18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 18ÈME CONFÉRENCE INTERNATIONALE DE LINGUISTIQUE HISTORIQUE
MONTRÉAL UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL AUGUST 6-11 2007 / 6 AU 11 AOÛT 2007
FINAL PROGRAMME / PROGRAMME FINAL
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MIS À JOUR LE 25 JUILLET 2007 UPDATED JULY 25TH 2007
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REGULAR PROGRAMME/PROGRAMME RÉGULIER MONDAY AUGUST 6th/LUNDI 6 AOÛT 8H30 INSCRIPTION & CAFE/COFFE 9H15 OPENING REMARKS WORD ORDER PHONOLOGY TYPOLOGY/CLASSIFICATION MORPHOLOGY Yves-Charles Morin Egidio Marsico and Université de Montréal Livio Gaeta Émile Khordoc Jean-Marie Hombert Jean-Paul Chauveau Università di Napoli 9H30 McGill University DDL ISH ATILF-CNRS The role of diachrony in shaping language OE without OV: the syntax of Old English Lumpers and splitters: Is a dialogue L’infiltration de [r] à travers une dentale [rt, universals: The case of the head in compounds possible? rd] > [rtr, rdr] Nynke de Haas Denis Dumas Roland Schuhmann Patience Epps Radboud University Nijmegen UQAM Lehrstuhl für Indogermanistik, FSU University of Texas at Austin 10H Verbal morphosyntax in Northern Middle L'antirhotacisme du doublet français chaire, The Grouping of the Germanic Dialects in Grammaticalization and deaffixation in the verb English: -s, Verb Second, and the NSR chaise < lat. cathedra, etc light of the earliest Runic Inscriptions compound: the case of Hup (Nadahup, Brazil) CAFE / COFFEE 10H30
Margaret Sharpe Martin Elsig Ashley Burnett University of New England Wayne Redenbarger Universität Hamburg University of Calgary 11H From *ni to ye:nka and such like: Can we Ohio State ICHL Where do all these questions lead us? – Middle English Vowel Length in French posit a proto-pre-conjugational Pama- Latin Imparisyllabics and Morpheme Conversion Word order change in French interrogatives Loanwords Nyungan? WILLIAM LABOV 11H30 University of Pennsylvania
The life history of linguistic change LUNCH 12H30
WORD ORDER PHONOLOGY TYPOLOGY/CLASSIFICATION CONTACT Luisa Miceli Jean-Marie Hombert University of Western Australia DDL ISH 14H Dixon's Punctuated Equilibrium (PE) Traces of linguistic contacts between hunter model: have scholars' responses missed the gatherers and Bantu populations in sub-Saharan mark? Africa Esther Rinke, University of Hamburg Barry Alpher, Georgetown University Angelika Lutz Jürgen Meisel, University of Hamburg Angelo Costanzo Claire Bowern , Rice University Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik der and University of Calgary The Ohio State University 14H30 Geoffrey O'Grady, U Victoria Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen- On the Syntax of Subject-Verb Inversion Variable Analogical Extension of Velar The Genealogical Classification of the Nürnberg and the Role of Information Structure in the Augments in Dialectal Catalan Western Torres Strait Language Celtic and Old English History of French Brigitte L. M. Bauer Steven Fondow Claire Bowern Roy Wright-Tekastiaks The University of Texas at Austin The Ohio State University 15H Rice University Linguistics Markedness & contact influence on grammar Word Order and Agreement in Old French Velar-insertion and variation in the Old Australian Models of Language Spread change in Northeastern indigenous languages Brace Constructions Spanish verbal paradigm CAFE / COFFEE 15H30
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WORD ORDER PHONOLOGY Alexandra Yvonne Hänsch Rita Morandi Université d'Ottawa UW-Madison 16H « Stylistic Fronting » en ancien français : Étude de deux dialectes Contact-induced change: the case of Cimbrian phonology and français du 12e siècle morphology Éric Mathieu Paul S. Cohen Université d'Ottawa Adam Hyllested 16H30 À propos des propriétés University of Copenhagen germaniques de l'ancien français A New Sound Law of PIE: Initial **h3w > *h2w THEO VENNEMANN 17H University of Munich
Rome, Etruria, Carthage? Origins of the Germanic runes 18H COCKTAIL
MONDAY AUGUST 6th/LUNDI 6 AOÛT WORKSHOPS/ATELIERS
8H30 INSCRIPTION & CAFE/COFFE
9H15 OPENING REMARKS DIACHRONIC SEMANTICS AND THE THEORY OF METATYPY QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES TO PRAGMATICS (EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES) COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS AM Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, University of James M. Unger, Ohio State University and John Whitman, Cornell Sheila Embleton, York University and Joseph Salmons, Copenhagen/University of Manchester and Jacqueline University University of Wisconsin Visconti, University of Genoa Redouane Djamouri, EHESS/Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale, Waltraud Paul, EHESS/Centre Mª Jesús Saló, Université Complutense Sheila Embleton, York University 9H30 de rechereches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale, and John Trois connecteurs reformulatifs en français Introduction Whitman, Cornell University préclassique et classique Reconstructing VO constituent order for proto-Sino-Tibetan Russell Gray, University of Auckland, Simon Maria Estellés-Arguedas, Universitat de València - Bjarke Frellesvig, University of Oxford and Janick Wrona, Kyoto Greenhill, University of Auckland, and Robert Blust, Val.Es.Co Research Group 10H University University of Hawai’i The importance of paradigms in grammaticalisation. Case marking in Old Japanese: ergative, accusative or neither Computational phylogenetic methods and Austronesian The case of Spanish digressive markers subgrouping 10H30 CAFE / COFFEE Quentin D. Atkinson, Andrew Mead and Mark Pagel, Magdalena Romera, Universitat Illes Balears Elisabeth De Boer University of Reading 11H The multiple origin of “es que” in Modern Spanish. Development of distinctive pitch accent in Hokkaido Ainu Modeling variation in rates of word replacement in Indo- Diachronic evidence European WILLIAM LABOV 11H30 University of Pennsylvania The life history of linguistic change 12H30 LUNCH
MONDAY AUGUST 6th/LUNDI 6 AOÛT WORKSHOPS/ATELIERS
DIACHRONIC SEMANTICS AND THE THEORY OF METATYPY QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES TO PRAGMATICS PM (EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES) COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, University of James M. Unger, Ohio State University and John Whitman, Cornell Sheila Embleton, York University and Joseph Salmons, Copenhagen/University of Manchester and Jacqueline University University of Wisconsin Visconti, University of Genoa François Barbancon, University of Texas, Tandy Warnow, University of Texas at Austin, Steven N. Carla Bazzanella, University of Turin (Italy) Evans, University of California at Berkeley, Don J. Marshall Unger, The Ohio State University 14H Central/peripheral functions of allora and ‘overall Ringe, University of Pennsylvania, and Luay Could Korean or Japanese have undergone metatypy pragmatic configuration’ Nakhleh, Rice University A simulation study comparing phylogeny reconstruction methods for linguistics
LANGUAGE AND CHANGE Monique Dufresne, Université Queen’s / UQAM Kate Beeching, University of the West of England, Bristol, U.K. Patrick Mouguiama-Daouda, Université Lyon 14H30 Procatalepsis and the etymology of hedging and Les racines virtuelles comme base de la reconstruction Chiara Gianollo, Universita’ di Trieste and Christina Guardiano, boosting particles Universita’ di Modena e Reggio Emilia Genitives and adjectives in the history of Greek and Latin Ulrich Detges, LMU Munich, Institute of April McMahon, Warren Maguire, Paul Heggarty Terje Lohndal, University of Oslo Romance Philology and Robert McMahon, University of Edinburgh 15H The structure and development of nominal phrases in Norwegian Different functions, different histories. Modal particles Quantitative phonetic comparison of varieties of English, and discourse markers from a diachronic point of view past and present
15H30 CAFE / COFFEE
Eva Skafte Jensen, University of Johannesburg Helge Sandøy, University of Bergen Ferdinand von Mengden, University of Hamburg Context sensitive changes - on the development of 16H Quantification of linguistic changes. Experiments from Deconstructing Degrammaticalization GODT (GOOD) and VEL (WELL), from adjective Norwegian language history and adverb to marker of affirmation in Danish Quentin D. Atkinson, University of Reading and 16H30 Joseph Salmons, University of Wisconsin Closing discussion THEO VENNEMANN 17H University of Munich Origins of the Germanic runes
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WORD ORDER SYNTAX SOCIOLINGUISTICS MORPHOLOGY John Charles Smith Janus Møller Lars Heltoft Robert Cloutier University of Oxford (St Catherine's College Jens Normann Jørgensen 8H30 Roskilde University Universiteit van Amsterdam Number, gender, and individuality: the University of Copenhagen Word Order Change as Regrammation Objects, Relative Clauses, English, and Dutch refunctionalization of Latin neuter noun Patterns of Language Choice in Real Time morphology in Romance Alyona Belikova Inge Lise Pedersen Anne Ribbert John Ole Askedal, University of Oslo McGill University Frans Gregersen Radboud University Nijmegen Lene Schoesler, University of Copenhagen 9H Is Modern Hebrew Semitic? One more DGCSS/University of Copenhagen Dialectal variation in Middle Dutch word Flexible’ re- etc. in Medieval and Modern argument in favour of the relexification Historical processes as explanations of real order: factors triggering extraposition Romance hypothesis of its genesis time changes: The case of Denmark Freek Van de Velde Stijn Verleyen Martin Maiden, Paul O'Neill, Victorina Gonzalez-Diaz University of Leuven K.U. Leuven Andrew Swearingen, University of Oxford 9H30 University of Liverpool The emergence of peripheral modifiers in Towards a unified theory of language change: Imperative Morphology in Diachrony: evidence Present vs past: Linguistic purism revisited Dutch speakers vs hearers in linguistic evolution from the Romance languages CAFE / COFFEE 10H
SYNTAX/ NP SYNTAX SOCIOLINGUISTICS MORPHOLOGY Philippe Leblond André Valli Georg Bossong Gunther De Vogelaer Université de Montréal Université de Provence Université de Zürich FWO Flanders / Ghent University 10H30 Les interférences vernaculaires francique- Les formes d'introduction des noms L’évolution syntaxique des langues romanes Waves of analogy: pathways of morphological français en Lorraine : preuves du contact attributs en français. Etude diachronique vue par la typologie positionnelle change in continental West Germanic entre romanité et germanité Louise Beaulieu Université de Moncton Alexandra Corina Stavinschi Hanne Martine Eckhoff Wladyslaw Cichocki Guus Kroonen University of Oxford University of Oslo 11H University of New Brunswick Leiden University On the development of the Romance A usage-based approach to change: Old Patrons sociolinguistiques d’une flexion Consonant and Vowel Gradation in Germanic demonstrative systems Russian possessive constructions traditionnelle chez trois générations de locuteurs acadiens GILLIAN SANKOFF 11H30 University of Pennsylvania
Lifespan life and language change LUNCH 12H30
REGULAR PROGRAMME/PROGRAMME RÉGULIER TUESDAY AUGUST 7th/MARDI 7 AOÛT
SYNTAX/ NP DISCOURSE BANTU Cynthia Allen David Alexander Australian National University Yolande Nzang Bie The Ohio State University 14H On the disappearance of genitive types in Middle English: Musée Royal de L'Afrique Centrale El coche ese vs el coche de marras: A diachronic view of discourse The syntax of love and fear and the nature of syntactic L'expression du causatif dans les langues bantoues strategies in Spanish change Fuyo Osawa Kristine Eide Derek Nurse Tokai University 14H30 University of Oslo Memorial University The emergence of DP in the history of English: the role of Historical development of discourse structures in Portuguese The Emergence of Tense in early Bantu mysterious genitive Andrey Tashchian Andrew Kraiss Christopher Ehret Kuban State University 15H University of Wisconsin-Madison University of California at Los Angeles St. Augustine's Transformation of Rhythmic: Evolution of Evolution of the Noun Phrase in Northwest Germanic The Evolution of the Pronoun Systems of Niger-Congo Language or Revolution of Mind? CAFE / COFFEE 15H30
SYNTAX COMPOUNDS MORPHOSYNTAX Xavier Lepetit Marianne Bakro-Nagy Johanna Wood Lene Schoesler Hungarian Academy of Sciences University of Aarhus 16H University of Copenhagen Conditional constructions in Uralic Compound pronouns and adverbs: Verbs of movement in a diachronic and in Old Hungarian Somewhat more than they seem and typological perspective Maria Rosenberg Evie Coussé Stockholm University 16H30 Ghent University Morphological structure of French [VN/Adv] Constructional ambiguity and word order change compounds in diachrony 17H CLAIRE LEFEBVRE Université du Québec à Montréal A Theory of Creole Genesis
WORKSHOPS/ATELIERS TUESDAY AUGUST 7th/MARDI 7 AOÛT
DIACHRONIC SEMANTICS AND ORIGINS OF GERMANIC HISTORICAL GRAMMAR AND PRAGMATICS GENESIS OF CREOLE Kurt Braunmüller, University of Hamburg LANGUAGE AND CHANGE SPANISH DIALECTOLOGY Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, University LANGUAGES and AM Monique Dufresne, Queen’s University David Heap, University of Western of Copenhagen/University of Manchester Claire Lefebvre, Université du Québec à Theo Vennemann, University of / UQAM Ontario and Enrique Pato and Jacqueline Visconti, University of Montréal Muenchen Maldonado, Université de Montréal Genoa Erling Strudsholm, Københavns Gabriele Diewald, University of 8H30 Jennifer Munro, NSW, Australia Universitet Hanover Kurt Braunmüller, University of Roper River Aboriginal Languages 8H30 The Italian verbs of motion 'andare' and Explorations into grammaticalization Hamburg, Germany Features in Australian Kriol : Considering 'venire' as auxiliaries in a diachronic channels of German evidentials and modal Determination in early Germanic dialects Semantic Categories perspective particles 9H20 Kirsten Kragh, University of 9h30 Gregory Iverson, University of Copenhagen Bao Zhiming, National University of Alexandre Veiga, Universidade de Jacqueline Visconti Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Joseph A change from a temporal distinction Singapore Santiago de Compostela 9H The evolution of epistemic adverbs: the Salmons, University of Wisconsin- into an aspectual distinction in the Frequency of Use and the English Passive Regarding the Double Temporal example of Italian veramente Madison paradigm of the French subjunctive – a in Singapore English Reorganization in the Diachronia of Germanic Aspiration as Phonetic process of grammaticalization the Spanish Verbal System Enhancement Valentyna Skybina, Zaporizhe Anne-Marie Brousseau, University of 10h00 Medical University and Iryna Mario Squartini, Università di Torino Toronto Jessi Elana Aaron, University of Galutskikh, Zaporozhe National The diachronic evolution of some Italian 10H10 9H30 One Substrate, Two Creoles : Florida University epistemic-evidential forms: A case of CAFÉ/COFFEE phonological (dis)similarities between The future behind us: Competition in Core Vocabulary: Spring and/or convergence of lexicon and grammar? St.Lucian and Haitian Spanish future expression since 1600 Anchor 10H CAFE / COFFEE Hyung-Soo Kim, Jeonju Univ./Simon Fraser Univ. Claus Dieter Pusch, Université de Bettina Migge, University of Dublin Opacity, reduplicative identity and the Fribourg (Allemagne) The Role of Substrate Influence in the 10H30 10H30 time variable: The over- and under- 'Faut dire' in the history of French: from Emergence of the TMA System in the CAFE/COFEE application cases in Korean lexical to deontic to epistemic meaning Creoles of Surinam 10H40 reduplication Folke Josephson, Göteborg University, Jacynthe Bouchard, Fernande Sweden 11H00 Dupuis, Université du Québec à Loss and retention of grammatical Enrique Pato, Université de Montréal and Monique Dufresne, Katerina Stathi, Free University Berlin Sarah Roberts, Stanford University categories in Germanic and Hittite Montréal 11H Queen's University/ Université du Meaning change and register-dependent Substratal Inheritence in Hawai’ian Competence, Homophony and Loss Québec à Montréal persistence Creole : Evidence from the Copula of Grammar: Spanish Prepositions Focus in Old French : the Development cabe and so of Cleft structures GILLIAN SANKOFF 11H30 University of Pennsylvania Lifespan life and language change 12H30 LUNCH
TUESDAY AUGUST 7th/MARDI 7 AOÛT WORKSHOPS/ATELIERS
DIACHRONIC SEMANTICS AND HISTORICAL GRAMMAR AND LANGUAGE CHANGE IN REAL TIME GENESIS OF CREOLE PRAGMATICS SPANISH DIALECTOLOGY ORIGINS OF GERMANIC PM Frans Gregersen, University of Copenhagen, LANGUAGES Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, University of David Heap, University of Western Ontario Kurt Braunmüller, University of Hamburg and Anita Berit Hansen, University of Copenhagen, Claire Lefebvre, Université du Québec à Copenhagen/University of Manchester and and Enrique Pato Maldonado, Université de Theo Vennemann, University of Muenchen and Hélène Blondeau, University of Florida Montréal Jacqueline Visconti, University of Genoa Montréal 14H00 Nathalie Dion, University of Ottawa and Stephen Matthews and Virginia Yip, The Rosa María Ortiz Ciscomani, Universidad Silvia Adler, University of Haifa Rosemarie Lühr, Friedrich-Schiller- Shana Poplack, University of Ottawa Chinese University of Hong Kong de Sonora 14H Back to Space: a Roots Journey of Two French Universität Jena, Germany Confronting synchrony with diachrony in the Bilingual First Language Acquisition and The definite article and its expressive meaning Prepositions Loss and Emergence of Grammatical study of linguistic change Substrate Influence in the history of Spanish language Categories Frans Gregersen, University of 14H50 Copenhagen, Andrés Enrique-Arias, Universitat de les Sophie Piron, Université du Québec à Discussants: Robert Mailhammer, University of Munich, The LANCHART Centre Illes Balears 14H30 Montréal (UQAM) Sarah Thomason, University of Michigan Germany Stepping into the same river twice. On the Motives for change in the paradigm of La mouvance sémantique du verbe and Brian Joseph, Columbus, Ohio The role of ablaut in the nominal system of comparability of sociolinguistic interviews used Spanish object clitics Proto-Germanic in real time studies Torben Juel Jensen, University of Cristina Matute Martínez, Saint Louis Copenhagen, Regine Eckardt, University Goettingen ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION/ University (Madrid Campus) 15H40 15H The LANCHART Centre The Avoid Pragmatic Overload Principle TABLE RONDE Patterns of pronominal variation in the CAFÉ/COFFEE Generic Use of the Second Person Pronoun in General Estoria by Alfonso X el Sabio Danish - the spreading of a linguistic innovation 15H30 CAFE / COFFEE Jeanett Reynoso Noverón, Universidad Hélène Blondeau, University of Florida Elke A. Gehweiler, Freie Universität Berlin Nacional Autónoma de México 16H Imperfect or conditional? Longitudinal The Grammaticalization of ‘Privative’ Adjectives The proper name syntax evolution: A assessment of the variation in Montreal French 16H10 Linguistic change? Paolo Ramat, University of Pavia, Italy Javier Elvira, Universidad Autónoma de Some aspects of the restructuring of the Shana Poplack, University of Ottawa Anne Carlier, Université de Valenciennes Madrid Germanic verb system 16H30 Modeling the transition period in linguistic Grammaticalization at the level of the paradigm: Information structure and syntactic change: change from pragmatics to semantics the survival of the correlative dyptich in Old Spanish 17H CLAIRE LEFEBVRE Université du Québec à Montréal A Theory of Creole Genesis
REGULAR PROGRAMME/PROGRAMME RÉGULIER WEDNESDAY AUGUST 8th/MERCREDI 8 AOÛT
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CLAUSE STRUCTURE CONTACT PRONOUNS Ritsuko Kikusawa Kim Schulte John Ryan IIAS & National Museum of Ehtnology, Japan University of Exeter Arizona State University 8H30 The Emergence of Passive Constructions in Austronesian The lexical structure of a multi-contact language: the case of The Proof is in the Pronoun: Grammatical and Semantic Languages Romanian Gender in Anglo Saxon Elena Seaone Pepijn Hendriks University of Santiago Leiden University / LUCL Kazuha Watanabe 9H The effect of prominence hierarchies on Modern English long Ia suoi tovar prodam. Ich wÿll mÿne wahre vorkopen.’ Foreign Cornell University/CSUF passives (1500-1900): syntactic vs. pragmatic factors sources, questionable reliability? On a German source for Current change in Japanese pronoun Russian data Chantal Melis Vicky Tzuyin Lai Harold Koch Marcela Flores Zygmunt Frajzyngier Australian National University 9H30 UNAM University of Colorado, Boulder Language contact and the grammaticalisation of motion: a case Subjectification in grammaticalization: The case of the Recipient Pragmatic Functions and Competition of Five First Person study from Central Australia passive-like construction in Spanish Pronouns in Classical Chinese CAFE / COFFEE 10H
QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES TO CLAUSE STRUCTURE HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS Eugenio R. Luján Martínez Robin Ryder Universidad Complutense de Madrid 10H30 Oxford University Grammaticalization processes of relative clauses in ancient Indo- Modelling and fitting catastrophic rate heterogeneity European languages Mike Olson Dubenion-Smith 11H University of Wisconsin-Madison Towards a Typology of Relativization Strategies in Old Saxon LYLE CAMPBELL 11H30 University of Utah
How Many Language Families are there in the World? 12H30 LUNCH
REGULAR PROGRAMME/PROGRAMME RÉGULIER WEDNESDAY AUGUST 8th/MERCREDI 8 AOÛT
CLAUSE STRUCTURE ERGATIVE STRUCTURES LEXICON Remco Knooihuizen Richard Ingham University of Edinburgh 14H UCE Birmingham Fishing for words: the sociolinguistic significance of a word L’anglo-normand et la variation syntaxique en français médiéval list Mireille Piot Margaret E. Winters Grover Hudson Université Grenoble 3 et LATTICE Geoffrey S. Nathan 14H30 Michigan State University Hypothèses sur le changement dans les comparatives d’ « inégalité Wayne State University Ergative/Active Traits in Ethiopian Semitic » de l’espagnol, du français et de l’italien Does Every Word Have Its Own History? Hans Henrich Hock Amalia Rodríguez Somolinos Archna Bhatia Brandon Baird Universidad Complutense de Madrid 15H University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign BYU Discours rapporté fictif et sous-entendu en ancien français: The origin of Modern Indo-Aryan ergative constructions Expansion of the Mexican Lexicon queinses mon dire revisited CAFE / COFFEE 15H30
NEGATION LANGUAGE CHANGE LEXICON Anne Breitbarth Elly van Gelderen Alvarez Francisco de B. Marcos 16H University of Cambridge Arizona State University Hápax, neologismos y cronologia literaria: el caso del Libro A hybrid approach to Jespersen's Cycle in West Germanic Two steps in the Evolution of Language de Apolonio Gertjan Postma Meertens Institute, Academy of Sciences Jacqueline Boley 16H30 Early Decline of the Negative clitic ‘ne’ in the Middle Dutch Some questions raised by by early Proto-Indo-European dialects in Frisian and Saxon areas. RICHARD S. KAYNE 17H New York University
Some Thoughts on Grammaticalization
18H MEETING
WORKSHOPS/ATELIERS WEDNESDAY AUGUST 8th/MERCREDI 8 AOÛT GRAMMATICAL CHANGES IN ORIGINS OF GERMANIC LANGUAGE CHANGE IN REAL INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES HISTORICAL GRAMMAR AND Kurt Braunmüller, University of TIME HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS OF Vit Bubenik, Memorial University of SPANISH DIALECTOLOGY Hamburg and Frans Gregersen, University of AMERINDIAN LANGUAGES LANGUAGE AND CHANGE AM Newfoundland, John Hewson, Memorial David Heap, University of Western Theo Vennemann, University of Copenhagen, Anita Berit Hansen, Marie-Lucie Tarpent, Mount Saint Monique Dufresne, Queen’s Unviersity / UQAM University of Newfoundland, and Sarah Ontario and Enrique Pato Maldonado, Muenchen University of Copenhagen, and Hélène Vincent University Rose, Memorial University of Université de Montréal Blondeau, University of Florida Newfoundland Keynote speaker: 8H30 Patricia A. Shaw, UBC Hans Henrich Hock, Frederick W. Schwink, University of Christine Gardner, Brigham Young University Martine Leroux, University of Ottawa Shifty Vowels, Deviant Consequences: University of Illinois Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 8H30 Switchover of pronominal relativizers in the Null subjects through time Systemic Markedness and Diachronic Default, Animacy, Avoidance: Diachronic Germanic and Anatolian: A typological history of English Change and synchronic agreement variations with and formal comparison mixed-gender antecedents
Anita Berit Hansen, University of GENDER Kosuke Matsukawa, State University Heather Burnett , McGill University and 9H30 9H20 Copenhagen and Caroline Juillard, of New York at Albany Mireille Tremblay, Queen’s University Concepción Company Company Theo Vennemann, University of 9H Université de Paris V Historical sound changes in Trique Particle Verbs in the History of French and Maria Manoliu, University of California Directionality of grammaticalization in Munich, Germany Parisian French vowel changes in real languages Universals of Semantic Composition THE ANIMACY FALLACY. Culture and Spanish Lombards and lautverschiebung time Gender in the History of Latin and Romance Montserrat Adam-Aulinas, Université 10H00 Marie-Lucie Tarpent, Cristina Suarez-Gomez, Universitat de les Illes de Barcelone Silvia Luraghi Rosa María Espinosa Elorza, 10H10 Mount Saint Vincent University Balears 9H30 Le changement linguistique dans la The origin of the femminine gender in Universidad de Valladolid CAFÉ/COFFEE Unusual phonological correspondences Switchover of pronominal relativizers in the langue orale selon deux recherches sur le PIE Round table: The Sintaxis histórica de as clues to Penutian relationship history of English terrain séparées d'un siècle la lengua española 10H00 CAFE / COFFEE
CORPORA AND TOOLS Inés Fernández-Ordóñez, Universidad Inge Lise Pedersen, University of Dagmar Jung, University of Cologne, Fernande Dupuis, Université de Montréal Autónoma de Madrid Copenhagen, The LANCHART Keren Rice, University of Toronto “The development of gender: Hispanic Centre and Signe Wedel Schøning, 10H30 10H30 Preverbs and aspectual verb classes - a Joseph Roy, University of Ottawa and Bridget mass neuters compared to English dialects University of Copenhagen CAFÉ/COFEE comparative investigation into Drinka, University of Texas at San Antonio mass / count distinction emergence, Vinderup in real time - a showcase of Athapaskan morphology Yif thow haue trewely compased thy cercles: Scandinavian neuter agreement and South 10H40 dialect levelling Quantitative socio-historical evidence for the Italian mass neuters” DISCUSSION growth of the present perfect in Middle English CASE 11H00 Mary Theresa Copple, University of Orland Verdú, Alicante University Mahé Ben Hamed, Laboratoire Dynamique New Mexico 11H Variation in real time: a case of sound du Langage Kyongjoon Kwon, Harvard University A Diachronic Study of the Spanish change in Catalan UNIDIA, a database for diachronic universals Nominative Singular masculine o-stem Perfect(ive): Frequency of Use and ending –e in Old Novgorod dialect Language Change LYLE CAMPBELL 11H30 University of Utah How Many Language Families are there in the World? 12H30 LUNCH
WORKSHOPS/ATELIERS WEDNESDAY AUGUST 8th/MERCREDI 8 AOÛT
GRAMMATICAL CHANGES IN DIACHRONIC SEMANTICS AND INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES HISTORICAL GRAMMAR AND LANGUAGE CHANGE IN REAL TIME PRAGMATICS CORPORA AND TOOLS Vit Bubenik, Memorial University of SPANISH DIALECTOLOGY PM Frans Gregersen, University of Copenhagen, Anita Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, University of Fernande Dupuis Newfoundland, John Hewson, Memorial David Heap, University of Western Ontario Berit Hansen, University of Copenhagen, and Copenhagen/University of Manchester and Jacqueline Université de Montréal University of Newfoundland, and Sarah and Enrique Pato Maldonado, Université de Hélène Blondeau, University of Florida Visconti, University of Genoa Rose, Memorial University of Montréal Newfoundland Jóhanna Barðdal, University of Bergen María Irene Moyna, Texas A & M Hansen Maj-Britt Mosegaard, SLLC, University of Gilles Souvay, ATILF CNRS Nancy-Université and Thórhallur Eythórsson, University University Tore Kristiansen, DGCSS Manchester 14H LGeRM : un outil d’aide à la lemmatisation du Moyen of Iceland Tuteo/voseo Replacement in Río de la Plata Language attitudes in real time On the diachrony of reinforced negation in Italian and Français The prehistory of oblique subjects: An Spanish: Left Periphery Effects on French Indo-European comparison Morphological Paradigms Robert Kapitan, François Daoust et Fernande J. Christopher Wood, Memorial Engracia Rubio Perea, University of Debra Ziegeler, NCIS Dupuis Université du Québec à Montréal University of Newfoundland Málaga 14H30 On the grammaticalisation of subject in English Premhis : a plate-forme for the Morphological Prepositions and Adverbial Cases in Old Features of Andalusian through the works Analysis of Medieval French Germanic Languages of Arturo Reyes Fernando Martinez-Gil, The Ohio State Céline Guillot, Azam Estaji, University ENS-LSH, Lyon Eugene Green, Boston University Ferdowsi University of Mashhad Pattern generalization across paradigms: 15H (et CNRS/UMR 5191) Demotic Dispersion of Borrowings in English The Emergence of Izafet construction in analogical extension in the historical Enrichissement linguistique et développement « Persian development of Galician-Portuguese second durable » de la Base de Français Médiéval conjugation verbs 15H30 CAFE / COFFEE TENSE/ASPECT Bryan Weston Wyly, Université de la Vallée d’Aoste Lewis Howe, University of Georgia 16H Evolving roles for metonymic praxis in Older Vit Bubenik, Typological motivations for dialectal Germanic poetics Invited Speaker : LUDOVIC LEBART, Memorial University of Newfoundland variations of the Spanish perfect École nationale supérieure des The Rise and Development of the télécommunications Possessive Construction in Middle Iranian Statistical Inference in Historical Text Mining Eystein Dahl, University of Oslo/Stanford University Nicholas Henriksen, Indiana University 16H30 The development of the Vedic past tense A reanalysis of paradigmatic variation in the system: From aspect to temporal Old Spanish imperfect remoteness RICHARD S. KAYNE 17H New York University Some Thoughts on Grammaticalization
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PHONOLOGY CLITICS SEMANTICS Elke Gehweiler
Jan Terje Faarlund Freie Universität Berlin and BBAW Michael Heath University of Oslo Anna Firenze 8H30 Brigham Young University From clitic to affix: the Norwegian definite BBAW Hungarian Phonology Abstract article ‘Demetaphorization’ – a new path of
semantic change in idioms
Timothy Colleman David Hart Dieter Wanner Ghent University Brigham Young University Ohio State University 9H15 A diachronic study of constructional Relative and absolute dating of Russian Wild variation, random patterns, and uncertain semantics: the ditransitive in English and Sound Changes data: Span. 'no le dar' and 'no darle' Dutch
Angela Bagwell Katerina Somers Wicka Estèle Dupuy-Parant Robert B. Howell University of Wisconsin-Madison Université de Poitiers – CESCM 9H30 University of Wisconsin at Madison Prosodic Deficiency and Cliticization in L’émergence de la cataphore dans la prose Rethinking Morphological Conditioning: Otfrid’s Evangelienbuch du moyen français Schwa Maintenance and Apocope in 17th century Dutch CAFE / COFFEE 10H
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Laura Catharine Smith Kristin Hagemann Meiko Matsumoto Brigham Young University University of Oslo Okayama University 10H30 Dialect variation and the Dutch diminutive: The glossing of the verbal arguments in the The historical development of Evidence for loss, maintenance and Códice Emilianense 60 have/take a look extension of prosodic templates
Elzbieta Adamczyk Konstantin Krasukhin Adam Mickiewicz University Institute of Linguistics 11H The disintegration of Germanic nominal Traces of dialect differences in common inflection: The case of West Germanic language r-stems. MARÍA LUISA RIVERO 11H30 with the collaboration of RODICA C. DIACONESCU University of Ottawa A diachronic view of psychological verbs with dative experiencers in Spanish and Rumanian LUNCH 12H30
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PHONOLOGY COMPOUND SEMANTICS Sandrine Tailleur Bethwyn Evans Betty Phillips Université d'Ottawa University of Manchester Indiana State University 14H Être ou avoir? L'auxiliation libre des verbes From tense/aspect marker to discourse Evolutionary Phonology and Lexical intransitifs en français des XVIIe et XVIIIe particle: reconstructing syntactic and Diffusion siècles. semantic change Josane Oliveira Kiyoko Takahashi Robert Elwell UEFS / UNIFACS Kanda University of International University of Texas at Austin 14H30 Du futur simple au futur périphrastique : Studies Motivating Historical Change in Latin changement linguistique en temps réel en A corpus-based study on split patterns of through Entropy portugais modal concepts in Thai Lisa Marie Noetzel Bridget Smith Washington College 15H OSU VADERE + infinitive: the reanalysis of a Eth - forsake thigh name Romance future CAFE / COFFEE 15H30
COMPOUND Annelise Siversen University of Copenhagen Infinitive markers in the infinitive 16H construction with COMENZAR and COMINCIARE - a matter of grammaticalization?
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TOWARDS REALISTIC MODELS OF GRAMMATICAL CHANGES IN INDO- ALTERNATIVE LANGUAGE CONTACT-INDUCED CHANGE: HISTORICAL GRAMMAR AND EUROPEAN LANGUAGES HISTORIES FROM THE MID 18TH THEORETICAL HISTORICAL MAPPING PSYCHOLINGUISTIC AND SPANISH DIALECTOLOGY Vit Bubenik, Memorial University of AM CENTURY, A VIEW “FROM LINGUISTICS SOCIOLINGUISTIC FACTORS David Heap, University of Western Newfoundland, John Hewson, Memorial BELOW” Bert Vaux, University of Cambridge Ioanna Sitaridou, University of Cambridge and Ontario and Enrique Pato Maldonado, University of Newfoundland, and Sarah Rose, France Martineau, Université d’Ottawa Marina Terkourafi, University of Illinois at Université de Montréal Memorial University of Newfoundland Urbana-Champaign France Martineau, University of Ottawa Keynote Speaker : Panayiotis Pappas, Simon Fraser Dag Trygve Truslew Haug, University of Mind the gap : non standard use in French Mark Hale, Concordia University University 8H30 Oslo documents of the Synchrony, Diachrony, and Typology: “Change from above” in situations of dialect Prepositional Phrases in Indo-European 18th and 19th centuries More Marshallese Historical Phonology contact: is it that simple?
Ioanna Sitaridou, University of Cambridge 9H30 Taru Nordlund Bridget Drinka, University of Texas at San Charles Reiss, Concordia University and Marina Terkourafi, University of Ioanna Sitaridou, University of ‘The Common People’, Writing, and the Antonio 9H Non-grammatical factors Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Cambridge Process of Literary Attainment in The *-to/no construction in Indo-European: in language change The loss of genitive plural in Cypriot Greek: Word order and information structure Nineteenth-Century Finland evidence for early periphrastic structures? language contact or internal evolution? in Old Spanish
CONSTRUCTIONS GRAMMATICALES ET ORDRE DES MOTS : ÉVOLUTION EN FRANÇAIS DIATHESIS 10H00 Lukas Pietsch, University of Hamburg Christopher Lucas, University of Sophie Prévost, LATTICE/CNRS École Paul de Lacy, Rutgers University Manuela Catalá, Universidad de Back-waters of standardisation: Letter Cambridge 9H30 Normale Supérieure The diachronic and cognitive Zaragoza writing as a channel of language contact Modelling contact-induced grammatical Sophie Prévost, LATTICE/CNRS École contributions to synchronic phonology Methods and approaches in Historical and change in Ireland change: the case of Berber negation John Hewson, Memorial University Normale Supérieure Pragmatics Grammaticalization of the Constructions détachées et marqueurs de Verbal Diathesis in Germanic topicalisation : évolution en français 10H00 CAFE / COFFEE Gregory Iverson, University of Sarah Rose, Memorial University of Pierre Le Goffic, Université Paris 3 / Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Joseph Wim Vandenbussche Newfoundland LATTICE/CNRS École Normale Salmons, University of Wisconsin- Shana Poplack, University of Ottawa 10H30 10H30 Lower Class Language from The origin of the first person singular Supérieure Madison When does contact lead to change? CAFÉ/COFEE 19th Century Flanders consonantal markers of the hittite -hi –mi Remarques sur la position du participe passé en On the evolution of laryngeal final conjugations français neutralization in German Patrick Honeybone, University of 11H00 Catherine Fuchs, LATTICE/CNRS École Edinburgh Juan Carlos Godenzzi, Université de Hakyung Jung, Normale Supérieure Diachronic tendencies in historical Stavroula Tsiplakou, University of Cyprus Montréal Harvard University 11H L’évolution de l’ordre des constituants dans la phonology: evidence for absolute Competing Grammars in Cypriot Greek? Disagreement in the Andes: Possessive Subject, Nominalization, and comparaison adjectivale principles or violable constraints? The Evidence from code-switching Neutralization of gender and number Ergativity in North Russian d’égalité en français case of ‘secondary contractions’ in distinctions in Andean Spanish (16th- Northern English 17th and 20th-21st Centuries) MARÍA LUISA RIVERO, with the collaboration of RODICA C. DIACONESCU 11H30 University of Ottawa A diachronic view of psychological verbs with dative experiencers in Spanish 12H30 LUNCH
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TOWARDS REALISTIC MODELS OF CONTACT- GRAMMATICAL CHANGES IN INDO- CONSTRUCTIONS GRAMMATICALES ET ORDRE INDUCED CHANGE: MAPPING EUROPEAN LANGUAGES HISTORICAL GRAMMAR AND SPANISH PM DES MOTS : ÉVOLUTION EN FRANÇAIS PSYCHOLINGUISTIC AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC Vit Bubenik, Memorial University of Newfoundland, John DIALECTOLOGY Sophie Prévost, LATTICE/CNRS École Normale FACTORS Hewson, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and Sarah David Heap, University of Western Ontario and Supérieure Ioanna Sitaridou, University of Cambridge and Marina Rose, Memorial University of Newfoundland Enrique Pato Maldonado, Université de Montréal Terkourafi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Benjamin Fagard, Université Paris 7 / Maria Pilar Perea Sabater, Universitat de Brigitte L.M. Bauer, LATTICE/CNRS École Normale Supérieure David Willis, University of Cambridge Barcelona 14H The University of Texas at Austin Compléments circonstanciels et Contact-induced change in Celtic negation systems Historical and dialectological aspects in Gramática de la Strategies of Definiteness in Early Indo-European ordre des mots lengua catalana (1881-1915) by Tomàs Forteza Céline Guillot, ENS-LSH LYON (et CNRS/UMR 5191) Rachel Selbach, University of Amsterdam Henning Andersen, UCLA Miriam Bouzouita, King's College London 14H30 Ordre des mots et anaphore en français: le cas des reprises Social and Linguistics structures in the slave colony of A comparative perspective on early Slavic periphrastic Clitic Placement in the History of Spanish démonstratives en français médiéval Algiers (1500-1830) futures Bernard Combettes, Université de Nancy- II Lukas Pietsch, University of Hamburg 15H Typologie de l'ordre des constituants et spécialisation des Borrowing verbal periphrases in Irish English: the role of Clausure catégories grammaticales construction-based grammatical representation 15H30 CAFE / COFFEE Brian Joseph, Ohio State University 16H Attitudes and ideology in contact-induced change: Trumping all psychological and structural factors Andrés Enrique-Arias, Universitat de les Illes Balears 16H30 Spanish in an 18th century collection of letters from Majorca: historical clues for a contact variety
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SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO / HOMMAGE À CHRISTIANE MACHELLO-NIZIA VIVIANE DEPREZ 9H Rutger’s University Grammticalizing number and definiteness in French based creoles FRANCE MARTINEAU 10H Université d’Ottawa De l’Ancien au Nouveau Monde : configurations sociales et linguistiques 11H PAUSE CHRISTIANE MARCHELLO-NIZIA 11H30 ENS- Lyon VO et V (...) O en français LUNCH 12H30
SYNTAX PHONOLOGY MORPHOLOGY Camiel Hamans Marc Pierce David Fertig European Parliament University of Michigan SUNY 14H Degrammaticalization as a consequence of Word Breaks and Syllable Structure in Gothic Inflectional (ir)regularization in a word and reanalysis Reconsidered paradigm, dual-mechanism model Guido Seiler David Håkansson University of Konstanz Hans-Olav Enger 14H30 Lund University Sound change or analogy? Monosyllabic How do words change inflection class? The Syntactic Change in the History of Swedish lengthening in German and some of its Norwegian case consequences Griet Coupé Jeannette Denton Amanda Pounder Radboud University Nijmegen Baylor University University of Calgary 15H Cluster, interrupted. Dialect variation and West Germanic Consonant Gemination's The Status of Morphological Ellipsis in standardisation in Early Modern Dutch Prosodic and Phonetic Origins Earlier Modern German and English CAFE 15H30
SEMANTICS PHONOLOGY MORPHOLOGY Jennifer Cornish Janet Duke Matthew Juge SUNY University of Freiburg 16H Texas State University-San Marcos An Acoustic Explanation for Unstressed Gender reduction and loss in Germanic: Semantic typology of suppletion Vowel Reduction and Loss in Germanic Three case studies Eugen Hill Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität 16H30 München Origins of Germanic and the reduplicated past of the strong verbs
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SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO / HOMMAGE À CHRISTIANE MACHELLO-NIZIA VIVIANE DEPREZ 9H Rutger’s University Grammticalizing number and definitness in French based creoles
FRANCE MARTINEAU 10H00 Université d’Ottawa Mind the gap: non standard use in French documents of the 18th and 19th centuries
11H00 CAFE / COFFEE CHRISTIANE MARCHELLO-NIZIA 11H30 ENS- Lyon VO et V (...) O en français 12H30 LUNCH TOWARDS REALISTIC MODELS OF CONTACT-INDUCED CHANGE: PM MAPPING PSYCHOLINGUISTIC AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC FACTORS Ioanna Sitaridou, University of Cambridge and Marina Terkourafi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Georg A. Kaiser, Universitaet Konstanz 14H Contact induced and contact independent change: The case of (Swiss) Raeto-Romance in comparison with other Romance languages Leonie Cornips 14H30 A sociolinguistic perspective on bilingual first child acquisition as a factor in contact-induced change: the loss of neuter gender in Dutch
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