Handouts of Recent Presentations

• Studying the diffusion of syntactic changes in historical corpora. Symposium on Historical Syntax, Boston, February 2013.
• The evolution of word order frequencies in medieval English and French. Historical Corpora 2012, Frankfurt-am-Main, December 2012.
• Comparative clause structure of English and French. DiGS 14, Lisbon, July 2012.
• Comparing the evolution of V2 in English and French. University of Pennsylvania Linguistics Department, Thursday Thoughts Series, February 2011.
• Prosody, topicalization and verb-second: How they interact in the history of English and French.The Fourth Workshop on Prosody, Syntax, and Information Structure (WPSI4), University of Delaware, September 2010.
• Using parsed corpora to compare the evolution of word order in English and French. Conference on Corpus Analysis and Diachronic Linguistics, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan, March 2010.
• Independence and Interaction in Syntactic Change. PhilSoc Workshop on corpus-based advances in historical linguistics, University of York, UK, November 2009.
• Was Old English a verb-second language? University of York, UK, November 2009.
• Case studies in quantitative historical syntax. ROSAE, Salvador, Brazil, July 2009.
• The comparative evolution of word order in French and English. DIGS 11, Campinas, Brazil, July 2009.
• Grammars and populations. Penn Linguistics Colloquium 33, University of Pennsylvania, March 2009.
• Statistical independence in syntactic change. Stanford University, January 2009.

ROSAE MINICOURSE

• Lecture 1: Statistical modeling of the time course of language change. ROSAE, Salvador, Brazil. July 2009.
• Lecture 2: Two cases of three-way competition. ROSAE, Salvador, Brazil. July 2009.