The updated programme and abstract booklet can be consulted here.
28 June 2016: Workshop on The determinants of diachronic stability
18:00 Reception at Ghent Townhall
| Wednesday, 29 June 2016 | |
| 8:30-9:00 | Registration[1] |
| 9:00-9:10 | Welcome |
| 9:10-10:10 | Invited speaker:Ioanna Sitaridou: Word Order in Old Spanish: V2 or non-V2? |
| 10:10-10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30-11:10 | Alexandra Simonenko, Benoit Crabbé and Sophie Prévost. Taraldsen’s Generalisation in Medieval French |
| 11:10-11:50 | George Walkden. Null subjects and null D: the evidence from diachrony |
| 11:50-12:30 | Kari Kinn. Bare singular nouns in Middle Norwegian |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30-15:00 | Poster session I: · Rose-Marie Dechaine, Monique Dufresne and Mireille Tremblay. Featural specification of (in)definiteness and number in Old French D · Aaron Ecay. How changes change: the case of do-support · Rok Žaucer and Franc Marušič. The modal cycle vs. negation · Matthew Maddox. Grammaticalization of Reflexive Se From Latin to Spanish: An Object Agreement Cycle · Pablo Faria and Charlotte Galves. Annotation systems and automatic processing: a tight connection |
| 15:00-15:40 | Jorge Vega Vilanova, Mario Navarro and Susann Fischer. The Clitic Doubling cycle. A diachronic reconstruction |
| 15:40-16:20 | Gabriela Alboiu and Virginia Hill. Cliticization of AUX and the Shift from SVO to VSO in the History of Romanian |
| 16:20-16:50 | Coffee break |
| 16:50-17:30 | Achim Stein, Carola Trips and Richard Ingham. The role of French in the rise of the recipient passive in Middle English: can structural Case be borrowed? |
| 17:30-18:10 | Eric Fuß. Hand in hand or each on one’s own? On the connection between morphological and syntactic change |
| Thursday, 30 June 2016 | |
| 9:00-10:00 | Invited speaker:Elly van Gelderen: Problems of Projection and Historical Linguistics |
| 10:00-10:20 | Coffee break |
| 10:20-11:00 | Johan Brandtler and David Håkansson. Heading North. The syntactic status of Swedish negation |
| 11:00-11:40 | Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal and Karen De Clercq. The development of an external negator: the Eastern Aramaic negative polarity particle lāw |
| 11:40-12:20 | Heather Burnett and Sali Tagliamonte. Using Cross-linguistic Evidence to Ground Morpho-Syntactic Change: No/Not…any variation in the History of English |
| 12:20-13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30-15:00 | Poster session II: · Afra Pujol I Campeny. V1 in Old Catalan · Anna Bartra. De-constructing Passives from a Diachronic Perspective · Judy Bernstein, Francisco Ordóñez and Francesc Roca. On the emergence of personal articles in the history of Catalan · Moreno Mitrović. The Great Quantifier Shift |
| 15:00-15:40 | Laura Grestenberger. A “participle cycle”? The diachronic morphosyntax of Greek participles |
| 15:40-16:20 | Veronika Hegedűs. Changing copulas and the case of Hungarian prenominal PPs |
| 16:20-16:50 | Coffee break |
| 16:50-17:30 | Susan Pintzuk and Aaron Ecay. The dating of Beowulf revisited: investigating the syntax of Old English poetry |
| 17:30-18:10 | Andreas Blümel and Marco Coniglio. What kind of constructions yield what kind of constructions? |
| 19:30 – | Conference dinner |
| Friday, 1 July 2016 | |
| 9:00-10:00 | Invited speaker:Cecilia Poletto: The relative cycle: how grammaticalization (does not) work |
| 10:00-10:20 | Coffee break |
| 10:20-11:00 | Andrea Ceolin et al. Parametric history and population diversity |
| 11:00-11:40 | Cristina Guardiano et al. Probing the vertical and horizontal signal of parametric syntax |
| 11:40-12:20 | Henri Kauhanen and George Walkden. A production bias model of the Constant Rate Effect |
| 12:20-13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30-15:00 | Poster session III: · Karen De Clercq. Feature Conservation: French Negation Revisited · Montserrat Batllori, Elisabeth Gibert and Isabel Pujol. Changes in the event structure of psych verbs in the history of Spanish · Kersti Börjars and John Payne. Modifiers and definiteness marking in Old Norse: and LFG analysis · Alison Biggs. The Path to Directed Manner of Motion |
| 15:00-15:40 | Melissa Farasyn. Agreement chains in Middle Low German relative clauses |
| 15:40-16:20 | Metin Bagriacik and Lieven Danckaert. On the Emergence of Prenominal and Postnominal Relative Clauses in Pharasiot Greek |
| 16:20-16:50 | Coffee break |
| 16:50-17:30 | Jacopo Garzonio and Silvia Rossi. Structural deficiency across phases: oblique pronouns in Old Tuscan varieties |
| 17:30-18:10 | Marieke Meelen. The origin of Middle Welsh V2 orders |
[1] There is also the opportunity to register at a pre-conference reception in the evening of 28 June.