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SLE 2017 – 50 Annual Meeting 10 – 13 September 2017 University of ZURICH
COMPLETE PROGRAMME
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Venue:
Conference rooms Room Aula Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5 Room 6 Room 7 Room 8 Room 9 Room 10 Room 11 Room 12 Room 13 Room 14 Room 15 Room 16
Floor Floor G Floor F Floor F Floor F Floor F Floor F Floor F Floor F Floor F Floor F Floor H Floor G Floor G Floor H Floor E Floor F
SUNDAY 10 September 2017 10.00-11.30 PRE-CONFERENCE EXCURSION 12.00-14.00 REGISTRATION Room 1: GS Historical linguistics CHAIR: 14.00-14.25 Manuel Delicado Cantero & Patrícia Amaral (Non-)factivity in diachrony: Spanish el hecho de que (‘the fact that’) 14.30-14.55 Nikolaos Lavidas Prescriptivism and the limits of deviation: Atticizing Greek and the diachrony of partial agreement 15.00-15.25 Michela Cennamo The reanalysis of reflexives as transitivity modulators in Romance
Room 2: WS 27 Why is ‘why’ unique? Its syntactic and semantic properties CONVENORS: Gabriela Soare, Joanna Blochowiak, Luigi Rizzi, & Ur Shlonsky 14.00-14.25 INTRODUCTION 14.30-14.55 Giuliano Bocci, Silvio Cruschina & Luigi Rizzi On some special properties of why in syntax and prosody 15.00-15.25 Caterina Bonan & Ur Shlonsky Why-in-situ in Northern Italian Dialects
Room 3: WS 4 Beyond information structure CONVENORS: Dejan Matić Pavel Ozerov 14.00-14.25 INTRODUCTION 14.30-14.55 Natsuko Nakagawa Two topic-related devices in Japanese: topic particle and word order 15.00-15.25 Candide Simard & Aicha Belkadi Topics, activation and cohesion in Jaminjung narratives
Room 4: GS Historical linguistics and typology CHAIR: 14.00-14.25 Antoine Guillaume Towards a reconstruction of negation patterns in simplex and complex (coverb) constructions in Tacana (Amazonian Bolivia) 14.30-14.55 Ljuba Veselinova Expectations shaping grammar: searching for the link between tense-aspect and negation 15.00-15.25 Matías Guzmán Naranjo & Laura Becker Testing the Form-Frequency Hypothesis in case systems
Room 5: GS Contact linguistics CHAIR: 14.00-14.25 Susanne Maria Michaelis Asymmetry in path coding: Creole data support a universal trend 14.30-14.55 Karoline Kühl & Jan Heegård Petersen Grammatical gender in Heritage Argentine Danish: Stability and loss 15.00-15.25 Helen Plado Variation of the conditional marker in Võro: The (contact-induced) change of the system
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Room 6: WS 22 The grammar of names CONVENORS: Antje Dammel, Johannes Helmbrecht, Damaris Nübling, Barbara Schlücker, & Thomas Stolz 14.00-14.25 INTRODUCTION 14.30-14.55 Tanja Ackermann Mariens Vater vs. der Vater Mariens – Word order variation in (Early) New High German possessive constructions with proper names 15.00-15.25 Sara Martin Hatt or si? The use of feminine and neuter forms in reference to female persons in Luxembourgish
Room 7: WS 24 Vowel reduction and loss and its phonological consequences CONVENORS: Cormac Anderson & Natalia Kuznetsova 14.00-14.25 INTRODUCTION 14.30-14.55 Alexander Krasovitsky Vowel shift and the rise of neutralization in North Russian 15.00-15.25 Edoardo Cavirani Modeling vowel reduction by BiPhon – the case of Lunigiana dialects
Room 8: GS Phonology CHAIR: 14.00-14.25 Aurelijus Vijunas Is a New IPA Sibilant Symbol Needed? 14.30-14.55 Dmitry Nikolaev & Eitan Grossman Towards a distributional typology of sound change in Eurasia: directionality and areality of sound changes in the IE family 15.00-15.25 Ander Egurtzegi Reciprocal metathesis: Typology and phonetic basis of a little-studied process
Room 9: WS 21 Revisiting discourse markers and discourse relations in functional-cognitive space: Models and applications across languages, registers and genres CONVENORS: María de los Ángeles Gómez González & Francisco Gonzálvez García 14.00-14.25 INTRODUCTION 14.30-14.55 Anita Fetzer & Robert M. Maier Discourse relations across discourse genres: Degrees of overtness in argumentative and narrative texts 15.00-15.25 María De Los Ángeles Gómez González, Susana Doval Suárez & Elsa González Álvarez Concessive patterns in online written reviews
Room 10: WS 11 Linguistic categories, language description and linguistic typology CONVENORS: Giorgio Francesco Arcodia & Paolo Ramat 14.00-14.25 INTRODUCTION 14.30-14.55 Martin Haspelmath Toward a standard list of grammatical comparative concepts: The Grammaticon 15.00-15.25 Hans-Heinrich Lieb 'Comparative concepts' vs. 'descriptive categories': bridging the gap
Room 11: GS Areal linguistics CHAIR: 14.00-14.25 Roman Ronko Nominative object structures in Circum-Baltic Languages 14.30-14.55 Sandra Auderset The interrogative-relative polysemy revisited: Evidence from Iranian 15.00-15.25 Jurgis Pakerys Periphrastic causatives in Baltic: diachrony and areal context
Room 12: GS Morphology and syntax CHAIR: 4
Sunday 10 September 2017
14.00-14.25 Joseph Lovestrand Temporal iconicity, grammaticalization and verb order in instrumental SVCs 14.30-14.55 Maximilian Frankowsky When nouns meet themselves 15.00-15.25 Eva Kosmata & Barbara Schlücker When "common noun" meets "proper noun"
Room 13: WS 2 Advances in diachronic Construction Grammar – debating theoretical tenets and open questions CONVENORS: Lotte Sommerer Elena Smirnova 14.00-14.25 INTRODUCTION 14.30-14.55 Muriel Norde Morphological networks and morphological change 15.00-15.25 Stefan Hartmann & Luise Kempf Schema unification and morphological productivity: A diachronic perspective on complex word-formation constructions
Room 14: WS 23 The interaction between borrowing and word formation CONVENORS: Pius ten Hacken & Renáta Panocová 14.00-14.25 INTRODUCTION 14.30-14.55 Livio Gaeta & Marco Angster Loan word-formation in minority languages: lexical strata in Titsch and Töitschu 15.00-15.25 Vasiliki Makri, Vasia Mouchtouri & Angela Ralli Examining the integration of borrowed nouns in immigrant speech: the case of Greek-Canadian
Room 15: GS Cognitive linguistics CHAIR: 14.00-14.25 Tanja Mortelmans The Dutch seem-type verb blijken: from evidentiality to mirativity? 14.30-14.55 Marieke Schouwstra The emergence of word order conventions: from cognitive preferences to cultural mechanisms in silent gesture 15.00-15.25 Leon Shor & Anna Inbar Negation across modalities in Spoken Israeli Hebrew – From verbal to gestural communication
15.30-16.00 Coffee break (Foyer-west)
Room 1: GS Historical linguistics and typology CHAIR: 16.00-16.25 Hans Henrich Hock Double Direct Object structures in German: Sychrony and diachrony 16.30-16.55 Ilja Seržant Differential object markers and datives
Room 2: WS 27 Why is ‘why’ unique? Its syntactic and semantic properties 16.00-16.25 Nicholas Catasso Why the heck do we need to differentiate? Notes on the Merge position of German 'warum' 16.30-16.55 Carlo Cecchetto & Caterina Donati Why there is no non-interrogative why
Room 3: WS 4 Beyond information structure 16.00-16.25 Gerson Klumpp Topic and focus clitics developed from case suffixes in Komi 16.30-16.55 Irina Khomchenkova Discourse use of possessive affix 3SG in Hill Mari 5
Sunday 10 September 2017
Room 4: GS Pragmatics CHAIR: 16.00-16.25 Maria Laura Restivo Giusto: a neglected focusing adverb in present-day Italian 16.30-16.55 Zeltia Blanco-Suárez & Mario Serrano-Losada Assumed evidential expressions with verba dicendi: evidence from English and French
Room 5: GS Contact linguistics CHAIR: 16.00-16.25 Denys Teptiuk Russian quotatives in Udmurt internet communications 16.30-16.55 Oda Røste Odden Type noun constructions (TNCs) in North Scandinavian and beyond: Multiple motivations behind similarities across languages
Room 6: WS 22 The grammar of names 16.00-16.25 Christian Zimmer How semiotic properties motivate morphological differences between proper names and common nouns in German 16.30-16.55 Luise Kempf Competing for family names: The rise and fall of German -sch-derivation
Room 7: WS 24 Vowel reduction and loss and its phonological consequences 16.00-16.25 Martin Kümmel Voiceless vowels and syncope in older Indo-European? 16.30-16.55 Valentin Vydrin Vowel reduction in Bamana disyllabic feet
Room 8: GS Corpus linguistics CHAIR: 16.00-16.25 Josep E. Ribera The origin and diachronic evolution of plural dative clitic pronouns in Old Catalan. A qualitative and quantitative analysis 16.30-16.55 Anna Nedoluzhko, Sarka Zikanova & Eva Hajicova A start is always a start of something: Unexpressed anaphoric relations as a cohesive device
Room 9: WS 21 Revisiting discourse markers and discourse relations in functional-cognitive space 16.00-16.25 Maria Silvano, António Leal & Fátima Oliveira How to infer rhetorical relations in clauses of participle? The relevance of temporal and aspectual information 16.30-16.55 Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza & M. Sandra Peña Cognitive operations in discourse: toward a unifying account of meaning construction across descriptive levels
Room 10: WS 11 Linguistic categories, language description and linguistic typology 16.00-16.25 Zygmunt Frajzyngier Typology of functional domains: an alternative to comparative concepts 16.30-16.55 Rik van Gijn, Francesco Gardani, Florian Sommer, Manuel Widmer & Balthasar Bickel Keeping language-particular analysis, comparison and universalist theory together: a multivariate approach to morphology in the world’s languages
Room 11: GS Pragmatics CHAIR:
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16.00-16.25 Isabel Balteiro & Miguel Ángel Campos-Pardillos Oh, wait, epic fails inside! English pragmatic markers in Spanish Internet football fora 16.30-16.55 Gholamreza Kassaei & Mohammad Amouzadeh The Combination of Discourse Markers in Persian
Room 12: GS Morphology and syntax CHAIR: 16.00-16.25 Andrej Malchukov Nominalizations and alignment: revisiting nominalization patterns in ergative languages 16.30-16.55 Eva Vanlier & Marlou van Rijn Differential possessive marking in nominalizations
Room 13: WS 2 Advances in diachronic construction grammar – debating theoretical tenets and open questions 16.00-16.25 Johanna Flick & Melitta Gillmann The impact of token entrenchment on grammatical constructionalization 16.30-16.55 David Lorenz Converging variations and the emergence of horizontal links: to-contraction in American English
Room 14: The interaction between borrowing and word formation 16.00-16.25 Michał Rzepiela Interaction between Borrowing, Inflection and Word Formation in Polish Medieval Latin 16.30-16.55 Stefan Thim Verbal prefixation in (post-)medieval English: directionality, analogy, and borrowing
Room 15: GS Cognitive linguistics CHAIR: 16.00-16.25 Doris Payne The conceptual complexity of ‘before’ 16.30-16.55 Alessandra Barotto Listing and reformulating. The role of categories to construct reference
17.00-17.30 OPENING SESSION (Aula and streaming in Room 1) Michael Hengartner, Rector of the University of Zurich 17.30-18.30 PLENARY PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS (Green Aula and streaming in Room 1) Martin Hilpert (Université de Neuchâtel) Re-thinking productivity: A constructional perspective CHAIR: Martin Haspelmath 18.30-19.30 CELEBRATION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SLE (Green Aula and streaming in Room 1) Introduction: Martin Hilpert Camiel Hamans Origin and first decades of the SLE Dik Bakker 19.30 Welcome reception (Lichthof)
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Monday 11 September 2017
MONDAY 11 September 2017 Room 1: WS 18 Non-linguistic causes of linguistic diversity CONVENORS: Dan Dediu, Steven Moran & Antonio Benítez-Burraco 9.00-9.25 INTRODUCTION 9.30-9.55 Caleb Everett Exploring potential ambient effects on language: Moving closer to speech 10.00-10.25 Damian Blasi, Steve Moran, Ani Margvelashvili, Dan Dediu & Scott Moisik Probing the biological conditions for modern phonologies: the late emergence of labiodentals
Room 2: WS 27 Why is ‘why’ unique? Its syntactic and semantic properties 9.00-9.25 Lisa Cheng 'What' as 'Why' questions in Cantonese 9.30-9.55 Norbert Corver 'Why' (in) Dutch? 10.00-10.25 Edit Doron & Lavi Wolf Why-Marked Rhetorical Questions
Room 3: WS 4 Beyond information structure 9.00-9.25
Dejan Matić & Karolina Grzech With or without =mi: focus, expectation and epistemic primacy in Tena Kichwa 9.30-9.55 Nadezda Christopher Beyond Information Structural Use of the Kazakh particle ğoj 10.00-10.25 Tatiana Nikitina Constructing focus in Wan: The interaction of focus marking with aspect and ergativity
Room 4: GS Historical linguistics CHAIR: 9.00-9.25 9.30-9.55
Richard Waltereit Analogies between the diachrony of wh-questions and of negation in French Natalia Pimenova Zwischen Deixis und Anapher: Grammatikalisierungsphasen beim gotischen Protoartikel 10.00-10.25 Anna Giacalone On the historical development of the Italian focus particle almeno "at least"
Room 5: GS Contact linguistics CHAIR: 9.00-9.25
Eitan Grossman & Stéphane Polis Overall borrowing and borrowing in basic vocabulary: a typological perspective on lexical change in Ancient Egyptian-Coptic 9.30-9.55 Julia Schultz The Influence of German on English since 1801: Lexical Borrowings and their Semantic Development 10.00-10.25 Constantina Fotiou Didn’t she say to you: “Oh my God! in Pafos?”– Form, patterns and discourse functions of constructed dialogue in conversations employing codeswitching between Cypriot Greek and English
Room 6: WS 22 The grammar of names 9.00-9.25 Corinna Handschuh Classification, Gender-Marking and Sex-Specific Forms of Personal Names 9.30-9.55 Jessica Nowak & Javier Caro Reina Gender agreement in Spanish city names 10.00-10.25 Pascal Boyeldieu Proper names and case markers in Sinyar (Chad/Sudan)
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Monday 11 September 2017
Room 7: WS 24 Vowel reduction and loss and its phonological consequences 9.00-9.25
Jonathan Bucci & Jean-Luc Schwartz A phonological and phonetic approach of vowel reduction in Coratino: where is schwa in the acoustic signal? 9.30-9.55 Nikos Liosis Vowel loss and dispersal asymmetries in Propontis Tsakonian as contact-induced features 10.00-10.25 Ludger Paschen Non-phonemic length contrasts in Bzhedugh Adyghe: Sources and Implications
Room 8: GS Language acquisition CHAIR: 9.00-9.25
Eliane Lorenz Monolingual and bilingual learners of English as a foreign language – A case study of German and Russian native speakers 9.30-9.55 Lucía Quintana Hernández The effects of telicity, dinamicity and punctuality in the acquisition of Spanish past verbal morphology 10.00-10.25 Sviatlana Karpava Cross-sectional and longitudinal research on language proficiency and literacy skills of Russian heritage speakers in Cyprus
Room 9: WS 21 Revisiting discourse markers and discourse relations in functional-cognitive space 9.00-9.25
Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul & Ted J.M. Sanders Coherence relations and connectives: On cognitive categories, cross-linguistic comparison and discourse annotation 9.30-9.55 Francisco Gonzálvez-García “Bringing together discourse relations and grammaticalization: The case of the family of “lo que se dice XPCOMP” constructions in Spanish” 10.00-10.25 Aneider Iza Erviti & Lorena Pérez Hernández The X anyway Y and X anyhow Y constructions across the complementary-contrastive constructional family
Room 10: WS 11 Linguistic categories, language description and linguistic typology 9.00-9.25
Kasper Boye, Jessie Leigh Nielsen & Peter Harder Using semantic maps to evaluate comparative concepts 9.30-9.55 Boguslaw Bierwiaczonek & Joanna Paszenda Sentences. What are you talking about 10.00-10.25 Luca Alfieri On the use of comparative concepts in Indo-European Linguistics, or The typological definition of the (apparently historical) notion of root
Room 11: WS 3 Bare nouns vs. Partitive articles: disentangling functions CONVENORS: Tabea Ihsane Elisabeth Stark 9.00-9.25 9.30-9.55
INTRODUCTION Béatrice Lamiroy & Anne Carlier Configurationality in Romance and the development of the partitive article 10.00-10.25 Silvia Luraghi The distribution of the Italian partitive article
Room 12: WS 16 Niches in morphology CONVENORS: Anja Hasse, Rik van Gijn, Tania Paciaroni, & Sandro Bachmann 9.00-9.25 Mark Aronoff Morphological niches are the result of competitive exclusion (keynote) 9.30-9.55 Anna Riccio Affix selection and logical structures in Italian deverbal nouns 10.00-10.25 Jenny Audring Competition without resolution: niches in a relational lexicon
Room 13: WS 2 Advances in diachronic Construction Grammar 9.00-9.25 9.30-9.55
Peter Petre & Sara Budts Putting connections centre stage in diachronic construction grammar Josep M. Fontana Constructional Change and Grammaticalization without Reanalysis 9
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10.00-10.25 Timothy Colleman Contact, constructional polysemy and constructionalization: krijgen/kry ‘get’-constructions in Dutch and Afrikaans
Room 14: WS 23 The interaction between borrowing and word formation 9.00-9.25
Angeliki Efthymiou The Interaction between Borrowing and Word Formation: evidence from Modern Greek prefixes 9.30-9.55 Maria Bloch-Trojnar The role of borrowing in the derivation of passive potential adjectives in Polish 10.00-10.25 Camiel Hamans How an ‘Italian’ suffix became productive in Germanic languages
Room 15: WS 9 Emerging engagement: Descriptive and theoretical issues CONVENORS: Henrik Bergqvist & Dominique Knuchel 9.00-9.25 INTRODUCTION 9.30-9.55 Alan Rumsey Aspects of Engagement in Ku Waru 10.00-10.25 Roberto Zariquiey Children learn how to converse first: engagement, addressee’s perspective and conversational morphology in Kakataibo child narratives
Room 16: GS Syntax CHAIR: 9.00-9.25 Kerstin Schwabe A study on embedded interrogatives with modal particles 9.30-9.55 Barbara Sonnenhauser Sorting the Irrealis: Slovene naj between mood and force 10.00-10.25 Livia Sommer & Kerstin Schwabe Subjectively veridical predicates, negation and antonymy
10.30-11.00 Coffee break (Foyer-west)
Room 1: WS 18 Non-linguistic causes of linguistic diversity 11.00-11.25 Johanna Nichols Causativization as non-diversity: Linguistic and non-linguistic causes 11.30-11.55 Michael Dunn & Elena Luzhkova The effect of bilingual representation of meaning on language change
Room 2: WS 27 Why is ‘why’ unique? Its syntactic and semantic properties 11.00-11.25 Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai On Postverbal Why-questions in Chinese 11.30-11.55 Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk Why constructions in real life & CMC emotional evaluative arguments: comparable and parallel corpus data
Room 3: WS 4 Beyond information structure 11.00-11.25 Alexey Kozlov Ostensive habituals in Russian, Finno-Ugric and beyond 11.30-11.55 Valeria Molnar Wh-questions at the Syntax-Semantics Interface. German-Swedish Contrasts
Room 4: GS Historical linguistics CHAIR: 11.00-11.25 Maria Molina Identificational foci in Hittite marked by =pat: semantics and position in the clause 11.30-11.55 Anna Cichosz The function of verb-initial and þa-VS clauses in the OE Bede 10
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Room 5: GS Contact linguistics CHAIR: 11.00-11.25 Jelke Bloem Verb cluster word order in Early-Modern Frisian 11.30-11.55 Guido Seiler On the Emergence of Grammar-Lexicon Mixed Languages: The Case of Amish Shwitzer
Room 6: WS 22 The grammar of names 11.00-11.25 Juliette Huber On nouns, natural locations and Place concepts: zero-marked toponyms in Makalero locative constructions (East Timor) 11.30-11.55 Thomas Stolz, Ingo H. Warnke & Nataliya Levkovych Grammatical Classifiers vs Onymic Classifiers
Room 7: WS 24 Vowel reduction and loss and its phonological consequences 11.00-11.25 Sonja Dahlgren Evidence for Coptic vowel reduction from L2 Greek usage 11.30-11.55 Maria Konoshenko Vowel reduction in Russian academic singing
Room 8: GS Language variation CHAIR: 11.00-11.25 Shahla Qasim & Aleem Shakir Linguistic Variation across Pakistani Book Blurbs: A Multidimensional Analysis 11.30-11.55 Valentina Colasanti An acquisition-based approach to morphosyntactic microparametric change in Romance
Room 9: WS 21 Revisiting discourse markers and discourse relations in functional-cognitive space 11.00-11.25 Konrad Szczesniak Predictability and Arbitrariness in Discourse Markers 11.30-11.55 Maria Cristina Lo Baido & Caterina Mauri The encoding of irrelevance in discourse: evidence from Italian and Sicilian
Room 10: WS 11 Linguistic categories, language description and linguistic typology 11.00-11.25 Waldfried Premper & Yoshiko Ono Perspectives of the UNITYP research project: Past and present 11.30-11.55 Tabea Reiner Pragmatic cross-linguistic categories
Room 11: WS 3 Bare nouns vs. Partitive articles: disentangling functions 11.00-11.25 Giuliana Giusti A Protocol for indefinite determiners in Italo-Romance dialects 11.30-11.55 Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin Partitive articles versus absence of articles
Room 12: WS 16 Niches in morphology 11.00-11.25 Greville Corbett The Lexeme Consistency Principle and the niches where it fails 11.30-11.55 Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Fernando Zúñiga & Lennart Bierkandt Competition in verbal agreement paradigm: are conflicts resolved in a systematic and historically stable way?
Room 13: WS 2 Advances in diachronic Construction Grammar 11.00-11.25 Gabriele Diewald The notions of “paradigm” and “paradigm formation” in the description of grammaticalizing change in constructional models 11
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11.30-11.55 Elizabeth Closs Traugott A horizontal network approach to the development of ditransitive subschemas in English
Room 14: WS 23 The interaction between borrowing and word formation 11.00-11.25 Magda Sevcikova The suffixes -ismus and -ita in nouns in Czech: borrowing or derivation? 11.30-11.55 Carmen Scherer Borrowing and loanword formation in German
Room 15: WS 9 Emerging engagement: Descriptive and theoretical issues 11.00-11.25 Eva Schultze-Berndt From shared reference to shared attention: the case of Jaminjung/Ngaliwurru ‘you and me’ 11.30-11.55 Henrik Bergqvist From person to engagement
Room 16: GS Syntax CHAIR: 11.00-11.25 Alexandra Cornilescu & Alina Tigau Dative Clitics and their Import in Romanian Ditransitives 11.30-11.55 Alina Tigau & Mihaela Dogaru The Romanian Ethical Dative
12.00-13.00 PLENARY SESSION –Aula Nicholas Evans (Australian National University) Grammar, talk, and social cognition: A cross-linguistic study CHAIR: Balthasar Bickel (University of Zurich)
13.00-14.30 Lunch (Mensa)
Room 1: WS 18 Non-linguistic causes of linguistic diversity 14.30-14.55 Balthasar Bickel, Damián Blasi, Steven Moran & Brigitte Pakendorf Molecular Anthropology as a window on language contact: diffusion probabilities in phonology and grammar 15.00-15.25 Nicole Creanza, Marcus Feldman & Sohini Ramachandran A comparison of worldwide linguistic and genetic variation in human populations 15.30-15.55 Tessa Verhoef, Esther Walker & Tyler Marghetis Cognitive biases and cultural evolution in the emergence of space-time mappings in language
Room 2: WS 27 Why is ‘why’ unique? Its syntactic and semantic properties 14.30-14.55 Aritz Irurtzun Why questions and V2 effects: evidence from Basque 15.00-15.25 Gabriela Soare What Do Why and How Come Teach Us About the Structure of the Left Periphery? 15.30-15.55 Rebecca Woods & Luis Vicente Metacommunicative “why”-fragments and the grammar of the speech act layer
Room 3: WS 4 Beyond information structure 14.30-14.55 Chris Lasse Däbritz The non-possessive use of possessive suffixes in Dolgan - Implications on givenness, accessibility and identifiability 15.00-15.25 Uta Reinöhl Functions of discontinuous nominal expressions in Vedic Sanskrit 15.30-15.55 Katharina Haude Pronominal predicates in Movima: clefts or equational clauses? 12
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Room 4: GS Historical linguistics CHAIR: 14.30-14.55 Dario Rens & Timothy Colleman On ditransitive constructions in Afrikaans, in comparison with Dutch and English 15.00-15.25 Jakob Neels Low-frequency grammaticalisation and lifespan change: Insights from let alone and William Faulkner 15.30-15.55 Mario Serrano-Losada A paradigm in the making: on the emergence of mirative verbs and the role of analogy
Room 5: GS Contact and areal linguistics CHAIR: 14.30-14.55 Pierre-Yves Modicom Scalarity, degree and epistemicity : a comparison between German and Norwegian discourse particles 15.00-15.25 Andriy Danylenko Language Contact and Simplification: The Case of Bessarabian Ukrainian 15.30-15.55
Room 6: WS 22 The grammar of names 14.30-14.55 Natascha Pomino & Elisabeth Stark Proper name-marking via liaison in French 15.00-15.25 Natalia Zaninetti Macedo & Gladis Massini-Cagliari Prosodic analysis of foreign proper names in Brazilian Portuguese 15.30-15.55 Javier Sanz & Sabine Arndt-Lappe The prosody of nicknames
Room 7: WS 24 Vowel reduction and loss and its phonological consequences 14.30-14.55 Fedor Rozhanskiy & Elena Markus The influence of vowel reduction on grammar (evidence from minor Finnic varieties of Ingria) 15.00-15.25 Matt Coler Vowel deletion in Muylaq’ Aymara 15.30-15.55 Tatyana Mikhailova MAGLICUNAS vs Maglocuni: Obscuration, reduction and loss of composition vowels in Goidelic compound names
Room 8: GS Typology CHAIR: 14.30-14.55 Olga Vinogradova, Egor Kashkin, Maria Sidorova & Daria Zhornik Verbs of Closing and Opening: Towards a Lexical Typology 15.00-15.25 Danny Kalev Hebrew’s Concurrence Verbs as a Universal Perfect Precursor 15.30-15.55 Edith Moravcsik Conflict resolution in grammatical description
Room 9: WS 21 Revisiting discourse markers and discourse relations in functional-cognitive space 14.30-14.55 Estefanía Avilés & Julia Lavid Bilingual annotation of discourse markers in English and Spanish: a corpus-based translation study 15.00-15.25 Anna Kisiel On a little word „a” [‘and, but’] and its coocurence with connectors in Slavic languages 15.30-15.55 Ekkehard Koenig & Jingying Li Geographical distance and functional similarity: The case of German mal and Mandarin yíxià
Room 10: WS 11 Linguistic categories, language description and linguistic typology 13
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14.30-14.55 Simone Mattiola The non-universality of grammatical categories: evidence from pluractional constructions 15.00-15.25 Nicoletta Puddu Nominal vs. verbal reflexives: a categorial opposition? 15.30-15.55 Federica Da Milano The category 'pronoun' in Southeast Asian languages, with a focus on Japanese
Room 11: WS 3 Bare nouns vs. Partitive articles: disentangling functions 14.30-14.55 Artemis Alexiadou, Janayna Carvalho & Marcelo Ferreira The contribution of gender in bare nouns 15.00-15.25 Danae Perez & Albert Wall Bareness and nominal semantics in Afro-Yungueño 15.30-15.55 Urtzi Etxeberria Bare Nouns, the definite determiner, and the partitive marker: the case of Basque
Room 12: WS 16 Niches in morphology 14.30-14.55 Sebastian Fedden Productive niches and systems of sporadic agreement 15.00-15.25 Rachel Nordlinger & John Mansfield Morphological niches and templatic structure in Murrinhpatha 15.30-15.55 Zara Harmon & Vsevolod Kapatsinski Experimental evidence for niche seeking as a result of competition in comprehension
Room 13: WS 2 Advances in diachronic Construction Grammar 14.30-14.55 Michael Percillier Allostructions and language contact: The case of prepositional secondary predicate constructions in Middle English 15.00-15.25 Florent Perek Productivity and schematicity in constructional change 15.30-15.55 Alexander Ziem Diachronic pathways of exclamative constructions: a FrameNet Constructicon approach
Room 14: WS 23 The interaction between borrowing and word formation 14.30-14.55 Renáta Panocová & Pius ten Hacken Neoclassical compounds between borrowing and word formation 15.00-15.25 Bonifacas Stundžia Compound calques in the 18th century German-Lithuanian dictionary 15.30-15.55 Alina Villalva Borrowed roots, borrowed compounds
Room 15: WS 9 Emerging engagement: Descriptive and theoretical issues 14.30-14.55 Bruno Olsson How to Show Things with Verbs: The Marind Absconditive 15.00-15.25 Françoise Rose Diverging engagement expressed by a demonstrative ? 15.30-15.55 Dominique Knuchel Engagement in Kogi demonstratives
Room 16: GS Syntax CHAIR: 14.30-14.55 Alessandra Giorgi & Sona Haroutyunian Complementizers and coreference in Modern Eastern Armenian 15.00-15.25 Teresa M. Rodríguez Ramalle Adjetivos y adverbios: relaciones y propiedades sintácticas. 15.30-15.55 Anne Abeille, Alain Kihm & Cheikh Ndiaye Gapping in Wolof
16.00-16.30 Coffee break (Foyer-west)
Room 1: WS 18 Non-linguistic causes of linguistic diversity 14
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16.30-16.55 Sean Roberts Strategies for demonstrating causal links across domains 17.00-17.25 Christophe Coupé Ecological constraints on linguistic diversity
Room 2: WS 27 Why is ‘why’ unique? Its syntactic and semantic properties 16.30-16.55 Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou ‘Why’-interrogatives in (Greek) talk-in-interaction 17.00-17.25 DISCUSSION
Room 3: WS 4 Beyond information structure 16.30-16.55 Anja Latrouite & Robert Van Valin Specificational predicates and clefting 17.00-17.25 DISCUSSION
Room 4: GS Language variation CHAIR: 16.30-16.55 Gintarė Judžentytė Some remarks on variation of systems of demonstrative pronouns in modern Lithuanian dialects 17.00-17.25 Julia Skala Another Piece of the Present Perfect Puzzle – Past Adverbials and the Present Perfect in Contemporary US American English
Room 5: GS Contact and areal linguistics CHAIR: 16.30-16.55 Tobias Weber Diversity of argument coding and transitivity in western Austronesian languages: typology and geography 17.00-17.25 Dmitri Sitchinava Mapping the cross-linguistic distribution of pluperfect in Europe
Room 6: WS 22 The grammar of names 16.30-16.55 Andrea Sansò & Caterina Mauri Names & co. A diachronic typology of associative plurals 17.00-17.25 DISCUSSION
Room 7: WS 24 Vowel reduction and loss and its phonological consequences 16.30-16.55 Merja Salo Orthography and phonology in Northern Khanty: the case of reduced vowels 17.00-17.25 DISCUSSION
Room 8: GS Typology CHAIR: 16.30-16.55 Egor Kashkin Definiteness marking in Moksha 17.00-17.25 Nikita Muravyev Semantic and pragmatic properties of the 'until' clauses in three Finno-Ugric languages
Room 9: WS 21 Revisiting discourse markers and discourse relations in functional-cognitive space 16.30-16.55 María Luisa Carrio-Pastor A contrastive study of strategies to express cognitive evidentiality in research papers 17.00-17.25 DISCUSSION
Room 10: WS 11 Linguistic categories, language description and linguistic typology 16.30-16.55 Pascal Hohaus Situating Epistemicity – Weak Epistemic Meanings and the Case of Might 15
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17.00-17.25 DISCUSSION
Room 11: WS 3 Bare nouns vs. Partitive articles: disentangling functions 16.30-16.55 Elvira Glaser The rise and fall of partitivity markers in Germanic varieties 17.00-17.25 DISCUSSION
Room 12: WS 16 Niches in morphology 16.30-16.55 Matthew Baerman, Irina Monich & Oliver Bond Stable inflectional doublets in covert niches 17.00-17.25 DISCUSSION
Room 13: WS 2 Advances in diachronic Construction Grammar 16.30-16.55 Lauren Fonteyn & Freek Van de Velde Degeneracy: the evolutionary advantage of the violation of isomorphism 17.00-17.25 Martin Hilpert (Discussant)
Room 14: WS 23 The interaction between borrowing and word formation 16.30-16.55 Silvia Cacchiani (Pseudo-)Anglicisms as new classificatory and naming compounds in Italian 17.00-17.25 DISCUSSION (Pius ten Hacken)
Room 15: WS 9 Emerging engagement: Descriptive and theoretical issues 16.30-16.55 Stef Spronck Domains of definiteness: Towards an instructionist participation grammar of Ungarinyin engagement 17.00-17.25 Nicolas Evans (Discussant)
Room 16: GS Historical linguistics CHAIR: 16.30-16.55 Linda Konnerth The rise of two inverse markers via antipassive constructions 17.00-17.25 Natalia Cáceres Arandia Finding passives in Ye’kwana (Cariban): too many might still not be enough
17.30-19.00 ROUND TABLE –Aula ‘Linguistics from Saussure to the 21st century’ John E. Joseph (University of Edinbourg), ‘This eternal wanderer’: A non-dogmatic reading of Saussure Ekaterina Rakhilina (Moscow Higher School of Economics), Saussurean heritage: Setting and removing notional boundaries Klaas Willems (University of Ghent), The Saussurean concept of the linguistic sign and modern Moderator: Johannes Kabatek (University of Zurich)
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Tuesday 12 September 2017
TUESDAY 12 September 2017 Room 1: WS 12 Linguistic typology and cross-linguistic psycholinguistics CONVENORS: James Myers & Tsung-Ying Chen 9.00-9.25 INTRODUCTION 9.30-9.55 Alexis Dimitriadis, Natalie Boll-Avetisyan & Tom Fritzsche An experimental study of the learnability advantage of agglutinative over fusional morphology
Room 2: WS 5 Cognitive approaches to coherence relations: New methods and findings CONVENORS: Cristina Grisot & Sandrine Zufferey 9.00-9.25 Ted J.M. Sanders (keynote) Do we seek for causality in discourse? On the cognition of coherence relations and connectives 9.30-9.55 Liesbeth Degand & Ludivine Crible Revisiting the role of syntax in discourse marker annotation
Room 3: WS 14 Modelling the acquisition of foreign language speech: Old meets new CONVENORS: Magdalena Wrembel & Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk 9.00-9.25 Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk & Magdalena Wrembel Natural Growth Model: Explaining third language phonological acquisition 9.30-9.55 Ulrike Gut Modelling non-native prosodic acquisition
Room 4: GS Semantics CHAIR: 9.00-9.25 Lidia Federica Mazzitelli Possessors, recipients, goals and sources. The preposition si in three West Oceanic languages of Papua New Guinea 9.30-9.55 Kristel Proost Constructional generalization from a cross-linguistic point of view: Prospective possession constructions in German and English
Room 5: GS Syntax CHAIR: 9.00-9.25 Anna Bondaruk Accusative and dative Experiencers in Polish 9.30-9.55 Irina Burukina Dative object verbs with embedded infinitives in Russian
Room 6: GS Anthropological linguistics CHAIR: 9.00-9.25 9.30-9.55
Andrey N. Sobolev Language contact, codeswitching and linguistic change in Balkan bilingual symbiotic societies Johannes Helmbrecht, Corinna Handschuh & Anna Pamies The formation of person names: cross-linguistic patterns and rules
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9.00-9.25 Evelyn Gandón-Chapela A corpus-based analysis of Post-Auxiliary Ellipsis voice mismatches in the recent history of English 9.30-9.55 André Müller Pre- and postverbal auxiliaries in Jinghpaw
Room 8: GS Syntax and semantics CHAIR: 9.00-9.25 Paul Widmer Participle-like structures in ancient and medieval Indo-European languages 9.30-9.55 Sebastià Salvà I Puig Past Participle Agreement in Majorcan Catalan: the Relevance of Inner Aspect
Room 9: GS Cognitive linguistics CHAIR: 9.00-9.25 Geraint Rees & Janet Decesaris Lexicography for Specific Purposes in Functional-Cognitive Space 9.30-9.55 Yoshio Endo A cartographic approach to the variation in how come
Room 10: GS Syntax and semantics CHAIR: 9.00-9.25 Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal Modal qad in Standard Arabic: Where implicativity and time interacts 9.30-9.55 Na Song Egophoric marking in Sinitic languages: the case of Baoding
Room 11: GS Historical linguistics CHAIR: 9.00-9.25 Iván Igartua & Ekaitz Santazilia Animacy as a feature constraining morphological complexity 9.30-9.55 Carlo Dalle Ceste Reconstructing early Western Oceanic: What do preverbal subject markers tell us?
Room 12: GS Pragmatics CHAIR: 9.00-9.25 Emine Yarar Turkish evidentials in interrogations 9.30-9.55 Markéta Janebová & Michaela Martínková The Czech Particle prý: Modal, or Evidential?
Room 13: GS Language variation CHAIR: 9.00-9.25 Michael Daniel & Polina Kazakova Detecting age outliers in a spoken dialect corpus: a method and results 9.30-9.55 Anna Maria Di Sciullo Merge, Externalization and Interface Asymmetries
Room 14: GS Pragmatics CHAIR: 9.00-9.25 Volker Struckmeier & Dennis Ott Discourse states, not syntactic feature assignments, control ellipsis formation 9.30-9.55 Kazuhiko Fukushima A New Perspective on Gapped and Gap-less Relatives
Room 15: WS 17 Non-canonical postverbal subjects CONVENORS: Delia Bentley & Silvio Cruschina 18
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9.00-9.25 Manuel Leonetti (keynote) Two types of postverbal subjects 9.30-9.55 Valentina Bianchi, Giuliano Bocci & Silvio Cruschina Syntactic and prosodic effects of longdistance wh-movement in Italian
10.00-11.00 PLENARY SESSION –Aula Devyani Sharma (Queen Mary, University of London) A dynamic typology of syntactic change in Postcolonial Englishes CHAIR: Marianne Hundt (University of Zurich) 11.00-11.30 Coffee break (Foyer-west)
Room 1: WS 12 Linguistic typology and cross-linguistic psycholinguistics 11.30-11.55 Jennifer Culbertson & Guillaume Braquet A universal harmony bias in syntax? Cross-linguistic experimental evidence 12.00-12.25 James White, René Kager, Tal Linzen, Giorgos Markopoulos, Alexander Martin, Andrew Nevins, Sharon Peperkamp, Krisztina Polgárdi, Nina Topintzi & Ruben van de Vijver Artificial grammar learning of vowel harmony patterns: Universal biases and L1 transfer 12.30-13.00 Savithry Namboodiripad Acceptability judgment tasks as a measure of variation within and across languages with ‘flexible’ constituent order
Room 2: WS 5 Cognitive approaches to coherence relations: New methods and findings 11.30-11.55 Merel Scholman & Vera Demberg Crowdsourcing discourse relation annotations: The influence of context on readers’ interpretations 12.00-12.25 Robert M. Maier & Anita Fetzer Eliciting connectivity: A comparison of three methods of eliciting data on discourse relations in two genres 12.30-13.00 Ludivine Crible & Liesbeth Degand Testing interdependent annotation levels for sense disambiguation in spoken English, French and Polish
Room 3: WS 14 Modelling the acquisition of foreign language speech: Old meets new 11.30-11.55 Joan C. Mora The Role of Individual Differences in the Acquisition of L2 Speech 12.00-12.25 Piers Messum Existing models of L2 phonological development are not sufficiently broad 12.30-13.00 Nadja Kerschhofer-Puhalo The phonetics and phonology of similarity in second language speech perception
Room 4: GS Typology (corpora) CHAIR: 11.30-11.55 Michaela Martinková & Markéta Janebová Boundary-crossing motion events in Czech source and target texts: Evidence from a parallel corpus 12.00-12.25 Elsa Liste Lamas Sensory Paths in satellite and verb-framed languages: A corpus-based study on their frequency and complexity in German and Spanish 12.30-13.00
Room 5: GS Phonology CHAIR: 11.30-11.55 Jelena Stojković Interaction of Tone and Vowel Height in BCS Vowel Reduction 19
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12.00-12.25 Javier Caro Reina & Renata Szczepaniak The relevance of vowel reduction and loss for the prosodic hierarchy 12.30-13.00 Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon Sound symbolism in nonsense syllables: vowel pitch matches musical pitch
Room 6: GS Language acquisition CHAIR: 11.30-11.55 Teodora Radeva-Bork Non-canonical word order in L1-acquisition 12.00-12.25 Morgane Jourdain, Emmanuelle Canut & Karen Lahousse The L1 acquisition of right and left dislocations in French 12.30-13.00 Denisa Bordag, Amit Kirschenbaum, Andreas Opitz, Maria Rogahn & Erwin Tschirner Acquisition of (ir)regularity and subcategorization of verbs in a cross-system comparison between L1 and L2 German
Room 7: GS Grammaticalisation CHAIR: 11.30-11.55 David Correia Saavedra A diachronic approach to quantifying grammaticalization 12.00-12.25 Sune Gregersen Dare and the ‘degrammaticalization’ debate: Reappraising the evidence 12.30-13.00 Linlin Sun & David Correia Saavedra Measuring Grammaticalization in Chinese (A quantitative approach to grammaticalization in Chinese and how it compares to English)
Room 8: GS Syntax and semantics CHAIR: 11.30-11.55 Fátima Oliveira, António Leal & Maria Silvano Some remarks on the past participle in European Portuguese 12.00-12.25 Yvonne Treis Negative participles in Kambaata (Cushitic) 12.30-13.00 Sandra Birzer Just Syntax? On the Co-referential Ambiguity of Russian Adverbial Participles
Room 9: GS Cognitive linguistics CHAIR: 11.30-11.55 Andreas Musolff Figurative quotations, irony and sarcasm 12.00-12.25 Ludmilla A'Beckett Quotations as a vehicle for indirect negative characterisation: Case studies from Russian public fora 12.30-13.00 Arie Verhagen Evidentiality, Reported Discourse, and Grammatical Constructions: The case of the (Dutch) inquit-construction
Room 10: GS Typology CHAIR: 11.30-11.55 Denis Creissels Construct form of nouns in typological perspective 12.00-12.25 Maria Sidorova Number marking in quantified expressions in Hill Mari 12.30-13.00 Marieke Olthof Formal characteristics of incorporation: A typological study
Room 11: GS Historical linguistics CHAIR: 11.30-11.55 Lisa Dücker, Stefan Hartmann & Renata Szczepaniak New perspectives on the emergence of sentence-internal capitalization in German 12.00-12.25 Karina High The emergence of Gascon negative tripartite construction ne…pas jamei ‘never’ 20
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12.30-13.00 Hagay Schurr The bare/partitive-marked distinction in Romance languages: a usage-based account
Room 12: GS Pragmatics CHAIR: 11.30-11.55 Elena Zheltova Evidential strategies in Latin 12.00-12.25 Bettina Zeisler Evidentiality, epistemic modality, and speaker attitude in Ladakhi 12.30-13.00 Anna Kocher Non-at-issue Meaning and (Inter)Subjectivity in Ibero-Romance Evidential and Epistemic Modifiers
Room 13: GS Language variation CHAIR: 11.30-11.55 Ferdinand von Mengden Language Change without Innovation 12.00-12.25 Martin Ehala Collective identity negotiation as a cause of linguistic diversity 12.30-13.00 David Willis Using social-media data to investigate morphosyntactic variation and change
Room 14: GS Syntax CHAIR: 11.30-11.55 Virve Vihman & George Walkden Exceptions to V2 in Estonian and Kiezdeutsch 12.00-12.25 Patricia Amaral & Eliot Raynor Exhaustivity in SF-clefts 12.30-13.00 Nailya Philippova Nominalization in Amri Karbi
Room 15: WS 17 Non-canonical postverbal subjects 11.30-11.55 Adriana Belletti Revisiting the cartography of (Italian) post-verbal subjects from different angles 12.00-12.25 Anna Cardinaletti Non-canonical postverbal subjects in Italian 12.30-13.00 Karen Lahousse Verb-Subject word order in French: new arguments in favor of an old analysis 13.00-14.30 Lunch (Mensa)
14.30-16.00 ANNUAL MEMBERS MEETING (Room 1)
Room 1: WS 12 Linguistic typology and cross-linguistic psycholinguistics 16.00-16.25 Tsung-Ying Chen & James Myers Cross-linguistic variation in phonemic decomposition 16.30-16.55 Wolfgang U. Dressler, Marianne Kilani-Schoch, Nihan Ketrez, Reili Argus, Hans Basbøll, Ineta Dabasinskiene, Johanna Johansen Ijäs, Laura Kamandulyte-Merfeldiene, Victoria Kazakovskaya, Laila Kjærbæk, Katharina Korecky-Kröll, Klaus Laalo, Sabine Sommer-Lolei, Evangelia Thomadaki & Ursula Stephany Nominal compound acquisition in 10 languages: Psycholingistic evidence from lexical typology
Room 2: WS 5 Cognitive approaches to coherence relations: New methods and findings 16.00-16.25 Christelle Gillioz, Patrick Luethold, Pascal Gygax & Sandrine Zufferey Assessing the role of L1 transfer and working memory for learners’ ability to process discourse connectives 21
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16.30-16.55 Jet Hoek & Hannah Rohde Restrictive relative clause constructions as implicit coherence relations
Room 3: WS 14 Modelling the acquisition of foreign language speech: Old meets new 16.00-16.25 Maciej Karpinski & Katarzyna Klessa The perception of non-native phonological categories in adult-directed and infant-directed speech: An experimental study 16.30-16.55 Anna Balas Selective attention to features in second and foreign language vowel perception
Room 4: WS 15 New approaches to contrastive linguistics: Empirical & methodological challenges CONVENORS: Renata Enghels & Marlies Jansegers 16.00-16.25 Volker Gast (keynote) Parallel corpora, translation and interpreting – Triangulating data on concessives in English and German 16.30-16.55 Olli Silvennoinen Comparing constructions and datasets: contrastive negation in parallel and comparable corpora
Room 5: GS Syntax CHAIR: 16.00-16.25 Jacek Witkos The perfect non-nominative subject: the Accusative Numeral Subject in Polish 16.30-16.55 Andra Kalnača & Ilze Lokmane Elliptical infinitive constructions in Latvian
Room 6: GS Historical linguistics CHAIR: 16.00-16.25 Annemarie Verkerk & Francesca Di Garbo Correlates of restructuring in Bantu gender systems 16.30-16.55 Urd Vindenes A usage-based approach to demonstrative reinforcement cycles
Room 7: GS Semantics CHAIR: 16.00-16.25 Jarmila Tárnyiková A pinch of ingeniuity, a dash of courage and a speck of luck: the case of vague non-numerical quantifiers denoting small quantity (English-Czech interface) 16.30-16.55 Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Matti Miestamo & Carl Börstell Impossible but not difficult: A typological study of lexical vs. derived antonyms
Room 8: WS 19 Participles: form, use and meaning (PartFUM) CONVENORS: Olga Borik & Berit Gehrke 16.00-16.25 INTRODUCTION 16.30-16.55 Ksenia Shagal & Daniel Ross Ergativity in Europe? Participles in periphrastic constructions
Room 9: WS 26 When “noun” meets “noun” CONVENORS: Steve Pepper & Francesca Masini 16.00-16.25 INTRODUCTION 16.30-16.55 Bożena Cetnarowska Noun+Noun and Noun+Adjective juxtapositions in Polish: syntactic schemas employed in building phrasal nouns 22
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Room 10: WS 7 Definiteness, possessivity and exhaustivity: Formalizing synchronic and diachronic connections CONVENORS: Anne Carlier, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, Monique Dufresne, Natalia Serdobolskaya & Alexandra Simonenko 16.00-16.25 INTRODUCTION 16.30-16.55 Chris Barker What kind of exhaustivity do definites and possessives share?
Room 11: GS Morphology CHAIR: 16.00-16.25 Alexandra Soares Rodrigues Niches in derivational morphology: specialisation of suffixes within the formation of Portuguese deverbal nouns 16.30-16.55 Rossella Varvara & Roberto Zamparelli Competition between event nominalizations in Italian
Room 12: WS 20 Rethinking evidentiality CONVENORS: Martine Bruil, Bert Cornillie & Manuel Widmer 16.00-16.25 INTRODUCTION 16.30-16.55 Samira Verhees Evidentiality and the perfect in the Rikwani and Zilo dialects of Andi (East Caucasian)
Room 13: GS Pragmatics CHAIR: 16.00-16.25 Daniel Gutzmann & Katharina Turgay Normal exclamations in German 16.30-16.55 Pavel Ozerov Decomposing “wh-questions” in Israeli Hebrew
Room 14: WS 13 Matter borrowing vs pattern borrowing in morphology CONVENORS: Francesco Gardani, Rik van Gijn, Stefan Dedio, Florian Sommer, Manuel Widmer &
Florian Matter 16.00-16.25 INTRODUCTION 16.30-16.55 Jeanette Sakel Morphological pattern replication in bilingual children
Room 15: WS 17 Non-canonical postverbal subjects 16.00-16.25 Eva-Marie Bloom Ström Postverbal subjects and definiteness in Xhosa 16.30-16.55 Vieri Samek-Lodovici Information structure affecting neg-concord with post-verbal subjects
17.00-17.30 Coffee break (Foyer-west)
Room 1: WS 12 Linguistic typology and cross-linguistic psycholinguistics 23
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17.30-17.55 Alice Blumenthal-Dramé & Bernd Kortmann Causal and concessive relations: Typology meets cognition 18.00-18.25 Sebastian Sauppe, Kamal K. Choudhary, Shikha Bhattamishra, Mahima Gulati, Martin Meyer & Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky The formulation of ergatives requires increased planning effort in Hindi: Eye tracking evidence for a “subject preference” in sentence production 18.30-18.55 DISCUSSION
Room 2: WS 5 Cognitive approaches to coherence relations: New methods and findings 17.30-17.55 Cristina Grisot & Joanna Blochowiak Processing implicit and explicit temporal relations: evidence from French 18.00-18.25 Anna Inbar Coherence relations in co-speech gestures A view from Israeli Hebrew 18.30-18.55 DISCUSSION
Room 3: WS 14 Modelling the acquisition of foreign language speech: Old meets new 17.30-17.55 Irene Lorenzini, Pier Marco Bertinetto & Anna Maria Chilosi Childhood Apraxia of Speech or acquiring phonology in the lack of sensorymotor information: An early failure 18.00-18.25 Theresa Matzinger & Nikolaus Ritt /l/-darkening in Austrian learner English 18.30-18.55 DISCUSSION
Room 4: WS 15 New approaches to contrastive linguistics: Empirical & methodological challenges 17.30-17.55 Stella Neumann Is German more nominal than English? Evidence from a translation corpus 18.00-18.25 Anna-Maria De Cesare What is the gold standard in exploiting multilingual parallel corpora in CL? Answers from a contrastive corpus-based study of focusing modifiers used in the Swiss CSR reports written in German, French and Italian 18.30-18.55 Hans Boas How universal are semantic frames?
Room 5: GS Historical linguistics CHAIR: 17.30-17.55 Guus Kroonen, Peter Alexander Kerkhof & Jóhanna Barðdal When Push comes to Shove; The Neglected Role of Historical Syntax for Germanic and Indo-European Etymology 18.00-18.25 Gerd Carling & Chundra Cathcart Contrasting models of morphosyntactic reconstruction. A comparison of results of comparative-historical and phylogenetic methods for the IndoEuropean family 18.30-18.55 Janne Saarikivi & Sampsa Holopainen Pre-Germanic borrowings in Finnic and the question of Germanic and Finnic linguistic homelands
Room 6: GS Contact linguistics CHAIR: 17.30-17.55 Anna Verschik English-Estonian code-copying: combining contact linguistic and cognitive approach 18.00-18.25 Heleen Van Mol & Torsten Leuschner Gender Assignment to French Loanwords in German: a Quantitatively Informed, Principles-Based Approach 18.30-18.55 Christopher Shank & Koen Plevoets Using the GloWbE Corpus and a multifactorial analysis to investigate that/zero complementizer variation in World Englishes for evidence of morphosyntactic change(s)
Room 7: GS Historical linguistics (Phonology) CHAIR:
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17.30-17.55 Alice Idone Geo-linguistic distribution, diachronic explanation and phonological consequences of vowel loss in central Calabrian dialects 18.00-18.25 Sampsa Holopainen Stem vowels in Proto-Uralic words of Indo-Iranian origin 18.30-18.55 Andreas Baumann, Christina Prömer & Nikolaus Ritt Reconstructing the spread of Middle English schwa loss
Room 8: WS 19 Participles: form, use and meaning (PartFUM) 17.30-17.55 Eva-Maria Remberger The form and meaning of participles from Latin to Italoromance: A morphosyntactic analysis 18.00-18.25 Dennis Wegner The properties of perfect(ive) and (eventive) passive participles: an identity approach 18.30-18.55 Cristiano Broccias Participles in the material VVingPP construction(s)
Room 9: WS 26 When “noun” meets “noun” 17.30-17.55 Inga Hennecke & Christina Clasmeier Constituent placement in relational adjective constructions in French and Polish 18.00-18.25 Arthur Laisis Some morphological peculiarities of Balto-Slavic binominals and nominal derivatives 18.30-18.55 Kristin Kopf The formal redistribution of binominal naming constructions in Early New High German
Room 10: WS 7 Definiteness, possessivity and exhaustivity 17.30-17.55 Tibor Laczko Hungarian possessors are definitely different 18.00-18.25 Barbara Egedi The fifth element: the associative-situational use in referential marking 18.30-18.55 Dominika Skrzypek Bridging reference in a diachronic perspective. The case of North Germanic
Room 11: GS Morphology CHAIR: 17.30-17.55 Martina Werner Nominalizing verbal infinitives in Middle High German and beyond 18.00-18.25 Timur Maisak The future and the prospective within a tense-aspect system: the case of Andi 18.30-18.55 Peter Juul Nielsen The Danish infinitive marker ‘at’ and the transcategorial paradigm of determination
Room 12: WS 20 Rethinking evidentiality 17.30-17.55 Lotta Jalava, Erika Sandman & Karina Lukin Managing knowledge and epistemic stance in oral narratives: Evidence from languages with evidential and egophoric systems 18.00-18.25 Marius Zemp Redefining evidentials as indicating ‘access to’ rather than ‘source of information’ 18.30-18.55 Manuel Widmer Rethinking the relationship between egophoricity and evidentiality
Room 13: GS Pragmatics and semantics CHAIR: 17.30-17.55 Laura Baranzini & Claudia Ricci Imperfect tense and evidentiality in Italian: the case of the “account of an account” 18.00-18.25 Katherine Fraser Extra Arguments in English: A multi-dimensional perspective 18.30-18.55 Seppo Kittilä Remarks on the distinction between inference and assumption in Finnish
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17.30-17.55 Felicity Meakins, Jane Simpson, Samantha Disbray & Amanda Hamilton Which MATter matters in PATtern borrowing? 18.00-18.25 Angela Ralli Matter vs. pattern borrowing in compounding: evidence from the Greek dialectal variety 18.30-18.55 Lameen Souag When is templatic morphology borrowed?
Room 15: WS 17 Non-canonical postverbal subjects 17.30-17.55 Ion Tudor Giurgea Romanian expletives and other unexpected postverbal subjects as markers of a verum focus configuration 18.00-18.25 Rivka Halevy Nemirovsky Why Modern Hebrew dative experiencers are not subjects – a typological and constructional approach 18.30-18.55 Jutta Hartmann & Caroline Heycock (Non-)canonical subjects and agreement: Specificational Copular Clauses in Germanic
Room 16: Micro-demos 17.30-18.55 Dick Hudson, Jeanette Sakel & Graeme Trousdale: Linguistics Olympiads (with special focus on the UK Linguistics Olympiad) Itziar Orbegozo, Ane Berro & Beatriz Fernández: Basque in Variation / Euskara Bariazioan (BiV): An online database on Basque morphosyntactic variation Karolina Grzech: Language Landscape: online map for presenting linguistic research Martin Haspelmath: ERC
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Wednesday 13 September 2017
WEDNESDAY 13 September 2017 Room 1: WS 10 First language acquisition in the languages of the world: Differences & similarities CONVENORS: Damián E. Blasi, Jekaterina Mazara & Sabine Stoll 9.00-9.25 INTRODUCTION 9.30-9.55 Marisa Casillas, Penelope Brown & Stephen C. Levinson Early word learning environments: Evidence from Mayan and Papua New Guinean households
Room 2: GS Syntax CHAIR: 9.00-9.25 Meike Pentrel No offence: no ellipsis, no sentence. The sentential status of “No X, no Y” constructions 9.30-9.55 Liljana Mitkovska & Eleni Bužarovska Vagueness and ambiguity in pseudo-passive reflexive constructions: a transition from decausative to passive
Room 3: GS Language variation CHAIR: 9.00-9.25 William Standing Constructional change in the lifetime: it-cleft foci as a case study for change in individuals 9.30-9.55 Helle Metslang & Külli Habicht Social change and diachronic variation in written language: interlanguage, native language or something else?
Room 4: WS 15 New approaches to contrastive linguistics: Empirical & methodological challenges 9.00-9.25 Pauline De Baets, Lore Vandevoorde & Gert De Sutter On the usefulness of parallel corpora for contrastive linguistics. A multivariate corpus study of meaning shifts in the semantic field of inchoativity 9.30-9.55 Bart Defrancq & Camille Collard Intepreting data, how suited are they for contrastive linguistics?
Room 5: GS Discourse analysis CHAIR: 9.00-9.25 Daniel Weiss How to do things with quotes in Russian parliamentary discourse 9.30-9.55 Elisabeth Zima Multimodal cooperation in joint storytelling activities
Room 6: WS 6 Confronting codeswitching theories with corpus and experimental data CONVENORS: Evangelia Adamou & Felicity Meakins 9.00-9.25 Rena Torres Cacoullos & Catherine Travis (keynote) Code-switching without convergence: Prosody in pronominal subject expression 9.30-9.55 Kate Bellamy & M Carmen Parafita Couto Gender assignment strategies in mixed PurepechaSpanish noun phrases
Room 7: WS 8 Ditransitive constructions in germanic languages: Diachronic and synchronic aspects CONVENORS: Timothy Colleman, Melanie Röthlisberger & Eva Zehentner 9.00-9.25 INTRODUCTION 9.30-9.55 Juan G. Vázquez-González & Jóhanna Barðdal Reconstructing the Ditransitive Construction for Proto-Germanic 27
Wednesday 13 September 2017
Room 8: WS 19 Participles: form, use and meaning (PartFUM) 9.00-9.25 Ane Berro Basque adjectival participles are functionally richer 9.30-9.55 Tillmann Pross Low and high adjectival participles in German
Room 9: WS 26 When “noun” meets “noun” 9.00-9.25 Asli Gürer Compound Formation in Karachay-Balkar: Implications for the marker –sI 9.30-9.55 László Károly Semantic correlation between binominal constructions and denominal nominals in Turkic
Room 10: WS 7 Definiteness, possessivity and exhaustivity 9.00-9.25 Max Wahlström & Teodora Vuković Not quite a definite article: A speech corpus study of a clitic demonstrative pronoun in a variety of South-Slavic Torlak 9.30-9.55 Neil Myler Szabolcsi's Puzzles: Prospects for a Solution
Room 11: WS 1 Accommodation in verbal and nonverbal behavior CONVENORS: Wolfgang Kesselheim & Agnes Kolmer 9.00-9.25 INTRODUCTION 9.30-9.55 Wenling Cao, Paul Foulkes & Márton Sóskuthy Short-term Accommodation of Non-native English Speakers: A Perspective of Second Language Acquisition
Room 12: WS 20 Rethinking evidentiality 9.00-9.25 Björn Wiemer Reliability as an intermediate layer between evidential and epistemic meanings 9.30-9.55 Viviana Masia An integrated account of Information Structure and Evidentiality: from political speech to human communication
Room 13: WS 25 What is in a morpheme? Theoretical, experimental and computational approaches to the relation of meaning and form in morphology CONVENORS: Stela Manova, Harald Hammarström, & Itamar Kastner 9.00-9.25 INTRODUCTION 9.30-9.55 Ava Creemers, Amy Goodwin Davies & Robert J. Wilder Morphological Priming of Dutch Complex Verbs is Independent of Semantic Transparency
Room 14: WS 13 Matter borrowing vs pattern borrowing in morphology 9.00-9.25 Danny Law Pattern borrowing, linguistic similarity, and new categories 9.30-9.55 Luca Ciucci Zamucoan and the others: matter borrowing vs. pattern borrowing in the Chaco area
Room 15: WS 17 Non-canonical postverbal subjects 9.00-9.25 Henry Zamchang Fominyam Inverting the subject in Awing 9.30-9.55 Magdalena Lemus Serrano & Tom Durand Split Intransitivity and Non-canonical Subject Order in Yukuna (Arawak, Colombia)
10.00-11.00 POSTER SESSION – Lichthof Vahideh Abolhasani Zadeh & Nafiseh Taghva Acoustic quantitative rhythmic features of Persian poetry Sandro Bachmann Typology, Motifs and Grammar of Bridge Names – A Pilot Study on the Bridge Names of Switzerland 28
Wednesday 13 September 2017
Gabriela Bîlbîie Disambiguating Left Peripheral Ellipsis in Romanian Piotr Cegłowski The extractability of genitive N-complements and its implications for the size of the nominal projection in Polish Éva Ágnes Csató, Lars Johanson & Birsel Karakoç Ambiguous [V + V] sequences in Turkic Tanya Davidyuk Towards the polysemy of directional case markers: evidence from Hill Mari Polina Eismont Acquisition of motion semantics in Russian Oscar Garcia-Marchena & Gabriela Bîlbîie A Romance perspective on subordination and fragments Anastasia Gareyshina Western Mari conditionals and their camera obscura Dmitry Gerasimov Grammaticalization of completive in Tupi-Guarani languages revisited Duygu Goksu The Diachronic Transformation of {-mAK} into {-mA} in Genitive-Possessive Agreement Contexts in Turkish Anissa Hamza A genre-based study of ellipses: a syntactic representation Oroitz Jauregi & Irantzu Epelde New borrowings in change: the case of a prothetic e among Basque speakers Anni Jürine & Külli Habicht Reduce, reuse and recycle: the development of complex conjunctions and discourse markers in Estonian Petros Karatsareas & Jeanette Sakel Matter loans and verb integration: the case of Mosetén and British Cypriot Greek Liudmila Khokhlova & Boris Zakharyin The Grammaticalization of Avertive and Proximative meanings in Hindi Marta Khouja What is behind Differential Object Marking in Catalan? Ezequiel Koile, Maya Inbar & Eitan Grossman Lexical borrowing in the world's languages: A quantitative study of the sociolinguistic and morphosyntactic factors Leonid Kulikov, Peter Alexander Kerkhof, Cynthia Johnson, Roland Pooth & Laura Bruno Reconstructing ‘Success’ in Indo-European: The relationship between metaphor and argument structure Anna Malicka-Kleparska Polish Involuntary State Constructions: an explanation of the limitations on the adverbial modification Stepan Matejka & Filip Smolik Acquisition of noun inflection in Czech Niklas Metsäranta Distinguishing inherited vocabulary from loans in Uralic Dana Niculescu & Carmen Mîrzea Vasile Romanian Active Adjectival Participles – Unaccusativity and Transitivity Miina Norvik The expression of spatial meanings in Livonian against a background of Estonian and Latvian Takeshi Oguro Oddities of Mono Ka Rhetorical Questions Thomas Payne Volitionality and aktionsarten in Kagayanen, a core Philippine language Ivan Roksandic An Underused Resource: The Relevance of Indigenous Toponomastics in the Western Caribbean Marcel Schlechtweg Semantic non-compositionality and its phonetic realization Christa Schneider The Gender of the Numeral two/zwöi in Bernese German Daniela Schröder Insubordination in English: A feature of speech? Chris Sheppard The Acoustic Properties of Non-Native English Vowels and the Evaluation of the Goodness of Pronunciation Leon Shor Referent introduction as a multi-step process – a view from spoken Israeli Hebrew Krzysztof Stronski, Joanna Tokaj & Saartje Verbeke Non-finites in early New Indo-Aryan: a multi-layered diachronic analysis Nafiseh Taghva & Ezatollah Kalantari Khandani Considering the Effects of Kerman Dashtab variant rhythm on Kerman Dashtab instrumental folk music rhythm Anna Vishenkova & Natalia Zevakhina Verbless kakoj-exclamatives in Russian: Evidence from Usage Data Chingduang Yurayong Postposed demonstrative in Veps, North Russian and Ancient Novgorod Slavic dialects: a historical comparative investigation Daria Zhornik & Irina Khomchenkova Causative morphology and pain predicates in Hill Mari Lena Zipp Code-switching on a BBC Gujarati radio programme
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11.00-11.30 Coffee break (Foyer-west) Room 1: WS 10 First language acquisition in the languages of the world: Differences & similarities 11.30-11.55 Barbara Pfeiler The acquisition of evidentiality in Yukatek Maya 12.00-12.25 Victoria Kazakovskaya & Reili Argus First language acquisition of epistemic modality in typologically different languages: Evidence from Estonian and Russian 12.30-13.00 Andrea Taverna & Sandra Waxman Noun and verb acquisition in young Wichi children: New evidence from an indigenous Amerindian community
Room 2: GS Typology CHAIR: 11.30-11.55 Scott DeLancey On the Nature of “Hierarchical Alignment” 12.00-12.25 James Baker How Georgian is (not) like Basque: a comparative case study of split-S languages 12.30-13.00 Katarzyna Janic Structural diversity of antipassive constructions: between form and frequency correspondence
Room 3: GS Historical linguistics CHAIR: 11.30-11.55 Alicja Piotrowska & Dominika Skrzypek A diachronic perspective on bare nouns in Mainland Scandinavian 12.00-12.25 Maciej Grabski Constructions with multiple adjectives in Old English 12.30-13.00 Sara Budts & Peter Petré Artificial Neural Networks for Diachronic Construction Grammar
Room 4: WS 15 New approaches to contrastive linguistics: Empirical & methodological challenges 11.30-11.55 Natalia Levshina T/V forms in European languages: A quantitative study based on a parallel corpus of film subtitles 12.00-12.25 Marlies Jansegers, Stefan Th. Gries & Viola G. Miglio Exploring semantic similarity between three Romance languages: a Behavioral Profile study of cross-linguistic near-synonyms 12.30-13.00 Niek Van Wettere Productivity of semi-copular constructions in a cross-linguistic perspective
Room 5: GS Discourse analysis CHAIR: 11.30-11.55 Sarka Zikanova Understanding text coherence: Implicit discourse relations 12.00-12.25 Cristina Lastres López Conditional clauses in functional-cognitive space: Evidence from English, Spanish and French 12.30-13.00 Samuel Bourgeois How discourse markers cross into writing: Colloquialization and the development of actually
Room 6: WS 6 Confronting codeswitching theories with corpus and experimental data 11.30-11.55 M. Carmen Parafita Couto & Marianne Gullberg Code-switching within the noun phrase – Evidence from three corpora 12.00-12.25 Jeffrey Blokzijl, Margaret Deuchar, Kevin Donnelly & M. Carmen Parafita Couto How can determiner asymmetry in mixed nominal constructions inform linguistic theory? 12.30-13.00 Antje Endesfelder Quick, Ad Backus, Elena Lieven & Michael Tomasello Partially schematic constructions in Code-mixing of a German-English bilingual child
Room 7: WS 8 Ditransitive constructions in germanic languages: diachronic and synchronic aspects 11.30-11.55 Fredrik Valdeson Semantic shifts in the Swedish ditransitive construction 30
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12.00-12.25 Philipp Rauth Object alignment in ditransitive constructions in the history of German 12.30-13.00 Katarzyna Sowka-Pietraszewska Syntactic realization of the arguments of possession change verbs in early English
Room 8: WS 19 Participles: form, use and meaning (PartFUM) 11.30-11.55 Bjarne Ørsnes On the performative use of the past participle in German 12.00-12.25 Peter Arkadiev Two types of non-agreeing participles in Lithuanian: Implications for the theories of agreement and case 12.30-13.00 Martin Salzmann & Gerhard Schaden On the syntax and semantics of participles in the double perfect in Alemannic
Room 9: WS 26 When “noun” meets “noun” 11.30-11.55 Marie-Elaine van Egmond Binominal compounds in Enindhilyakwa (AOI, Gunwinyguan, Australia) 12.00-12.25 An Van Linden & Françoise Rose How to distinguish between nouns and classifiers in Binominal Naming Constructions? Answers from two Western Amazonian languages 12.30-13.00 Åshild Næss Six ways for nouns to meet nouns in Äiwoo
Room 10: WS 7 Definiteness, possessivity and exhaustivity 11.30-11.55 Svetlana Toldova & Anna Volkova Looking for a D-layer in Moksha 12.00-12.25 Eugenia Greco Enclitic possessive constructions in the dialect of Verzino 12.30-13.00 Klaus Von Heusinger & Jaklin Kornfilt Turkish partitive constructions and exhaustivity
Room 11: WS 1 Accommodation in verbal and nonverbal behavior 11.30-11.55 Katherine Earnshaw Phonetic Accommodation in British English: Implications for Forensic Speaker Comparisons 12.00-12.25 Leonardo Bar n Birchenall & o l guyen Influence of rhythmic regularity on accommodation processes during conversations 12.30-13.00 Mathilde Guardiola Accommodation in conversation: the use of lexical other-repetition when displaying affiliation
Room 12: WS 20 Rethinking evidentiality 11.30-11.55 Juana I. Marin-Arrese Evidentiality and the TAM systems in English and Spanish: A cognitive and cross-linguistic perspective 12.00-12.25 Lois Kemp An FDG analysis of English evidential -ly adverbs 12.30-13.00 Dámaso Izquierdo Alegría & Bert Cornillie Evidentiality as encoding the mode of access
Room 13: WS 25 What is in a morpheme? Theoretical, experimental & computational approaches 11.30-11.55 Francesca Franzon, Rosa Rugani, Dunia Giomo & Chiara Zanini Effects of animacy on the processing of morphological Number: a cognitive inheritance? A psycholinguistic study 12.00-12.25 Vsevolod Kapatsinski & Zara Harmon Entrenchment in comprehension constrains semantic extension in production 12.30-13.00 Roland Pfau Morpheme repair
Room 14: WS 13 Matter borrowing vs pattern borrowing in morphology 11.30-11.55 Benjamin Saade Productivity as a cross-linguistic pattern: Italian derivation in Maltese 12.00-12.25 Marianne Mithun Beyond the Structural Domain: Distributed Multiplicity
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12.30-13.00 Ana R. Luis A comparative approach to contact-induced morphological change in creole languages
Room 15: WS 17 Non-canonical postverbal subjects 11.30-11.55 Claudia Fabrizio From postverbal to preverbal subjects: On nominal infinitives between Latin and Old Italian 12.00-12.25 Francesco Maria Ciconte Postverbal subjects in old Italo-Romance 12.30-13.00 DISCUSSION
13.00-14.30 Lunch (Mensa)
Room 1: WS 10 First language acquisition in the languages of the world: Differences & similarities 14.30-14.55 Cynthia Pamela Audisio & Alejandrina Cristia Do simple syntactic heuristics to verb argument structure hold up? A test with spontaneous corpora 15.00-15.25 Felix Engelmann, Joanna Kolak, Sonia Granlund, Marta Szreder, Ben Ambridge, Julian Pine, Anna Theakston & Elena Lieven The acquisition of Polish and Finnish verb inflection in a connectionist model 15.30-15.55 Joanna Kolak, Sonia Granlund, Virve Vihman, Felix Engelmann, Ben Ambridge, Julian Pine, Anna Theakston & Elena Lieven An experimental study on the acquisition of noun case marking in Estonian, Finnish and Polish
Room 2: GS Psycholinguistics CHAIR: 14.30-14.55 Simone Lechner The Acquisition of Distance Relations in Deictic Demonstratives by Second Language Learners 15.00-15.25 Nicolai Boston Simonsen, Line Burholt Kristensen & Kasper Boye Grammatical words – words you don't see
Room 3: GS Information structure CHAIR: 14.30-14.55 Natalia Serdobolskaya Possessive markers in Komi-Zyrian: topic, presupposition, or discourse markers 15.00-15.25 Maria Khachaturyan Relative clauses as a result of cooptation: the case of Mano correlatives 15.30-15.55 Cinzia Russi & Chiyo Nishida Unaccusative sentences with preverbal subjects in Sentence-focus contexts A corpus-based study for Italian and Spanish
Room 4: WS 15 New approaches to contrastive linguistics: Empirical & methodological challenges 14.30-14.55 Ruprecht von Waldenfels Slavic motion verbs in contrast: a view from parallel texts 15.00-15.25 Tom Bossuyt & Torsten Leuschner Whatever / wat (dan) ook / was (auch) immer: a CorpusTriangulating Approach to Irrelevance Particles in English, Dutch and German 15.30-15.55 Diana Lewis Contrastive analysis of discourse constructions using comparable corpora : a case study across French and English
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CHAIR: 14.30-14.55 Anna Cermakova, Zuzana Komrsková, Marie Koprivova & Petra Poukarova Discourse/pragmatic markers in spoken and written Czech 15.00-15.25 Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga & Ilaria Fiorentini Discourse markers in reported speech 15.30-15.55 Albert Alvarez Gonzalez From discourse to syntax: The use of the discourse marker bwe in the creation of interclausal connectives in Yaqui (Uto-Aztecan)
Room 6: WS 6 Confronting codeswitching theories with corpus and experimental data 14.30-14.55 Barbara Bullock & Almeida Jacqueline Toribio Modeling bilingual corpora to test syntactic constraints on code-switching 15.00-15.25 Boglárka Janurik, Niko Partanen & Simo Kantele Three Uralic languages and Russian walk into a bar: exploring the contact situation 15.30-15.55 Jill Vaughan Enduring and contemporary codeswitching practices in northern Australia
Room 7: WS 8 Ditransitive constructions in germanic languages: diachronic and synchronic aspects 14.30-14.55 Richard Ingham The middle English prepositional dative: grammaticalisation and contact with French 15.00-15.25 Johanna Gerwin Dialectal ditransitive patterns in British English 15.30-15.55 Hilde De Vaere, Ludovic De Cuypere & Klaas Willems The ditransitive alternation in presentday German. A corpus based investigation of geben
Room 8: WS 19 Participles: form, use and meaning (PartFUM) 14.30-14.55 Lena Ibnbari Participial relatives in Russian: internal structure and feature resolution 15.00-15.25 Anna Volkova Syntactic structure of participial relative clauses 15.30-15.55 Laura Migliori & Jan Casalicchio The syntax of embedded gerunds in Romance
Room 9: WS 26 When “noun” meets “noun” 14.30-14.55 Vilma Zubaitienė & Gintarė Judžentytė Noun + noun sequences in Lithuanian: medical and legal discourses 15.00-15.25 Chiara Naccarato & Shanshan Huang Complex nominals denoting instruments: a contrastive perspective 15.30-15.55 Steve Pepper Semantic relations in binominal lexemes: A cross-linguistic survey
Room 10: WS 7 Definiteness, possessivity and exhaustivity 14.30-14.55 Andreas Hölzl A typology of possession in Tungusic 15.00-15.25 Helen Hint, Tiina Nahkola & Renate Pajusalu With or without articles? Contrasting determiners in Estonian and Finnish 15.30-15.55 Svetlana Toldova & Polina Pleshak The interaction of possessive and definite noun declinations in Moksha
Room 11: WS 1 Accommodation in verbal and nonverbal behavior 14.30-14.55 Heike Ortner Accommodation in Professional Instructions of Movement: A Multimodal Analysis 15.00-15.25 Aurélie Goujon, Béatrice Priego-Valverde & Roxane Bertrand Facial gestures as a cue of dis/realignment in conversation 15.30-15.55 Saya Ike & Jean Mulder Pragmatic Accommodation in Backchannel Sequences in ELF Interactions
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14.30-14.55 Martine Bruil On comparing evidentials 15.00-15.25 Karolina Grzech Evidence from discourse: Corpus-based methodology of describing an analysing the ‘evidential’ markers in Tena Kichwa 15.30-15.55 Javier Carol & Andrés Pablo Salanova On mirative evidentials
Room 13: WS 25 What is in a morpheme? Theoretical, experimental & computational approaches 14.30-14.55 Gereon Mueller Deponent Morphemes: A Case Study of Linkers in German Compounds 15.00-15.25 Ekaterina Lyutikova & Sergei Tatevosov Doing form and meaning in a field: a few reflections on Buriat and Nenets 15.30-15.55 Borja Herce Forms with(out) meaning: What can we learn from morphomes
Room 14: WS 13 Matter borrowing vs pattern borrowing in morphology 14.30-14.55 Kirill Kozhanov & Peter Arkadiev How much pattern-borrowing does matter-borrowing presuppose? A study of Slavic verbal prefixes in contact 15.00-15.25 Alexander Rusakov & Maria Morozova Matter and pattern borrowing: between and beyond 15.30-15.55 Daria Bikina & Alexey Kozlov Matter borrowing followed by pattern borrowing: evidence from Moksha Mordvin and Beserman Udmurt
Room 15: GS Syntax CHAIR: 14.30-14.55 Leko Nedzad, Nermina Cordalija & Ivana Jovovic Postverbal conjoined subjects and first conjunct agreement in Bosnian/ Croatian/ Serbian: An experimental study 15.00-15.25 Mihaela Ilioaia & Marleen Van Peteghem Mi-e dor de tine or how a post-verbal subject turns into a predicate 15.30-15.55 Silvia Schaefer An experimental study on the Definiteness Effect in Italian and Greek
16.00-16.30 Coffee break (Foyer-west) Room 1: WS 10 First language acquisition in the languages of the world: Differences & similarities 16.30-16.55 Mark Dingemanse, Taras Zakharko & Sabine Stoll Other-initiated repair in early language acquisition 17.00-17.25 DISCUSSION
Room 3: GS Syntax CHAIR: 16.30-16.55 Karin Beijering Semi-insubordination, insubordination and subordination: interrelations and terminological issues 17.00-17.25 Ngum Meyuhnsi Njende & Kristin Davidse On the constructional status of English enumerating there-clauses and there-clefts
Room 4: WS 15 New approaches to contrastive linguistics: Empirical & methodological challenges 16.30-16.55 Åke Viberg Cutting, breaking, creating and repairing in Swedish and English 17.00-17.25 DISCUSSION
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CHAIR: 16.30-16.55 Steven Schoonjans Wh-IAW structures in German and how they relate to modal particles 17.00-17.25 Maryam S. Ghiasian & Zeinab Haghdust Discourse Cohesion and Pronoun Resolution in Persian Referring Expressions
Room 6: WS 6 Confronting codeswitching theories with corpus and experimental data 16.30-16.55 Nikolay Hakimov Verb insertions in Russian-German code-switching: Reconciling tendencies and exceptions 17.00-17.25 DISCUSSION
Room 7: WS 8 Ditransitive constructions in germanic languages: diachronic and synchronic aspects 16.30-16.55 Alina Kholodova, Caroline Rowland, Shanley Allen & Michelle Peter Ditransitive syntactic priming in a biased language: Investigating abstract representations over development 17.00-17.25 DISCUSSION
Room 8: WS 19 Participles: form, use and meaning (PartFUM) 16.30-16.55 Daniel Ross & Ksenia Shagal How similar are converbs and participles cross-linguistically? 17.00-17.25 DISCUSSION
Room 9: WS 26 When “noun” meets “noun” 16.30-16.55 Maria Rosenberg Combined concepts in language development: Evidence from Swedish 17.00-17.25 Martin Haspelmath (discussant)
Room 10: WS 7 Definiteness, possessivity and exhaustivity 16.30-16.55 Christina Ringel & Agnes Armstrong Relating definiteness and exhaustivity to possession in an endangered Indigenous language of Australia 17.00-17.25 DISCUSSION
Room 11: WS 1 Accommodation in verbal and nonverbal behavior 16.30-16.55 Hessa Al-Bishi Appropriateness of nonverbal greeting behaviours of Saudi sojourners in Englishspeaking countries 17.00-17.25 DISCUSSION
Room 12: WS 20 Rethinking evidentiality 16.30-16.55 Berend Hoff, Spike Gildea & Racquel-María Sapién Between Evidentiality, Immediacy, and Epistemic Certainty in Kari’nja 17.00-17.25 DISCUSSION
Room 13: WS 25 What is in a morpheme? Theoretical, experimental & computational approaches 16.30-16.55 Taras Zakharko Mining corpora for form-meaning associations: perspectives for corpus-driven typology 17.00-17.25 DISCUSSION
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Room 15: GS Syntax CHAIR: 16.30-16.55 Erwin Ronald Komen & Robert D. Bugenhagen Post-verbal pronominal subjects in Chechen and Ingush 17.00-17.25 Adina Camelia Bleotu Upward Agree versus Downward Agree. The Case of Postverbal Subjects in Existential Sentences in Romanian
18.00-18.30 CLOSING SESSION and BEST PRESENTATION AWARDS (Room 1)
Opmerking [T1]: OK ?
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Opmerking [T2]: Are we going to indicate this ?
CITY WALK (meeting point)
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