Program for Thursday, August 31st

PROGRAM FOR THURSDAY, AUGUST 31ST

Days:

Chair:

Beth Cole (Newcastle University, UK)

Location: LAB 002

09:00	Setayesh Dashti (University of Oxford, UK) Historical linguistics and discovery procedure: on the distribution of relativization patterns in Old Avestan
09:30	Liliane Haegeman (Ghent University, DiaLing, Belgium) Grammar lost in translation: a garden path in Christie’s Murder is Easy
10:00	Gemma McCarley (University of Konstanz, Germany) Accounting for Orality in the Diachronic Study of Null Subject Use across Latin American Spanish

Chair:

Tom Williamson (University of the West of England and Southmead Hospital, UK)

Location: LAB 003

09:00	Yiwei Si (University of Oxford, UK) Doch as a Hidden Hurdle to Finiteness Realization in German L1 Acquisition
09:30	Nadya Izzaamiouine (Bonn Universität, Germany) Learning and acquiring intercultural communicative competence and its relationship with English as a foreign language
10:00	Núria Bosch (University of Cambridge, UK) Acquiring (illocutionary) complementisers: preliminary insights from child Catalan and Spanish, and beyond
10:30	Johannes Heim (University of Aberdeen, UK) Acquisitional trajectories of North American vs British English tags

Chair:

Gianluca Porta (Ulster University, Ireland)

Location: LAB 109

09:00	Yi Liu (Aston University, UK) Kook-Hee Gil (Univesity of Sheffield, UK) George Tsoulas (University of York, UK) Mandarin Chinese plurals: an experimental investigation
09:30	Victoria Noble (University of York, UK) Flavours of Plurality and Division
10:00	Aya Zarka (McMaster University & Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Aviya Hacohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Counting on individuation: The effect of noun-type on Differential Object Marking in Levantine Arabic

Location: LAB 006

Chair:

Jenny Amos (University of Suffolk, UK)

Location: LAB 109

Location: LAB 006

Chair:

Robert Truswell (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Location: LAB 002

14:00	Setayesh Dashti (University of Oxford, UK) Daniel Altshuler (University of Oxford, UK) The Interruption Puzzle with the Persian Imperfective
14:30	Norman Yeo (University of York, UK) Colliding grammars: Experiential aspect in Colloquial Singapore English
15:00	Glyn Hicks (University of Southampton, UK) Laura Dominguez (University of Southampton, UK) E Jamieson (University of Southampton, UK) Monika Schmid (University of York, UK) L1 grammatical attrition in late Spanish/English bilinguals in the UK: Aspect in Spanish
15:30	Yi Liu (Aston University, UK) Thomas Hammond (University of Sheffield, UK) Epicene pronouns in L2 writing: antecedent individuation and L1 transfer

Location: LAB 003

14:00	George Walkden (University of Konstanz, Germany) Sociolinguistic typology beyond morphology
14:30	John Hutchinson (University of Surrey, UK) When More Morphology Means Less Complexity (for Sociolinguistic Typology: Advances and Challenges)
15:00	Raquel Montero Estebaranz (University of Konstanz, Germany) Internal and External Causes of Change: A Diachronic Corpus Study of Mood Variation
15:30	Adam Schembri (University of Birmingham, UK) Felicia Bisnath (University of Michigan, United States) Neil Fox (University of Birmingham, UK) Marah Jaraisy (University of Birmingham, UK) Hannah Lutzenberger (University of Birmingham, UK) Katie Mudd (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Heidi Proctor (University of Birmingham, UK) Arjun Shrestha (University of Birmingham, UK) Rose Stamp (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Sociolinguistic typology and signed languages: the SignMorph Project

Location: LAB 006

Location: LAB 002

16:30	Itamar Kastner (University of Edinburgh, UK) A collaborative, ungraded course in morphology
17:00	Zara Fahim (University of Cambridge, UK) Bridging the gap between community languages and modern foreign languages attitudes and uptake amongst underrepresented students in schools: Linguistics as a tool for change?

Chair:

Gianluca Porta (Ulster University, Ireland)

Location: LAB 003

16:30	Shiyang Fu (University of York, UK) Rethinking Parallelism in Across-The-Board Extractions
17:00	Danny Bate (The University of Edinburgh, UK) The (Surprisingly) Simple Syntax of the Old Irish Clause
17:30	Lulu Guo (Queen Mary University of London, UK) Asymmetrical ellipses of the complex A-not-A constructions in Mandarin Chinese