General Session Papers - Oral Presentations
(C): Cancellations
GENERAL SESSION PAPERS - ORAL PRESENTATIONS
AUTHOR NAMES TITLE
Omri Amiraz A diachronic explanation for cross-linguistic variation in the use of inverse-scope constructions Cormac Anderson Place interactions in varieties of Irish Iván Andrés-Alba Ancient Greek καρπός ‘wrist’ and ἀστράγαλος ‘ankle(bone)’ as botanic-based metaphors Reili Argus and Victoria Kazakovskaya Acquisition of diminutives in typologically different languages: Evidence from Russian and Estonian Peter Arkadiev Caritive morphology in Abaza: from derivation to inflection and back Timofey Arkhangelskiy God knows what as an indefinite pronoun Ignacio Arroyo Hernandez "Lo único es que" as a pragmatic marker in Spanish. From sentence to discourse. Amalia Arvaniti Towards a post-diglossic sound system for Greek Sandra Auderset, Adam Tallman and Carmen Revisiting clitic phenomena in Mixtec Hernández Martínez Peter Auer and Frans Hinskens Language variation as a one-dimensional vehicle of social meaning. Looking at Eckert’s ‘cline of interiority’ from two perspectives Gilles Authier Phonological areas, contact zones and historical gender morphology in East Caucasian Matthew Baerman, Jeremy Pasquereau and Adaptive analogy in Word-and-Paradigm morphology: the case of Seri (isolate) verbs Helen Sims-Williams Khaled Barkaoui A Longitudinal Study of Metadiscourse Use in Second Language Learners’ Writing Ana Maria Barros Brito Transparent relative clauses as predicative free relatives: evidence from Portuguese Carmelo Alessandro Basile Necessity modals on Singaporean blogs: a contrastive and comparative analysis Rodolfo Basile Situative strategies in Finno-Ugric and Beyond Elena Battaglia Constructionalization of discourse functions in the history of Italian: a corpus study of ‘infatti’ Andreas Baumann On the role of emotion in lexical reproduction Kate Bellamy and Martha Mendoza Associated motion in Purepecha
Erica Biagetti From Standard Marker to Adaptor: the case of Vedic iva Gabriela Bilbiie A non-elliptical analysis of polar verbless clauses Adina Camelia Bleotu Denominal verbs and creativity: An experimental approach Stavros Bompolas and Dimitra Melissaropoulou Accounting for the Asia Minor Greek dialectal variation: a comparative dialectometric approach Charlotte Bourgoin, Karen Lahousse and Kristin On cleft ellipsis: a syntactic and functional account of reduced c’est-clefts Davidse Kasper Boye and Maria Messerschmidt Distinguishing lexical and grammatical adpositions Anna Branets The role of Language Exposure in Mediated Receptive Multilingualism Benjamin Brosig A distinct marker of completion and inadvertence within the tense-aspect-evidentiality-system of Khalkha Mongolian Jorina Brysbaert and Karen Lahousse The influence of formality on the expression of contrast in French: A corpus analysis of contrastive adverbs and emphatic pronouns Irina Burukina Reflexive pronouns as possessed DPs in Hill Mari Marta Capano ˈkume a se ˈʧama ʧy tø muˈʤe? A case of pragmaticalization in Liguria, Italy. Gerd Carling, Marc Tang, Silvia Luraghi, Sunny The lexical and typological trajectory of Indo-European gender evolution Pydugadu, Olof Lundgren and Filip Larsson Noelia Castro Chao Pathways from adverbial subordination to complementation: The case of English till and until Michela Cennamo Lexico-aspectual constraints on split intransitivity and auxiliary selection in Italo-Romance: variation and change in synchrony and diachrony Marina Chumakina and Ekaterina Lyutikova Unusual agreement targets and controller choice: the case of Khwarshi Jac Conradie The refurbishment of the Afrikaans past participle Sonia Cristofaro Diachronic pathways to constructional harmonies and what they mean for typological universals Sandra Cronhamn Semantic Perspectives on Baniwa Classifiers Sonja Dahlgren Contact ‘iotacism’ Andriy Danylenko Bessarabian Ukrainian: A New Linguistic Area in the Making? Anna De Marco and Emanuela Paone The effect of explicit instruction on the use of discourse markers in Italian as L2 Stefano De Pascale and Dirk Pijpops Token-based distributional semantics for grammatical alternation research Noemi De Pasquale and Antoine Guillaume Associated motion in Western Sicilian: a preliminary account Isabeau De Smet and Laura Rosseel Does 'he dived' take longer than 'he dove'? An experimental inquiry into iconic patterns in verb morphology Sydelle de Souza and Alina Villalva Root and word-based diminutives in European Portuguese Stefan Dedio The diachrony of word-like domains in Welsh Scott Delancey The Copula to Negative shift in Kiranti in Tibeto-Burman context: Tracing the onset of Jespersen’s Cycle
Anna Maria Di Sciullo Coordinate conjunction extended projection Bridget Drinka The Sacral Stamp of Greek: Periphrastic Constructions in New Testament Translations of Latin, Gothic, and Old Church Slavonic Julien Dufour Quality-sensitive stress as a language change process in the prehistory of the “Modern South Arabian” branch of the Semitic family Kepa Erdozia and Noèlia Sanahuja The Facilitatory Role of L1 Syntax in the Initial Acquisition of L2 Syntax Riku Erkkilä and Jaakko Helke Synchrony and diachrony in Ket incorporation Sebastian Fedden, Matías Guzmán Naranjo and Typology meets data-mining: the German gender system Greville Corbett Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon Languages with more speakers tend to have shorter words, more phonemes per syllable, and more words per clause Jesús Fernández-Domínguez English verb-to-noun conversion and its role in nominal compounding Markku Filppula Celtic Englishes’ in the light of evidence from The Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English Egbert Fortuin Unbounded repetition, habituality and aspect Karlien Franco and Dirk Geeraerts What makes the clock tick? The effect of concept characteristics and sociocultural variation on lexical replacement rates Michael Franjieh, Greville Corbett and Alexandra Cognitive effects of possessive classifiers: visualising complex data with dendrograms Grandison Jacopo Garzonio and Enrico Castro Unexpected orders in special cells: 1PL and 2PL forms in a Northern Venetan variety Ulrich Geupel Affix Rivalry of Ancient Greek Abstract Nouns: A Matter of Domains? Riccardo Ginevra Locative Alternation in Proto-Indo-European: a Lexical-Constructional Approach to Historical Semantics and Root Polysemy Athanasia Gkouma, Maria Andria and Spyridoula Pragmatic competence in L2 Greek: A longitudinal study of Spanish and Catalan learners Bella Ager Gondra Testing the Interface Hypothesis: heritage speakers’ perception and production of Spanish subject position with unergative and unaccusative verbs Karolina Grzech and Erika Sandman From egophoric to evidential and back again: Functional similarities of epistemic marking from the Tibetan Plateau and the Amazonian Foothills Gustavo Guajardo The Transitivity Index: A continuous measure of Transitivity Jadranka Gvozdanovic Subjective modality in western West and South Slavic: complex developments and theoretical implications Martin Haspelmath Variable argument marking and the difference between general and particular linguistics Anna Hatzidaki and Mikel Santesteban Emotional attractors in subject-verb number agreement Elisabeth Heiszenberger and Elissa Pustka Orthography: Leading part or minor part? The emergence of liaison in French as a foreign language
Lars Hellan Norwegian Valence Dictionary (NorVal) Tiit Hennoste, Külli Habicht, Helle Metslang, Külli I think, I hope, it seems: complement-taking predicates as discourse markers in different registers in Prillop, Kirsi Laanesoo, Liina Pärismaa, Elen Pärt, Estonian Andra Rumm, Andriela Rääbis and Carl Eric Simmul Borja Herce The diachrony of inflection clases: what can information-theoretic measures and quantitative approaches contribute to historical linguistics? Annette Herkenrath A parallel text approach to impersonality in written academic Turkish and Kurmanji Kurdish Alberto Hijazo-Gascon and Maria Andria Semantic contrasts in deictic motion between Modern Greek and Spanish Helen Hint, Piia Taremaa, Maria Reile and Renate Is referential choice affected by text type? Pajusalu Sampsa Holopainen Assessing irregular and “sporadic” developments in the prehistory of Hungarian vocalism Marianne Hundt and Eva Zehentner Competition in the history of English verbal argument structure: NPs vs PPs Monica Irimia DOM co-occurrence restrictions in Romance: beyond clitic clusters Aleksandra Jarosz Proto-Ryukyuan ‘rice’ words and the spread of Japonic into the Ryukyu islands Dawei Jin Complex NP island effects are stronger in why-questions: An experimental study Pavlina Kalm Semantics of Locative Instruments in English Andra Kalnača and Ilze Lokmane The Latvian vocative – morphology and syntax interface Anna Kampanarou Three types of existential constructions in Greek: their distribution and syntax. Jessica Kantarovich Inverse marking as a type of object agreement: Evidence from Chukchi Csilla Kász Cognate Accusative Noun Phrases in the Qur'an - A Contribution to the Discussion on Cognate Objects Kultida Khammee and Seongha Rhee Small and cute? Small and bad?: Semantic network of diminutives in Thai and Korean Anatoliy Khudoliy Metaphors as Persuasive Tools in D. Trump Public Discourse Soung-U Kim Non-canonical egophoric marking in Jejuan Seppo Kittilä The unspecified external evidence particle vissiin of Finnish Ibtissem Knouzi and Noah Khan ESL Student-initiated questions: an interactional ethnography case study Nikolas Koch, Antje Endesfelder Quick and Stefan Discourse priming and individual differences in first language acquisition. A traceback approach Hartmann Petr Kocharov Default meaning and root levelling of the history of the Armenian verb Martin Kohlberger Building bridges between cartography and the documentation of endangered knowledge Daria Konior and Andrey Sobolev Profiling of dialect speakers: an experimental study in South Slavia Linda Konnerth How does clusivity disappear? A historical microtypology of South-Central Trans-Himalayan
Dominika Kovarikova Corpus Study of Grammatical Categories: the GrammatiCat Online Tool Olga Krasnoukhova Typology of standard negation: Insights and lessons from South American languages Andra Kütt and Reili Argus Acquisition of referentiality in elicited narratives of Estonian-speaking children Natalia Kuznetsova, Irina Brodskaya and Elena Isochrony and “anti-isochrony” in the Soikkola Ingrian trisyllabic foot Markus Mary C. Lavissière and Laurent Fedi Unfreezing legal genres: maritime shipping agreements and diachronic variation Oksana Lebedivna Change of Common Slavic O to I in Southwest Ukrainian: The Case of the Kryvorivnja Dialect Natalia Levshina Bounded rationality and limited efficiency: From binary trade-offs to a causal network of Subject and Object cues Chang Liu Two types of Presentational Amalgam Constructions in Mandarin Chinese Clara Lombart Prosody, gesture and information structure in interaction: the case of contrastive focus in French Ellison Luk Constructing conditionals in Australian languages: a typological study Silvia Luraghi Beyond affectedness - Partitive objects and degrees of agenthood in Ancient Greek Borana Lushaj The gradience of Middle Albanian vowel length contrasts Marcia dos Santos Machado Vieira Support verb complex predicates in Portuguese varieties Vasiliki Makri Borrowed nouns: Gender change in the diachrony of Heptanesian Greek? Yael Maschler and Anna Inbar Causality and epistemic stance: A multimodal analysis of Hebrew ki ‘because’-clauses in talk-in- interaction Florian Matter Irregular first person inflections in Cariban: converging factors for morphological (dis-)similarity Simone Mattiola and Andrea Sansò A typology of denominal verb formation Lidia Mazzitelli Genericity and habituality in Lakurumau Giulia Mazzola From Distance to Immediacy: asyndetic complements in Classical and Present-day Spanish Johanna Miecznikowski, Elena Battaglia and Addressee-centered evidential markers in talk-in-interaction. The case of Italian 'vedere'+'che' Christian Geddo constructions Liljana Mitkovska, Eleni Bužarovska and Nataša Crosslinguistic influence in Second Language Acquisition: post-verbal subjects in L2 English Stojanovska-Ilievska Janina Mołczanow, Beata Łukaszewicz and Anna Duration adjustment mechanisms in Ukrainian: the case of pretonic lengthening Łukaszewicz Lucia Molinu The athematic infinitives in old Sardinian Zarina Molochieva and Zaira Khalilova Proper names in the Nakh-Daghestanian languages Steven Moran, Nicholas Lester and Eitan Inferring recent evolutionary changes in speech sounds Grossman Ricardo Napoleão de Souza and Josefina Bittar Final Lengthening in Paraguayan Guarani: Phonological and Morphosyntactic Variables
Rexhina Ndoci In-group and out-group perceptions of a Greek L2 variety: The case of Albanian Greek Dirk Noël Constructional attrition in a radically usage-based model of language (change) Miina Norvik, Uldis Balodis, Valts Ernštreits, Typological convergence in the Central Baltic area Gunta Kļava, Helle Metslang, Karl Pajusalu and Eva Saar Maryam Nourzaei The emergence of definiteness Marking from Evaluative Morphology in Persian: Internal Variation and Diachronic Pathway Jan Nuyts Explaining the re-autonomization process in the Dutch modals Colleen O'Brien Argumenthood of non-focused elements in Philippine-type languages Alejandra Ortiz, Sergio Ibañez Cerda and Verbal diminutive morphology in the Colombian Spanish from the Andes Armando Mora Tania Paciaroni Partitive constructions in Gascon: A Romance perspective Manuel Padilla Cruz Ad hoc concepts and non-propositional meaning Giada Palmieri and Renato Miguel Basso On the ambiguity of se-clauses and the role of natural reflexivity in Brazilian Portuguese Mariagrazia Palumbo and Anna De Marco Metadiscoursive discourse markers in a corpus of Italian migrants in Munich Panagiotis Panagopoulos, Maria Andria and Exploring the development of written syntactic complexity in L2 Greek: The case of Spanish and George Mikros Catalan L1 learners Anastasia Panova On independent pronouns in languages with pronominal affixes: Evidence from Abaza Jeremy Pasquereau and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr Degree constructions in Seri Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou, Lena Gialabouki, From the recipients’ perspective: m/m(h)m and nods in Greek conversations Angeliki Alvanoudi and Christos Ananiadis Laura Peiró-Márquez and Iraide Ibarretxe- Motion events in Spanish from a multimodal perspective: what gesture reveals about non easily Antuñano encodable semantic components and its congruency Yana Penkova Future anterior in Ruthenian as a key to understanding its evolution in East Slavic Erika Petrocchi Prosody of Emotions. The relation between (prosodical) linguistic and affective functions of nonmanual components in Sign Language. Jozefien Piersoul, Freek Van de Velde and Dirk How meaning change can cause form change: the origin and evolution of the Dutch psych verb Pijpops alternation Pekka Posio and Riie Heikkilä Variation and change in the expression and functions of the first-person singular in six European newspapers, from 1960 to 2010 Valentin Radulescu and Daniel Van Olmen Impersonalization in Romanian versus English Maria Laura Restivo On the development of the particles formed with the Italian adverb 'pur(e)' Eric Reuland Variation in Binding Patterns
Seongha Rhee Functional Competition and Complementation among Multiple Forms: The Case of Layered Korean Datives Nikolaus Ritt, Magdalena Schwarz, Theresa Quantifying changes in gender bias in the Google Books Corpus Matzinger, Andreas Baumann and Vanja Vukovic Raquel P. Romasanta Language contact and substrate language effect in Asian varieties of English Kristian Roncero Back in the future: the unexpected fate of West Polesian de-obligative and de-volitive future grams Laura Ros García Eventualities within the nominal domain: The case of 'no + event deverbal nominal' in Spanish Malte Rosemeyer and Eitan Grossman Why don’t grammaticalization pathways always recur? Corinne Rossari, Claudia Ricci, Linda Sanvido Modality and argumentative patterns and Cyrielle Montrichard Julian Andrej Rott and Ana Krajinović From formation to alternation: The case of the Nafsan psych domain Fedor Rozhanskiy and Elena Markus The development of Votic-Ingrian convergent varieties: evidence from a chain rune Cristina Ruiz-Alonso On definite article el: a spell-out of inherent case? Evidence from Spanish Eloisa Ruppert, Freek Van de Velde and Hubert The influence of demographic changes on the morphological and syntactic complexity of German Cuyckens Vieri Samek-Lodovici Defining Contrast Noèlia Sanahuja and Kepa Erdozia The Impact of Lexical Co-activation through Cognates on L2 Rule Learning Eneile Saraiva and Marcia Machado Vieira Indeterminacy and impersonalization in Brazilian Portuguese discursive practices Anju Saxena, Lars Borin and Bernard Comrie Himalayan linguistic prehistory in a new light Marcel Schlechtweg and Holden Härtl The processing of scare quotes in English Svenja Schmid and Laura González López On vocative positions in Spanish wh-interrogatives: new insights into the left periphery Magdalena Schwarz, Theresa Matzinger and Assessing the effect of shared language and other social group markers on trust Nikolaus Ritt Ilja Seržant Typology of partitives Olena Shcherbakova, Damián Blasi, Volker Gast, Evolution of case systems Russell Gray and Simon Greenhill Leon Shor, Anna Inbar, Yael Reshef and Einat From deixis to vagueness: Hedging expressions in Modern Hebrew Gonen Agnieszka Słoboda Borrowing, reanalysis and extension as mechanisms underlying syntactic changes of structures with infinitive in Old Polish Andrey N. Sobolev How much “dialect” does contemporary oral speech production in a “base” South Slavic patoi contain? Piotr Sobotka and Magdalena Żabowska An adverb in a dynamic perspective - the mechanisms of decategorialization and discursization of adverbs in the northern Slavic languages
Marzena Stępień Polish deconverbal discourse markers with the exponent of negation Vassilis Symeonidis and Nikolaos Lavidas Changes in linguistic complexity and the diachrony of anticausatives in Greek Nafiseh Taghva, Vahideh Abolhasani Zadeh and Durational rhythmic variability of Persian between-sentence Amirsaied Moloodi Luigi Talamo, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Katrin Surprisal and information structure of human referents across syntactic roles: evidence from European Menzel, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Yuri languages Bizzoni, Tania Avgustinova and Annemarie Verkerk Piia Taremaa The expression of motion speed in a morphologically rich language Denys Teptiuk and Johannes Hirvonen Perspective shift in reported discourse of Finno-Ugric languages Miriam Thegel Language change across registers: competing Spanish modals in the 18th and 19th centuries Marili Tomingas Frequently used discourse particles and their functions in spoken Livonian recordings Pâmela Travassos and Marcia Dos Santos Constructional variation: a cross-linguistic comparison Machado Vieira Beata Trawinski Negation Raising as a Semi-Performative Operation. Corpus Evidence from Polish and German Eleni Tzimopoulou, Jenny Hartman and Carita Cross modality in audition - Descriptions and experience ratings of everyday acousmatic sounds Paradis Freek Van de Velde and Isabeau De Smet An alternative to generalized linear models: Markov models for multi-state language change Johan van der Auwera, Motoki Nomachi and Olga Balto-Slavic connective negation and negative concord Krasnoukhova An Van Linden Where alienability accounts fall short: Bound nouns in Harakmbut Sébastien Vandenitte Comparing multimodal quotation in a sign and a spoken language: a pilot study on enactment in LSFB and Belgian French utterance reports João Veloso Segment complexity and segment inherent weight : the behaviour of palatality in Portuguese Åke Viberg Semantic extensions across semantic fields and languages A contrastive study of the patterns of polysemy of Cutting and Breaking verbs in English and Swedish Ferdinand von Mengden The dialectics of loss and upgrading in language change Katherine Walker and Eva van Lier Alternating pronominal indexing in Kamang Björn Wiemer Boundedness in present and future: Implicational hierarchies in the treatment of non-deictic present tense Sally Wong, Eric Reuland and Martin Everaert The peculiar blocking effect in the complement of Mandarin zi-verbs Magdalena Wrembel, Ulrike Gut, Romana Perception and production of L2 and L3 rhotics in young multilinguals; an exploratory cross-linguistic Kopečková and Anna Balas study Jingting Ye Frequency and coding patterns of adjectives: a cross-linguistic corpus study
Ka-Fai Yip and Benjamin Tsou Differential Metaphorization and Grammaticalization in Chinese Light Verbs Aigul Zakirova From noun plural to plural agreement: evidence from Andi dialects. Eugen Zaretsky and Benjamin P. Lange Phonological short-term memory: Does ethnic background matter? Marius Zemp, Fernando Zúñiga and Benjamin On the link between evidentiality and egophoricity in languages of the Greater Himalayan Region Brosig Iuliia Zubova, Denys Teptiuk and Eda-Riin Leego On syntactic and semantic adaptation of Russian discourse particles ved’ and že in Eastern Finno-Ugric languages
(C): Cancellations
WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS
AUTHOR NAMES TITLE WS 1: ADJECTIVE: THE UNKNOWN CATEGORY Convenors: Alexander Peter Pfaff & Alexandra Rehn Rong Chen Dependency Reversal in Central African Languages Alison Biggs and Zhuosi Luo The morphosyntax and semantics of Adjective Classifiers Mirella L. Blum On the definition of adjectives in Dinka Gjorgje Bozhoviq Adjectives in Albanian: Evidence from Negation Viktor Koehlich The Adjective Category in Japanese Charles Lam Adjectives in Cantonese Are Not Verbs Lanko Marusic and Rok Žaucer A definite article inside the AP domain Merit Müller Adjective attribution marking in Aanaar Saami: A determinant of the adjectival category? Svetlana Petrova Strong and weak adjectives in Old High German: A corpus study Arturas Ratkus Definite adjective forms in early Germanic: From nominal periphrasis to agreement Vasiliki Rizou, Foteini Karkaletsou, What heritage languages can tell us about the category adjective: evidence from Heritage Greek Nikolaos Tsokanos and Artemis Alexiadou Paulette Roulon-Doko Adjective versus Ideophone in an African language, a typological problem Petra Sleeman Deverbal categories in French: verbs, adjectives or both?
WS 2: ARTIFICIAL/PERIPHERAL STRUCTURES: WHAT CAN THEY TELL US ABOUT THE (MORPHO)PHONOLOGY OF NATURAL LANGUAGES Convenors: Nina Topintzi & Giorgos Markopoulos Birgit Alber, Sabine Arndt-Lappe Truncation, clippings and blends: universal structures and their variation and Joachim Kokkelmans Noam Faust QoTeT paradigm migration in Modern Hebrew: A minor pattern with major implications
Athina Kikiopoulou and Nina Weight effects in Greek? Insights from binomials Topintzi Joachim Kokkelmans Nonce words in research on language contact-induced hybrid grammars: Brussels French Theodoros Lyriotakis Peripheral and artificial structures in French L3 interlanguage grammar: The case of nonce loanblends Julian Lysvik and Maria Evjen Artificial Language Learning experiment shows that native Norwegian speakers avoid word-final voicing
Kalomoira Nikolou and Anthi Gradient phonological similarity in blend formation Revithiadou Kevin Tang and Dinah Baer- The necessity of modelling lexical effects during artificial language learning paradigm Henney Marc van Oostendorp Esperanto Phonology As A Large-Scale Linguistic Experiment WS 3: BUILDING MODALITY WITH SYNTAX: FOCUS ON ANCIENT GREEK Convenors: Camille Denizot & Liana Tronci Rutger Allan In a Mello Mood. The Greek Auxiliary Méllo between Tense, Aspect, and Modality Marina Benedetti and Chiara Modal uses of knowledge verbs in Ancient Greek Gianollo Klaas Bentein Modeling the syntax of Ancient Greek modal particles: Reconsidering dê in Classical historiography Michele Bianconi, Felicia Logozzo Syntactic expressions of modality: optatives and ‘optatival constructions’ in the Greek of the Gospels and Elisabetta Magni Jesús de la Villa and Jesús Polo Completive hoti vs ho:s as mark of evidentiality in Ancient Greek. Synchrony and diachrony. Giuseppina Di Bartolo Counterfactual conditions in colloquial Ancient Greek Ezra la Roi A diachronic syntax of counterfactual mood attraction from Archaic to Classical Greek Rafael Martinez Expressing modality via parenthetic accord clauses in ancient Greek Martin Masliš Evidentiality and complementation in Ancient Greek: the inferential gradient in the synchronic distribution of complementation strategies Antonio R. Revuelta Puigdollers Mood in clause combination: formal and pragmatic features Emilia Ruiz-Yamuza Conditional subordinate clauses and verbal moods: a case study Rodrigo Verano Modality, (Inter)subjectivity and Politeness in Addressee-Oriented Assertions in the Dialogues of Plato
WS 4: CAUSATION: FROM CONCEPT TO GRAMMAR Convenors: Marta Donazzan, Clémentine Raffy & Klaus von Heusinger Artemis Alexiadou The building blocks of causation: evidence from non-canonical realization Ben Ambridge Speakers’ preference for more versus less-transparent causatives: Computational modeling, grammaticality judgment and production data from English, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese and K’iche’ Andrea Ariño-Bizarro and Iraide Speakers’ preferences for the conceptualisation and encoding of causative constructions in Spanish Ibarretxe-Antuñano Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal, Noa Causes and Conditions Bassel and York Hagmayer Bridget Copley Intentions and dispositions Renata Enghels The causative constructional network in Spanish: a stringent case of language productivity at work Vittorio Ganfi and Valentina Causativity and Complex Prepositions in Italian and Romance languages Piunno Lilián Guerrero Opportunistic jussive predicates in Yaqui Jens Hopperdietzel, Malte Force calculation is cylcic Zimmermann and Mary Amaechi Olga Kagan A Force-Dynamic Approach to Perfectivity Iva Novakova and Yanka Causation in Bulgarian: evidence from 3- to 6-year-old monolingual children Bezinska Monika Rind-Pawlowski Causative Constructions in Khinalug Lucia Tovena Enabling and causes WS 5: COGNITIVE MECHANISMS DRIVING LANGUAGE CHANGE Convenors: Carola Trips, Achim Stein, Yela Schauwecker & Michael Percillier Seckin Arslan Restructuring in grammatical evidentiality in Turkish as a heritage language and implications for cognitive modulators of contact-induced change María Eugenia Arthuis Blanco A psycholinguistic approach to feature borrowability in historical contact scenarios Alexander Bergs Language contact and language change from a constructional perspective Timothy Colleman On the role of contact in the emergence of two new argument structure constructions in present-day Afrikaans Ailís Cournane Experimental acquisition evidence that children may drive modal verb incrementation
Ulrike Demske Syntactic Change and Language Processing: Extraposition in the History of German Maia Duguine and Aritz Irurtzun Mechanisms triggering the use of bare nouns in a language without bare nouns John Hawkins and Luna Filipovic On bilingualism-induced language change: What will change, when and why? Nicole Hober The implications of linguistic awareness for contact-induced change Guglielmo Inglese and Anne The rise of non-oppositional middle verbs: the case of Old French Wolfsgruber Gerrit Jan Kootstra Cross-linguistic structural priming as a potential mechanism of contact-induced language change Savithry Namboodiripad Shared processing strategies as a mechanism for contact-induced change in flexible constituent order Marlieke Shaw and Hendrik De Loan word accommodation biases in Dutch and Middle English: a question of processing cost? Smet Michelle Troberg The role of analytic vagueness in the loss of Old French directional particles Sophia Voigtmann Information Density as a Measurement of Processing Difficulties in Historical Data WS 6: COMPLEX PREDICATES ACROSS LANGUAGES: VARIATION AND ACQUISITION (COMPLANG) Convenors: Olga Borik, Silvia Sánchez & Ismael Teomiro Yanka Bezinska Complex Causative Predicates of French and Bulgarian Children aged 3 to 6 years Paolo Della Putta and Francesca How complex are verbal periphrases to learn and unlearn? The case of
Zaira Khalilova Complex verbs in Bezhta Hideki Kishimoto The Roles of Verbs and Nouns in Japanese Light Verb Constructions Bracha Nir Predicate chaining and clause complexes in Hebrew and English: A discourse-based analysis Anna Pompei Verb-particle constructions and prefixed verbs: a case of applicative formation? A diachronic perspective on complex verb formation Tihomir Rangelov Coverbs in the languages of Vanuatu and beyond Patricia Schneider-Zioga and Pretending in Lai Kenneth Van Bik William Snyder Complex Predicates: Connecting Crosslinguistic Variation to Acquisition Maria Luisa Zubizarreta Morpho-syntactic and Prosodic Cues in Complex Predicates. A Case Study. WS 7: CONSTRUCTIONAL ANALYSIS IN MULTIMODAL PERSPECTIVE Convenors: Mirjam Fried, Kiki Nikiforidou & Alex Bergs Angeliki Alvanoudi The Negative-Directive-Construction in Greek: Pragmatic and prosodic aspects of de mu les? (‘tell me’)
Roberta Cicchirillo, Claudia The prosody of list constructions Roberta Combei, Francesca Masini and Miriam Voghera Svetlana Dachkovsky, Shirit Multimodal Signs: PALM-UP as a Textual Discourse Marker Cohen-Koka, Rose Stamp and Bracha Nir Anna Inbar Rectification constructions in Israeli Hebrew: A multimodal approach Jakub Jehlička and Eva Lehečková From boundaries to contours – a multimodal-construal approach to aspectuality Claudia Lehmann An integrated approach to multimodal ironic constructions Manon Lelandais A multimodal approach to syntactic coordination in spontaneous conversation Pavel Machač and Mirjam Fried Utterance comprehension in spontaneous speech: phonetic reductions and syntactic context Kiki Nikiforidou Multimodality, conventionality and inheritance in dialogic constructions Marina Terkourafi Exploring relations between constructions Peter Uhrig Exploring the interaction of gesture and prosody in a large corpus Arie Verhagen Construction grammar, multimodal communication, and design features of language: Preliminaries to a coherent research program
WS 8: CONTINUATIVE AND CONTRASTIVE DISCOURSE RELATIONS ACROSS DISCOURSE DOMAINS: COGNITIVE AND CROSS-LINGUISTIC APPROACHES Convenors: Matthias Klumm, Anita Fetzer & Evelien Keizer Cecilia Maria Andorno, Sandra More than one Contrast. Crosslinguistic and intralinguistic comparison of Contrast marking through task- Benazzo and Christine Dimroth elicited speech Amalia Canes-Nápoles Discourse markers as topic managers. But how exactly? Doriana Cimmino Contrastive discourse relations and non-canonical syntax. A case study of Left Dislocations in spoken and written Italian Ludivine Crible Connectives and other discourse signals: Parallelism in addition and contrast Debopam Das and Markus Egg Continuity in discourse: A case study on causal and contrastive relations Anita Fetzer and Matthias Klumm The linguistic realization of Continuation and Elaboration in (English) discourse: A context-based analysis across narrative and argumentative genres Carolin Harthan Initial vs. Medial Placement of Contrastive Linking Adverbials in Written Present-Day English Na Hu, Aoju Chen, Fang Li, Hugo The role of prosody in expressing subjective and objective causality in Mandarin discourse Quené and Ted Sanders Mitsuko Izutsu and Katsunobu When discursive glue comes off: Japanese contrastive and continuative connectives in spoken discourse Izutsu Ekkehard König Towards a typology of contrastive relations and contrastive connectives Marian Marchal, Pim Mak and Genre-based expectations for coherence relations Ted Sanders Elena Martínez Caro Digression, topic resumption and discourse coherence: Comparing English and Spanish Amália Mendes, Deniz Zeyrek Explicit and implicit relations of continuity and contrast in a multilingual discourse bank and Giedre Giedr Valu nait Oles kevic ien Inés Recio Fernández and Óscar Processing causal and counter-argumentative connected discourse Loureda Augustin Speyer Discourse relations and the German prefield Mathis Wetzel and Sandrine How do Learners process Continuous and Discontinuous Relations? Zufferey
WS 9: DISSECTING MORPHOLOGICAL THEORY 1: DIMINUTIVIZATION ACROSS LANGUAGES AND FRAMEWORKS Convenors: Stela Manova, Boban Arsenijevic, Laura Grestenberger & Katharina Korecky-Kröll Angel Alonsocortés Diminutive formation in Spanish : evidence for word morphology Boban Arsenijevic and Marko Diminution, categorization and declension class in Serbo-Croatian Simonovic Wolfgang Dressler, Elisa Mattiello Typological impact of morphological richness and priority of pragmatics over semantics in Italian, Arabic, and Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun German, and English diminutives László Fejes Borrowed or inspired? Komi diminutive under Russian influence Laura Grestenberger and Dalina Verbal diminutives and cross-categorial syncretism Kallulli Camiel Hamans The parallel between diminutives, hypocoristics and embellished clippings in English and Dutch Lina Inčiurait -Noreikien and Diminutivization in Lithuanian: The case of noun borrowing Bonifacas Stundžia Silva Nurmio and Olga Kagan Diminutive or singulative? The suffixes -in and -k in Russian
Mirena Patseva Prosodic factors in the selection of Bulgarian diminutive suffixes in the perspective of Headmost accent theory Peter Rebrus, Péter Szigetvári Diminutives: Templatic morphology in an agglutinative language and Miklós Törkenczy Maria Rosenberg The Swedish suffix -is and its place in the theory of diminutivization Dmitri Sitchinava and Stela Slavic diminutive morphology: An interplay of scope, templates and paradigms Manova Olga Steriopolo, Giorgos Parameters of variation in the syntax of expressive size suffixes: Case studies of Russian, German, Markopoulos and Vassilios Spanish, and Greek Spyropoulos Elizaveta Tarasova and José Pejorative suffixation in present-day English: A sociolinguistic analysis of -ie and -o nominalisations Antonio Sánchez Fajardo Utku Türk Decomposing so-called diminutives in Turkish Maria D. Voeikova Structural functions of diminutives in modern Russian
WS 10: EVIDENTIAL STRATEGIES. DESCRIPTION AND EXPLANATION Convenors: María Isabel Pérez Jiménez, Silvia Gumiel Molina & Aoife K. Ahern Aoife Ahern, Jose Amenos-Pons Evidentiality from a developmental perspective: conjectural future in Catalan / Spanish bilinguals and Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes Angeles Carrasco On evidentiality and perception. Ambivalent adjectives in the Spanish non-finite complements of ver, ‘see’ Hans-Jörg Döhla and Anja When an evidential becomes a contact-induced evidential strategy. The case of Guaraní particles in Hennemann Paraguayan Spanish Victoria Escandell-Vidal Testing evidential interpretations with estar+ILP. A preliminary survey Edita Gutiérrez-Rodríguez and Evidentiality and variation in the complementizer phrase: the case of deísmo Pilar Pérez-Ocón Elly Ifantidou and Lemonia Mirative evidentials and non-propositional meaning Tsavdaridou Víctor Lara-Bermejo The creation of evidentiality in Ibero-Romance Manuel Leonetti Individual-level predicates, locative adjuncts and perspectivization Eric Mélac Evidentiality and and its grammaticalization in French: A contrastive study based on a spoken French- Tibetan corpus Sara Sanchez-Alonso, Fraibet The Acquisition of Spanish Copula Verbs in 4-12-year-old Children Aveledo and Maria Pinango Jennifer Tan Evidential value of Spanish igual Elena Vilinbakhova Evidential interpretations of Spanish uno vs. English one: evidence from parallel corpora Rodica Zafiu From context-dependent evidential strategies to grammatical specialization: how the Romanian conjectural future becomes a presumptive mood Chiara Zanchi Evidentiality in Herodotus’ Histories: a first survey
WS 11: EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES TO ROMANCE MORPHOSYNTAX Convenors: Senta Zeugin, Albert Wall, Philipp Obrist, Johannes Kabatek & Patrick Santos Rebelo Aixiu An and Anne Abeillé Gender agreement with coordinated nouns in French : an experimental approach Begoña Arechabaleta Regulez An Experimental Investigation of Language Variation and Change in Mexican Spanish and Silvina Montrul Iria de-Dios-Flores and Juan Lexical control in Spanish obligatory complement control constructions: examining the contrast between Carlos Acuña-Fariña subject and object control verbs.
Irene Fally and Eva Smolka Experimental Perspectives on Romance Prefix Verbs Martín Fuchs Experimental methods for language variation and change in Spanish Vicky Leonetti and Jacopo Investigating the interpretation of null and overt pronouns in Spanish by means of a graded judgement task Torregrossa and a sentence continuation task Sophie Mürmann Differential Object Marking and agentivity in Sicilian and Catalan. Evidence from an acceptability judgement study Philipp Obrist, Albert Wall, Senta Combining elicitation tasks and acceptability judgments in search of infrequent structures; A case study in Zeugin, Johannes Kabatek and Differential Marking of inanimate-reference objects in Spanish Patrick Santos Rebelo Diego Romero Heredero Affectedness and Differential Object Marking in Spanish: a double perspective study Alina Tigau and Klaus Von Romanian direct object marking and discourse prominence – Experimental evidence from a paragraph Heusinger continuation task Alina Villalva Core issues in the field of experimental morphology Klaus Von Heusinger and Marco Differential Object Marking and discourse prominence in Spanish Garcia Garcia Carmen Widera An experimental analysis of the variable use of il in finite impersonal constructions in modern spoken French Senta Zeugin Differential Object Marking and language contact: an experimental study of Spanish and Romanian
WS 12: ICONICITY IN PROSAIC LEXICON Convenor: Ian Joo Aleksandra Cwiek Are German Pokémon Names Sound-Symbolic? Maria Flaksman Hidden iconicity: de-iconization of Russian and English imitative lexicons Bonnie McLean, Michael Dunn and Two measures are better than one: combining ratings and guessing experiments for a more nuanced picture Mark Dingemanse of iconicity in the lexicon Keiko Murasugi and Kimi Akita Japanese binomial adjectives
Lalita Murty and Vasanta Duggirala Iconicity of Adverbial Nouns of Time and Space in Telugu José Antonio Sánchez Fajardo Iconic prosody and prosaic bases: a construction-based analysis of words ending in {o} in contemporary English
WS 13: INDEXICALITY Convenors: Peter Juul Nielsen & María Sol Sansiñena Henning Andersen The price of indexicality. The view from isomorphism Karin Beijering The development of (self)benefactive double object constructions in Norwegian Hans-Olav Enger Multifunctional indexes: two Scandinavian examples Teresa Flera Indexicality in Contexts of Literary Fiction Livio Gaeta Evolutionary steps for linguistic signs: the role of indexicality Lars Heltoft Domain-straddling indexicality - the Greenlandic causative Binene Horchani Indexicality of transcategorial morphemes Caterina Mauri and Francesca Multi-layered indexicality Masini Stepan Mikhailov Losing indices: How an anaphoric article developed from a 2SG possessive in Northern Khanty Francois Nemo Indexicality in the minimal/non-minimal (or less minimal) sign relationship Peter Juul Nielsen From symbol to index: the semiotic alignment of the Danish free indirect object Katja Politt and Gabriele Diewald Paradigmaticization as indexicalization: German “medio-passive” constructions with and without lassen Stéphane Robert Beyond insubordination: a Wolof verbal form indexing situational dependency Stef Spronck Are there non-indexical expressions? Eva Zehentner The history of the English dative alternation: from morphosyntax to pragmatics WS 14: INTEGRATING SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND TYPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE VARIATION Convenors: Silvia Ballarè, Francesca Di Garbo, Guglielmo Inglese & Eri Kashima
Alessandra Barotto, Simone A socio-typological approach to conditionals: focus on counterfactuals Mattiola and Caterina Mauri Laura Becker, Matías Guzmán The influence of sociolinguistic factors on conditional constructions Naranjo and Samira Ochs Bert Cornillie and Malte Syntactic elaboration: the case of auxiliation in the realm of communicative distance Rosemeyer Peter Dekker, Marian Klamer and Analysing contact-induced simplification in Alorese using agent-based models Bart de Boer Nina Dobrushina Intra-language variation in a typological perspective
Minella Duzerol Variation in Martinican complementation: a sociogrammatical approach Lorenzo Ferrarotti Isolation and Complexification: some Evidence from Northern Italian Dialects Anja Hasse and Guido Seiler Filling the gap in a typology of mixed languages Jonathon Lum, Bill Palmer, Alice Sociolinguistic and typological variation in frames of spatial reference Gaby and Jonathan Schlossberg Mara Marsella The copula system in Palenquero. A preliminary variationist study Susanne Maria Michaelis The systematic contributions of substrates and lexifiers in creolization Adriano Murelli A scale of standardness for relative constructions in European varieties? John Peterson A sociolinguistic-typological approach to the linguistic prehistory of South Asia Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez Variation, the role of frequency and social indexicality in the acquisition of Basque ergativity Konstantinos Sampanis, Utku Türk Defining borrowing hierarchies in the light of sociolinguistic and geodemographic causation: contact-induced and Umut Gülsün morphosyntactic change in Asia Minor Greek. Matthew Stave, Kilu von Prince A usage-based approach to morphological typology and Frank Seifart Natalia Stoynova Language-inherent variability or contact-induced change? The clitic že ‘I mean’ in Russian speech of Nanai and Ulcha speakers Verena Weiland Sociolinguistic parameters of Spanish fricative pronunciation: a corpusphonological study Debra Ziegeler and Christophe Typological explanation and grammaticalization in a New English variety: Singapore English. Lenoble WS 15: INVESTIGATING LANGUAGE ISOLATES: TYPOLOGICAL AND DIACHRONIC PERSPECTIVES Convenors: Iker Salaberri, Dorota Krajewska, Urtzi Reguero, Eneko Zuloaga, Borja Ariztimuno, Maitena Duhalde, Oxel Uribe-Etxebarria, Sergio Monforte, Ekaitz Santazilia & Koldo Ulibarri Luca Alfieri Linguistic isolates and the comparative method: On the controversial genetic affiliation of Burushaski Anna Bugaeva Ainu, an isolate in Northeast Asia: what makes it unique? Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Kellen Is there a typological profile of isolates? Parker van Dam, Shelece Easterday, David Inman and Marine Vuillermet Fernando O. de Carvalho On the affiliation of Yaathe, a (presumed) isolate from northeastern Brazil: A research program and some tentative results Spike Gildea and Katharina Haude An Austronesian-type voice system in an Amazonian isolate Ekaterina Gruzdeva and Juha On the external and internal history of Nivkh (Amuric) in a comparative perspective
Janhunen Abbie Hantgan The case of the Big Bang - a methodology for tracing the history of a language and population isolate Carmen Jany California isolates: Language contact and genetic classification Florian Lionnet How typologically and areally unusual is Laal? Julen Manterola Etymologies and etymography in a language isolate: the case of Basque Irina Nikolaeva Syntactic reconstruction in isolates research: Proto-Yukaghir core grammar and Uralic Jesus Olguin Martinez Temporal adverbial clauses in language isolates Thomas Schwaiger Reduplication in language isolates: Special or run-of-the-mill? Angela Terrill Baroque accretions and isolation: A view on language isolates Matthias Urban Language Isolates and the linguistic prehistory of the Central Andes Rik Van Gijn, Leonardo Arias, The social life of isolates: a multidisciplinary approach to reconstructing the history of isolates in the north- Nicholas Q. Emlen, Nora Julmi and west Amazon Sietze Norder WS 16: ITALIAN HERITAGE LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES Convenors: Margherita Di Salvo & Eugenio Goria Edoardo Cavirani Gender and Number microvariation in Italian heritage varieties Chiara Celata and Naomi Nagy Phonological change in Heritage Italian spoken in Toronto: social factors and lexical frequency Evandro L. T. P. Cunha Designing and building a web corpus of Talian (Brazilian Venetian language) Valentina Del Vecchio The role of well-defined areas of origin in the trends of language contact phenomena in contexts of migration: The case of an Italian community in Bletchley (Milton Keynes) Margherita Di Salvo and Naomi Differential Object Marking in two Italian communities abroad: Diatopic and network variation Nagy Maria Francesca Ferin, Miriam Rhetorical Questions in German-dominant Heritage Speakers of Italian Geiss, Tanja Kupisch and Theodoros Marinis Manuela Frontera Cues of dialect attrition in Italian-Argentinian trilingual speakers Guilherme D. Garcia and Natalia Using corpus data to map phonological patterns in Brazilian Veneto Brambatti Guzzo Marta Lupica Spagnolo Italian in Transit: Attempting a definition on the basis of distribution and functions of generalized present infinitives Silvia Natale and Stefania Marzo Standardization of neostandard Italian abroad
Giulia Pepe Between new and old: An analysis of the linguistic practices of post-war and post-2008 crisis Italian migrants in the UK Andrea Peskova Italian Heritage Speakers in Buenos Aires Simone Pisano, Vittorio Ganfi and Heritage Sardinian: a corpus-based study Valentina Piunno Angela Ralli Contrasting Italianese and Greek Canadian as target languages. The case of English loan nouns in the immigrant speech in Montreal (Canada) Antonia Rubino ‘Amore it’s a sweet word’: Attitudes towards heritage languages amongst third generation Australian-Italian youth Lucija Šimičić and Ivana Škevin Language ideologies, attitudes and practices among Italian speakers in Croatia Rajko WS 17: MOUNTAIN LINGUISTICS Convenor: Matthias Urban Marc Alllassonnière-Tang and Mountains, rivers, and word orders of numeral bases and classifiers in Tibeto-Burman One-Soon Her Raffaele Cioffi, Marco Angster, Mountain Linguistics: The Western Alpine Landscape Marco Bellante, Paolo Benedetto Mas, Livio Gaeta, Adriano Murelli, Aline Pons, Gianmario Raimondi and Matteo Rivoira Michael Daniel and Alexey Language altitude and language size Koshevoy Caleb Everett A frequency-based approach to exploring potential effects of ambient air pressure reduction on ease of articulation Henrik Liljegren Small-scale convergence in the Hindu Kush mountain area George Moroz On the correlation between phoneme inventory size and elevation: the case of Dagestan Johanna Nichols Mountain river thinking: Vertiality and language stacks Ronald Schaefer and Francis Edo North: Refugium and Micro-Accretion Zone Egbokhare WS 18: THE SYNTAX OF ARGUMENT STRUCTURE ALTERNATIONS ACROSS FRAMEWORKS - SAS21 Convenors: Svitlana Antonyuk, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández & Isabel Oltra-Massuet Josep Ausensi and María Eugenia Causative verbs and intransitive causatives
Mangialavori Rasia Ane Berro, Ane Odria and Beatriz The interaction between the implicit subject and the person restriction in Basque impersonals Fernández Alison Biggs On two classes of unaccusatives in Shantou Teochew (Southern Min) Alessandro Bigolin and Josep Against a lexicalist account of the Argument-Per-Subevent Condition Ausensi Anna Bondaruk and Bożena Alernating arguments of Polish psych verbs Rozwadowska Isabel Crespí Resultative and stative passives in Catalan: an approach from event structure Mara Frascarelli Focus Fronting and Argument Structure Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo and Rafael Argument structure alternations and aspectual shift in extent verbs Marín Peter Hallman Argument hierarchies and alternations in causative and double object constructions Heidi Harley Polysemy and monosemy in the object-drop alternation Margherita Pallottino Restructuring antipassives: the argument structure of complex events Cilene Rodrigues When a possessor runs away from home, where does it go? A study on external possession and types of verbal argument structure Juan Romero and Javier Ditransitive Alternation as Raising to Object Ormazabal Silvia Sánchez-Calderón The syntactic alternating architecture of English and Spanish double object and prepositional dative constructions from an acquisition approach Nomi Shir and Tova Rapoport The lexicon-syntax and information structure interfaces WS 19: TOWARDS A HOLISTIC UNDERSTANDING OF LANGUAGE CONTACT IN THE PAST Convenors: Nikolaos Lavidas, Ioanna Sitaridou, and Igor Yanovich Evangelia Adamou, Quentin A unified approach to the study of language contact: How cross-language priming drives change in noun- Feltgen and Cristian Padure adjective order Mary Baltazani, Joanna Przedlacka Historical intonation and contact: two case studies and John Coleman Hannah Davidson Influences on Mauritian Creole’s early development of past marking Adina Dragomirescu Word order in old Romanian: at the crossroad between Latin heritage and Old Church Slavonic influence Andrés Enrique-Arias Political influence and competing grammars in language contact: variation between este and aqueste in medieval Aragonese
Patience Epps Specialist discourse, language contact, and language change: Observations from Amazonia Daven Hobbs Evolutionary Linguistics as a Theory of Language: Implications for Contact-Induced Change Brian Joseph Towards a Reductionist View of Language Contact Effects Olesya Khanina and Valentin Towards a holistic understanding of the linguistic past: the Northern Samoyedic case Gusev Nikos Liosis On the Grammar of Western Thrace Albanian: what is old or new, what is conduct-induced or areal, and other inextricably intertwined questions. Christopher Lucas Towards an integrated model of change: language contact, dialect contact, internal variation Friederike Lüpke Multilingual presents as a window into multilingual pasts Lutz Marten and Hannah Gibson Tracing inheritance and contact in Bantu languages: Evidence from morphosyntactic variation Antoine Primerano Koineization and language contact in the history of Spanish: an examination of several morphosyntactic changes Wojciech Sowa Dialectology, typology and variation: the theory of ‘Balkan Indo-European’ and its implications for the history of the Ancient Greek dialects Krzysztof Stroński Language contact in South Asia – typology meets diachrony Sali Tagliamonte Contact as alignment: Community norms in bilingual Ontario Ianthi Tsimpli, Alexandra Prentza Language contact effects are bidirectional: morphosyntax and the view from feature interpretability and Maria Kaltsa Stavroula Tsiplakou Focus (on) clefts: aspects of gradience in bidialectal acquisition. WS 20: WORD ORDER AND PROSODY Convenors: Maia Duguine and Aritz Irurtzun Ricardo Etxepare Verb-first restrictions in two varieties of Basque Caroline Fery and Gisbert The role of prosody in a typological survey of discontinuous nominal phrases Fanselow Isabelle Franz, Markus Bader and The influence of rhythm on placing the German object pronoun Gerrit Kentner Cassandra Freiberg Prosody-induced word order variation in Ancient Greek? Evidence from Herodotus' Histories Keffyalew Gebregziabher Word order anomalies in Tigrinya: Evidence for PF phenomena Farhat Jabeen Word order and intonation of wh-questions in Urdu Benazir Mumtaz and Miriam Butt Prosodic Phrasing in Interaction with Word Order and Case Marking in Urdu/Hindi Kristina Riedel and Seunghun Lee Focus word order and Penultimate Lengthening in two Bantu Languages
Heete Sahkai, Anders Holmberg The Prosodic Structure of V2 Clauses in Estonian and Anne Tamm Balázs Surányi and Ádám Focus-marking in prosody and word order in Hungarian: No escape from syntax Szalontai Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria Revisiting the architecture of Polar Questions (PQs) and their answers