction of
Aspectual Marking in Present Tense
Benjamin Slade: Why are there
Disjunctive Particles in Sinhala &
Dravidian Relative-Correlatives?:
Existential Particles in Nonexistential
Environments
4:20 - 4: 45Discussion by Geoffrey Khan, Marianne
Mithun, Pattie Epps, and Claire Bowern
Moreno Mitrović. A diachronic typology
of the universal superparticle: an
intergenetic view
5:00 - 5:55
6:00
7:00 Departure by Boat to the Conference Dinner at the Pearl Stables
I-Hsuan Chen: Focal Prominence in
Mandarin Word Order Behind the
Distribution of Polarity Items
Harold Koch and Patrick McConvell:
Reconstructing the Origin and Spread of
Social Category Terms in the
Australian Continent
Eugen Hill: Operational Principles of
»Morphological Analogy« and the Status
of »Paradigmatic Levelling«
Agnes Bende-Farkas:
Vala-Indefinites
and Covert Operators in Old Hungarian
Eystein Dahl: Continuity and Change in
the Aspect Systems of Vedic and LatinJames Matisoff
Lunch
Graduate Student and Post-Doc Poster
Presentations
Hanna Fischer: Preterite Loss in Upper
German Dialects – a Result of Dynamic
Developments in the German
Tense and Aspect System
Chiara Gianollo: Synchrony and
Diachrony of a Multifunctional Particle:
Latin nec
Plenary Lecture Geoffrey Khan: Contact and change in the Neo-Aramaic dialects
Business Meeting
Santeri Palviainen and Katja Västi:
Innovations in Finnish paradigm: Change
in Progress
John McWhorter: Is There a Such Thing
as Creolization? Evaluating the Feature
Pool Hypothesis
Thursday, August 3
Plenary Lecture Claire Bowern: Australian Languages and Theories of Language Change
Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:10
Coffee Break
1:30 - 1:55
Alignment Typology in Diachronic Perspective Arabic & Contact-Induced ChangeAtomizing Linguistic Change & the Nuclear
Step: From Individual Realization to Emergence
Germanic and Romance: Probing the
Similarities and Differences
New Historical Perspectives on Non-
Dominant Speakers as Agents of Contact-
Induced Change
The Loss of Inflection
9:00-9:25Spike Gildea: Reanalysis versus Extension in Creating a
Diachronic Typology of Alignment
Dieter Stein: Atomizing Linguistic Change: Taking a
False (or Right) Step
Achim Stein: L2 acquisition of Old French structural
dative as a trigger for the English recipient passive
Matthew Baerman, Greville Corbett, Oliver Bond, and
Helen Sims-Williams: The loss of inflection
9:30-9:55
Ana Paula Brandao and Fernando Carvalho:
Alignment systems in Arawak languages: the changes
undergone by Paresi-Haliti
Introduction at 9:45am
Rajend Mesthrie: Diachronic layerings and diaspora: a
sociohistorical study of changes in personal names
among Indian South Africans of Indic and Dravidian
backgrounds
Sam Wolfe and Christine M. Salvesen: Welcome and
introductory remarks
Tino Oudesluijs, Moragh Gordon and Anita Auer: The
difficulty of determining contact-induced language
change in historical data: evidence from selected
English urban vernaculars (c. 1400-1700)
John McWhorter: The radically isolating languages of
Flores: a challenge to diachronic theory
10:00 - 10:25
Katarzyna Janic: Markedness reversal between
antipassive and transitive constructions as a possible
diachronic process of alignment change
Lameen Souag: Numeral phrase borrowing in Arabic
and beyond
T. Mark Ellison: Experimental Semiotics,
Representational Biases and the Atoms of Language
Change
David L. White: A Neglected Possibility for How
Grammatical Resemblances between Germanic and
Romance Could Have Been Created: Parallel
Influences from Celtic
Jennifer Hendriks: Finding needles in haystacks: Non-
dominant multilingual speakers as agents of change in
Early Modern Dutch
10:30 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:10
Yuko Yanagida and John Whitman: Genitive/active to
nominative case in Japanese: the role of complex
experiencer constructions
Jonathan Owens: Contact and what
grammaticalization theory won’t tell you about
language history
Martín Fuchs, Ashwini Deo and Maria Mercedes
Pinango: On the role of situational context in language
variation and linguistic change: experimental evidence
from Iberian, Mexican Altiplano and Rioplatense
Spanish.
Benjamin Lowell Sluckin: The actuation of Locative
Inversion in English: a diachronic and comparative
perspective
Duaa Abuamsha: Grammaticalization of the future
marker in Palestinian Arabic: An internal or a contact-
induced change?
Daven Hobbs: The Evolution of Case in Indo-Aryan
11:15 - 11: 40Mikel Martínez-Areta: Ergative from Passive in Proto-
Basque
Jonathan Geary: The historical development of the
Maltese plural suffixes -iet and -(i)jiet
Malte Rosemeyer and Eitan Grossman: The road to
auxiliariness: the view from speaker-listener interaction
Hubert Cuyckens, Peter Petré, Michèle Goyens and
Marie Lamblin: The absolute construction in English
and French: A case of syntactic influence?
Hannah Gibson: Language change in East African
Bantu: Multilingualism and its effects
Paul Widmer, Manuel Widmer, Peter Ranacher and
Balthasar Bickel: The loss of verbal categories in Indo-
European
11:45 - 12:10Danny Law: Changes to Alignment in Mayan
Languages so far
Mary Ann Walter: A Quantitative Investigation of
Noun Pluralization in Cypriot Maronite and Maltese
Arabic
Juan Manuel Hernandez-Campoy, Tamara García-
Vidal and Belén Zapata-Barrero: Identity Construction
and Representation in Past Speech Communities:
Sociolinguistic Models of Intra-Speaker Variation in
Middle English Written Correspondence
Matthew Maddox and Jonathan MacDonald:
Reflexive Constructions in German, Spanish, and
French as a Product of Cyclic Interaction
Devyani Sharma: Historical input and substrate
transfer in Postcolonial Englishes
Steven J. Rapaport: Oblique Case Loss in Indo-
European
12:15 - 1:30
1:30 - 1:55
Leonid Kulikov: Valency-changing categories in a
diachronic typological perspective: Alignment types
and valency derivations in Indo-European and beyond
Robert Ratcliffe: Testing the hypothesis that
sociolinguistic parameters of contact determine
structural effects
Susan Herring: Origins and Spread of Deviant Language
on the Internet
Sam Wolfe: Medieval Romance and its place in the
Verb Second typology
Bethwyn Evans: Reconstructing the context and
causes of prehistoric contact-induced change: a case
study from Papua New Guinea
Natalia Cáceres, Spike Gildea and Marie-Claude
Mattéi Muller: Loss of Inflection in Yawarana (Cariban)
2:00 - 2:25Eystein Dahl: Two paths to split ergativity: Alignment
change in Indo-Aryan and Anatolian
Eleanor Coghill: Strategies for intra-Semitic verb
borrowing: the case of Arabic loanverbs in North-
Eastern Neo-Aramaic
Carlota de Benito: The role of the hearer in syntactic
innovation: insights from Twitter speech
Signe Laake and Kristin Føsker Hagemann:
Deconstructing Stylistic fronting in Old Norwegian
and Old Spanish
Fernando Tejedo-Herrero and Israel Sanz-Sánchez:
Imperfect adult L2 learning and dialect contact – two
forces rowing in the same direction?
Aline Da Cruz, Marina Maria Da Silva Magalhães and
Walkiria Neiva Praça: The less omnipredicative a
language is, the less transcategorial morphology it
needs
2:30 - 2:55Michela Cennamo: Voice, alignment changes and the
rise of head-marking
Phillip Stokes and Na'Ama Pat-El: The Influence of
Aramaic on the Modern Arabic Dialects of the
Levant and Mesopotamia
Roland Mühlenbernd and Jérôme Michaud: The
Utterance Selection Model and Different Types of
Replicator Selection
Christine Meklenborg Salvesen: At the corner of
syntax and semantics. Resumptive structures in Old
French and Old Swedish
Silvina Montrul: Heritage speakers: agents of
language change
George Aaron Broadwell and Lauren Clemens:
Inflectional change in Copala Triqui
2:55 - 3:20
3:20 - 3:45
Chantal Melis: From Middle Voice to Dative
Alignment: A Diachronic Shift with Spanish Experiental
Verbs
Thomas Leddy-Cecere: The Role of Contact-Induced
Grammaticalization in Arabic Pluriform
Development
Chelsea Sanker: Experimental Evidence for Diachronic
Change
Nigel Vincent and Kersti Börjars: Markers and
models in linguistic change
Guido Seiler: Borrowing a grammar without speaking
the language? The case of Amish Shwitzer
Rozenn Guérois and Lutz Marten: The reduction of
object marking in Cuwabo verbs and subsequent
syntactic developments
3:50 - 4:15
Krzysztof Stronski, Joanna Tokaj and Saartje Verbeke:
On the syntax of non-finite constructions in early New-
Indo-Aryan
Enam Al-Wer, Bruno Herin and Uri Horesh: Contact
among neighbouring dialects as motivation for
“reversal” of sound change
Alexander Bergs: Trifles make the sum of life! A
construction grammar perspective on speaker
innovation
Miranda Wilkerson and Joe Salmons: Leaving Their
Mark: How Wisconsin Came to Sound German
4:20 - 4: 45
Saartje Verbeke: The correlation between head
marking and V2 word order: A historical case study of
Kashmiri
William Cotter: Sugar, we’re going down: Vowel
lowering in Gaza City Arabic Keynote address by Joe Salmons
5:00 - 5:55
Coffee Break
Lunch
Coffee Break
Plenary Lecture: Marianne Mithun Areal forces shaping the packaging of ideas
Friday, August 4: Workshops