18.3756, Confs: Historical Linguistics/UK

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Date: 15-Dec-2007
From: Anne Breitbarth < ab667 at cam.ac.uk >
Subject: Continuity and Change in Grammar

 

	
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Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:03:35
From: Anne Breitbarth [ab667 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: Continuity and Change in Grammar 
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Continuity and Change in Grammar 

Date: 18-Mar-2008 - 20-Mar-2008 
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom 
Contact: Anne Breitbarth 
Contact Email: ccg08 at easychair.org 
Meeting URL:
http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/ab667/negproject/continuity-change-conf.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

We are pleased to announce an international conference on Continuity and Change
in Grammar, which will take place from 18-20 March 2008 at the University of
Cambridge. The focus will be on theoretical and methodological aspects of
morphosyntactic change and conservatism.

The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers working on different
aspects of linguistic transmission in order to enhance our understanding of what
makes languages change and what in turn prevents them from changing. 

For updates and more information, refer to the conference website,
http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/ab667/negproject/negconf_start.html

(All rooms are in the Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP)

18 March 

14:00 - 15:00	
Plenary; GR 06/07
Jan-Terje Faarlund (invited), title t.b.c.

15:00 - 15:30	
Tea 
	
Session 1; GR 06/07 	

15:30 - 16:10	
Anne Breitbarth & Liliane Haegeman:
Not continuity but change: Stable stage II in Jespersen's Cycle 	

16:10 - 16:50	
Caroline Heycock, Antonella Sorace & Zakaris Hansen: 
Verb movement and negation in Scandinavian 	

16:50 - 17:30	Jo Willmott:
Not in the mood: modality and negation in the history of Greek 	

Session 2; GR 05 

15:30 - 16:10	
Alessio S. Frenda: 
Language contact and language-internal motivations in the evolution of
grammatical gender in Celtic 

16:10 - 16:50	
Elliot Lash: 
Syntactic developments in Irish non-finite complementation 

16:50 - 17:30	
Aidan Doyle: 
The grammaticalization of the possessive perfect in Irish 

18:00 -		
Drinks reception

19 March 

9:00 - 9:20	
Coffee 

Session 1; GR 06/07 	

9:20 - 10:00	
Gertjan Postma:
The impact of failed changes 	

10:00 - 10:40	
Theresa Biberauer, Anders Holmberg & Ian Roberts:
On impossible changes and borrowings: the Final-Over-Final-Constraint 	

Session 2; GR 05 

9:20 - 10:00	
Renata Szepaniak: 
Jespersen's Cycle in German from the phonological perspective of syllable and
word languages 

10:00 - 10:40	
Agnes Jäger:
Change and continuity in syntactic marking of negation focus: nalles 

10:40 - 11:10	
Coffee 

Session 1; GR 06/07 	

11:10 - 11:50	
Nigel Vincent & Kersti Börjars:
The interaction of suppletion, defectiveness and periphrasis 	

Session 2; GR 05 

11:10 - 11:50	
Katrin Axel & Helmut Weiß:
Has anything changed at all? 

11:50 - 12:50	
Plenary; GR 06/07 
John Sundquist (invited), title t.b.c.

12:50 - 14:15	
Lunch

Session 1; GR 06/07 	

14:15 - 14:55	
Miriam Bouzouita:
Continuity and change in Western Iberian clitic systems 	

14:55 - 15:35	
Arja Hamari:
Continuity and Change in the negation system of the Mordvin languages 	

15:35 - 16:15	
David Willis, Anne Breitbarth & Christopher Lucas:
Incipient Jespersen's Cycle: the (non-) grammaticalisation of new negative markers 	
Session 2; GR 05 

14:15 - 14:55	
Henrik Rosenkvist:
A case of degrammaticalization in Northern Swedish 

14:55 - 15:35	
Mila Vulchanova & Valentin Vulchanov:
An article evolving: Contact-induced or language-internal change? 

15:35 - 16:15	
Masataka Ishikawa:
A feature-driven analysis of syntactic change: A case study in the history of
articles in Spanish 

16:15 - 16:45	
Tea

Session 1; GR 06/07 	

16:45 - 17:25	
Griet Coupé:
Verb combinations in English and Dutch: continuity or change 	

Session 2; GR 05 

16:45 - 17:25	
Redouane Djamouri, Waltraud Paul & John Whitman:
SVO forever: The case of Chinese 

17:25 - 18:25	plenary; GR 06/07 
Richard Ingham (invited), title t.b.c.

19:00 - 	
Conference dinner (Selwyn College)

20 March 

9:00 - 9:20	
Coffee 

Session 1; GR 06/07 	

9:20 - 10:00	
Adreas Enrique-Arias:
Contact induced conservativism in the Spanish of Catalan bilinguals in Majorca 	

10:00 - 10:40	
Mair Parry: 
The role of language contact in the evolution of an Italian transitional dialect 	

Session 2; GR 05 

9:20 - 10:00	
Edith Aldridge:
Directionality in word order change in Austronesian languages 

10:00 - 10:40	
Patricia Shaw, Jill Campbell & Larry Grant:
Word order change in Central Coast Salish 

10:40 - 11:10	
Coffee 

Session 1; GR 06/07 	

11:10 - 11:50	
Enam Al-Wer:
Drift in the formation of new dialects: data from Amman Arabic 	 

Session 2; GR 05 

11:10 - 11:50	
Lutz Marten:
Syntactic restructuring of the locative system in siSwati: Variation and
language contact

11:50 - 12:50	
Plenary; GR 06/07 
Sarah Thomason (invited), title t.b.c.

Alternates:	

1. Petros Karatsareas: Contact-induced morphological change: 
Cappadocian Greek 'agglutinative' morphology revisited. 

2. Peredur Davies and Margaret Deuchar: 
Dichotomous matrix languages: word order convergence in Welsh-English speech 

3. Remus Gergel:
Comparative Continuity






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