28.5347, Confs: Germanic, Romance, Cog Sci, Historical Ling, Pragmatics, Syntax/France

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Subject: 28.5347, Confs: Germanic, Romance, Cog Sci, Historical Ling, Pragmatics, Syntax/France

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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 23:22:02
From: Pierre Larrivée [Pierre.Larrivee at Unicaen.fr]
Subject: Information Structure and Language Change

Information Structure and Language Change 
Short Title: Informchange 

Date: 03-Apr-2018 - 04-Apr-2018 
Location: Caen, France 
Contact: Pierre Larrivee 
Contact Email: Pierre.Larrivee at Unicaen.fr 
Meeting URL: http://www.crisco.unicaen.fr/Information-Structure-and-Language.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Syntax 

Language Family(ies): Germanic; Romance 
Meeting Description: 

Research into language change has identified a number of determinant factors.
There is a growing body of evidence that change affecting major syntactic
phenomena like word order involves an informational dimension at some stage(s)
of the process. This has been claimed to apply to the prototypical syntactic
marking of speech-acts (in situ partial interrogatives, loss of inversion for
total interrogatives in French), V2 loss (e.g. work by A. van Kemenade & B.
Los for English), increasing contextual restriction of OV order (e.g. Taylor &
Pintzuk 2012 for English) and Stylistic Fronting (work by Fischer i.a.). While
local correlations between word-order change and information structure have
been observed, conditions of interface between the two orders of
representation remain to be established. The idea that configurations satisfy
informational requirements when they lose syntactic currency seems
conceptually appealing in explaining how such configurations become marked (on
a recent approach to marked and default word order, see e.g. Biberauer 2016).
Whether a characterised informational value is the cause or the consequence of
change in syntactic currency remains to be empirically assessed however,
requiring a robust diagnostic of informational value in historical resources
that reliably reflect effective change.

Program:

April 3 2018:

14:00:
Ans van Kemenade (Radboud)
”Discourse particles” between clause structure and discourse organisation 

14:40:
Benjamin Lowell Sluckin (HU Berlin)
Information Structure Change in an Emerging Grammar: V1 and V3 in Kiezdeutsch

15:20:
George Walkden (Konstanz)
In defence of the information-structural approach to V3 in Germanic

16:00: Comfort break

16:20:
Roland Hinterhoelzl and Chiara De Bastiani (Venice)
On the syntax of object pronouns in OE and EME 

17:00:
Aroldo Leal De Andrade (Minas Gerais) and Charlotte Galves (Campinas)
Contrast and Word Order: A Case Study on Old and Classical Portuguese

17:40:
Paulo Pinheiro-Correa (Fluminense)
>From VS to SV order in thetic statements in Brazilian Portuguese

April 4 2018:

10:00:
Sophie Prévost (Lattice, CNRS/ENS/Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Evolution of the position of the subject in French: A constant yet variable
interplay between syntactic and informational factors 

10:40:
Christine Rahn (Hanover) and Pierre Larrivée (Caen)
The Informational Value of Fronting in Middle French

11:20:
Andreas Dufter (Munich)
On participle fronting in Old and Middle French 

12:00: Lunch:

14:00:
Richard Ingham (Westminster)
Topic, Focus and null subjects in Old French

14:40:
Sam Wolfe (Oxford)
Variation and Change in Old French Word Order: The case of si 

15:20: Comfort break

15:40:
Lílian Teixeira De Sousa (Bahia)
Pragmatics and Language Change: A Study on Brazilian Portuguese Sentential
Negation

16:20:
Malte Rosemeyer (Leuven)
Variation and change in Portuguese partial interrogatives

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