PROGRAM
Days: Monday, July 31st Tuesday, August 1st Wednesday, August 2nd Thursday, August 3rd Friday, August 4th
Monday, July 31st
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08:30-09:20 Session Keynote: Introductory Keynote Address
Location: Ballroom
09:30-10:20 Session Plenary: Patience Epps: Language contact, maintenance, and diversification: a view from Amazonia
Introduction by Marianne Mithun
Location: Ballroom
| 09:30 | Plenary, Language Contact, Maintenance, and Diversification: A View from Amazonia ( abstract ) |
10:30-10:45Coffee Break
10:45-12:10 Session A: Panel: Spanish Socio-historical Linguistics: Isolation & Contact
Location: Ballroom
| 10:45 | From contact to isolation: the evolution of Romance use in al-Andalus ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | Historical syntax needs dialectology: lessons from Spanish ( abstract ) |
10:45-11:10 Session A: Panel: Spanish Socio-historical Linguistics: Isolation & Contact
Introduction by Panel Organizers
Location: Ballroom
10:45-12:10 Session B: Grammaticalization
Chair:
Location: Magnolia
| 10:45 | A formal semantic analysis of the grammaticalization of the durative aspect marker zai in Chinese ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | Changes in the Afrikaans genitive since standardization ( abstract ) |
| 11:45 | On the Grammaticalization of the Nominative with Infinitive Construction in Baltic and Slavic ( abstract ) |
10:45-12:10 Session C: Syntax in Scandinavian Languages
Chair:
Location: Anaqua
| 10:45 | Expletive subjects in Icelandic: A diachronic study ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | Final negative particles in Swedish – distribution and etymology ( abstract ) |
| 11:45 | Word order change in Norwegian: One factor with several consequences ( abstract ) |
10:45-12:10 Session D: Ancient Languages & Proto-Languages
Chair:
Location: Palm
| 10:45 | Oblique Anticausatives in the Early/Archaic Indo-European Languages: A Morphosyntactic Isogloss ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | The externalization of inflection in Indo-European pronouns ( abstract ) |
| 11:45 | The Accusative of Respect in Ancient Greek: Semantic Properties, Situation Types and Actionality ( abstract ) |
10:45-12:10 Session E: Corpus Analysis
Chair:
Location: Cedar
| 10:45 | A corpus of multilingual textbooks of the Early Modern Age – A new perspective on questions of historical linguistics ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | Meanderings of one: functional changes from Early Modern English into modern World Englishes in a Complex Systems perspective ( abstract ) |
| 11:45 | Annotating Presuppositional Information in Historical Corpora ( abstract ) |
10:45-12:10 Session F: Onomastics, Orthography, & Lexicon
Chair:
Location: Laurel
| 10:45 | A preliminary database of early Modern English spelling (ca. 1500–1700) ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | The emergence of sentence-internal capitalization in German: New perspectives on the history of a spelling convention ( abstract ) |
| 11:45 | The new Basque Historical-Etymological Dictionary: advancements on the reconstruction of the Basque lexicon ( abstract ) |
10:45-12:10 Session G: Phonology
Chair:
Location: Laurel
| 10:45 | Interpolating diachronic phonotactic data: on the logistic spread of Middle English schwa loss ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | Verb-final vowel loss in Korandje ( abstract ) |
| 11:45 | Blackfoot reflexes of Proto-Algonquian clusters ( abstract ) |
12:15-13:30Lunch Break
13:30-14:55 Session A: Panel: Spanish Socio-historical Linguisitics: Isolation & Contact
Location: Ballroom
| 13:30 | The expression of subject pronouns in Spanish and Portuguese wh-interrogatives ( abstract ) |
| 14:00 | Transmission, contact, leveling and innovation. A historical perspective on the accusative/dative opposition in Spanish ( abstract ) |
| 14:30 | Out of the Mouths of Babes: Solving Some Puzzles in Latin American Spanish Variation and Change ( abstract ) |
13:30-14:55 Session B: Grammaticalization
Chair:
Location: Magnolia
| 13:30 | Towards a typology of old grams ( abstract ) |
| 14:00 | From Noun to Determiner/Quantifier: Pseudo-partitives and Language Change ( abstract ) |
| 14:30 | Grammaticalization and the Emergence of Personal Pronouns ( abstract ) |
13:30-14:55 Session C: Syntax in Scandinavian Languages
Chair:
Location: Anaqua
| 13:30 | Keeping up with the arguments: Continuity and change in Icelandic weather verbs ( abstract ) |
| 14:00 | Noun phrase word order in Old Swedish - from pragmatic fronting to determiner-first word order ( abstract ) |
13:30-14:55 Session D: Ancient Languages & Proto-Languages
Chair:
Location: Palm
| 13:30 | the birth of a grammatical category: the case of the adjective class ( abstract ) |
| 14:00 | Criteria for subjecthood and non-canonical subjects in Ancient Greek ( abstract ) |
| 14:30 | Dynamicized semantic maps of content words: Comparing long-term lexical changes in Ancient Egyptian and Greek ( abstract ) |
| 15:00 | When Push comes to Shove: The Neglected Role of Historical Syntax for Germanic and Indo-European Etymology ( abstract ) |
13:30-14:55 Session E: Corpus Analysis
Chair:
Location: Cedar
| 13:30 | Subjects, case and word order change in Icelandic: A corpus study ( abstract ) |
13:30-14:55 Session G: Phonology
Chair:
Location: Laurel
| 13:30 | When Prosody can be Reconstructed: A case from Papua New Guinea ( abstract ) |
| 14:00 | The Emergence of a New Phoneme: the Vietnamese Case ( abstract ) |
| 14:30 | Uto-Aztecan sources for word-final tl in Nahuatl dialectology : Evidence from cognate constructions ( abstract ) |
14:00-14:55 Session E: Bilingualism & Micro-Variation
Location: Cedar
| 14:00 | The Impacts of Bilingual Production Monitoring on Non-Dominant Language Lexica ( abstract ) |
| 14:30 | Morphosyntactic micro-variation in Bantu languages: A parametric approach and three case studies ( abstract ) |
14:00-14:55 Session F: Subjectification
Chair:
Location: Laurel
| 14:00 | From immediate to extended intersubjectification: Semasiological change as gradient codification of a 3rd party ( abstract ) |
| 14:30 | Onomasiological subjectification: the semantic redistribution of Spanish copular verbs ( abstract ) |
14:55-15:20Coffee Break
15:20-15:45 Session A: Panel: Spanish Socio-historical Linguistics: Isolation & Contact
Location: Ballroom
| 15:20 | On the Nature of Slavery in the Americas and its Linguistic Consequences: The Legal Hypothesis of Creole Genesis ( abstract ) |
15:20-16:50 Session B: Grammaticalization
Chair:
Location: Magnolia
| 15:20 | Layering as an effect of asymmetric priming – assessing the explanatory power of a psycholinguistic phenomenon for historical linguistics ( abstract ) |
| 15:50 | An approach to diachronic verb typology. ( abstract ) |
15:20-15:45 Session C: Syntax in Scandinavian Languages
Chair:
Location: Anaqua
| 15:20 | The Diachrony of Light Verb Constructions in Old Swedish ( abstract ) |
15:20-16:15 Session D: Ancient Languages & Proto-Languages
Chair:
Location: Palm
| 15:20 | Umbrian <rs> and <rf>: synchronic and diachronic analysis ( abstract ) |
15:20-16:50 Session E: Bilingualism & Micro-Variation
Chair:
Location: Cedar
| 15:20 | Tracing Patterns of Intra-Speaker Variation in Historical Corpora of English Correspondence: Data from HiStylVar Project ( abstract ) |
15:20-16:50 Session F: Subjectification
Chair:
Location: Laurel
| 15:20 | Scalar meaning in diachrony: the case of bocado ( abstract ) |
| 15:50 | Towards a dynamic Behavioral Profile: a diachronic study of polysemous 'sentir' in Spanish ( abstract ) |
15:20-16:15 Session G: Phonology
Chair:
Location: Laurel
| 15:20 | The Proto-Creole of the Gulf of Guinea and its daughter languages: from liquid consonants to complex onsets and vowel lengthening ( abstract ) |
| 15:50 | Romance genitive plural remnants show that sound change alone didn’t cause Latin loss of case ( abstract ) |
15:50-16:50 Session A: Panel: Spanish Socio-historical Linguistics: Isolation & Contact
Discussion with panel participants led by Rena Torres Cacoullos
Location: Ballroom
15:50-16:50 Session C: German Syntax
Chair:
Location: Anaqua
| 15:50 | Syntactically independent exclamative zu-infinitives in Modern German: diachrony and cross-linguistic comparison ( abstract ) |
| 16:20 | Syntax and Information Structure: V-Final Root Clauses in German ( abstract ) |
17:00-17:50 Session Plenary: Rena Torres Cacoullos: Synchrony meets diachrony: Reconsidering convergence
Introduction by Sandro Sessarego
Location: Ballroom
| 17:00 | Closing Plenary Lecture, Synchrony meets diachrony: Reconsidering convergence ( abstract ) |
Tuesday, August 1st
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08:30-09:20 Session Plenary: Salikoko Mufwene: Evolutionary or Historical Linguistics: What's in a Name?
Introduction by Henning Andersen
Location: Ballroom
| 08:30 | Evolutionary or Historical Linguistics: What’s in a Name? ( abstract ) |
09:30-10:25 Session A: Panel: African American English & The Ecology of Language Change
Location: Ballroom
| 09:30 | Introduction, TBA ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | The evolution of AAVE: Evidence from Liberian Settler English ( abstract ) |
09:30-10:25 Session B: Grammaticalization
Chair:
Location: Magnolia
| 09:30 | Subject clitics in Romance: from adjoined pronouns to incorporated agreement markers ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | Remotivating inflectional classes: an unexpected effect of grammaticalization ( abstract ) |
09:30-10:25 Session C: Syntax in Germanic Languages
Chair:
Location: Anaqua
| 09:30 | Re-autonomization in the system of the Dutch modals – further perspectives ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | Language-specific differences in regularization rates of the Germanic preterite ( abstract ) |
09:30-10:25 Session D: Ancient Languages
Chair:
Location: Palm
| 09:30 | The Origin of the Semitic Relative Marker ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | The Construct State in Bohairic Coptic ( abstract ) |
09:30-10:25 Session E: Morphology
Chair:
Location: Cedar
| 09:30 | Bound yet free: the double life of POc *akin[i] and its Southeast Solomonic reflexes ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | The development of agreement in Germanic: evidence from a parallel text analysis ( abstract ) |
09:30-10:25 Session F: Alignment & Argument Structure
Chair:
Location: Laurel
| 09:30 | The Evolution of Argument Structure: Psychological Verbs of Liking in the History of Spanish ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | Walking the Path of Success: Reconstructing from Variation in Meaning and Argument Structure ( abstract ) |
09:30-10:25 Session G: Perfects & Futures
Chair:
Location: Mesquite
| 09:30 | A diachronic account of variation in Romance auxiliary selection, with new evidence from Montréal French ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | The Evolution of the Periphrastic Future in Dialogue with the Subjunctive Future in Romance ( abstract ) |
10:30-10:45Coffee Break
10:45-11:40 Session A: Panel: African American English & The Ecology of Language Change
Location: Ballroom
| 10:45 | African American history from below and its linguistic implications: Ecological factors documented in the ex-slave narratives ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | The Role of Demographic Change in the Evolution of AAVE ( abstract ) |
10:45-12:10 Session B: Grammaticalization
Location: Magnolia
| 10:45 | Language change and grammaticalization. A new look into directionality ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | From obligatory to zero: Iconicity in grammaticalization ( abstract ) |
| 11:45 | Czech complementizer zda(li) ‘whether, if’: The path of grammaticalization ( abstract ) |
10:45-12:10 Session C: Syntax in English
Chair:
Location: Anaqua
| 10:45 | The Diachrony of ditransitives in English ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | Object Movement and Two Topic Positions in Old English ( abstract ) |
10:45-11:10 Session D: Ancient Languages
Chair:
Location: Palm
| 10:45 | Universally dispreferred structures through change: the diachrony of affix ordering in Egyptian-Coptic ( abstract ) |
10:45-12:10 Session E: Morphology
Chair:
Location: Cedar
| 10:45 | Gender Asymmetries in Old French Determiners ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | ANIMACY AND OPTIONALITY IN NUMBER SYSTEMS: A DIACHRONIC PERSPECTIVE ( abstract ) |
| 11:45 | The adjective attribute marking system in Proto-Saami ( abstract ) |
10:45-12:10 Session F: Alignment & Argument Structures
Chair:
Location: Laurel
| 10:45 | Antipassives and other argument demoting constructions in Insular Celtic ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | It is me – Old Danish subject complements in the oblique form ( abstract ) |
| 11:45 | Split ergativity in Basque: the axis of number ( abstract ) |
10:45-12:10 Session G: Perfects & Futures
Chair:
Location: Mesquite
| 10:45 | Loss of future semantics and raising properties of an auxiliary verb ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | Development of Present Perfect in contemporary Persian ( abstract ) |
11:45-12:10 Session A: Panel: African American English & The Ecology of Language Change
Discussion led by Salikoko Mufwene
Location: Ballroom
12:15-13:30Lunch Break
13:30-13:40 Session A: Roundtable: New Directions for Historical Linguistics
Introduction by Marc Pierce
Chair:
Location: Ballroom
13:40-14:20 Session A: Roundtable: New Directions for Historical Linguistics
Keynote Addresses:
William Labov: Building on Empirical Foundations: Community change in apparent time
Gillian Sankoff: Building on Empirical Foundations: Community change in real time
Location: Ballroom
14:30-14:55 Session A: Roundtable: New Directions for Historical Linguistics
Discussion led by Elizabeth Traugott
Location: Ballroom
14:30-14:55 Session B: Grammaticalization
Chair:
Location: Magnolia
| 14:30 | The extravagant progressive. An experimental corpus study on the history of emphatic [BE Ving] ( abstract ) |
14:30-14:55 Session C: Syntax in English
Location: Anaqua
14:30-14:55 Session D: Spanish Morphosyntax
Chair:
Location: Palm
| 14:30 | Recomplementation and A-topics in Old Spanish ( abstract ) |
14:30-14:55 Session E: Morphology
Chair:
Location: Cedar
| 14:30 | Korean –tul: A comparative development between North and South Korean ( abstract ) |
14:30-14:55 Session F: Alignment & Argument Structure
Chair:
Location: Laurel
| 14:30 | Expanding the canon: The unrecognized role of alignment in the typology of suppletion ( abstract ) |
14:30-14:55 Session G: Reconstruction & Methodology
Chair:
Location: Mesquite
| 14:30 | On the Lack of Uniformity in the Uniformitarian Principle ( abstract ) |
14:55-15:30Coffee Break
15:20-16:55 Session A: Roundtable: New Directions for Historical Linguistics
3:20 - 3:30: Paul Hopper, Retrospective Video
3:30 - 3:50: Discussion led by Brian Joseph
3:50 - 4:10: Discussion led by Sarah Grey Thomason
Location: Ballroom
15:20-16:55 Session B: Grammaticalization
Chair:
Location: Magnolia
| 15:20 | Is the English Progressive Incompatible with a Stative Construal? ( abstract ) |
| 15:50 | From Locative Existential Construction fi(ih) to TMA/Progressive Marker: Grammaticalization of fi(ih) in Gulf Arabic Pidgin ( abstract ) |
| 16:20 | From time to cause and condition: the Basque conjunction gero ( abstract ) |
15:20-16:55 Session D: Spanish Morphosyntax
Chair:
Location: Palm
| 15:20 | La evolución del gerundio de posterioridad ( abstract ) |
| 15:50 | Conditionals past and present: A semantic account of the retention of the imperfect subjunctive in Mexican Spanish ( abstract ) |
| 16:20 | Characterization of the subject and direct object of transitive sentences in the history of Spanish ( abstract ) |
15:20-16:55 Session E: Morphology
Chair:
Location: Cedar
| 15:20 | Language change at a distance ( abstract ) |
| 15:50 | The Diminutive Relexification Cycle: Historical Robust Generator of New Words in Spanish ( abstract ) |
15:20-16:55 Session F: Endangered Languages
Chair:
Location: Laurel
| 15:20 | Syntactic sources for the development of a typologically unique property concepts class ( abstract ) |
| 15:50 | The social history of Shawi. a Token-Based Approach ( abstract ) |
15:20-16:55 Session G: Reconstruction & Methodology
Chair:
Location: Mesquite
| 15:20 | Why morphology matters in comparative-historical linguistics, phylogenetics and language pre-history research ( abstract ) |
| 15:50 | A “pseudo-geographic” approach to reconstructing the histories of words: Application to Germanic languages ( abstract ) |
16:10-16:55 Session A: Roundtable: New Directions for Historical Linguistics
Discussion of key questions.
Discussants:
Location: Ballroom
17:00-17:50 Session Plenary: Michela Cennamo: The Actualization of 'new' voice patterns in Romance: Persistence in diversity
Introduction by James Clackson
Location: Ballroom
| 17:00 | The actualization of ‘new’ voice patterns in Romance: persistence in diversity ( abstract ) |
18:00-19:55 Session A: Panel: The History of Texas German
Location: Ballroom
| 18:00 | Contextualizing the Study of Texas German ( abstract ) |
| 18:25 | Verticalization and the Shift from German to English in Texas ( abstract ) |
| 18:45 | Comanche and German on the Texas Frontier ( abstract ) |
| 19:00 | Frontiers of Language: Texas, Germans, and the Development of Shoshonean Linguistics ( abstract ) |
| 19:20 | Texas German in the 1960s ( abstract ) |
| 19:40 | On the descriptive adequacy of linguistic terminology: Possibilities for labeling linguistic minorities – especially concerning Texas German ( abstract ) |
20:00-20:30 Session A: Panel: The History of Texas German
Discussion session with panel participants.
Chair:
Discussants:
Location: Ballroom
Wednesday, August 2nd
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08:30-09:20 Session Plenary: Henning Andersen: Paradigms, Synchrony, Diachrony, and History
Introduction by Brian Joseph
Location: Ballroom
| 08:30 | Paradigms: Synchrony, diachrony, and history ( abstract ) |
09:30-10:25 Session A: Special Session: Evolutive vs. Adaptive Change
Location: Ballroom
| 09:30 | The Slavic Reflexes of the PIE Syllabic Sonorants ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | Dichotomies of Change: Where to draw the line(s), if at all? ( abstract ) |
09:30-10:25 Session B: Socio-Historical & Contact
Chair:
Location: Magnolia
| 09:30 | Language contact as a source of reduced flexibility in Malayalam constituent order ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | Children as agents of language change – diachronic evidence from Latin American Spanish ( abstract ) |
09:30-10:25 Session C: Romance Morphosyntax
Chair:
Location: Anaqua
| 09:30 | Dative possessor in ditransitive Spanish predication, in diachronic perspective ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | Old French grammar, Old French sources, and language evolution ( abstract ) |
09:30-10:25 Session D: Construction Grammar
Chair:
Location: Palm
| 09:30 | Reinforcement or Constructional Realignment: Quantifier Yixie in Mandarin Chinese ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | Constructionalization and constructional competition: investigating Old English NP ecology and the development of the indefinite article ( abstract ) |
09:30-10:25 Session E: Morphology & Paradigms
Chair:
Location: Cedar
| 09:30 | Syntactic paradigmatization as a constraint on grammaticalization - On the rise of participial predicates in Indo-Aryan ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | Word order paradigms and grammaticalization ( abstract ) |
09:30-10:25 Session F: Endangered Languages & Documentation
Chair:
Location: Laurel
| 09:30 | Building a foundation for Papuan historical linguistics: Documentation and description of the Bitur and Abom languages of Southern New Guinea ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | Language Documentation and Language Classification: Disentangling the Past of the Jodï Language ( abstract ) |
10:30-10:45Coffee Break
10:45-12:10 Session A: Special Session: Evolutive vs. Adaptive Change
Location: Ballroom
| 10:45 | H. Andersen’s “Abductive and Deductive Change” and Croatian Idioms ( abstract ) |
| 11:10 | Contact-induced grammatical changes in Kashubian in light of Andersen’s Abductive and Deductive Change (1973) ( abstract ) |
10:45-12:10 Session B: Socio-Historical & Contact
Chair:
Location: Magnolia
| 10:45 | Copying of argument structure: a gap in borrowing scales and a new approach to contact-induced change ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | Neuters to None: A Diachronic Perspective on Loanword Gender in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian ( abstract ) |
| 11:45 | Presentatives in Eastern Basque: change in deixis system and language contact ( abstract ) |
10:45-12:10 Session C: Romance Morphosyntax
Chair:
Location: Anaqua
| 10:45 | The emergence of Gascon negative tripartite construction ne…pas jamei ‘never’ ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | Language comparison and population history ( abstract ) |
10:45-12:10 Session D: Construction Grammar
Chair:
Location: Palm
| 10:45 | A diachronic constructional approach to German modal particles ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | Diachrony and nominal constructions: tracking the evolution of Spanish el hecho de (que) ( abstract ) |
10:45-12:10 Session E: Morphology & Paradigms
Chair:
Location: Cedar
| 10:45 | Towards a typology of paradigm leveling – a computational approach ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | Spanish and French HOMŌ-derived Impersonal Pronouns: Stalled Grammaticalization ( abstract ) |
10:45-12:10 Session F: Endangered Languages & Documentation
Chair:
Location: Laurel
| 10:45 | The loss of a typologically rare opposition in two endangered dialects: /h/ vs. /h̃/ in Mixean and Zuberoan Basque ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | Spatial Marking in the Muya Language ( abstract ) |
12:15-13:30Lunch Break
Thursday, August 3rd
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08:30-09:20 Session Plenary: Claire Bowern: Australian Languages and Theories of Language Change
Introduction by Patience Epps
Location: Ballroom
| 08:30 | Plenary, Australian Languages and Theories of Language Change ( abstract ) |
09:30-10:25 Session A: Panel: Endangered Languages & Historical Linguistics
Location: Ballroom
| 09:30 | Introduction and Panel Overview ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | Endangered Arawakan languages reveal a novel source for standard negation: privative derivation ( abstract ) |
09:30-10:25 Session B: Languages in Contact
Chair:
Location: Magnolia
| 09:30 | Diffusional change of the Chinese scalar additive construction derived from prohibitives ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | Constructional change and variation in an areal perspective: evidence from the potential complement construction in Min ( abstract ) |
09:30-10:25 Session C: Workshop: Development of Aspect & Tense
Location: Anaqua
| 09:30 | Development of Aspect and Tense ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | Redrawing the Boundaries: Fluctuating Time Reference in the Sogeram Languages of Papua New Guinea ( abstract ) |
09:30-10:25 Session G: Pragmatics
Chair:
Location: Laurel
| 09:30 | The regularization change of language use of IRASSHARU in Japanese honorifics ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | From Written to Spoken Usage: The Contribution of Pre-revival Linguistic Habits to the Formation of the Colloquial Register of Modern Hebrew ( abstract ) |
09:45-10:25 Session D: Workshop: Paradigm Leveling
Location: Palm
| 09:45 | Paradigm Levelling in Japanese Sign Language and Related Languages ( abstract ) |
10:00-10:25 Session F: Workshop: Logical Vocabulary & Logical Change
Location: Laurel
| 10:00 | Address ( abstract ) |
10:30-10:45Coffee Break
10:45-12:10 Session A: Panel: Endangered Languages & Historical Linguistics
Location: Ballroom
| 10:45 | North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic: an endangered language unusually rich in synchronic and diachronic attestation ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | Patterns of retention and innovation in Dene-Yeniseian verb morphology ( abstract ) |
| 11:45 | How language documentation is changing Mayan history ( abstract ) |
10:45-12:10 Session B: Languages in Contact
Chair:
Location: Magnolia
| 10:45 | Reconstructing the origin and spread of social category terms in the Australian continent ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | The development of Standard Average European: evidence from varieties of German ( abstract ) |
| 11:45 | IS THERE A SUCH THING AS CREOLIZATION? EVALUATING THE FEATURE POOL HYPOTHESIS ( abstract ) |
10:45-12:10 Session C: Workshop: Development of Aspect & Tense
Location: Anaqua
| 10:45 | Continuity and change in the aspect systems of Vedic and Latin ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | On the Rise of the Analytic Perfect Aspect in the West Iranian Languages ( abstract ) |
| 11:45 | Preterite Loss in Upper German dialects – a result of dynamic developments in the German tense and aspect system ( abstract ) |
10:45-12:10 Session E: Semantics
Location: Cedar
| 10:45 | A formal study of extensional broadening in historical semantics ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | Diachronic Delocativization and Abstraction of Phrases Headed by the Spanish Preposition a. “Domino Effect” in a Lexical and Semantic Change ( abstract ) |
| 11:45 | Caer en temores infundados: On the Historical Evolution of Spanish Collocations with the Verb Caer 'Fall' and Stative Nouns ( abstract ) |
10:45-12:10 Session F: Workshop: Logical Vocabulary & Logical Change
Location: Laurel
| 10:45 | Vala-Indefinites and Covert Operators in Old Hungarian ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | Disjunctive and conjunctive particles meet their negative concord relatives ( abstract ) |
| 11:45 | Synchrony and diachrony of a multifunctional particle: Latin nec ( abstract ) |
10:50-12:10 Session D: Workshop: Paradigm Leveling
Location: Palm
| 10:50 | Analogy as Local Generalization: The Solution to (almost) all our Problems ( abstract ) |
| 11:20 | Operational principles of »morphological analogy« and the status of »paradigmatic levelling« ( abstract ) |
12:15-13:30Lunch Break
13:30-14:55 Session A: Panel: Endangered Languages & Historical Linguistics
Graduate Student and Post-Doc Poster Presentations
Location: Ballroom
| 13:30 | The linguistic prehistory of the western Himalayas: endangered minority languages as a window to the past ( abstract ) |
| 13:45 | The crucial role of Chuvash dialects in reconstructing Proto-Turkic (and beyond) ( abstract ) |
| 14:00 | A Reconstruction of Proto-Croiselles Phonology and Lexicon ( abstract ) |
| 14:15 | The elaboration of the pronominal prefix system in Lake Iroquoian: Evidence from the historical documentation of Wendat ( abstract ) |
| 14:30 | The importance of documenting discourse and interaction: Unravelling the development of grammatical relations in Shiwiar (Chicham, Ecuador) ( abstract ) |
13:30-14:55 Session B: Languages in Contact
Chair:
Location: Magnolia
| 13:30 | CRYPTOLECTS AND JAMAICAN MAROON SPIRIT LANGUAGE ( abstract ) |
13:30-14:55 Session C: Workshop: Development of Aspect & Tense
Location: Anaqua
| 13:30 | The demise of the Gothic mediopassive and the rise of a new passive paradigm ( abstract ) |
| 14:00 | Reduction of Aspectual Marking in Present Tense ( abstract ) |
13:30-14:55 Session F: Workshop: Logical Vocabulary & Logical Change
Location: Laurel
| 13:30 | Adding meaning to Indo-Aryan aspectual adverbials then and again ( abstract ) |
| 14:00 | Allosemies of the Anatolian conjunction particle ( abstract ) |
| 14:30 | Why are there disjunctive particles in Sinhala & Dravidian relative-correlatives?: existential particles in non-existential environments ( abstract ) |
13:35-14:55 Session D: Workshop: Paradigm Leveling
Location: Palm
| 13:35 | The role of perception in paradigm leveling and beyond ( abstract ) |
| 14:05 | Ablaut pattern extension as partial regularization strategies in Germanic languages ( abstract ) |
14:00-14:55 Session E: Computational
Chair:
Location: Cedar
| 14:00 | Determining Unattested Forms in Ancient Greek Using Computational Linguistics ( abstract ) |
| 14:30 | Word Order Change Online: Language Change, Second Language Acquisition, Computational Modelling and Simulation ( abstract ) |
| 15:00 | Retro-predicting language change with binomial regression analysis ( abstract ) |
14:55-15:20Coffee Break
15:20-16:15 Session A: Panel: Endangered Languages & Historical Linguistics
Location: Ballroom
| 15:20 | Do tones change faster than segments?: perspectives from recent documentation of the Chatino languages (Zapotecan, Mexico) ( abstract ) |
15:20-15:45 Session F: Workshop: Logical Vocabulary & Logical Change
Location: Laurel
| 15:20 | A diachronic typology of the universal superparticle: an inter-genetic view ( abstract ) |
15:25-16:05 Session P3
| 15:25 | Innovations in Finnish paradigm: change in progress ( abstract ) |
15:50-16:45 Session C: Workshop: Logical Vocabulary & Logical Change
Discussion by panel members
Location: Anaqua
16:20-16:45 Session A: Panel: Endangered Languages & Historical Linguistics
Discussion led by Geoffrey Khan, Marrianne Mithun, Pattie Epps, and Claire Bowern
17:00-17:50 Session Plenary: Geoffrey Khan: Contact and change in Neo-Aramaic dialects
Introduction by Na'ama Pat-El
Location: Ballroom
| 17:00 | Plenary, Contact and Change in Neo-Aramaic Dialects ( abstract ) |
Friday, August 4th
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09:00-09:25 Session A: Workshop: New Historical Perspectives on Non-Dominant Speakers as Agents of Contact-Induced Change
Introduction by Petros Karatsareas & Jonathon Kasstan
Location: Ballroom
09:00-09:25 Session B: Workshop: Alignment Typology in Diachronic Perspective
Introduction by Eystein Dahl
Location: Magnolia
09:00-10:25 Session E: Workshop: Atomizing Linguistic Change & the Nuclear Step: From Individual Realization to Emergence
Location: Cedar
| 09:00 | Atomizing Linguistic Change: Taking a False (or Right) Step ( abstract ) |
| 09:25 | Diachronic layerings and diaspora: a sociohistorical study of changes in personal names among Indian South Africans of Indic and Dravidian backgrounds. ( abstract ) |
| 09:55 | Experimental Semiotics, Representational Biases and the Atoms of Language Change ( abstract ) |
09:00-09:25 Session F: Workshop: The Loss of Inflection
Workshop introduction by Matthew Baerman, Greville Corbett, Oliver Bond, and Helen-Sims Williams
Location: Laurel
09:30-10:25 Session A: Workshop: New Historical Perspectives on Non-Dominant Speakers as Agents of Contact-Induced Change
Location: Ballroom
| 09:30 | L2 acquisition of Old French structural dative as a trigger for the English recipient passive ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | The difficulty of determining contact-induced language change in historical data: evidence from selected English urban vernaculars (c. 1400-1700) ( abstract ) |
09:30-10:25 Session B: Workshop: Alignment Typology in Diachronic Perspective
Location: Magnolia
| 09:30 | Markedness reversal between antipassive and transitive constructions as a possible diachronic process of alignment change ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | Genitive/active to nominative case in Japanese: the role of complex experiencer constructions ( abstract ) |
09:30-09:55 Session C: Workshop: Germanic & Romance: Probing the Similarities & Differences
Welcome and introductory remarks by Sam Wolfe and Christine M. Salvesen
Location: Anaqua
09:30-10:25 Session F: Workshop: The Loss of Inflection
Location: Laurel
| 09:30 | THE RADICALLY ISOLATING LANGUAGES OF FLORES: A CHALLENGE TO DIACHRONIC THEORY ( abstract ) |
| 10:00 | The omission of past tense marking in Singapore English: an apparent-time investigation of language change ( abstract ) |
09:45-09:55 Session D: Workshop: Arabic & Contact-Induced Change
Christopher Lucas & Stefano Manfredi, Opening Remarks
Location: Palm
10:00-10:25 Session C: Workshop: Germanic & Romance: Probing the Similarities & Differences
Location: Anaqua
| 10:00 | A Neglected Possibility for How Grammatical Resemblances between Germanic and Romance Could Have Been Created: Parallel Influences from Celtic ( abstract ) |
10:00-10:25 Session D: Workshop: Arabic & Contact-Induced Change
Location: Palm
| 10:00 | Numeral phrase borrowing in Arabic and beyond ( abstract ) |
10:30-10:45Coffee Break
10:45-12:10 Session A: Workshop: New Historical Perspectives on Non-Dominant Speakers as Agents of Contact-Induced Change
Location: Ballroom
| 10:45 | Finding needles in haystacks: Non-dominant multilingual speakers as agents of change in Early Modern Dutch ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | Grammaticalization of the future marker in Palestinian Arabic: An internal or a contact-induced change? ( abstract ) |
| 11:45 | Language change in East African Bantu: multilingualism and its effects ( abstract ) |
10:45-12:10 Session B: Workshop: Alignment Typology in Diachronic Perspective
Location: Magnolia
| 10:45 | Ergative from Passive in Proto-Basque ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | CHANGES TO ALIGNMENT IN MAYAN LANGUAGES SO FAR ( abstract ) |
| 11:45 | Valency-changing categories in a diachronic typological perspective: Alignment types and valency derivations in Indo-European and beyond ( abstract ) |
10:45-12:10 Session C: Workshop: Germanic & Romance: Probing the Similarities & Differences
Location: Anaqua
| 10:45 | The absolute construction in English and French: A case of syntactic influence? ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | Reflexive Constructions in German, Spanish, and French as a Product of Cyclic Interaction ( abstract ) |
| 11:45 | MEDIEVAL ROMANCE AND ITS PLACE IN THE VERB SECOND TYPOLOGY ( abstract ) |
10:45-12:10 Session D: Workshop: Arabic & Contact-Induced Change
Location: Palm
| 10:45 | Contact and what grammaticalization theory won’t tell you about language history ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | The historical development of the Maltese plural suffixes -iet and -(i)jiet. ( abstract ) |
| 11:45 | A Quantitative Investigation of Noun Pluralization in Cypriot Maronite and Maltese Arabic ( abstract ) |
10:45-12:10 Session E: Workshop: Atomizing Linguistic Change & the Nuclear Step: From Individual Realization to Emergence
Location: Cedar
| 10:45 | On the role of situational context in language variation and linguistic change: experimental evidence from Iberian, Mexican Altiplano and Rioplatense Spanish. ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | The road to auxiliariness: the view from speaker-listener interaction ( abstract ) |
| 11:45 | Identity Construction and Representation in Past Speech Communities: Sociolinguistic Models of Intra-Speaker Variation in Middle English Written Correspondence ( abstract ) |
10:45-12:10 Session F: Workshop: The Loss of Inflection
Location: Laurel
| 10:45 | The Evolution of Case in Indo-Aryan ( abstract ) |
| 11:15 | The loss of verbal categories in Indo-European ( abstract ) |
| 11:45 | Oblique Case Loss in Indo-European ( abstract ) |
12:15-13:30Lunch Break
13:30-14:55 Session A: Workshop: New Historical Perspectives on Non-Dominant Speakers as Agents of Contact-Induced Change
Location: Ballroom
| 13:30 | Historical input and substrate transfer in Postcolonial Englishes ( abstract ) |
| 14:00 | Reconstructing the context and causes of prehistoric contact-induced change: a case study from Papua New Guinea ( abstract ) |
| 14:30 | Imperfect adult L2 learning and dialect contact – two forces rowing in the same direction? ( abstract ) |
13:30-14:55 Session B: Workshop: Alignment Typology in Diachronic Perspective
Location: Magnolia
| 13:30 | Passives, anticausatives, and “aorist passives” in Vedic Sanskrit: Synchronic and diachronic perspectives ( abstract ) |
| 14:00 | Two paths to split ergativity: Alignment change in Indo-Aryan and Anatolian ( abstract ) |
| 14:30 | Voice, alignment changes and the rise of head-marking ( abstract ) |
13:30-14:55 Session C: Workshop: Germanic & Romance: Probing the Similarities & Differences
Location: Anaqua
| 13:30 | Deconstructing Stylistic fronting in Old Norwegian and Old Spanish ( abstract ) |
| 14:00 | At the corner of syntax and semantics. Resumptive structures in Old French and Old Swedish ( abstract ) |
| 14:30 | Markers and models in linguistic change ( abstract ) |
13:30-14:55 Session D: Workshop: Arabic & Contact-Induced Change
Location: Palm
| 13:30 | 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 Maltese. ( abstract ) |
| 14:00 | Strategies for intra-Semitic verb borrowing: the case of Arabic loanverbs in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic ( abstract ) |
| 14:30 | “The Influence of Aramaic on the Modern Arabic Dialects of the Levant and Mesopotamia: A Critical Re-evaluation” ( abstract ) |
13:30-14:55 Session E: Workshop: Atomizing Linguistic Change & the Nuclear Step: From Individual Realization to Emergence
Location: Cedar
| 13:30 | Origins and Spread of Deviant Language on the Internet ( abstract ) |
| 14:00 | The Utterance Selection Model and Different Types of Replicator Selection ( abstract ) |
| 14:30 | Experimental Evidence for Diachronic Change ( abstract ) |
13:30-14:55 Session F: Workshop: The Loss of Inflection
Location: Laurel
| 13:30 | Loss of Inflection in Yawarana (Cariban) ( abstract ) |
| 14:00 | Inflectional change in Copala Triqui ( abstract ) |
| 14:30 | The reduction of object marking in Cuwabo verbs and subsequent syntactic developments ( abstract ) |
14:55-15:30Coffee Break
15:20-16:45 Session A: Workshop: New Historical Perspectives on Non-Dominant Speakers as Agents of Contact-Induced Change
15:20: Keynote Address, Miranda Wilkerson and Joe Salmons: Leaving Their Mark: How Wisconsin Came to Sound German
Location: Ballroom
| 15:20 | Borrowing a grammar without speaking the language? The case of Amish Shwitzer ( abstract ) |
| 15:50 | Leaving Their Mark: How Wisconsin Came to Sound German ( abstract ) |
15:20-16:45 Session B: Workshop: Alignment Typology in Diachronic Perspective
Location: Magnolia
| 15:20 | FROM MIDDLE VOICE TO DATIVE ALIGNMENT: A DIACHRONIC SHIFT WITH SPANISH EXPERIENTAL VERBS ( abstract ) |
| 15:50 | On the syntax of non-finite constructions in early New-Indo-Aryan ( abstract ) |
15:20-15:45 Session C: Workshop: Germanic & Romance: Probing the Similarities & Differences
Location: Anaqua
| 15:20 | The actuation of Locative Inversion in English: a diachronic and comparative perspective ( abstract ) |
15:20-16:45 Session D: Workshop: Arabic & Contact-Induced Change
Location: Palm
| 15:20 | The Role of Contact-Induced Grammaticalization in Arabic Pluriform Development ( abstract ) |
| 15:50 | Contact among neighbouring dialects as motivation for “reversal” of sound change ( abstract ) |
| 16:20 | Sugar, we’re going down: Vowel lowering in Gaza City Arabic ( abstract ) |
15:20-16:15 Session E: Workshop: Atomizing Linguistic Change & the Nuclear Step: From Individual Realization to Emergence
Location: Cedar
| 15:20 | Trifles make the sum of life! A construction grammar perspective on speaker innovation ( abstract ) |
17:00-17:50 Session Plenary: Marianne Mithun: Inside Contact-Stimulated Grammatical Development: A Peek at Early Steps
Introduction by Geoffrey Khan
Location: Ballroom
| 17:00 | Inside Contact-Stimulated Grammatical Development: A Peek at Early Steps ( abstract ) |