Mercredi 5 juillet
09:00-09:25 Café + enregistrement
09:25-09:30 Bienvenue
Session 1 : French clausal syntax
Présidence : Karen De Clercq
09:30-10:10 Lena Baunaz (University of Geneva) & Caterina Bonan (University of Cambridge)
Revisiting French wh in-situ from a micro-
diachrony perspective
10:15-10:55 Marc Olivier (University of Oxford)
Evidence for high infinitive placement in Old
French
10:55-11:20 Pause café
Session 2 : Verb movement in French/Romance
Présidence : Judy Bernstein
11:20-12:00 Espen Klævik-Pettersen (University of Agder)
Verb movement and phasehood in French clausal
syntax
12:05-12:45 Afra Pujol i Campeny (University of Oxford)
The loss of V2 in Old Catalan
12:45-14:00 Pause déjeuner
Session 3 : Finno-Ugric syntax
Présidence : Chris Reintges
14:00-14:40 Katalin É. Kiss (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics)
From parataxis to hypotaxis in the Ugric languages
14:45-15:25 Irina Burukina (Eötvös Loránd University & Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics)
Historical reanalysis of postpositions into Mood in Uralic
15:25-15:50 Pause café
Session 4 : Mood and polarity
Présidence : Lena Baunaz
15:50-16:30 Raquel Montero Estebaranz (University of Konstanz)
Mood alternations: The diachronic development of the polarity subjunctive
16:35-17:15 Nicola D’Antuono (University of Padua)
Negative paths: on the interaction between negation and a polarity item in Old Italian
17:15-17:30 Pause café
17:30-18:30 Conférence invitée 1 (Présidence : Karen De Clercq). Alexandra Simonenko (Ghent University)
A language change approach to probabilistic universals: Case and order
Jeudi 6 juillet
09:00-09:30 Café + enregistrement
Session 5 : OV-VO
Présidence : Theresa Biberauer
09:30-10:10 Tommaso Balsemin, Francesco Pinzin & Cecilia Poletto (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Where do we start from? Deriving the consistency principle from basic OV order
10:15-10:55 Héctor Vázquez Martínez & Beatrice Santorini (University of Pennsylvania)
A variational model of the loss of English OV
10:55-11:20 Pause café
Session 6 : Agreement
Présidence : Francesco Pinzin
11:20-12:00 Lisa Gotthard (University of Edinburgh) & Joel C. Wallenberg (University of York)
Three-way grammar competition during the Scots anglicisation: Insights from the Parsed Corpus of Scottish Correspondence
12:05-12:45 Daniela Isac (Concordia University)
Agree in Old Romanian
12:45-14:00 Lunch break
Session 7 : Pronouns
Présidence : Espen Klævik-Pettersen
14:00-14:40 Benjamin Sluckin (Ruhr University Bochum)
Exaptation of silent elements: (not-so) expletive pro in English Locative Inversion
14:45-15:25 Marco Coniglio (University of Göttingen)
Paradigm shifts in German personal pronouns
15:25-15:40 Lightning talks
15:40-17:00 Poster (+ café)
17:00-18:00 Conférence invitée 2 (Présidence : Lieven Danckaert). Emanuela Sanfelici (University of Padua)
The syntacticization of discourse in diachrony: Insights from subordination
18:00-18:15 Business meeting
20:00 Dîner
Vendredi 7 juillet
09:00-09:30 Café
Session 8 : DP structure
Présidence : Carola Trips
09:30-10:10 Laura Grestenberger (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
No small endeavor: The diachrony of diminutives and the nominal spine
10:15-10:55 Hannah Booth (Ghent University) & Alexandra Rehn (University of Konstanz)
Possession, case and the OCP in the history of High and Low German
10:55-11:15 Pause café
Session 9 : Back to language contact
Présidence : Lieven Danckaert
11:15-11:55 Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge, Stellenbosch University, University of the Western Cape & CRiSSP) & Cora Cavirani-Pots (KU Leuven)
The IPP effect in Afrikaans: something old, something new
12:00-13:00 George Walkden (University of Konstanz)
Adult language acquisition and change
Poster
- Molly Rolf (University of Konstanz)
A formal account of diachronic case and adposition change - Bill Haddican (CUNY), Irantzu Epelde, Urtzi Etxeberria & Ricardo Etxepare (UMR 5478 IKER)
Allomorphy in innovative Basque allocutive constructions and the phasal structure of finite embeddings - Carola Trips (University of Mannheim) & Charles Yang University of Pennsylvania)
Grammaticalization as distributional learning: English modals in history - Phil Branigan & Nicholas Welch (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Multiple head movement and the diachronic stability of Dene verb morphology - Sigríður Björnsdóttir (University of Konstanz), Lisa Gotthard (University of Edinburgh), Chiara Riegger (University of Konstanz) & George Walkden (University of Konstanz)
Raising out of control