SLE 2021
Societas Linguistica Europaea 30 August – 3 September 2021
Time zone: CET summer time (= GMT + 2)
Extended schedule with links to the OSF platform
GENERAL SESSION ...... 3 Monday 30 August ...... 3 Tuesday 31 August ...... 6 Wednesday 1 September ...... 8 Thursday 2 September ...... 11 Friday 3 September ...... 13 WORKSHOP SESSIONS ...... 15 WS 1: Adjective: the unknown category ...... 15 WS 2: Artificial/peripheral structures: What can they tell us about the (morpho)phonology of natural languages ...... 16 WS 3: Building modality with syntax: Focus on Ancient Greek ...... 17 WS 4: Causation: from concept to grammar ...... 18 WS 5: Cognitive mechanisms driving language change ...... 19 WS 6: Complex predicates across languages: Variation and acquisition (Complang) ...... 20 WS 7: Constructional analysis in multimodal perspective ...... 21 WS 8: Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains: Cognitive and cross-linguistic approaches ...... 22 WS 9: Dissecting Morphological Theory 1: Diminutivization Across Languages and Frameworks ...... 23
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WS 10: Evidential strategies. Description and explanation ...... 24 WS 11: Experimental approaches to Romance morphosyntax ...... 25 WS 12: Iconicity in prosaic lexicon ...... 26 WS 13: Indexicality ...... 27 WS 14: Integrating sociolinguistics and typological perspectives on language variation ...... 28 WS 15: Investigating language isolates: typological and diachronic perspectives ...... 30 WS 16: Italian heritage language communities ...... 31 WS 17: Mountain linguistics ...... 32 WS 18: The syntax of argument structure alternations across frameworks - SAS21 ...... 33 WS 19: Towards a holistic understanding of language contact in the past ...... 34 WS 20: Word Order and Prosody ...... 35 Asynchronous presentations ...... 35
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GENERAL SESSION
Monday 30 August ------9.00-9.20 Opening session
GENERAL SESSION 1 MODERATOR: Bert Cornillie 9.20-9.40 Gustavo Guajardo, The Transitivity Index: A continuous measure of Transitivity 9.40-10.00 Giulia Mazzola, From Distance to Immediacy: asyndetic complements in Classical and Present-day Spanish 10.00-10.20 Stefano De Pascale and Dirk Pijpops, Token-based distributional semantics for grammatical alternation research 10.20-10.40 Manuel Padilla Cruz, Ad hoc concepts and non-propositional meaning
GENERAL SESSION 2 MODERATOR: Camiel Hamans 9.20-9.40 Natalia Kuznetsova, Irina Brodskaya and Elena Markus, Isochrony and “anti- isochrony” in the Soikkola Ingrian trisyllabic foot 9.40-10.00 Borana Lushaj, The gradience of Middle Albanian vowel length contrasts 10.00-10.20 Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon, Languages with more speakers tend to have shorter words, more phonemes per syllable, and more words per clause 10.20-10.40 Magdalena Wrembel, Ulrike Gut, Romana Kopečková and Anna Balas, Perception and production of L2 and L3 rhotics in young multilinguals, an exploratory cross-linguistic study 10.40-11.00 Isabeau De Smet and Laura Rosseel, Does ‘he dived’ take longer than ‘he dove’? An experimental inquiry into iconic patterns in verb morphology
11.00-11.20 Break
GENERAL SESSION 1 MODERATOR: Bert Cornillie 11.20-11.40 Anna De Marco and Emanuela Paone, The effect of explicit instruction on the use of discourse markers in Italian as L2 11.40-12.00 Jacopo Garzonio and Enrico Castro, Unexpected orders in special cells: 1PL and 2PL forms in a Northern Venetan variety 12.00-12.20 Mariagrazia Palumbo and Anna De Marco, Metadiscoursive discourse markers in a corpus of Italian migrants in Munich 12.20-12.40 Leon Shor, Anna Inbar, Yael Reshef and Einat Gonen, From deixis to vagueness: Hedging expressions in Modern Hebrew 12.40-13.00 Magdalena Schwarz, Theresa Matzinger and Nikolaus Ritt, Assessing the effect of shared language and other social group markers on trust
GENERAL SESSION 2 MODERATOR: Sonia Cristofaro 11.20-11.40 Julian Andrej Rott and Ana Krajinović, From formation to alternation: The case of the Nafsan psych domain
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11.40-12.00 Sally Wong, Eric Reuland and Martin Everaert, The peculiar blocking effect in the complement of Mandarin zi-verbs 12.00-12.20 Chang Liu, Two types of Presentational Amalgam Constructions in Mandarin Chinese 12.20-12.40 Sandra Cronhamn, Semantic Perspectives on Baniwa Classifiers 12.40-13.00 Olena Shcherbakova, Damián Blasi, Volker Gast, Russell Gray and Simon Greenhill, Evolution of case systems
13.00-13.30 Break MODERATOR: Teresa Fanego 13.30-14.30 Plenary Presidential Address Johannes Kabatek (University of Zurich)
GENERAL SESSION 1 MODERATOR: Ray Fabri 14.40-15.00 Andriy Danylenko, Bessarabian Ukrainian: A New Linguistic Area in the Making? 15.00-15.20 Raquel P. Romasanta, Language contact and substrate language effect in Asian varieties of English 15.20-15.40 Jingting Ye, Frequency and coding patterns of adjectives: a cross-linguistic corpus study 15.40-16.00 Anna Branets, The role of Language Exposure in Mediated Receptive Multilingualism 16.00-16.20 Ka-Fai Yip and Benjamin Tsou, Differential Metaphorization and Grammaticalization in Chinese Light Verbs
GENERAL SESSION 2 MODERATOR: Helle Metslang 14.40-15.00 Monica Irimia, DOM co-occurrence restrictions in Romance: beyond clitic clusters 15.00-15.20 Ana Maria Barros Brito, Transparent relative clauses as predicative free relatives: evidence from Portuguese 15.20-15.40 Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Coordinate conjunction extended projection 15.40-16.00 Eric Reuland, Variation in Binding Patterns
16.20-16.40 Break
GENERAL SESSION 1 MODERATOR: Diana Lewis 16.40-17.00 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 17.00-17.20 Sydelle de Souza and Alina Villalva, Root and word-based diminutives in European Portuguese 17.20-17.40 Adina Camelia Bleotu, Denominal verbs and creativity: An experimental approach 17.40-18.00 Maria Laura Restivo, On the development of the particles formed with the Italian adverb ‘pur(e)’
GENERAL SESSION 2 MODERATOR: Martin Everaert
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16.40-17.00 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 17.00-17.20 Jessica Kantarovich, Inverse marking as a type of object agreement: Evidence from Chukchi 17.20-17.40 Martin Kohlberger, Building bridges between cartography and the documentation of endangered knowledge
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Tuesday 31 August ------
GENERAL SESSION 1 MODERATOR: Katharina Haude 9.00-9.20 Laura Ros García, Eventualities within the nominal domain: The case of ‘no + event deverbal nominal’ in Spanish 9.20-9.40 Anna Kampanarou, Three types of existential constructions in Greek: their distribution and syntax 9.40-10.00 Charlotte Bourgoin, Karen Lahousse and Kristin Davidse, On cleft ellipsis: a syntactic and functional account of reduced c’est-clefts 10.00-10.20 Marcel Schlechtweg and Holden Härtl, The processing of scare quotes in English
GENERAL SESSION 2 MODERATOR: Fernando Zúñiga 9.00-9.20 Peter Arkadiev, Caritive morphology in Abaza: from derivation to inflection and back 9.20-9.40 Zarina Molochieva and Zaira Khalilova, Proper names in the Nakh-Daghestanian languages 9.40-10.00 Michael Franjieh, Greville Corbett and Alexandra Grandison, Cognitive effects of possessive classifiers: visualising complex data with dendrograms 10.00-10.20 Maryam Nourzaei, The emergence of definiteness Marking from Evaluative Morphology in Persian: Internal Variation and Diachronic Pathway 10.20-10.40 Katherine Walker and Eva van Lier, Alternating pronominal indexing in Kamang
10.40-11.00 Break
GENERAL SESSION 1 MODERATOR: Michela Cennamo 11.00-11.20 Lucia Molinu, The athematic infinitives in old Sardinian 11.20-11.40 Laura Peiró-Márquez and Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Motion events in Spanish from a multimodal perspective: what gesture reveals about non easily encodable semantic components and its congruency 11.40-12.00 Giada Palmieri and Renato Miguel Basso, On the ambiguity of se-clauses and the role of natural reflexivity in Brazilian Portuguese 12.00-12.20 Johanna Miecznikowski, Elena Battaglia and Christian Geddo, Addressee-centered evidential markers in talk-in-interaction. The case of Italian ‘vedere’+’che’ constructions 12.20-12.40 Elena Battaglia, Constructionalization of discourse functions in the history of Italian: a corpus study of ‘infatti’
GENERAL SESSION 2 MODERATOR: Peter Arkadiev 11.00-11.20 Marina Chumakina and Ekaterina Lyutikova, Unusual agreement targets and controller choice: the case of Khwarshi 11.20-11.40 Marius Zemp, Fernando Zúñiga and Benjamin Brosig, On the link between evidentiality and egophoricity in languages of the Greater Himalayan Region 11.40-12.00 Florian Matter, Irregular first person inflections in Cariban: converging factors for morphological (dis-)similarity
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12.00-12.20 Benjamin Brosig, A distinct marker of completion and inadvertence within the tense- aspect-evidentiality-system of Khalkha Mongolian
12.40-13.30 Break
13.30-14.30 Anna Siewierska and Eugenio Coseriu Awards and Presentations
GENERAL SESSION 1 MODERATOR: Pierre-Yves Modicom 14.40-15.00 Rexhina Ndoci, In-group and out-group perceptions of a Greek L2 variety: The case of Albanian Greek 15.00-15.20 Kasper Boye and Maria Messerschmidt, Distinguishing lexical and grammatical adpositions 15.20-15.40 Eleni Tzimopoulou, Jenny Hartman and Carita Paradis, Cross modality in audition - Descriptions and experience ratings of everyday acousmatic sounds 15.40-16.00 Aleksandra Jarosz, Proto-Ryukyuan ‘rice’ words and the spread of Japonic into the Ryukyu islands
GENERAL SESSION 2 MODERATOR: Björn Wiemer 14.40-15.00 Ricardo Napoleão de Souza and Josefina Bittar, Final Lengthening in Paraguayan Guarani: Phonological and Morphosyntactic Variables 15.00-15.20 Linda Konnerth, How does clusivity disappear? A historical microtypology of South- Central Trans-Himalayan 15.20-15.40 Sandra Auderset, Adam Tallman and Carmen Hernández Martínez, Revisiting clitic phenomena in Mixtec 15.40-16.00 Lidia Mazzitelli, Genericity and habituality in Lakurumau 16.00-16.20 Anastasia Panova, On independent pronouns in languages with pronominal affixes: Evidence from Abaza
16.20-17.00 Break
GENERAL SESSION 1 MODERATOR: Nikolaos Lavidas 17.00-17.20 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 17.20-17.40 Ager Gondra, Testing the Interface Hypothesis: heritage speakers’ perception and production of Spanish subject position with unergative and unaccusative verbs 17.40-18.00 Marcia dos Santos Machado Vieira, Support verb complex predicates in varieties of Portuguese 18.00-18.20 Ibtissem Knouzi and Noah Khan, ESL Student-initiated questions: an interactional ethnography case study 18.20-18.40 Bridget Drinka, The Sacral Stamp of Greek: Periphrastic Constructions in New Testament Translations of Latin, Gothic, and Old Church Slavonic
20.00 Digital welcoming reception
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Wednesday 1 September ------GENERAL SESSION 1 MODERATOR: Magdalena Wrembel 9.00-9.20 Athanasia Gkouma, Maria Andria and Spyridoula Bella, Pragmatic competence in L2 Greek: A longitudinal study of Spanish and Catalan learners 9.20-9.40 Noèlia Sanahuja and Kepa Erdozia, The Impact of Lexical Co-activation through Cognates on L2 Rule Learning 9.40-10.00 Kepa Erdozia and Noèlia Sanahuja, The Facilitatory Role of L1 Syntax in the Initial Acquisition of L2 Syntax 10.00-10.20 Liljana Mitkovska, Eleni Bužarovska and Nataša Stojanovska-Ilievska, Crosslinguistic influence in Second Language Acquisition: post-verbal subjects in L2 English 10.20-10.40 Nikolas Koch, Antje Endesfelder Quick and Stefan Hartmann, Discourse priming and individual differences in first language acquisition. A traceback approach
GENERAL SESSION 2 MODERATOR: Sebastian Fedden 9.00-9.20 Nafiseh Taghva, Vahideh Abolhasani Zadeh and Amirsaeid Moloodi, Durational rhythmic variability of Persian between-sentence 9.20-9.40 Dawei Jin and Jun Chen, Complex NP island effects are stronger in why-questions: An experimental study 9.40-10.00 Kristian Roncero, Back in the future: the unexpected fate of West Polesian de- obligative and de-volitive future grams 10.00-10.20 Omri Amiraz, A diachronic explanation for cross-linguistic variation in the use of inverse-scope constructions 10.20-10.40 Simone Mattiola and Andrea Sansò, A typology of denominal verb formation
10.40-11.00 Break
GENERAL SESSION 1 MODERATOR: Johannes Kabatek 11.00-11.20 Svenja Schmid and Laura González López, On vocative positions in Spanish wh- interrogatives: new insights into the left periphery 11.20-11.40 Noemi De Pasquale and Antoine Guillaume, Associated motion in Western Sicilian: a preliminary account 11.40-12.00 Sébastien Vandenitte, Using the body to quote across languages and modalities: a comparative pilot study on enactment and utterance reports in LSFB and Belgian French 12.00-12.20 Elisabeth Heiszenberger and Elissa Pustka, Orthography: Leading part or minor part? The emergence of liaison in French as a foreign language 12.20-12.40 Gabriela Bilbiie, A non-elliptical analysis of polar verbless clauses
GENERAL SESSION 2 MODERATOR: Nikolaus Ritt 11.00-11.20 Natalia Levshina, Cross-linguistic trade-offs and causal relationships between cues to grammatical Subject and Object 11.20-11.40 An Van Linden, Where alienability accounts fall short: Bound nouns in Harakmbut 11.40-12.00 Ellison Luk, Constructing conditionals in Australian languages: a typological study
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12.00-12.20 Malte Rosemeyer and Eitan Grossman, Why don’t grammaticalization pathways always recur? 12.20-12.40 Sonia Cristofaro, Diachronic pathways to constructional harmonies and what they mean for typological universals
12.40-13.30 Break MODERATOR: Lars Hellan 13.30-14.00 General Session keynote: Sebastian Fedden, Matías Guzmán Naranjo and Greville Corbett, Typology meets data-mining: the German gender system
GENERAL SESSION 1 MODERATOR: Chiara Gianollo 14.20-14.40 Cristina Ruiz-Alonso, On definite article el: a spell-out of inherent case? Evidence from Spanish 14.40-15.00 Alberto Hijazo-Gascon and Maria Andria, Semantic contrasts in deictic motion between Modern Greek and Spanish 15.00-15.20 Jadranka Gvozdanovic, Subjective modality and evidentiality in Czech in a Slavic perspective: complex developments and theoretical implications 15.20-15.40 Nikolaus Ritt, Magdalena Schwarz, Theresa Matzinger, Andreas Baumann and Vanja Vukovic, Quantifying changes in gender bias in the Google Books Corpus
GENERAL SESSION 2 MODERATOR: Maria Napoli 14.20-14.40 Silvia Luraghi, Beyond affectedness - Partitive objects and degrees of agenthood in Ancient Greek 14.40-15.00 Ulrich Geupel, Affix Rivalry of Ancient Greek Abstract Nouns: A Matter of Domains? 15.00-15.20 Erica Biagetti, From Standard Marker to Adaptor: the case of Vedic iva 15.20-15.40 Gerd Carling, Marc Tang, Silvia Luraghi, Sunny Pydugadu, Olof Lundgren and Filip Larsson, The lexical and typological trajectory of Indo-European gender evolution
15.40-16.00 Break
GENERAL SESSION 1 MODERATOR: Andra Kalnača 16.00-16.20 Tiit Hennoste, Külli Habicht, Helle Metslang, Külli Prillop, Kirsi Laanesoo, Liina Pärismaa, Elen Pärt, Andra Rumm, Andriela Rääbis and Carl Eric Simmul, I think, I hope, it seems: complement-taking predicates as discourse markers in different registers in Estonian 16.20-16.40 Miina Norvik, Uldis Balodis, Valts Ernštreits, Gunta Kļava, Helle Metslang, Karl Pajusalu and Eva Saar, Typological convergence in the Central Baltic area 16.40-17.00 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 17.00-17.20 Piia Taremaa and Anetta Kopecka, The expression of motion speed in a morphologically rich language
GENERAL SESSION 2 MODERATOR: Silvia Luraghi
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16.00-16.20 Riccardo Ginevra, Locative Alternation in Proto-Indo-European: a Lexical- Constructional Approach to Historical Semantics and Root Polysemy 16.20-16.40 Borja Herce, The diachrony of inflection clases: what can information-theoretic measures and quantitative approaches contribute to historical linguistics? 16.40-17.00 Freek Van de Velde and Isabeau De Smet, An alternative to generalized linear models: Markov models for multi-state language change 17.00-17.20 Sampsa Holopainen, Assessing irregular and “sporadic” developments in the prehistory of Hungarian vocalism
17.20-18.00 Break
GENERAL SESSION 1 MODERATOR: Anna Pompei 18.00-18.20 Oksana Lebedivna, Change of Common Slavic O to I in Southwest Ukrainian: The Case of the Kryvorivnja Dialect 18.20-18.40 Jesús Fernández-Domínguez, English verb-to-noun conversion and its role in nominal compounding 18.40-19.00 Luigi Talamo, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Katrin Menzel, Ekaterina Lapshinova- Koltunski, Yuri Bizzoni, Tania Avgustinova and Annemarie Verkerk, Surprisal and information structure of human referents across syntactic roles: evidence from European languages 19.00-19.20 Pavlina Kalm, Semantics of Locative Instruments in English
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Thursday 2 September ------GENERAL SESSION 1 MODERATOR: Miina Norvik 9.00-9.20 Tania Paciaroni, Constructions with DE in Gascon: A Romance perspective 9.20-9.40 Petr Kocharov, Default meaning and root levelling of the history of the Armenian verb 9.40-10.00 Egbert Fortuin, Unbounded repetition, habituality and aspect 10.00-10.20 Yana Penkova, Future anterior in Ruthenian as a key to understanding its evolution in East Slavic 10.20-10.40 Eugen Zaretsky and Benjamin P. Lange, Phonological short-term memory: Does ethnic background matter?
GENERAL SESSION 2 MODERATOR: Ad Foolen 9.00-9.20 Seongha Rhee, Functional Competition and Complementation among Multiple Forms: The Case of Layered Korean Datives 9.20-9.40 Kultida Khammee and Seongha Rhee, Small and cute? Small and bad?: Semantic network of diminutives in Thai and Korean 9.40-10.00 Rodolfo Basile, Situative strategies in Finno-Ugric and Beyond 10.00-10.20 Yael Maschler and Anna Inbar, Causality and epistemic stance: A multimodal analysis of Hebrew ki ‘because’-clauses in talk-in-interaction 10.20-10.40 Olga Krasnoukhova and Johan van der Auwera, Typology of standard negation: Insights and lessons from South American languages
10.40-11.00 Break
GENERAL SESSION 1 MODERATOR: Chiara Gianollo 11.00-11.20 Agnieszka Słoboda, Borrowing, reanalysis and extension as mechanisms underlying syntactic changes of structures with infinitive in Old Polish 11.20-11.40 Marzena Stępień, Polish deconverbal discourse markers with the exponent of negation 11.40-12.00 Andra Kalnača and Ilze Lokmane, The Latvian vocative – morphology and syntax interface 12.00-12.20 Beata Trawinski, Negation Raising as a Semi-Performative Operation. Corpus Evidence from Polish and German 12.20-12.40 Johan van der Auwera, Motoki Nomachi and Olga Krasnoukhova, Balto-Slavic connective negation and negative concord
GENERAL SESSION 2 MODERATOR: Yvonne Treis 11.00-11.20 Clara Lombart, Prosody, gesture and information structure in interaction: the case of contrastive focus in French 11.20-11.40 João Veloso, Segment complexity and segment inherent weight: the behaviour of palatality in Portuguese 11.40-12.00 Erika Petrocchi, Prosody of Emotions. The relation between (prosodical) linguistic and affective functions of nonmanual components in Sign Language
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12.40-13.30 Break MODERATOR: Lachlan Mackenzie 13.30-14.00 General Session Keynote: Steven Moran, Nicholas Lester and Eitan Grossman, Inferring recent evolutionary changes in speech sounds
GENERAL SESSION 1 MODERATOR: Mirjam Fried 14.20-14.40 Alejandra Ortiz, Sergio Ibañez Cerda and Armando Mora, Verbal diminutive morphology in the Colombian Spanish from the Andes 14.40-15.00 Andra Kütt and Reili Argus, Acquisition of referentiality in elicited narratives of Estonian-speaking children 15.00-15.20 Corinne Rossari, Claudia Ricci, Linda Sanvido and Cyrielle Montrichard, Modality and argumentative patterns 15.20-15.40 Markku Filppula, Celtic Englishes’ in the light of evidence from The Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English 15.40-16.00 Janina Mołczanow, Beata Łukaszewicz and Anna Łukaszewicz, Duration adjustment mechanisms in Ukrainian: the case of pretonic lengthening
GENERAL SESSION 2 MODERATOR: Spike Gildea 14.20-14.40 Matthew Baerman, Jeremy Pasquereau and Helen Sims-Williams, Adaptive analogy in Word-and-Paradigm morphology: the case of Seri (isolate) verbs 14.40-15.00 Riku Erkkilä and Jaakko Helke, Synchrony and diachrony in Ket incorporation 15.00-15.20 Jeremy Pasquereau and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, Degree constructions in Seri 15.20-15.40 Aigul Zakirova, From noun plural to plural agreement: evidence from Andi dialects 15.40-16.00 Fedor Rozhanskiy and Elena Markus, The development of Votic-Ingrian convergent varieties: evidence from a chain rune 16.00-16.20 Kate Bellamy and Martha Mendoza, Associated motion in Purepecha
17.00-19.00 Annual members’ meeting
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Friday 3 September ------GENERAL SESSION 1 MODERATOR: Anna Giacalone Ramat 9.00-9.20 Carmelo Alessandro Basile, Necessity modals on Singaporean blogs: a contrastive and comparative analysis 9.20-9.40 Valentin Radulescu and Daniel Van Olmen, Impersonalization in Romanian versus English 9.40-10.00 Marianne Hundt and Eva Zehentner, Competition in the history of English verbal argument structure: NPs vs PPs 10.00-10.20 Eloisa Ruppert, Freek Van de Velde and Hubert Cuyckens, The influence of demographic changes on the morphological and syntactic complexity of German 10.20-10.40 Vassilis Symeonidis and Nikolaos Lavidas, Changes in linguistic complexity and the diachrony of anticausatives in Greek
10.40-11.00 Break
GENERAL SESSION 1 MODERATOR: Annemarie Verkerk 11.00-11.20 Stavros Bompolas and Dimitra Melissaropoulou, Accounting for the Asia Minor Greek dialectal variation: a comparative dialectometric approach 11.20-11.40 Andrey N. Sobolev, How much “dialect” does contemporary oral speech production in a “base” South Slavic patoi contain? 11.40-12.00 Daria Konior and Andrey Sobolev, Profiling of dialect speakers: an experimental study in South Slavia 12.00-12.20 Denys Teptiuk and Johannes Hirvonen, Perspective shift in reported discourse of Finno-Ugric languages 12.20-12.40 Annette Herkenrath, A parallel text approach to impersonality in written academic Turkish and Kurmanji Kurdish
12.40-13.30 Break MODERATOR: Eva Schultze-Berndt 13.30-14.00 Plenary session: Theresa Matzinger (Best PhD winner) and Nikolaus Ritt, Phonotactically probable word shapes represent attractors in the evolution of sound patterns
14.00-14.30 Plenary session: Anne Wolfsgruber and Iker Salaberri (Best Postdoc winners), A typological and diachronic analysis of replica grammaticalization: Body-part reflexives in Romance-lexifier pidgins and creoles
GENERAL SESSION 1 MODERATOR: Livio Gaeta 14.40-15.00 Michela Cennamo, Lexico-aspectual constraints on split intransitivity and auxiliary selection in Italo-Romance: variation and change in synchrony and diachrony 15.00-15.20 Mary C. Lavissière and Laurent Fedi, Unfreezing legal genres: maritime shipping agreements and diachronic variation 15.20-15.40 Marta Capano, ˈkume a se ˈʧama ʧy tø muˈʤe? A case of pragmaticalization in Liguria, Italy
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15.40-16.00 Dominika Kovarikova, Corpus Study of Grammatical Categories: the GrammatiCat Online Tool 16.00-16.20 Andreas Baumann, On the role of emotion in lexical reproduction
16.20-16.40 Break
GENERAL SESSION 1 MODERATOR: Livio Gaeta 16.40-17.00 Eneile Saraiva and Marcia Machado Vieira, Indeterminacy and impersonalization in Brazilian Portuguese discursive practices 17.00-17.20 Karlien Franco and Dirk Geeraerts, What makes the clock tick? The effect of concept characteristics and sociocultural variation on lexical replacement rates 17.20-17.40 Stefan Dedio, The diachrony of word-like domains in Welsh 17.40-18.00 Lars Hellan, Norwegian Valence Dictionary (NorVal)
18.00 Closing session and best presentations awards
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WORKSHOP SESSIONS ------
WS 1: Adjective: the unknown category Convenors: Alexander Peter Pfaff & Alexandra Rehn
Time zone CET Monday 30 August 9.30-10.00 Introduction (Alexander Peter Pfaff & Alexandra Rehn) 10.00-10.30 Gjorgje Bozhoviq, Adjectives in Albanian: Evidence from Negation 10.30-11.00 Paulette Roulon-Doko, Adjective versus Ideophone in an African language, a typological problem 11.30-12.00 Mirella L. Blum, On the definition of adjectives in Dinka 12.00-12.30 Arturas Ratkus, Definite adjective forms in early Germanic: From nominal periphrasis to agreement 12.30-13.00 Svetlana Petrova, Strong and weak adjectives in Old High German: A corpus study 14.30-15.00 Lanko Marusic and Rok Žaucer, A definite article inside the AP domain 15.00-15.30 Alison Biggs and Zhuosi Luo, The morphosyntax and semantics of Adjective Classifiers
Tuesday 31 August 9.30-10.00 Vasiliki Rizou, Foteini Karkaletsou, Nikolaos Tsokanos and Artemis Alexiadou, What heritage languages can tell us about the category adjective: evidence from Heritage Greek 10.00-10.30 Charles Lam, Adjectives in Cantonese Are Not Verbs 11.00-11.30 Viktor Koehlich, The Adjective Category in Japanese 11.30-12.00 Rong Chen, Dependency Reversal in Central African Languages 12.00-12.30 Merit Niinemägi, Adjective attribution marking in Aanaar Saami: A determinant of the adjectival category? 12.30-13.00 Discussion
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WS 2: Artificial/peripheral structures: What can they tell us about the (morpho)phonology of natural languages Convenors: Nina Topintzi & Giorgos Markopoulos
Tuesday 31 August 17.00-17.30 Marc van Oostendorp, Esperanto Phonology As A Large-Scale Linguistic Experiment 17.30-18.00 Kevin Tang and Dinah Baer-Henney, The necessity of modelling lexical effects during artificial language learning paradigm 18.00-18.30 Joachim Kokkelmans, Nonce words in research on language contact-induced hybrid grammars: Brussels French
Wednesday 1 September 9.30-10.00 Noam Faust, QoTeT paradigm migration in Modern Hebrew: A minor pattern with major implications 10.00-10.30 Julian Lysvik and Maria Evjen, Artificial Language Learning experiment shows that native Norwegian speakers avoid word-final voicing 11.00-11.30 Athina Kikiopoulou and Nina Topintzi, Weight effects in Greek? Insights from binomials 11.30-12.00 Birgit Alber, Sabine Arndt-Lappe and Joachim Kokkelmans, Truncation, clippings and blends: universal structures and their variation 12.00-12.30 Discussion
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WS 3: Building modality with syntax: Focus on Ancient Greek Convenors: Camille Denizot & Liana Tronci
Tuesday 31 September 9.00-9.30 Introduction (Camille Denizot & Liana Tronci) 9.30-10.00 Marina Benedetti and Chiara Gianollo, Modal uses of knowledge verbs in Ancient Greek 10.00-10.30 Martin Masliš, Evidentiality and complementation in Ancient Greek: The inferential gradient in the synchronic distribution of complementation strategies 11.00-11.30 Jesús de la Villa and Jesús Polo, Completive hoti vs ho:s as mark of evidentiality in Ancient Greek. Synchrony and diachrony 11.30-12.00 Emilia Ruiz-Yamuza, Conditional subordinate clauses and verbal moods: a case study 12.00-12.30 Rafael Martinez, Expressing modality via parenthetic accord clauses in ancient Greek
Wednesday 1 September 9.00-9.30 Rodrigo Verano, Modality, (Inter)subjectivity and Politeness in Addressee-Oriented Assertions in the Dialogues of Plato 9.30-10.00 Michele Bianconi and Elisabetta Magni, Syntactic expressions of modality: optatives and ‘optatival constructions’ in the Greek of the Gospels 10.00-10.30 Giuseppina Di Bartolo, Counterfactual conditions in colloquial Ancient Greek 11.00-11.30 Ezra la Roi, A diachronic syntax of counterfactual mood attraction from Archaic to Classical Greek 11.30-12.00 Antonio R. Revuelta Puigdollers, Mood in clause combination: formal and pragmatic features 12.00-12.30 Richard Faure, discussant
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WS 4: Causation: from concept to grammar Convenors: Marta Donazzan, Clémentine Raffy & Klaus von Heusinger
Monday 30 August 9.30-10.00 Introduction (Marta Donazzan, Clémentine Raffy & Klaus von Heusinger) 10.00-10.30 Artemis Alexiadou, The building blocks of causation: evidence from non-canonical realization 10.30-11.00 Jens Hopperdietzel, Malte Zimmermann and Mary Amaechi, Force calculation is cyclic 11.30-12.00 Renata Enghels, The causative constructional network in Spanish: a stringent case of language productivity at work 12.00-12.30 Lucia Tovena, Enabling and causes 12.30-13.00 Vittorio Ganfi and Valentina Piunno, Causativity and Complex Prepositions in Italian and Romance languages 14.30-15.00 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’ 15.00-15.30 Monika Rind-Pawlowski, Causative Constructions in Khinalug 15.30-16.00 Iva Novakova and Yanka Bezinska, Causation in Bulgarian: evidence from 3- to 6- year-old monolingual children
Tuesday 31 August 9.00-9.30 Bridget Copley, Intentions and dispositions 9.30-10.00 Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal, Noa Bassel and York Hagmayer, Causes and Conditions 10.00-10.30 Olga Kagan and Bridget Copley, A Force-Dynamic Approach to Perfectivity 10.30-11.00 Andrea Ariño-Bizarro and Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Speakers’ preferences for the conceptualisation and encoding of causative constructions in Spanish
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WS 5: Cognitive mechanisms driving language change Convenors: Carola Trips, Achim Stein, Yela Schauwecker & Michael Percillier
Tuesday 31 August 11.00-11.30 Introduction (Carola Trips, Achim Stein, Yela Schauwecker & Michael Percillier) 11.30-12.00 Nicole Hober, The implications of linguistic awareness for contact-induced change
15.00-15.30 Timothy Colleman, On the role of contact in the emergence of two new argument structure constructions in present-day Afrikaans 15.30-16.00 Savithry Namboodiripad, Shared processing strategies as a mechanism for contact- induced change in flexible constituent order 17.00-17.30 Ailís Cournane, Experimental acquisition evidence that children may drive modal verb incrementation (keynote) 17.30-18.00 Discussion
Wednesday 1 September 09.00-09.30 Guglielmo Inglese and Anne Wolfsgruber, The rise of non-oppositional middle verbs: the case of Old French 09.30-10.00 Aritz Irurtzun and Maia Duguine, Mechanisms triggering the use of bare nouns in a language without bare nouns 10.00-10.30 Seckin Arslan, Restructuring in grammatical evidentiality in Turkish as a heritage language and implications for cognitive modulators of contact-induced change 11.00-11.30 John Hawkins and Luna Filipovic, Bilingualism-induced Language Change: What Can Change, When and Why? 11.30-12.00 Gerrit Jan Kootstra, Cross-linguistic structural priming as a potential mechanism of contact-induced language change 14.00-14.30 Sophia Voigtmann, Information Density as a Measurement of Processing Difficulties in Historical Data 14.30-15.00 Michelle Troberg, The role of analytic vagueness in the loss of Old French directional particles 15.00-15.30 Alexander Bergs, Language contact and language change from a constructional perspective 15.30-16.00 Marlieke Shaw and Hendrik De Smet, Loan word accommodation biases in Dutch and Middle English: a question of processing cost? 16.00-16.30 Discussion 16.30.17.00 Conclusion
Asynchronous presentation: María Eugenia Arthuis Blanco, A psycholinguistic approach to feature borrowability in historical contact scenarios
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WS 6: Complex predicates across languages: Variation and acquisition (Complang) Convenors: Olga Borik, Silvia Sánchez & Ismael Teomiro
Monday 30 August 10.00-10.30 Introduction (Olga Borik, Silvia Sánchez & Ismael Teomiro) 10.30-11.00 William Snyder, Complex Predicates: Connecting Crosslinguistic Variation to Acquisition 11.30-12.00 Zaira Khalilova, Complex verbs in Bezhta 12.00-12.30 Bracha Nir, Predicate chaining and clause complexes in Hebrew and English: A discourse-based analysis 12.30-13.00 Kazuhiko Fukushima, Complex Predicates as a Testing Ground for Linguistic Theories/Concepts 14.30-15.00 Yanka Bezinska, Analytic causatives of French and Bulgarian children aged 3 to 6 years 15.00-15.30 Fatemeh Faroughi, Persian Complex Predicates, Syntactic or Morphological Units 15.30-16.00 Fedor Golosov, Telicizing light verbs in Poshkart Chuvash 16.30-17.00 Maria Luisa Zubizarreta and Sun-Ah Jun, Morpho-syntactic and Prosodic Cues in Complex Predicates. A Case Study
Tuesday 31 August 10.00-10.30 Hideki Kishimoto, The Roles of Verbs and Nouns in Japanese Light Verb Constructions 10.30-11.00 Paolo Della Putta and Francesca Strik Lievers, How complex are verbal periphrases to learn and unlearn? The case of
Asynchronous presentation: Marin Kežić, The role of image and force-dynamic schemas in the formation of Croatian complex predicates: the case of the light verb baciti (WS 6)
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WS 7: Constructional analysis in multimodal perspective Convenors: Mirjam Fried, Kiki Nikiforidou & Alex Bergs
Tuesday 31 August 14.30-15.00 Introduction (Mirjam Fried, Kiki Nikiforidou & Alex Bergs) 15.00-15.30 Manon Lelandais, A multimodal approach to syntactic coordination in spontaneous conversation 15.30-16.00 Peter Uhrig, Exploring the interaction of gesture and prosody in a large corpus 17.00-17.30 Roberta Cicchirillo, Claudia Roberta Combei, Francesca Masini and Miriam Voghera, The prosody of list constructions 17.30-18.00 Angeliki Alvanoudi, The Negative-Directive-Construction in Greek: Pragmatic and prosodic aspects of de mu les? (‘tell me’) 18.00-18.30 Pavel Machač and Mirjam Fried, Utterance comprehension in spontaneous speech: phonetic reductions and syntactic context 18.30-19.00 Discussion
Wednesday 1 September 9.00-9.30 Arie Verhagen, Construction grammar, multimodal communication, and design features of language: Preliminaries to a coherent research program 9.30-10.00 Claudia Lehmann, An integrated approach to multimodal ironic constructions 10.00-10.30 Kiki Nikiforidou, Multimodality, conventionality and inheritance in dialogic constructions 11.00-11.30 Svetlana Dachkovsky, Shirit Cohen-Koka, Rose Stamp and Bracha Nir, Multimodal Signs: PALM-UP as a Textual Discourse Marker 11.30-12.00 Anna Inbar, Rectification constructions in Israeli Hebrew: A multimodal approach 12.00-12.30 Jakub Jehlička and Eva Lehečková, From boundaries to contours – a multimodal- construal approach to aspectuality 12.30-13.00 Discussion
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WS 8: Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains: Cognitive and cross-linguistic approaches Convenors: Matthias Klumm, Anita Fetzer & Evelien Keizer
Tuesday 31 August 9.00-9.30 Introduction (Matthias Klumm, Anita Fetzer & Evelien Keizer) 9.30-10.00 Mitsuko Izutsu and Katsunobu Izutsu, When discursive glue comes off: Japanese contrastive and continuative connectives in spoken discourse 10.00-10.30 Debopam Das and Markus Egg, Continuity in discourse: A case study on causal and contrastive relations 11.00-11.30 Ludivine Crible, Connectives and other discourse signals: Parallelism in addition and contrast 11.30-12.00 Mathis Wetzel and Sandrine Zufferey, How do Learners process Continuous and Discontinuous Relations? 12.00-12.30 Anita Fetzer and Matthias Klumm, The linguistic realization of Continuation and Elaboration in (English) discourse: A context-based analysis across narrative and argumentative genres 14.30-15.00 Na Hu, Aoju Chen, Fang Li, Hugo Quené and Ted Sanders, The role of prosody in expressing subjective and objective causality in Mandarin discourse 15.00-15.30 Inés Recio Fernández and Óscar Loureda, Processing causal and counter- argumentative connected discourse 15.30-16.00 Doriana Cimmino, Contrastive discourse relations and non-canonical syntax. A case study of Left Dislocations in spoken and written Italian 17.00-17.30 Carolin Harthan, Initial vs. Medial Placement of Contrastive Linking Adverbials in Conceptually-Written Present-Day English 17.30-18.00 Cecilia Maria Andorno, Sandra Benazzo and Christine Dimroth, More than one Contrast. Crosslinguistic and intralinguistic comparison of Contrast marking through task-elicited speech
Wednesday 1 September 9.00-9.30 Marian Marchal, Pim Mak and Ted Sanders, Genre-based expectations for coherence relations 9.30-10.00 Augustin Speyer, Discourse relations and the German prefield 10.00-10.30 Amália Mendes, Deniz Zeyrek and Giedre Giedrė Valu̇naitė Oleskevĭ cienė,̆ Explicit and implicit relations of continuity and contrast in a multilingual discourse bank 11.00-11.30 Amalia Canes-Nápoles, Discourse markers as topic managers. But how exactly? 11.30-12.00 Elena Martínez Caro, Digression, topic resumption and discourse coherence: Comparing English and Spanish 12.00-12.30 Discussion
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WS 9: Dissecting Morphological Theory 1: Diminutivization Across Languages and Frameworks Convenors: Stela Manova, Boban Arsenijevic, Laura Grestenberger & Katharina Korecky-Kröll
Monday 30 August 17.00 -17.30 Introduction (Stela Manova, Boban Arsenijevic, Laura Grestenberger & Katharina Korecky-Kröll) 17.30-18.00 Silva Nurmio and Olga Kagan, Diminutive or singulative? The suffixes -in and -k in Russian 18.00-18.30 Boban Arsenijevic and Marko Simonovic, Diminution, categorization and declension class in Serbo-Croatian 18.30-19.00 Dmitri Sitchinava and Stela Manova, Slavic diminutive morphology: An interplay of scope, templates and paradigms
Tuesday 31 August 09.00-09.30 Olga Steriopolo, Giorgos Markopoulos and Vassilios Spyropoulos, Parameters of variation in the syntax of expressive size suffixes: Case studies of Russian, German, Spanish, and Greek 09.30-10.00 Maria D. Voeikova, Structural functions of diminutives in modern Russian 10.00-10.30 László Fejes, Borrowed or inspired? Komi diminutive under Russian influence 10.30-11.00 Lina Inčiuraitė-Noreikienė and Bonifacas Stundžia, Diminutivization in Lithuanian: The case of noun borrowing 11.00-11.30 Elizaveta Tarasova and José Antonio Sánchez Fajardo, Pejorative suffixation in present-day English: A sociolinguistic analysis of -ie and -o nominalisations 11.30-12.00 Maria Rosenberg, The Swedish suffix -is and its place in the theory of diminutivization 12.00-12.30 Angel Alonsocortés, Diminutive formation in Spanish: evidence for word morphology 14.30-15.00 Wolfgang Dressler, Elisa Mattiello and Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun, Typological impact of morphological richness and priority of pragmatics over semantics in Italian, Arabic, German, and English diminutives 15.00-15.30 Reili Argus and Victoria Kazakovskaya, Acquisition of diminutives in typologically different languages: Evidence from Russian and Estonian 15.30-16.00 Mirena Patseva, Prosodic factors in the selection of Bulgarian diminutive suffixes in the perspective of Headmost accent theory 16.30-17.00 Utku Türk, Decomposing so-called diminutives in Turkish 17.00-17.30 Peter Rebrus, Péter Szigetvári and Miklós Törkenczy, Diminutives: Templatic morphology in an agglutinative language 17.30-18.00 Camiel Hamans, The parallel between diminutives, hypocoristics and embellished clippings in English and Dutch 18.00-18.30 Laura Grestenberger and Dalina Kallulli, Verbal diminutives and cross-categorial syncretism 18.30-19.00 Discussion
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WS 10: Evidential strategies. Description and explanation Convenors: María Isabel Pérez Jiménez, Silvia Gumiel Molina & Aoife K. Ahern
Friday 3 September 9.00-9.30 Introduction (María Isabel Pérez Jiménez, Silvia Gumiel Molina & Aoife K. Ahern) 9.30-10.00 Jennifer Tan, Evidential value of Spanish igual 10.00-10.30 Elly Ifantidou and Lemonia Tsavdaridou, Mirative evidentials and non-propositional meaning 10.30-11.00 Aoife Ahern, Jose Amenos-Pons and Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Evidentiality from a developmental perspective: conjectural future in Catalan / Spanish bilinguals 11.00-11.30 Rodica Zafiu, From context-dependent evidential strategies to grammatical specialization: how the Romanian conjectural future becomes a presumptive mood 11.30-12.00 Edita Gutiérrez-Rodríguez and Pilar Pérez-Ocón, Evidentiality and variation in the complementizer phrase: the case of deísmo 12.00-12.30 Elena Vilinbakhova, Evidential interpretations of Spanish uno vs. English one: evidence from parallel corpora 12.30-13.00 Víctor Lara-Bermejo, The creation of evidentiality in Ibero-Romance 14.30-15.00 Chiara Zanchi, Evidentiality in Herodotus’ Histories: a first survey 15.00-15.30 Eric Mélac, Evidentiality and and its grammaticalization in French: A contrastive study based on a spoken French-Tibetan corpus 15.30-16.00 Hans-Jörg Döhla and Anja Hennemann, When an evidential becomes a contact- induced evidential strategy. The case of Guaraní particles in Paraguayan Spanish 16.00-16.30 Manuel Leonetti, Individual-level predicates, locative adjuncts and perspectivization 16.30-17.00 Victoria Escandell-Vidal, Testing evidential interpretations with estar+ILP. A preliminary survey 17.00-17.30 Angeles Carrasco, On evidentiality and perception. Ambivalent adjectives in the Spanish non-finite complements of ver, ‘see’ 17.30-18.00 Sara Sanchez-Alonso, Fraibet Aveledo and Maria Pinango, The Acquisition of Spanish Copula Verbs in 4-12-year-old Children
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WS 11: Experimental approaches to Romance morphosyntax Convenors: Albert Wall, Senta Zeugin, Philipp Obrist, Johannes Kabatek & Patrick Santos Rebelo
Wednesday 1 September 14.00-14.30 Introduction (Senta Zeugin, Albert Wall, Philipp Obrist, Johannes Kabatek & Patrick Santos Rebelo) 14.30-15.00 Begoña Arechabaleta Regulez and Silvina Montrul, An Experimental Investigation of Language Variation and Change in Mexican Spanish 15.00-15.30 Martín Fuchs, Experimental methods for language variation and change in Spanish 16.00-16.30 Aixiu An and Anne Abeillé, Gender agreement with coordinated nouns in French : an experimental approach 16.30-17.00 Alina Villalva, Core issues in the field of experimental morphology 17.00-17.30 Irene Fally and Eva Smolka, Experimental Perspectives on Romance Prefix Verbs 18.00-18.30 Sophie Mürmann, Differential Object Marking and agentivity in Sicilian and Catalan. Evidence from an acceptability judgement study 18.30-19.00 Senta Zeugin, Differential Object Marking and language contact: an experimental study of Spanish and Romanian 19.00-19.30 Philipp Obrist, Albert Wall, Senta Zeugin, Johannes Kabatek and Patrick Santos Rebelo, Combining elicitation tasks and acceptability judgments in search of infrequent structures, A case study in Differential Marking of inanimate-reference objects in Spanish
Thursday 2 September 11.00-11.30 Diego Romero Heredero, Affectedness and Differential Object Marking in Spanish: a double perspective study 11.30-12.00 Klaus Von Heusinger and Marco Garcia Garcia, Differential Object Marking and discourse prominence in Spanish 12.00-12.30 Alina Tigau and Klaus Von Heusinger, Romanian direct object marking and discourse prominence – Experimental evidence from a paragraph continuation task 14.00-14.30 Carmen Widera, An experimental analysis of the variable use of il in finite impersonal constructions in modern spoken French 14.30-15.00 Vicky Leonetti and Jacopo Torregrossa, Investigating the interpretation of null and overt pronouns in Spanish by means of a graded judgement task and a sentence continuation task 15.00-15.30 Iria de-Dios-Flores and Juan Carlos Acuña-Fariña, Lexical control in Spanish obligatory complement control constructions: examining the contrast between subject and object control verbs 15.30-16.00 Discussion
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WS 12: Iconicity in prosaic lexicon Convenor: Ian Joo
Wednesday 1 September 9.00-9.30 Introduction 9.30-10.00 Keiko Murasugi and Kimi Akita, Japanese binomial adjectives 10.00-10.30 Maria Flaksman, Hidden iconicity: de-iconization of Russian and English imitative lexicons 11.00-11.30 Lalita Murty and Vasanta Duggirala, Iconicity of Adverbial Nouns of Time and Space in Telugu 11.30-12.00 José Antonio Sánchez Fajardo, Iconic prosody and prosaic bases: a construction- based analysis of words ending in {o} in contemporary English 14.00-14.30 Aleksandra Cwiek, Are German Pokémon Names Sound-Symbolic? 14.30-15.00 Bonnie McLean, Michael Dunn and Mark Dingemanse, Two measures are better than one: combining ratings and guessing experiments for a more nuanced picture of iconicity in the lexicon 15.00-15.30 Discussion
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WS 13: Indexicality Convenors: Peter Juul Nielsen & María Sol Sansiñena
Wednesday 1 September 9.00-9.30 Introduction (Peter Juul Nielsen & María Sol Sansiñena) 9.30-10.00 Livio Gaeta, Evolutionary steps for linguistic signs: the role of indexicality 10.00-10.30 Caterina Mauri and Francesca Masini, Multi-layered indexicality: When proper names become categories 11.00-11.30 Eva Zehentner, The history of the English dative alternation: from morphosyntax to pragmatics 11.30-12.00 Hans-Olav Enger, Multifunctional indexes: two Scandinavian examples 12.00-12.30 Peter Juul Nielsen, From symbol to index: the semiotic alignment of the Danish free indirect object 14.00-14.30 Katja Politt and Gabriele Diewald, Paradigmaticization as indexicalization: German “medio-passive” constructions with and without lassen 14.30-15.00 Stef Spronck, Are there non-indexical expressions? 16.00-16.30 Teresa Flera, Indexicality in Contexts of Literary Fiction 16.30-17.00 Lars Heltoft, Domain-straddling indexicality - the Greenlandic causative 17.00-17.30 Stepan Mikhailov, Losing indices: How an anaphoric article developed from a 2SG possessive in Northern Khanty 18.00-18.30 Francois Nemo, Indexicality in the minimal/non-minimal (or less minimal) sign relationship 18.30-19.00 Binene Horchani, Indexicality of transcategorial morphemes 19.00-19.30 Discussion
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WS 14: Integrating sociolinguistics and typological perspectives on language variation Convenors: Silvia Ballarè, Francesca Di Garbo, Guglielmo Inglese & Eri Kashima
Wednesday 1 September 16.00-16.30 Minella Duzerol, Variation in Martinican complementation: a sociogrammatical approach 16.30-17.00 Mara Marsella, The copula system in Palenquero. A preliminary variationist study 17.00-17.30 Laura Becker, Matías Guzmán Naranjo and Samira Ochs, Areal, family, and sociolinguistic effects on conditional constructions 18.00-18.30 Susanne Maria Michaelis, The systematic contributions of substrates and lexifiers in creolization 18.30-19.00 Adriano Murelli, A scale of standardness for relative constructions in European varieties?
Thursday 2 September 9.00-9.30 Alessandra Barotto, Simone Mattiola and Caterina Mauri, A socio-typological approach to conditionals: focus on counterfactuals 9.30-10.00 Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez, Variation, the role of frequency and social indexicality in the acquisition of Basque ergativity 10.00-10.30 Verena Weiland, Sociolinguistic parameters of Spanish fricative pronunciation: A corpusphonological approach to Spanish consonants
Friday 3 September 9.00-9.30 Jonathon Lum, Bill Palmer, Alice Gaby and Jonathan Schlossberg, Sociolinguistic and typological variation in frames of spatial reference 9.30-10.00 Konstantinos Sampanis, Utku Türk and Umut Gülsün, Defining borrowing hierarchies in the light of sociolinguistic and geodemographic causation: contact-induced morphosyntactic change in Asia Minor Greek 10.00-10.30 John Peterson, A sociolinguistic-typological approach to the linguistic prehistory of South Asia 11.00-11.30 Nina Dobrushina, Intra-language variation in a typological perspective 11.30-12.00 Lorenzo Ferrarotti, Isolation and Complexification: some Evidence from Northern Italian Dialects 12.00-12.30 Matthew Stave, Kilu von Prince and Frank Seifart, A usage-based approach to morphological typology 14.30-15.00 Natalia Stoynova, Language-inherent variability or contact-induced change? The clitic že ‘after all’ in Russian speech of Nanai and Ulcha speakers 15.00-15.30 Peter Dekker, Marian Klamer and Bart de Boer, Analysing contact-induced simplification in Alorese using agent-based models 15.30-16.00 Bert Cornillie and Malte Rosemeyer, Syntactic elaboration: the case of auxiliation in the realm of communicative distance 17.00-17.30 Discussion
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Asynchronous presentation: Debra Ziegeler and Christophe Lenoble, Typological explanation and grammaticalization in a New English variety: Singapore English
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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
Wednesday 1 September 16.00-16.30 Introduction (Iker Salaberri, Dorota Krajewska, Urtzi Reguero, Eneko Zuloaga, Borja Ariztimuno, Maitena Duhalde, Oxel Uribe-Etxebarria, Sergio Monforte, Ekaitz Santazilia & Koldo Ulibarri) 16.30-17.00 Matthias Urban, Language Isolates and the linguistic prehistory of the Central Andes 17.00-17.30 Spike Gildea and Katharina Haude, An Austronesian-type voice system in an Amazonian isolate 18.00-18.30 Jesus Olguin Martinez, Temporal adverbial clauses in language isolates 18.30-19.00 Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, David Inman, Marine Vuillermet, Kellen Parker van Dam, Shelece Easterday and Françoise Rose, Is there a typological profile of isolates? 19.00-19.30 Carmen Jany, California isolates: Language contact and genetic classification
Thursday 2 September 09.00-09.30 Angela Terrill, Baroque accretions and isolation: A view on language isolates 09.30-10.00 Rik Van Gijn, Leonardo Arias, Nicholas Q. Emlen, Nora Julmi and Sietze Norder, The social life of isolates: a multidisciplinary approach to reconstructing the history of isolates in the north-west Amazon 10.00-10.30 Abbie Hantgan, The case of the Big Bang - a methodology for tracing the history of a language and population isolate 11.00-11.30 Ekaterina Gruzdeva and Juha Janhunen, On the external and internal history of Nivkh (Amuric) in a comparative perspective 11.30-12.00 Julen Manterola, Etymologies and etymography in a language isolate: the case of Basque 12.00-12.30 Anna Bugaeva, Ainu, an isolate in Northeast Asia: what makes it unique?
Friday 3 September 14.30-15.00 Thomas Schwaiger, Reduplication in language isolates: Special or run-of-the-mill? 15.00-15.30 Luca Alfieri, Linguistic isolates and the comparative method: On the controversial genetic affiliation of Burushaski 17.00-17.30 Florian Lionnet, How typologically and areally unusual is Laal? 17.30-18.00 Conclusions
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WS 16: Italian heritage language communities Convenors: Margherita Di Salvo & Eugenio Goria
Thursday 2 September 09.00-09.30 Introduction (Margherita Di Salvo & Eugenio Goria) 09.30-10.00 Simone Pisano, Vittorio Ganfi and Valentina Piunno, Heritage Sardinian: a corpus- based study 10.00-10.30 Antonia Rubino, ‘Amore it’s a sweet word’: Attitudes towards heritage languages amongst third generation Australian-Italian youth 10.30-11.00 Silvia Natale and Stefania Marzo, Standardization of neostandard Italian abroad 11.30-12.00 Marta Lupica Spagnolo, Italian in Transit: Attempting a definition on the basis of distribution and functions of generalized present infinitives 12.00-12-30 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) 12.30-13.00 Maria Francesca Ferin, Miriam Geiss, Tanja Kupisch and Theodoros Marinis, Rhetorical Questions in German-dominant Heritage Speakers of Italian 14.00-14.30 Manuela Frontera, Cues of dialect attrition in Italian-Argentinian speakers 14.30-15.00 Andrea Peskova, Italian Heritage Speakers in Buenos Aires 15.00-15.30 Evandro L. T. P. Cunha, Designing and building a web corpus of Talian (Brazilian Venetian language) 15.30-16.00 Guilherme D. Garcia and Natalia Brambatti Guzzo, Using corpus data to map phonological patterns in Brazilian Veneto
Friday 3 September 15.30-16.00 Chiara Celata and Naomi Nagy, Phonological change in Heritage Italian spoken in Toronto: social factors and lexical frequency 16.00-16.30 Margherita Di Salvo and Naomi Nagy, Differential Object Marking in two Italian communities abroad: Diatopic and network variation 16.30-17.00 Lucija Šimičić and Ivana Škevin Rajko, Language ideologies, attitudes and practices among Italian speakers in Croatia 17.00-17.30 Discussion
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WS 17: Mountain linguistics Convenor: Matthias Urban
Thursday 2 September 11.20-11.30 Introduction (Matthias Urban) 11.30-12.00 Marc Alllassonnière-Tang and One-Soon Her, Mountains, rivers, and word orders of numeral bases and classifiers in Tibeto-Burman 12.00-12.30 Henrik Liljegren, Small-scale convergence in the Hindu Kush mountain area 12.30-13.00 Michael Daniel and Alexey Koshevoy, Language altitude and language size 14.00-14.30 George Moroz, On the correlation between phoneme inventory size and elevation: the case of Dagestan 14.30-15.00 Raffaele Cioffi, Marco Angster, Marco Bellante, Paolo Benedetto Mas, Livio Gaeta, Adriano Murelli, Aline Pons, Gianmario Raimondi and Matteo Rivoira, Mountain Linguistics: The Western Alpine Landscape 15.00-15.30 Caleb Everett, A frequency-based approach to exploring potential effects of ambient air pressure reduction on ease of articulation 15.30-16.00 Ronald Schaefer and Francis Egbokhare, Edo North: Refugium and Micro-Accretion Zone 16.00-16.30 Johanna Nichols, Mountain river thinking: Verticality and language stacks (keynote) 16.30-17.00 Discussion
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WS 18: The syntax of argument structure alternations across frameworks - SAS21 Convenors: Svitlana Antonyuk, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández & Isabel Oltra-Massuet
Wednesday 1 September 15.30-16.00 Introduction (Svitlana Antonyuk, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández & Isabel Oltra-Massuet) 16.00-16.30 Mara Frascarelli, Focus Fronting and Argument Structure 16.30-17.00 Isabel Crespí, Resultative and stative passives in Catalan: an approach from event structure 17.00-17.30 Josep Ausensi and María Eugenia Mangialavori Rasia, Causative verbs and intransitive causatives 18.00-18.30 Cilene Rodrigues, When a possessor runs away from home, where does it go? A study on external possession and types of verbal argument structure 18.30-19.00 Alison Biggs, On two classes of unaccusatives in Shantou Teochew (Southern Min) 19.00-19.30 Heidi Harley, Polysemy and monosemy in the object-drop alternation
Thursday 2 September 9.00-9.30 Peter Hallman, Argument hierarchies and alternations in causative and double object constructions 9.30-10.00 Nomi Shir and Tova Rapoport, The lexicon-syntax and information structure interfaces 10.00-10.30 Ane Berro, Ane Odria and Beatriz Fernández, The interaction between the implicit subject and the person restriction in Basque impersonals 11.00-11.30 Anna Bondaruk and Bożena Rozwadowska, Alernating arguments of Polish psych verbs 11.30-12.00 Juan Romero and Javier Ormazabal, Ditransitive Alternation as Raising to Object 12.00-12.30 Margherita Pallottino, Restructuring antipassives: the argument structure of complex events 15.00-15.30 Alessandro Bigolin and Josep Ausensi, Against a lexicalist account of the Argument- Per-Subevent Condition 15.30-16.00 Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo and Rafael Marín, Argument structure alternations and aspectual shift in extent verbs 16.00-16.30 Discussion
Asynchronous presentation: Silvia Sánchez-Calderón & Raquel Fernández Fuertes, The syntactic alternating architecture of English and Spanish double object and prepositional dative constructions from an acquisition approach
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WS 19: Towards a holistic understanding of language contact in the past Convenors: Nikolaos Lavidas, Ioanna Sitaridou, and Igor Yanovich Wednesday 1 September 16.30-17.00 Introduction (Nikolaos Lavidas, Ioanna Sitaridou, and Igor Yanovich) 17.00-17.30 Brian Joseph, Towards a Reductionist View of Language Contact Effects (keynote) 18.00-18.30 Evangelia Adamou, Quentin Feltgen and Cristian Padure, A unified approach to the study of language contact: How cross-language priming drives change in noun- adjective order 18.30-19.00 Andrés Enrique-Arias, Political influence and competing grammars in language contact: variation between este and aqueste in medieval Aragonese 19.00-20.00 Discussion Thursday 2 September 12.00-12.30 Friederike Lüpke, Multilingual presents as a window into multilingual pasts (keynote) 12.30-13.00 Lutz Marten and Hannah Gibson, Tracing inheritance and contact in Bantu languages: Evidence from morphosyntactic variation 13.00-13.30 Olesya Khanina and Valentin Gusev, Towards a holistic understanding of the linguistic past: the Northern Samoyedic case 15.00-15.30 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 15.30-16.00 Krzysztof Stroński, Language contact in South Asia – typology meets diachrony 16.00-16.30 Sali Tagliamonte, Contact as alignment: Community norms in bilingual Ontario (keynote) 16.30-17.00 Discussion Friday 3 September 15.00-15.30 Ianthi Tsimpli, Alexandra Prentza and Maria Kaltsa, Language contact effects are bidirectional: morphosyntax and the view from feature interpretability (keynote) 15.30-16.00 Wojciech Sowa, Dialectology, typology and variation: the theory of ‘Balkan Indo- European’ and its implications for the history of the Ancient Greek dialects 16.30-17.00 Christopher Lucas, Towards an integrated model of change: language contact, dialect contact, internal variation 17.00-17.30 Patience Epps, Specialist discourse, language contact, and language change: Observations from Amazonia (keynote) 17.30-18.00 Discussion
Asynchronous presentations : Mary Baltazani, Joanna Przedlacka and John Coleman, Historical intonation and contact: two case studies Daven Hobbs, Evolutionary Linguistics as a Theory of Language: Implications for Contact-Induced Change Hannah Davidson, Influences on Mauritian Creole’s early development of past marking Stavroula Tsiplakou, Focus (on) clefts: aspects of gradience in bidialectal acquisition (keynote)
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WS 20: Word Order and Prosody Convenors: Maia Duguine and Aritz Irurtzun
Thursday 2 September 9.00-9.30 Introduction (Maia Duguine and Aritz Irurtzun) 9.30-10.00 Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria, Revisiting the architecture of Polar Questions (PQs) and their answers 10.00-10.30 Ricardo Etxepare, Verb-first restrictions in two varieties of Basque 10.30-11.00 Isabelle Franz, Markus Bader and Gerrit Kentner, The influence of rhythm on placing the German object pronoun 11.00-11.30 Caroline Fery and Gisbert Fanselow, The role of prosody in a typological survey of discontinuous nominal phrases 11.30-12.00 Kristina Riedel and Seunghun Lee, Focus word order and Penultimate Lengthening in two Bantu Languages 12.00-12.30 Cassandra Freiberg, Prosody-induced word order variation in Ancient Greek? Evidence from Herodotus’ Histories 14.00-14.30 Heete Sahkai, Anders Holmberg and Anne Tamm, The Prosodic Structure of V2 Clauses in Estonian 14.30-15.00 Benazir Mumtaz and Miriam Butt, Prosodic Phrasing in Interaction with Word Order and Case Marking in Urdu/Hindi 15.00-15.30 Keffyalew Gebregziabher, Word order anomalies in Tigrinya 15.30-16.00 Balázs Surányi and Ádám Szalontai, Focus-marking in prosody and word order in Hungarian: No escape from syntax 16.00-16.30 Farhat Jabeen, Word order and intonation of wh-questions in Urdu 16.30-17.00 Discussion
Asynchronous presentations GENERAL SESSION PAPERS Dirk Noël, Constructional attrition in a radically usage-based model of language (change) Noelia Castro Chao, Pathways from adverbial subordination to complementation: The case of English till and until Pâmela Travassos and Marcia Dos Santos Machado Vieira, Constructional variation: a cross-linguistic comparison Csilla Kász, Cognate Accusative Noun Phrases in the Qur’an - A Contribution to the Discussion on Cognate Objects Panagiotis Panagopoulos, Maria Andria and George Mikros, Exploring the development of written syntactic complexity in L2 Greek: The case of Spanish and Catalan L1 learners Vieri Samek-Lodovici, Defining Contrast Anna Hatzidaki and Mikel Santesteban, Emotional attractors in subject-verb number agreement
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WORKSHOP PAPERS María Eugenia Arthuis Blanco, A psycholinguistic approach to feature borrowability in historical contact scenarios (WS 5) Marin Kežić, The role of image and force-dynamic schemas in the formation of Croatian complex predicates: the case of the light verb baciti (WS 6) Debra Ziegeler and Christophe Lenoble, Typological explanation and grammaticalization in a New English variety: Singapore English (WS 14) Silvia Sánchez-Calderón, The syntactic alternating architecture of English and Spanish double object and prepositional dative constructions from an acquisition approach (WS 18) Mary Baltazani, Joanna Przedlacka and John Coleman, Historical intonation and contact: two case studies (WS 19) Stavroula Tsiplakou, Focus (on) clefts: aspects of gradience in bidialectal acquisition (WS 19) (keynote) Hannah Davidson, Influences on Mauritian Creole’s early development of past marking (WS 19) Daven Hobbs, Evolutionary Linguistics as a Theory of Language: Implications for Contact-Induced Change (WS 19)
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