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GENERAL SESSION PAPERS - ORAL PRESENTATIONS
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Ekaterina Aplonova An unusual reported speech construction in Bashkir and Chuvash Peter Arkadiev Grammaticalization by semantic enrichment: from progressive to proximative to avertive in Lithuanian Sandra Auderset, Adam James Ross Tallman and Revisiting clitic phenomena in Mixtec Carmen Hernandez Gilles Authier Verbal morphological complexity in contact: evidence from Lezgic (East Caucasian)
Matthew Baerman Featural transubstantiation in Kadu agreement classes Jóhanna Barðdal, Peter Alexander Kerkhof and Oblique Anticausatives: Dependent-Marked Anticausativization Roland Pooth Khaled Barkaoui Changes in Metadiscourse Use in Second Language (L2) Learners' Writing on Different Tasks after L2 Instruction Russell Barlow Differential argument marking and flexible word order in symmetrical voice languages: Evidence from Suwawa Andreas Baumann and Nikolaus Ritt Abundance and other correlates of linguistic stability: formal predictions and evidence from sparse lexical items Rodrigo Becerra Variable constituent order in Mapudungun: semantics, information structure, and construals
Karin Beijering and Katarzyna Janic A cross-linguistic study of benefactive double object constructions: constraints, variation and grammaticalization Garbiñe Bereziartua and Beñat Muguruza The use of Basque dialects in social networks: Searching for informality and legitimacy Aseguinolaza
Henrik Bergqvist and Karolina Grzech What’s theoretical about evidentiality? Gabriela Bîlbîie and Israel de la Fuente A semantic constraint on optional THAT in English: the role of factivity
Matea Birtić and Ivana Brač Psychological Object Experiencer Verbs in Croatian Eva-Marie Bloom Ström and Matti Miestamo The use of the augment in Nguni languages with special reference to the referentiality of the noun Oliver Bond and Tatiana Reid Associated motion as an applicative in Nuer Anna Bondaruk and Ewa Willim Causation in Adversity Impersonals in Polish Tom Bossuyt (Non)finiteness in concessive conditionals Koen Bostoen and Sara Pacchiarotti On the origin of verb-final subject indexes in Ngwi (West-Coastal Bantu, DRC) Joseph Brooks and Russell Barlow Plural and non-plural nominal number in Northeast New Guinea Jorina Brysbaert and Karen Lahousse Contrastive subjects modified by contrastive adverbs in different registers of French Svetlana Burkova The expression of modality in Russian Sign Language Anouk Buyle Oh, give him the sack, if you please: a corpus investigation of the social value of requests Natalia Cáceres Arandia Multifunctionality in dependent clauses in Cariban languages Gerd Carling, Niklas Johansson and Johan Frid The evolutionary mechanisms of vocal iconicity. A study on basic vocabulary of the Indo-European family Matthew Carter What Licenses Polyfunctionality?: The Case of /b3/ in Ket Michela Cennamo and Delia Bentley Thematic and lexico-aspectual constraints on V-S agreement: evidence from Northern Italo-Romance Yi-Yang Cheng Differential Agent Marking and Symmetrical Voice in Kanakanavu, an Austronesian Language of Taiwan Maria Cheremisinova Ges What: Comparative-Attenuative Polysemy in Beserman Udmurt Eleanor Coghill Affinal kinship terms in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialects Jac Conradie The refurbishment of the Afrikaans past participle Greville Corbett and Sebastian Fedden German gender: a statistical approach Denis Creissels The typology of noun-modifying clause constructions revisited Sonia Cristofaro On the diachronic emergence of alienability splits cross-linguistically: two types of counterexamples to frequency-based explanations Kirsten Culhane Reconsidering the typology of prosodic feet: evidence from the greater Timor region Ewa Dabrowska and Laura Becker The influence of modality vs. register on grammar Carlo Dalle Ceste Debonding beyond degrammaticalization: a view from the Pacific Saverio Dalpedri On modal verbal adjectives in Ancient Greek
Don Daniels Aisi semi-embedded clauses resolve an insubordination paradox Anna De Marco and Emanuela Paone “Mi scusi!”. Prosodic cues and perceived politeness in L2 Italian learners' apologies Stefano De Pascale and Dirk Pijpops Token-based distributional semantics for grammatical alternation research Isabeau De Smet, Laura Rosseel and Marie-Esther Does dived take longer dan dove? Strong and weak verb forms and iconicity. Poivre Stefan Dedio and Paul Widmer Object multirepresentation in the history of the Indo-European language family Patrick Dendale and Johanna Miecznikowski The nature of Inference in inferential evidentiality. Illustrated with French lexical evidentials Pedro Diaz Lammertyn and María Sol Sansiñena The Spanish
Michael Franjieh, Greville Corbett and Alexandra How classifiers become gender in Oceania: an experimental approach Grandison Minoru Fukuda, Takeshi Furukawa and Koichiro A Cartographic Analysis of "Clausal" Nominal Expressions in Colloquial Japanese Nakamura Kazuhiko Fukushima Aboutness Made Explicit for East Asian Relative Clauses Livio Gaeta The challenge of complexity: Morphological change and language contact in Walser German Ivan Gamov Essential features of Kildin Saami non-finites Jerzy Gaszewski Affinity analysis reveals Central European areal traits in verb argument marking Valeria Generalova 2 ×2 = ? Applicatives and transitivizers as valence-increasing or valence-maintaining devices in Salish Ion Tudor Giurgea Temporal modifiers and the Romance imperfective Michał Głuszkowski Voicing and devoicing in non-standardized insular language in the conditions of Slavic-Slavic language contact Timothy Gupton Information structure and word order acceptability in Cibaeño Dominican Spanish: an experimental approach Matías Guzmán Naranjo and Olivier Bonami Distributional assessment of derivational semantics Camiel Hamans From Matter to Pattern Borrowing Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen Cyclic changes to the French negative coordinating conjunction Stefan Hartmann, Nikolas Koch and Antje Emerging Networks: The Traceback method and the early constructicon Endesfelder Quick Martin Haspelmath Toward a standard list of grammatical comparative concepts: The Grammaticon Rachel Hatchard Whole-form storage and frequency effects beyond the word: An analysis of preserved grammatical constructions in aphasia. Katharina Haude Applicative nominalizations in Movima Lars Hellan Syntax and Semantics of Light Reflexives in Norwegian Yoselin Henriques On the possible emergence of a new 1st plural person marker in rural varieties of Madeiran Portuguese Annette Herkenrath and Birsel Karakoç Embedding wh in bilingual Turkish: A corpus-pragmatic study Helen Hint and Elsi Kaiser Overt and zero third person reference in Estonian – when and why Daven Hobbs A Diachronic Analysis of Nheengatu Subordination Constructions Miao-Ling Hsieh Non-Complement Tsit-e in Taiwanese Southern Min: From an Adverbial Expression to a Complementizer to an Adverbial Subordinator
Emil Ionescu Scope marking by intonation in negative clauses. The case of Romanian Katarzyna Janic Non-obligatoriness of an applied phrase in applicative (periphrastic) constructions Ioana Jieanu Linguistic interferences in the speech of Romanian children leaving in Slovenia Nina Julich-Warpakowski Motion verbs in music criticism: Their conceptual and communicative motivation Johannes Kabatek The papal bull “Ineffabilis Deus” (1854) translated: presentation of a parallel corpus and analysis of 19th century Ibero-Romance varieties Danny Kalev From motion to aspect: Hebrew's emerging verb-particle constructions Shuan Karim The Diachrony of Central Kurdish Applicative Markers Csilla Kász The Semantics and Valency of Verbs of the Stem X (-stVCCVC-) in the Quran - A corpus-based Analysis Liudmila Khokhlova and Boris Zakharin Hindi-Urdu light verbs revisited Victoria Khurshudyan, Pegah Faghiri and Pollet Modern Eastern Armenian: OV or VO? Samvelian Simon Kirby, Jonas Nölle, Jennifer Culbertson and Spatial language and environment: A causal, experimental approach using virtual reality Kenny Smith Sergei Klimenko Caritive Constructions with ka-nouns in Tagalog Ibtissem Knouzi Task effect on Second language writers’ use of metadiscourse markers Ezequiel Koile and George Moroz Detecting linguistic variation with geographic sampling Viktorija Kostadinova Using online language use data to explore morpho-syntactic language variation in English Alexey Kozlov Prospective aspects and temporal adverbials: an attempt at a typology Joanna Kwiatkowska and Björn Wiemer Diachronic dynamics of a stem-derivational aspect system: how cluster analysis helps discover patterns Cristina Lastres-López Pragmaticalization and decategorialization in conditional constructions: Evidence from English and Spanish Nikolaos Lavidas and Leonid Kulikov Typology of preverbs and transitivity in diachrony: Evidence from Greek and beyond Mary C. Lavissière The “-r- that characterizes the future” in Spanish: discourse functions of futurizing verb forms in Old Spanish poems Oksana Lebedivna The Fourth Palatalization of Velars in Southwest Ukrainian: The Case of the Kryvorivnja Dialect Paulina Łęska and Jacek Witkos Anti-Cataphora effects, Agree and phases Diana Lewis English modal adverbs at right periphery: the recent evolution of 'actually' and 'in fact' Liina Lindström, Maarja-Liisa Pilvik and Plado The choice of negation pattern in Võro and Seto
Helen Andrea Listanti, Jacopo Torregrossa and Liana The acquisition of VS structures in L2 Italian in a developmental perspective: a corpus-based study Tronci Christian Locatell A Semantic Map of Adverbial Conjunctions in Classical Hebrew David Lorenz Incipient grammaticalization in synchronic language use – a study of epistemic adverbials in English Dana Louagie Multiple nominal construals in Australian languages: Towards a typology Marcia Dos Santos Machado Vieira Passive predication in Portuguese: alternation in Construction Grammar Martin Maiden Inflexion-class change, ‘contamination’, and word-structure Timur Maisak Adverb/postposition ‘after’ to sequential connective ‘then’ to discourse pragmatic marker in Andi (Nakh- Daghestanian) Anastasia Makarova and Olivier Winistörfer DOM in the making. The emergence of Differential Object Marking in Aromanian varieties Maxim Makartsev and Max Wahlström Ambitransitivity as an areal feature in the Balkans Jacky Maniacky Some Non-Prototypical Features of the Applicative Morphology in Ngangela (Bantu K12, Angola) Costanza Marini and Elisabetta Jezek When Numbers Surface as Verbs Michalis Marinis Paradigmatic uniformity under the pressure of intensive language contact Florian Matter Integrating grammatical description, text collection and dictionary: Language documentation and description for the digital age Lidia Mazzitelli Grounding strategies in Lakurumau narratives Giulia Mazzola, Bert Cornillie and Malte Socio-stylistic aspects of diachronic variation: the case of Spanish asyndetic complementation between Rosemeyer the 15th and the 18th century Chiara Melloni and Gianina Iordachioaia Zero suffix in English and Italian deverbal nouns Susanne Maria Michaelis Interrogative constructions in creoles and sign languages Vitor Miguez Certainty, possibility, probability: Epistemic and strategic uses of Galician adverbs Manoah-Joël Misago, Koen Bostoen and Sara The applicative and the expression of location in Rundi (Bantu JD62) Pacchiarotti Marianne Mithun Applicatives and Beyond Steven Moran and Eitan Grossman Temporal bias: a new type of bias for typologists to worry about George Moroz and Nina Dobrushina The speakers of minority languages are more multilingual Beñat Muguruza and Garbiñe Bereziartua “We were told women should not speak like that”: the fade-out of the Basque informal form of address hika among women
Lars Naborn, Eline Zenner and Dorien Van de No elbows on the table, and no colloquialisms either! How Flemish caregivers’ choices in Child-Directed Mieroop Speech reflect broader linguistic ideologies Fujio Nakamura Ways of Expressing Ordinal Numerals in the History of English: From one and twentieth to twenty-first Takanobu Nakamura Distributivity as Presupposed Logical Entailment: Floating Non-counting Numeral Quantifiers in Japanese Savithry Namboodiripad Gradience in constituent order within and across languages: Insights from acceptability judgment experiments Oana Niculescu Preserving and digitally restoring forgotten stories from romania’s national phonogramic archive Peter Juul Nielsen The diachrony of the Danish IO and its promotion to subject in passive constructions Mads Nielsen and Maria Messerschmidt Backgrounded motion events: A crosslinguistic study of associated motion in Mesoamerica Tatiana Nikitina and Ekaterina Aplonova Reported speech at the intersection of grammar and style: The speech-introducing function of interjections Dmitry Nikolaev Co-occurrence classes of consonants and the modular structure of consonant inventories Irina Nikolaeva Non-directional possession in possessive applicatives Patrizia Noel Prosodic finalisation: German und und und and etc. etc. etc. ‘and so on’ Jonas Nölle and Takanobu Nakamura Does variation in universal quantifiers reflect an optimal division of conceptual space? Elissavet Nouchoutidou Complementizer selection and its variation in L2 Greek Maryam Nourzaei The emergence of definiteness from diminutives in Shirazi: tracing a new grammaticalization pathway Jan Nuyts Explaining the re-autonomization process in the Dutch modals Colleen Alena O'Brien Argumenthood of non-focused elements in Philippine-type languages Yoshiki Ogawa Prohibition against Category Resumption by Cyclic (Zero) Derivation and the Phase Impenetrability Condition Verónica Orqueda, Francisca Toro and Lucía Diachronic development of functions of se and sibi in Latin Martínez Alejandra Ortiz Villegas, Armando Mora-Bustos Applicative Constructions in the Colombian Spanish from the Andes and Sergio Ibáñez Cerda Mojgan Osmani Subject clitic as phasehood diagnostic in Sanandaji Kurdish Tania Paciaroni Spatial distribution and properties of Differential Object Marking in Gascon Vladimir Panov Thinking non-aprioristically of discourse markers, modal particles, and the like Esther Pascual, Stef Spronck and Arie Verhagen Demonstration in description: Rethinking the direct vs. indirect speech dichotomy Rebecca Paterson Marked nominative alignment from reanalyzed relative clauses
Nantke Pecht Progressive aspect in a Dutch-German-Limburgish contact variety Erika Petrocchi Multilinearity and multimodality in grammar The interaction of prosody, syntax and gestures in special questions expressing surprise and surprise-disapproval in a cross-cultural and cross-modal perspective Dirk Pijpops Lectal contamination. How lexical biases in linguistic variation may originate from lectal differences Hilla Polak-Yitzhaki and Yael Maschler Beyond Recipient’s Lack of Understanding: Hebrew 'ATA LO MEVIN (‘you don’t understand’) Cecilia Poletto and Alessandra Tomaselli Resilient subject agreement morphosyntax in the Germanic Romance contact area Hanna Pook The case variation of the pronoun mis ‘what’ in partial object position in Estonian dialects Margarita Popova Gender Agreement in NP and Clausal Domain: Theoretical and Typological Overview Antje Endesfelder Quick and Stefan Hartmann Individual differences in bilingual language acquisition: A cross-corpus traceback study Cristina Andreea Radu-Bejenaru The living language: Morphological adaptation of Anglicisms in Romanian and Bulgarian Tihomir Rangelov and Julie Barbour Multi-verb constructions in Ahamb (Vanuatu): Between serialisation and echo reference Josep Enric Ribera Encapsulation and intersubjectivity in parliamentary debate Nikolaus Ritt, Alexandra Zöpfl and Magdalena Is subjectifcation driven by listeners? Schwarz Monica-Mihaela Rizea Grammaticalization of result clause constructions as degree modifiers: Evidence from Romanian and English Oleksandra Romaniuk and Inna Stupak Small Talk in American and Ukrainian dating cultures: a cross-cultural analysis of female nonverbal communication Kristian Roncero Gender fluidity in Chamalal Malte Rosemeyer and María Sol Sansiñena The influence of sentence type on the interpretation of Spanish future constructions Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada Body and body-part configurations in Piaroa (Jodï-Sáliban) Paulette Roulon-Doko Le statut des prépositions issues de noms en Gbaya Eloisa Ruppert, Isabeau De Smet and Freek Van Demography as an explanatory factor in language change. A case study on Dutch preterites de Velde Alba E. Ruz Directionality in N/V conversion: what do meaning and usage say? Ali Salehi Adjunct Incorporation in Soranî Vieri Samek-Lodovici Frontable and Unfrontable Foci Cristina Sánchez López and Margot Vivanco Diachrony of Spanish analytic middle constructions Gefaell Stefan Savić Past Anterior in Xhosa as Marker of Contradiction Sergey Say Nominal causal constructions: Capturing variation across Slavic
Valentina Schiattarella and Valentina Serreli Discourse Markers and language contact. Evidence from a Berber-Arabic context. Ilja Seržant Typology of partitives Marlieke Shaw Accommodation biases: loan adjectives in Dutch and Middle English Olena Shcherbakova and Simon Greenhill How do case systems evolve? Leon Shor and Michal Marmorstein Multimodal double-voicing in Israeli Hebrew discourse Kaius Sinnemäki and Francesca Di Garbo System internal vs. sociolinguistic factors of variation in case systems Piotr Sobotka and Magdalena Żabowska Slavic grammaticalization chains: Categorial and conceptual shifts in grammaticalization pathways for function words Barbara Sonnenhauser and Anastasia Makarova Micro-variation in a larger picture. Feature generalisation in Macedonian short pronouns Przemyslaw Staniewski and Adam Golebiowski Telic structure of visual, auditory and olfactory source-based perception verbs in Polish Thomas Stolz and Nataliya Levkovych Increasing segmental complexity in morphological paradigms Piia Taremaa, Helen Hint, Maria Reile and Renate Constructional variation in Estonian: demonstrative pronouns and adverbs as determiners in noun Pajusalu phrases Miriam Thegel How does a verb become a modal? Diachronic development of the newcomer necesitar ‘need to’ in the Spanish modal system Marili Tomingas The use of Livonian personal pronoun tämā/ta and demonstrative pronoun se in spoken language Tiago Tresoldi Evaluation of Bayesian phylogenetics through linguistic simulations Pilar Valenzuela and Sanderson Oliveira Degrees of Temporal Remoteness in Pano, Contribution to the Typology of Tense Johan van der Auwera Indefinites - the existential strategies Jozina Vander Klok The neglected syntactic functions of optional applicative morphology in Javanese Rossella Varvara Constraints on nominalizations: investigating the productivity’s domains of Italian -mento and -zione Andra Vasilescu and Mihaela Gheorghe Compound speech acts Albert Ventayol-Boada From noun classifiers to subordination: Origins of relativizers and the complementizer ña in Tù'un na Ñuu Sá Mátxíí Ntxè'è (Mixtecan, Otomanguean) Paola Vernillo and Rossella Varvara The linguistic categorization of actions: an image-schematic approach. Åke Viberg Basic verbs in lexical typology and second language acquisition Alexey Vinyar Noun Incorporation and Absolutive in Chukchi: towards a force-dynamic account Teodora Vukovic The grammaticalization of the definite article in Torlak Albert Wall, Philipp Obrist, Senta Zeugin and The variation of Differential Object Marking in Spanish: Experimental data from four varieties and across Johannes Kabatek six constructions
Jarosław Weckwerth An apparent-time study of /t/-glottalization in the British Royal Family Nikolaus Wildner Multimodal Packaging in Action Formation: Existential Relative Clause Constructions in Spoken Hebrew Discourse Olivier Winistörfer The Balkan Sprachbund. A multi-variate approach to the ‘prototypical’ case of language contact Jacek Witkos The PIC in the spotlight: Agree without limits but Move with caution! Sally Wong, Eric Reuland and Martin Everaert Effects of the Mandarin reflexivizing prefix zi- on clausal complements in its domain Jingting Ye Towards a semantic map for property words Rodica Zafiu From ad hoc categorization to evaluation: the Romanian marker alde Alexander Zahrer Chaining clauses, serializing verbs? Ambiguities in the status of non-finite verbs in Muyu. Matthew Zaslansky Persistence and variation in Turkic deponent verbs Eva Zehentner Resolving competition in English verbal argument structure: NPs vs PPs Fernando Zúñiga “Subjective applicatives” in Mapudungun, Even, and beyond Paulina Zydorowicz /f t b ow t b m i f t i / On the survival of Polish clusters in extemporaneous speech
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WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS
AUTHOR NAMES TITLE
WS 1 THE GRAMMATICALIZATION OF MANNER EXPRESSIONS INTO COMPLEMENTIZERS Convenors: Caroline Gentens & Kasper Boye Borja Ariztimuño-Lopez Manner expressions in Basque: dialectal and cross-linguistic comparison, and some grammaticalization paths Marianne Desmets and Estelle Moline From Manner to Quotation in French : the case of comme Wojciech Guz Tak and tak-i as quotative markers in Polish Rodrigo Hernáiz The grammaticalization of manner expressions into complementizers: Insights from Semitic languages Mikko Höglund and Caroline Gentens Factive manner complementizers: A diachronic case study Dorota Krajewska The Basque marker bait-: from a manner expression to subordinator Eda-Riin Leego and Denys Teptiuk Manner expressions in Finno-Ugric: their use in quotative constructions and beyond Julian Rentzsch From deverbal noun to complementizer: The case of the Turkish verbal noun -(y)Iş Natalia Serdobolskaya and Irina Kobozeva Diachronic evolution of the subordinator kak in Russian Stef Spronck What do manner expressions add to the semantics of mistaken-belief constructions? An Australian survey Yvonne Treis The grammaticalization of similative morphemes and manner demonstratives in Ethiopian languages Nigel Vincent Manner and mood: complementizers in southern Italy Björn Wiemer Polish jakoby: an exotic similative-reportive doughnut? Tracing the pathway and conditions of its rise
WS 2 TOWARDS A DIACHRONIC TYPOLOGY OF MIDDLE VOICE Convenors: Guglielmo Inglese & Andrea Sansò Uldis Balodis Is Yuki -il a middle voice suffix? Valeria A. Belloro and Lilián Guerrero Between active and passive: middle voice in Yaqui Carlota de Benito Moreno From oppositional to non-oppositional: Middle-marked verbs with no valency change in Spanish Spike Gildea Synchrony and Diachrony of Middle Voice: the Cariban Detransitive
Silvia Luraghi and Dionysios Mertyris The Greek middle voice across millennia Yankee Modi and Mark Post Trans-Himalayan "middle voice" and the case of Macro-Tani languages: Functions, origins and categorical status Marteen Mous Semantic development of the middle in Cushitic Naonori Nagaya The middle voice in symmetrical voice languages: Toward a diachronic typology Lengson Ngwasi The oppositional and non-oppositional middle functions of the reflexive prefix in the Tanzanian Bantu languages Hehe, Nilamba and Nyaturu Sara Pacchiarotti and Leonid Kulikov The origin of the middle voice and the rise of labile syntax in Bribri Andrea Sansò and Dawid Gajewski From agent-oriented verbalizer to middle marker: The diachrony of the middle voice in Malayo-Sumbawan Emily Smith The reflexive and middle voice in Hittite: A diachronic analysis Kenneth Van Bik The Origin and Divergence of Middle Voice in Kuki-Chin Languages WS 3 THE GRAMMAR OF THINKING: COMPARING REPORTED THOUGHT AND REPORTED SPEECH ACROSS LANGUAGES Convenors: Daniela Casartelli, Pekka Posio, Silvio Cruschina & Stef Spronck Bert Cornillie On inferential hearsay readings in European languages Sophia Fiedler Thinking out loud? 'Je pense' ('I think'), 'je me dis' ('I tell myself') and 'j'étais là' ('I was there') in French talk- in-interaction Alessandra Giorgi Reported speech contexts and complementizers across languages Karolina Grzech Reporting, perspective-taking and epistemic stance: The polyfunctionality of the Upper Napo Kichwa reportative construction. Bryn Hauk Reporting thought without saying “think”: Unintroduced attitude reports in Tsova-Tush corpora Anja Hennemann Reporting on ‘thinking’ in Spanish and Portuguese and the role of the subject pronoun Fuhui Hsieh The morphosyntax and semantics of SAY verbs in Formosan languages Prapatsorn Jiemwongsa Thought Presentation Embedded in Speech Presentation in Thai News Reports Elena Perekhvalskaya Said or Intended: SAY transmitting intentions in Mwan Afra Pujol i Campeny The left periphery of reported speech and reported thought in Old Catalan Eva-Maria Remberger To say, to think, to want Denys Teptiuk Self-quotations of speech and thought, and how to distinguish them Sofia Yaroshevich Is thinking like saying? The case of Tabasaran
WS 4 DERIVATIONAL ZERO AFFIXES Convenors: Gianina Iordăchioaia & Chiara Melloni Diana Anitescu On Romanian Zero Derived Nominals Pavel Caha, Karen De Clercq and Guido Vanden Zero morphology and change-of-state verbs Wyngaerd Bożena Cetnarowska The interaction of compounding and conversion in Construction Morphology Serena Dal Maso and Sabrina Piccinin Zero-affixation and morphological processing in Italian Anna Maria Di Sciullo Zero Morphology, Interface Asymmetry and Computational Complexity Matthias Gerner Succinct Typology of Derivational Zero Affixes Heidi Harley (keynote) In defense of zeros Nikos Koutsoukos and Angela Ralli Zero affixes and derivational paradigms in Modern Greek adjectives Verginica Mititelu, Svetlozara Leseva and Ivelina Semantic Analysis of Verb-Noun Conversions in Princeton WordNet Stoyanova Matteo Pellegrini and Fabio Montermini The fuzzy boundary between affixation and conversion in Ancient Greek denominal verbs Marc Richards Zero-Derivation By Phase Magda Sevcikova Zero-derived nominals in a language with obligatory verbal suffixes: The case of Czech Petra Sleeman Derivational zero suffixes and their alternatives Salvador Valera (keynote) The semantics of noun-to-verb zero derivation/conversion in English and in Spanish WS 5 MULTIFUNCTIONALITY AND SYNCRETISM IN NON-FINITE FORMS Convenors: Ksenia Shagal, Pavel Rudnev and Anna Volkova Bernat Bardagil The loss of Jê nominal verbs in Panará Daria Bikina, Denis Rakhman, Aleksey Kazym Khanty non-finite forms: multifunctionality and variability in the amount of structure Starchenko and Svetlana Toldova Maria Bloch-Trojnar The structural underpinnings of the multifunctionality and syncretism in non-finite forms in Irish Magdalena Lemus Serrano Gender and number markers in Yukuna (Arawakan): from nominalization to clause-chaining Nikita Muravyev TAME in multifunctional non-finites: towards a unified account of nominalized forms in Northern Khanty Eric Reuland Puzzling patterns in non-finite forms Krzysztof Stroński and Saartje Verbeke Multifunctionality of non-finite constructions in Indo-Aryan Jonathan Washington, Francis M. Tyers and Ilnar Multifunctionality of non-finite verb forms in Turkic languages Salimzianov
WS 6 NEGLECTED SYNTACTIC FUNCTIONS AND NON-SYNTACTIC FUNCTIONS OF APPLICATIVE MORPHOLOGY Convenors: Sara Pacchiarotti & Fernando Zúñiga Hannah Gibson, Lutz Marten, Maarten Mous and Applicatives and prepositions in Bantu Kristina Riedel Lilián Guerrero Unusual applicative constructions in Yaqui Hilde Gunnink Neglected functions of the Bantu applicative in relation to Locations: new insights from Fwe (K402) Dominique Knuchel Applicatives in Kogi (Chibchan) Martin Kohlberger The functions of applicative morphology in Shiwiar (Chicham, Ecuador) Yury Lander and Irina Bagirokova The argument-adjunct continuum and the diversity of Circassian applicatives Thomas Payne Applicatives and Voice in Waray Doris Payne The Applicative(-like) Functions of Nilotic Directionals Mark Post and Yankee Modi Applicatives in Tani (Trans-Himalayan, Northeast India): Forms, functions and historical origins Camille Simon Applicative Constructions and the Introduction of Attitude Holder in Tibetan Christina L. Truong and Bradley McDonnell Semantic and syntactic functions of western Indonesian applicative morphology An Van Linden Spatial prefixes as applicatives in Harakmbut Sylvie Voisin and Denis Creissels Benefactive applicatives and instrumental applicatives in Atlantic languages (Niger-Congo)
WS 7 DISCOURSE PHENOMENA IN TYPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE Convenors: Alessandra Barotto & Simone Mattiola Doriana Cimmino On the topic-marking function of Left Dislocations and Preposings. Variation across spoken and written Italian and English Donna Gerdts A taxonomy of rhetorical repetitions in Hul’q’umi’num’ Salish Katsunobu Izutsu and Mitsuko Izutsu Marking beginning or end: topic-shift conceptions in Ainu, Japanese, and English Łukasz Jędrzejowski and Wojciech Guz Polish że 'that' and its discourse functions Erika Just Differential indexing as a means of information structure management - a typological overview Atsuko Kanda Utsumi Discourse Functions of Aspectual Clitics in Languages of Southeast Asia Elena Martínez Caro Small words matter: Oh as a marker of discourse transition in English and its equivalents in Spanish Jesus Olguin Bridging linkage in the world’s languages Ekaterina Rakhilina and Polina Bychkova Towards Pragmatic Construction Typology: The case of Discourse Formulae Seongha Rhee Repetitive Constructions and Stance-Marking: The Case in Korean
Stefan Schnell, Geoffrey Haig, Nils Schiborr and Introducing new referents: A corpus-based cross-linguistic perspective Maria Vollmer Claire Stabile and Bryn Hauk Discourse-pragmatic elements under language contact: The case of Pidgin like and Tsova-Tush k’aco Martine Vanhove Discourse connectives in Beja: From diachrony to typology WS 8 CONTACT AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF LANGUAGE FACULTY Convenors: Maria Rita Manzini & Greta Mazzaggio Theresa Biberauer Peripheral significance: the action at the edge of Kaaps Afrikaans phases
Stefania Costea and Adnana Boioc Apintei Is the placement of subjects to be changed through contact? The view from Lipovan Romanian and Moldovan Romanian Ricardo Etxepare, Georg Kaiser and Simon Dold Trapped in the Parameter: Interrigatives in Contact in the Basque Country
Cristina Guardiano and Melita Stavrou Modeling syntactic change under contact: the case of Italiot Greek Alexandru Nicolae and Adina Dragomirescu At the crossroad of Croatian and Italian Dialects: Subject clitics in Istro-Romanian
Diego Pescarini Nominal syntax (and morphology) at the Ligurian/Occitan border Anna Roussou A Balkan view on the left periphery: Modal and discourse particles Leonardo Maria Savoia and Benedetta Baldi Contact in Celle di San Vito Franco-Provençal dialect: possessives Alessandra Tomaselli, Andrea Padovan and Circumventing the 'that-trace' effect: Different strategies between Germanic and Romance Ermenegildo Bidese WS 9 NEW PERSPECTIVES ON WORD ORDER FLEXIBILITY Convenors: Savithry Namboodiripad, Natalia Levshina & Alex Kramer Laura Becker and Matías Guzmán Naranjo Word order flexibility across types of argument realizations and argument structures Holger Diessel Word order variation in the domain of complex sentences: Processing and grammaticalization Christian Ebert, Balthasar Bickel and Paul Word order variation in Baltic, Slavic, Germanic and Romance Widmer Dina El Zarka Flexible word order in a contact situation: Investigating syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors influencing word order in Arabic in a Persian-speaking environment Pegah Faghiri and Juliette Thuilier Exploiting the advantages of sentence production paradigms in the study of constituent ordering preferences Alex Kramer The effect of register on dependency length in two flexible languages
Natalia Levshina How efficient are human languages? Testing trade-offs between word order flexibility, case marking and semantic cues Zoey Liu The Relationship between Word Order Flexibility and Dependency Length Minimization Chiara Naccarato, Anastasia Panova and Natalia Word-order flexibility in genitive noun phrases: A corpus-based investigation of contact varieties of Russian Stoynova Rachel Nordlinger, Gabriela Garrido Rodriguez, What drives word order flexibility? Evidence from sentence production experiments in two Australian Sasha Wilmoth and Evan Kidd Indigenous languages Eva Schultze-Berndt Constituent order and information structure in an Australian language: implications for constituent order typology Luigi Talamo and Annemarie Verkerk Rigid vs. free word order in modern Indo-European languages: an information theoretic measure of the relative position of selected syntactic relations in a multilingual, parallel corpus of literary fiction Marc Tang Optimal parameters for extracting constituent order WS 10 THEORETICAL, APPLIED AND EXPERIMENTAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE INFLUENCE OF ENGLISH TODAY Convenors: Anabella-Gloria Niculescu-Gorpin Nino Amiridze Borrowing '-ing': Georgian-English language contact Ana-Maria Barbu The role of the cognates in facilitating the English influence on the Romanian morphosyntax Valentina Cojocaru English discourse markers in spoken Romanian: pragmatic borrowings or a code-switching phenomenon? Cătălina Corbeanu Anglicisms in the language of Romanian children. A corpus study Henrik Gottlieb Coming to terms with Anglicisms Aaditya Kulkarni Borrowing and disappearance of light verbs Cristian Moroianu, Anabella Gloria Niculescu- Verbal Anglicisms: A Shifting Pattern? Gorpin and Monica Vasileanu Rania Papadopoulou and George J. Xydopoulos Transliterated vs. non-transliterated forms of newly imported English loanwords in Modern Greek Gillian Roberts, Eline Zenner and Laura Rosseel Children’s preference for English-sounding neologisms: An experimental approach Cristina Andreea Stan Uses and functions of Romanian OK in professional spoken interaction. A corpus analysis Jean Mathieu Tsoumou English as an International Language: English/French Language Alternation in Politically Motivated CMC in Congo-Brazzaville Tobias Ungerer and Alex Lorson ‘When you speak English, so do I’ - How German speakers align in their use of Anglicisms Monica Vasileanu and Anabella-Gloria Niculescu- Word Formation Patterns in the Age of Global English. The Case of Romanian Lexical Blending Gorpin
WS 11 DISCOURSE MARKER USE: FROM PRODUCTION TO COMPREHENSION Convenors: Liesbeth Degand & Maria Josep Cuenca Mira Ariel Hebrew 'harey': Sometimes old, sometimes new Joanna Blochowiak, Cristina Grisot and Liesbeth Is causality processed faster than temporality? An experimental investigation of implicit and explicit relations Degand in French. Zoe Broisson and Liesbeth Degand How egocentric is Discourse Marker use? Evidence from speech production under cognitive load Maria Josep Cuenca Translating discourse markers: from production to comprehension and back Eva Hajičová and Jiří Mírovský Focalizers and discourse relations Maria Cristina Lo Baido Syntactic parenthesis and prosodic integration: some clues to understand discourse markers production and use Óscar Loureda, Inés Recio Fernández and Principles of Cognitive Processing of Discourse Marking Adriana Cruz Pekka Posio and Malte Rosemeyer The discourse marker bueno in spoken and written Mexican and Peninsular Spanish Sorina Postolea and Ariadna Stefanescu The Romanian Markers 'altfel' and 'de altfel'. Discourse Domains and Functions in Use Jennifer Schumann and Sandrine Zufferey Empirical evidence for the role of connectives on the acceptability of straw man fallacies Ekaterina Tckhovrebova and Sandrine Zufferey Do teenagers understand connectives from the written mode? Frances Yung, Jana Jungbluth and Vera Modeling the interplay of rational production and comprehension of discourse connectives Demberg WS 12 IT-CLEFTS: SYNTAX, EVOLUTION, TYPOLOGY Convenors: Caterina Bonan & Adam Ledgeway Aroldo Andrade The discourse role of NP Pseudocleft types in Portuguese Lena Baunaz and Genoveva Puskas A peeling approach to wh-clefts in French Adriana Belletti and Giuliano Bocci Subject vs object clefts: A fresh perspective on a robust asymmetry Charlotte Bourgoin and Kristin Davidse Exploring the notion of focus in it- and c’est-clefts: the interplay between syntax, information structure and prosody Anna Cardinaletti Cleft vs. simple wh-questions in Italian Anne Helene Hauge Clefts and “special” questions in Norwegian Karen Lahousse and Morgane Jourdain C’est-clefts in French L1 acquisition. Emergence of syntax and Information Structure & the structural analysis of clefts. Alina McLellan Focalization strategies in Reunion Creole and beyond: two types of it-cleft?
Marieke Meelen Diachronic development of identificatory clefts in the history of Welsh Jean-Yves Pollock and Cecilia Poletto Special clefts in French and Northern Italian Giuseppe Samo and Paola Merlo Interventions effects in Cleft Structures: a study in quantitative computational syntax. Wenli Tang Decomposing Chinese Clefts: A Cartographic Approach Laura Tramutoli and Mara Marsella It-clefts in palenquero creole and the specificational copula