25.2692, Confs: Historical Linguistics, Syntax, General Linguistics/Hungary

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Subject: 25.2692, Confs: Historical Linguistics, Syntax, General Linguistics/Hungary

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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:16:42
From: Veronika Hegedus [hegedus.veronika at nytud.mta.hu]
Subject: 16th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference

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16th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference 
Short Title: DiGS16 

Date: 03-Jul-2014 - 05-Jul-2014 
Location: Budapest, Hungary 
Contact: Veronika Hegedus 
Contact Email: digs16.budapest at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://www.nytud.hu/digs16/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

DiGS16 will be held at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Hungary, from 3 to 5 July 2014.

DiGS (Diachronic Generative Syntax) is an established international conference dedicated to the historical and comparative investigations of syntactic phenomena and language change from a generative perspective.

The conference will also host a workshop entitled 'Converging Corpora: How to standardize historical corpora of typologically and genetically different languages' on 2 July 2014, aiming to present and discuss historical corpora and methodological issues related to corpus-building. (See as session(s) of DiGS16)

Invited Speakers:

Anthony Kroch (University of Pennsylvania)
David Lightfoot (Gerogetown University)
Roumyana Pancheva (University of Southern California)

For details and information on registration etc. see the conference website: http://www.nytud.hu/digs16

Conference Venue:

Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Benczúr utca 33.
1068 Budapest
Hungary

Organizing Committee:

Katalin É. Kiss
Barbara Egedi
Veronika Hegedűs
Eszter Simon 

Program:

The 16th Diachronic Generative Syntax conference (DiGS16) will be held in Budapest, Hungary on 3-5 July, 2014. The conference is organized and hosted by the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Thursday, 3 July 

9.00-9.10
Welcome

9.10-10.10
Invited speaker: David Lightfoot
Some history of historical syntax: The Transparency Principle

10.10-10.30 Coffee break

10.30-11.10
Ellen Brandner and Ida Larsson
Perfect doubling and the grammaticalization of auxiliaries

11.10-11.50
Aaron Ecay
Examining stylistic influences on the evolution of do-support

11.50-12.30
Eric Haeberli and Tabea Ihsane
Adverb Placement in the History of English Modals

12.30-14.00 Lunch break

14.00-14.40
Poster Session:
Artur Bartnik
Two types of headless free relatives in Old English: a corpus-based study (second alternate)
Koldo Sainz
Multiple Causation in Syntactic Change: Romance Subordination
Nikolaos Lavidas
The loss of null objects and the emergence of the D-system: pre-Koine vs. post-Koine Greek
Elliott Lash
The Loss of Adverbial/Modal Particles in Early Modern Irish
Giuliana Giusti and Rossella Iovino
A Split-DP hypothesis for Latin and Italo-Romance

14.40-15.20
Ans van Kemenade and Charles Yang
The acquisition and loss of subject inversion in the history of English

15.20-16.00 Chris Reintges
The 'Richness of Tense' Parameter Revisited: High analyticity and residual verb movement in Coptic Egyptian

16.00-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-17.10
Heimir Freyr van der Feest Vidarsson
Oblique subjects and dative applicatives in North Germanic: Reconciling two extremes

17.10-17.50
George Walkden
Language contact and the loss of strict V2 

Friday, 4 July 

9.00-10.00
Invited speaker: Anthony Kroch

10.00-10.30 Coffee break

10.30-11.10
Katerina Chatzopoulou and Ioanna Sitaridou
Jespersen's cycle for NEG2 and conditional inversion in the history of Greek: Evidence from Romeyka conditionals

11.10-11.50
Einat-Haya Keren
Negative Concord in Modern Israeli Hebrew - Tracking down its Origin

11.50-12.30
Anne Breitbarth
Exceptive negation in historical Low German

12.30-14.00 Lunch break

14.00-14.40
Poster Session:
Dana Niculescu
The Evolution of the Romanian Finite Gerund  (first alternate)
Julia Schueler
On the disappearance of the bipartite negative particle in Middle High German
Giuseppina Silvestri
Genitive(s) in diachrony: change and retention in parameter-setting.
Kenneth Hanson, Cristina Schmitt and Alan Munn
The Loss of Bare Singular Arguments and Predicates in the History of English
Ágnes Bende-Farkas
Indeterminate Pronouns in Old Hungarian

14.40-15.20
Júlia Bácskai-Atkári
Information Structure, Functional Left Peripheries, and the history of a Hungarian Interrogative Marker

15.20-16.00
Orsolya Tánczos
Cycle by cycle in the history of shuisa

16.00-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-17.10
Lieven Danckaert
Changing patterns of infinitival complementation in Latin

17.10-17.50
Jacopo Garzonio, Cecilia Poletto and Emanuela Sanfelici
Why relative clauses follow Keenan and Comrie’s generalization: a case study on the status of Old Italian complementizers

18.30 Conference dinner

Saturday, 5 July 

9.00-10.00
Invited speaker: Roumyana Pancheva
Scalar Meanings in the History of Slavic

10.00-10.30 Coffee break

10.30-11.10
Sabine Iatridou and Hedde Zeijlstra
If diachronically

11.10-11.50
Theresa Biberauer and Ian Roberts
Conditional Inversion and types of parametric change

11.50-12.30
Adina Dragomirescu and Virginia Hill
De-supine complements in Old Romanian

12.30-14.00 Lunch break

14.00-14.40
Poster Session:
Víctor Acedo-Matellán
Changes before and after Vocabulary Insertion. A case study in the diachrony of Catalan psych-predicates
Éva Dékány
Weak and strong phases in infinitives: the case of Old Hungarian infinitival anti-agreement
Anne Wolfsgruber
Impersonal Se-Constructions and the Puzzle of Old French Subjects
Judy B Bernstein
Demonstratives Expressed as Nominative Pronouns

14.00-14.40
Johannes Jónsson  and Brynhildur Stefánsdóttir
P-incorporation in the history of Icelandic

14.40-15.20
David Willis
Maintaining the historical directionality of syntactic change in numeral phrases

16.00-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-17.10
Ana Maria Martins, Sandra Pereira and Clara Pinto
The diachronic path of ''senao'': from conditional subordination to exceptive coordination

17.10-17.50
Ann Taylor and Susan Pintzuk
Split Coordination in the History of English

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