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