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| Thursday, June 2, 2011 |
| 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Workshop on using annotated corpora for diachronic research | |
| (Details here) | ||
| 6:30 p.m. | Wine reception | |
| 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. | Keynote address: David Lightfoot (Georgetown University) | |
| Historical linguistics: levels of explanation |
| Friday, June 3, 2011 |
| 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Plenary address: Ana Maria Martins (University of Lisbon) | |
| Nominal negative inversion in Romance | ||
| 10:00 a.m. | Coffee break | |
| 10:20 a.m. | Anton Karl Ingason, Einar Freyr Sigurðsson and Joel C. Wallenberg (University of Iceland) | |
| Distinguishing change and stability: a quantitative study of Icelandic oblique subjects | ||
| 11:00 a.m. | Silvia Cavalcante (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) and Anthony Kroch (University of Pennsylvania) | Oblique subjects and Nominative objects: SE-constructions in the history of Portuguese revisited |
| 11:40 a.m. | Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge, Stellenbosch University) and Ans Van Kemenade (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) | |
| Subject positions and information-structural diversification in the history of English | ||
| 12:20 p.m. | Eric Fuss (University of Leipzig) | |
| The rise and fall of null subjects: Implications for the theory of pro-drop | ||
| 1:00 p.m. | First poster session (with catered lunch): | |
| Katalin E. Kiss (Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy) | ||
| From Proto-Hungarian SOV to Old Hungarian TopFocVSO | ||
| Carola Trips (University of Mannheim) and Achim Stein (University of Stuttgart) | ||
| Left-dislocation and pragmatic functions in Old French and Middle English: Evidence for language contact? | ||
| Alexandra Fiéis and Maria Lobo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) | ||
| Gerund clauses in the diachrony of Portuguese: C-T features and information structure | ||
| Maria Clara Paixão De Sousa (Universidade de São Paulo) | ||
| Topics, Subjects and Agents in Classical and Brazilian Portuguese: Hypothesis for a Grammatical Change | ||
| Eric Mathieu (University of Ottawa) | ||
| The historical development of French wh in situ | ||
| Bernat Bardagil Mas (UQÁM) | ||
| Verb-second phenomena in Old French: post-verbal subject position and pre-verbal topics | ||
| 2:30 p.m. | Edith Aldridge (University of Washington) | |
| The Syntactic Formation of the Chinese Anaphor ZIJI | ||
| 3:10 p.m. | Remus Gergel (Universität Tübingen) | |
| Again: On the Trajectory of Structural Visibility | ||
| 3:50 p.m. | George Walkden (University of Cambridge) | |
| Tying up syntactic loose ends: hwaet/huat-clauses in Old English and Old Saxon | ||
| 4:30 p.m. | Aaron Ecay (University of Pennsylvania) | |
| Stratified sampling biases models towards nonlinearity: the case of Kallel (2007) | ||
| 5:10 p.m. | Business meeting and coffee break | |
| Venues for future meetings of DIGS will be decided, confirmed and/or announced. Also, publication plans for conference papers, including posters, will be discussed. | 6:15-7:15 p.m. | Plenary address: Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam) |
| Contact, Change and Acquisition: A view from hybrid grammars |
| Saturday, June 4, 2011 |
| 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Plenary address: Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh) | |
| Tailing off: Tracing the late stages of a syntactic change in Faroese | ||
| 10:00 a.m. | Coffee break | |
| 10:20 a.m. | Maia Duguine (University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), University of Nantes) and Aritz Irurtzun (University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)) | |
| Cues of Change in the Wh-parameter: Evidence from Basque | ||
| 11:00 a.m. | Ailis Cournane (University of Toronto) | Innovative Acquisition: experimenting with divergence from the input |
| 11:40 a.m. | Juanito Avelar and Charlotte Galves (University of Campinas) | |
| From European to Brazilian Portuguese: a parameter network approach | ||
| 12:20 p.m. | Paola Crisma (Università di Trieste) | |
| The rise of the ‘indefinite article’ in English | ||
| 1:00 p.m. | Second poster session (with catered lunch): | |
| Elizabeth Cowper (University of Toronto) and Daniel Hall (Saint Mary's University) | ||
| From aspect to voice: The descent of the passive light verb in English | ||
| Katerina Chatzopoulou and Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago) | ||
| Negator selection in Attic Greek: (non)veridicality and (non)assertion | ||
| Emilienne Ngangoum (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics) | ||
| Rethinking the Jespersen Cycle from a Bantu Perspective. | ||
| Marion Elenbaas (Leiden University) | ||
| The diachrony of English light verbs | ||
| Montserrat Batllori (Universitat de Girona) | ||
| Mesoclitic Romance futures and conditionals vs. participle preposing | ||
| 2:30 p.m. | Alexandra Simonenko (McGill University) and Paul Hirschbühler (University of Ottawa) | Changes in clitic position in Old French V1 clauses: V movement vs tense dependency? |
| 3:10 p.m. | Neil Ashton (Cornell University) | |
| Tocharian object clitics and the derivation of SOV | ||
| 3:50 p.m. | Susan Pintzuk and Ann Taylor (University of York) | |
| The independence of information status effects and the syntactic change from OV to VO in the history of English and Icelandic | ||
| 4:30 p.m. | Caitlin Light (University of Pennsylvania) and Joel Wallenberg (University of Iceland) | |
| On the use of passives across Germanic | ||
| 5:10 p.m. | Coffee break | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | Plenary address: Thomas McFadden (University of Tromsø) |
| The Old English distribution and subsequent loss of preverbal ge- | ||
| 7:00 p.m. | DiGS Banquet |
| Sunday, June 5, 2011 |
| 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Laurie Zaring (Luther College) | |
| On the Nature of Embedded V2 in Old French | ||
| 9:40 a.m. | Aaron Ecay and Caitlin Light (University of Pennsylvania) | |
| Analyzing V2 triggers in historical English | ||
| 10:20 a.m. | Marie Labelle (Universite du Quebec a Montreal) and Paul Hirschbühler (University of Ottawa) | Topic and Focus in Old French V1 and V2 structures |
| 11:00 a.m. | Gabriela Alboiu (York University) and Virginia Hill (University of New Brunswick - Saint John) | |
| A Criterial Analysis of V-movement in the Moldavian Chronicles | ||
| 11:40 a.m. | Third poster session (with catered lunch): | |
| Caitlin Keenan (Harvard University) | ||
| Greenberg Revisited: Diachronic development of article systems and the structure of DP | ||
| Adriana Cardoso (Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa / Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa) | ||
| Discontinuous noun phrases and remnant-internal relativization in the diachrony of Portuguese | ||
| Chiara Gianollo (Universität Konstanz) | ||
| How did genitives become datives in Greek? | ||
| Anton Karl Ingason (University of Iceland) | ||
| A Death Rattle Hypothesis for minority rules. Beyond conceptual neatness in the weights vs. imperfections debate | ||
| Hiroyuki Nawata (Shimane University) | ||
| Feature Inheritance as a Reflex of Diachronic Change: Evidence from Transitive Expletive Constructions in the History of English | ||
| Christopher Sapp (University of Mississippi) | ||
| A Relative Pronoun in Old Norse? | ||
| 1:10 p.m. | Lobke Aelbrecht (Ghent University) and Marcel Den Dikken (CUNY Graduate Center) | Grammaticalization in the Syntax of Preposition Doubling in Flemish Dialects |
| 1:50 p.m. | Chris Reintges (CNRS & University Paris 7) | |
| The syntax of accelerated grammaticalization | ||
| 2:30 p.m. | David Willis (University of Cambridge) | |
| Cyclic change in the distribution of indefinites in negative polarity environments | ||
| 3:10 p.m. | David Erschler (Tübinger Zentrum für Linguistik (SFB 833)) | |
| On Development of NegP in Ossetic | ||
| 3:50 p.m. | Coffee break | 4:00 p.m. | Plenary address: Ian Roberts (Cambridge University) |
| Towards a parameter hierarchy for verb-movement: diachronic considerations | ||
| 5:00 p.m. | End of DiGS 13 |
Contact us
For more information on the conference and/or the workshop, please contact the organizers at digs13@ling.upenn.edu.
DiGS 13 Sponsors:
Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
US National Science Foundation