Program for Friday, August 4th: Talk View

PROGRAM FOR FRIDAY, AUGUST 4TH: TALK VIEW

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09:00-09:25 Workshop: New Historical Perspectives on Non-Dominant Speakers as Agents of Contact-Induced Change

09:00-09:25 Workshop: Alignment Typology in Diachronic Perspective

09:00-09:25

Atomizing Linguistic Change: Taking a False (or Right) Step

Dieter Stein

09:25-09:55

Diachronic layerings and diaspora: a sociohistorical study of changes in personal names among Indian South Africans of Indic and Dravidian

Rajend Mesthrie

09:55-10:25

Experimental Semiotics, Representational Biases and the Atoms of Language Change

T. Mark Ellison

09:00-09:25 Workshop: The Loss of Inflection

09:30-10:00

L2 acquisition of Old French structural dative as a trigger for the English recipient passive

Achim Stein

10:00-10:30

The difficulty of determining contact-induced language change in historical data: evidence from selected English urban vernaculars (c.

Tino Oudesluijs, Moragh Gordon, Anita Auer

09:30-10:00

Markedness reversal between antipassive and transitive constructions as a possible diachronic process of alignment

Katarzyna Janic, Katarzyna Janic

10:00-10:30

Genitive/active to nominative case in Japanese: the role of complex experiencer constructions

Yuko Yanagida, John Whitman

09:30-09:55 Workshop: Germanic & Romance: Probing the Similarities & Differences

09:30-10:00

THE RADICALLY ISOLATING LANGUAGES OF FLORES: A CHALLENGE TO DIACHRONIC THEORY

John McWhorter

10:00-10:30

The omission of past tense marking in Singapore English: an apparent-time investigation of language

Sarah Buschfeld

09:45-09:55 Workshop: Arabic & Contact-Induced Change

10:00-10:30

A Neglected Possibility for How Grammatical Resemblances between Germanic and Romance Could Have Been Created: Parallel Influences from

David L. White

10:00-10:30

Numeral phrase borrowing in Arabic and beyond

Lameen Souag

10:45-11:15

Finding needles in haystacks: Non-dominant multilingual speakers as agents of change in Early Modern

Jennifer Hendriks

11:15-11:45

Grammaticalization of the future marker in Palestinian Arabic: An internal or a contact-induced

Duaa Abuamsha

11:45-12:15

Language change in East African Bantu: multilingualism and its effects

Hannah Gibson

10:45-11:15

Ergative from Passive in Proto-Basque

Mikel Martínez-Areta

11:15-11:45

CHANGES TO ALIGNMENT IN MAYAN LANGUAGES SO FAR

Danny Law

11:45-12:15

Valency-changing categories in a diachronic typological perspective: Alignment types and valency derivations in Indo-European and

Leonid Kulikov

10:45-11:15

The absolute construction in English and French: A case of syntactic influence?

Hubert Cuyckens, Peter Petré, Michèle Goyens, Marie Lamblin

11:15-11:45

Reflexive Constructions in German, Spanish, and French as a Product of Cyclic Interaction

Matthew Maddox, Jonathan MacDonald

11:45-12:15

MEDIEVAL ROMANCE AND ITS PLACE IN THE VERB SECOND TYPOLOGY

Sam Wolfe

10:45-11:15

Contact and what grammaticalization theory won’t tell you about language history

Jonathan Owens

11:15-11:45

The historical development of the Maltese plural suffixes -iet and -(i)jiet.

Jonathan Geary

11:45-12:15

A Quantitative Investigation of Noun Pluralization in Cypriot Maronite and Maltese Arabic

Mary Ann Walter

10:45-11:15

On the role of situational context in language variation and linguistic change: experimental evidence from Iberian, Mexican Altiplano and Rioplatense

Martín Fuchs, Ashwini Deo, Maria Mercedes Pinango

11:15-11:45

The road to auxiliariness: the view from speaker-listener interaction

Malte Rosemeyer, Eitan Grossman

11:45-12:15

Identity Construction and Representation in Past Speech Communities: Sociolinguistic Models of Intra-Speaker Variation in Middle English Written

Juan Manuel Hernandez-Campoy, Tamara García-Vidal, Belén Zapata-Barrero

10:45-11:15

The Evolution of Case in Indo-Aryan

Daven Hobbs

11:15-11:45

The loss of verbal categories in Indo-European

Paul Widmer, Manuel Widmer, Peter Ranacher, Balthasar Bickel

11:45-12:15

Oblique Case Loss in Indo-European

Steven J. Rapaport

13:30-14:00

Historical input and substrate transfer in Postcolonial Englishes

Devyani Sharma

14:00-14:30

Reconstructing the context and causes of prehistoric contact-induced change: a case study from Papua New

Bethwyn Evans

14:30-15:00

Imperfect adult L2 learning and dialect contact – two forces rowing in the same direction?

Fernando Tejedo-Herrero, Israel Sanz-Sánchez

13:30-14:00

Passives, anticausatives, and “aorist passives” in Vedic Sanskrit: Synchronic and diachronic

Hans Henrich Hock

14:00-14:30

Two paths to split ergativity: Alignment change in Indo-Aryan and Anatolian

Eystein Dahl

14:30-15:00

Voice, alignment changes and the rise of head-marking

Michela Cennamo

13:30-14:00

Deconstructing Stylistic fronting in Old Norwegian and Old Spanish

Signe Laake, Kristin Føsker Hagemann

14:00-14:30

At the corner of syntax and semantics. Resumptive structures in Old French and Old Swedish

Christine Meklenborg Salvesen

14:30-15:00

Markers and models in linguistic change

Nigel Vincent, Kersti Börjars

13:30-14:00

Testing the hypothesis that sociolinguistic parameters of contact determine structural effects, with special reference to highly contact influenced varieties of Arabic: Buxari (Uzbekistan), Nubi (Uganda), Kormatiki (Cyprus) and

Robert Ratcliffe

14:00-14:30

Strategies for intra-Semitic verb borrowing: the case of Arabic loanverbs in North-Eastern

Eleanor Coghill

14:30-15:00

“The Influence of Aramaic on the Modern Arabic Dialects of the Levant and Mesopotamia: A Critical

Phillip Stokes, Na'Ama Pat-El

13:30-14:00

Origins and Spread of Deviant Language on the Internet

Susan Herring

14:00-14:30

The Utterance Selection Model and Different Types of Replicator Selection

Roland Mühlenbernd, Jérôme Michaud

14:30-15:00

Experimental Evidence for Diachronic Change

Chelsea Sanker

13:30-14:00

Loss of Inflection in Yawarana (Cariban)

Natalia Cáceres, Spike Gildea, Marie-Claude Mattéi Muller

14:00-14:30

Inflectional change in Copala Triqui

George Aaron Broadwell, Lauren Clemens

14:30-15:00

The reduction of object marking in Cuwabo verbs and subsequent syntactic developments

Rozenn Guérois, Lutz Marten

15:20-15:50

Borrowing a grammar without speaking the language? The case of Amish Shwitzer

Guido Seiler

15:50-16:20

Leaving Their Mark: How Wisconsin Came to Sound German

Miranda Wilkerson, Joe Salmons

15:20-15:50

FROM MIDDLE VOICE TO DATIVE ALIGNMENT: A DIACHRONIC SHIFT WITH SPANISH EXPERIENTAL VERBS

Chantal Melis

15:50-16:20

On the syntax of non-finite constructions in early New-Indo-Aryan

Krzysztof Stronski, Joanna Tokaj, Saartje Verbeke

15:20-15:50

The actuation of Locative Inversion in English: a diachronic and comparative perspective

Benjamin Lowell Sluckin

15:20-15:50

The Role of Contact-Induced Grammaticalization in Arabic Pluriform Development

Thomas Leddy-Cecere

15:50-16:20

Contact among neighbouring dialects as motivation for “reversal” of sound change

Enam Al-Wer, Bruno Herin, Uri Horesh

16:20-16:50

Sugar, we’re going down: Vowel lowering in Gaza City Arabic

William Cotter

15:20-15:50

Trifles make the sum of life! A construction grammar perspective on speaker innovation

Alexander Bergs

17:00-18:00

Inside Contact-Stimulated Grammatical Development: A Peek at Early Steps

Marrianne Mithun

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

12:15-13:30 Lunch Break

14:55-15:30 Coffee Break