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22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Naples, 27-31 July 2015
Detailed Programme (provisional)
General Session
9.00–9.50
Monday 27 July
PLENARY: ADAM LEDGEWAY - PARAMETERS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ROMANCE AUXILIARY SELECTION
Room 1
Room 2
Room 3
Room 4
Room 5
9.50-10.20
Hans Henrich
Hock:
Old Irish
Consonant
Quality
Reexamined
Luca Alfieri:
The definition of
the root between
history and
typology
Christine
Meklenborg
Salvesen:
Licensing pro in
Old French
Oleg Belyaev & Dag
Haug:
From interrogatives
to relative
pronouns via
indefinites: Whbased correlatives
in Indo-European
and beyond
Nigel Vincent &
Kersti Börjars:
Step change in
form and function:
the history of willverbs in Germanic
10.20–10.50
Konstantin G.
Krasukhin:
The word accent
in Greek-Aryan
and Balto-Slavic
Ville Leppänen:
Instances of
"degrammatization
" and "relicization"
in the prehistory of
the Latin verb
system
Ans van
Kemenade &
Charles Yang:
The acquisition
and loss of
subject inversion
in the history of
English
Orsolya Tánczos &
Éva Dékány:
Head last to head
first and left
peripheries:
evidence from
Khantyand Udmurt
relatives
Serena Danesi:
Modality,
subjecthood and
semantic change: A
case study on
modal verbs in
Ancient Greek
Nicholas Zair:
Taking borrowing
seriously: Latin urC- for -orC-
Hanne Martine
Eckhoff:
Prefixation and
verb classification
in Old Church
Slavonic
Laura
Grestenberger:
Deponency as
reanalysis: a
diachronic account
of voice
mismatches
Sandra Lucas:
Semantically
predictable
constructions diachronic evidence
from Greek
Stefano Canalis:
Allophonic
variability,
phonological
categorization
and nonsystematic sound
changes: The
problem of
intervocalic
voicing in Old
Tuscan
Paolo Milizia:
Diachrony and
Morphological
Equilibrium: the
Case of Southern
New Indo-Aryan
Verb
Katerina
Zombolou:
Special verbal
classes: Parallels
between Greek
deponents and
German Inherent
reflexives
Margareth
Winters:
Linguistic 'Junk'
and Meaning
10.50–11.20
11.20–11.50
11.50–12.20
Coffee Break
Jóhanna Barðdal,
Thórhallur
Eythórsson,
Michael
Frotscher,
Cynthia A.
Johnson & Ester
Le Mair:
Non-Canonically
Case-Marked
Subjects in Hittite
and Old Irish: An
Investigation into
the Subjecthood
of the Early IndoEuropean
Languages
Thórhallur
Eythórsson &
Sigríður Sæunn
Sigurðardóttir:
Sporadic
mutations in
subject case
marking: The
complex history
of oblique
subjects in
Icelandic
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12.20–12.50
12.50–13.20
13.20–14.30
14.30–15.00
15.00–15.30
15.30–16.00
16.00-16.30
16.30–17.00
17.00–17.30
17.30–18.00
John Ryan:
Lessons from
Neapolitan:
Vocalic
Weakening as an
Alternative to Full
Syncope in the
Path from Latin MIN- to Modern
Spanish -mbr-
Giancarlo Schirru:
Ablaut in Armenian
nasal declension
Michael
Frotscher:
Explaining the
Nikolaos Lavidas:
The Diachrony of
Pleonastic Object
Pronouns in
Greek:Translation
Effects or
Language Contact
and the Greek
Septuagint
Anna Alexandrova:
Actionality and
viewpoint aspect in
Old Russian: a
diachronic corpusbased account
Ana Estrada:
Intervocalic /d/ in
the Iberian
Peninsula: past
participles vs.
other word types.
Elena Bratishenko:
The genitiveaccusative
syncretism and the
development of
long-form Russian
adjectives
Jorge Emilio
Rosés Labrada:
The Diachronic
Development of
Subject Marking
in Piaroa
(Sáliban)
Anne Wolfsgruber:
Pleonastic Uses of
se as Latin Reflexes
in the Old French
Voice System
Dmitri Dundua:
Empathy in
diachrony: the case
of Classical
Armenian inkʻn
Filip de Decker:
The augment in
epic Greek
Ivar Berg:
Gender and
declension
'mismatches' in
West Nordic'.
Lunch
Jac Conradie:
Distance from
subject as a
factor in verbal
deflection
Vladimir Glebkin:
Self-Constructions
in Russian: A
Cultural-Historical
Aspect
Frans Plank:
Temporal nature of
universals
Klaus Hofmann:
Word stress as a
function of
utterance rhythm
in Middle English
Iván Igartua:
Gender loss and
language contact
Timo
Korkiakangas:
Alignment
change and case
system in early
medieval Italian
Latin: evidence
from Tuscan
charters
Esaúl Ruiz
Narbona:
Old English verbal
prefixes: Their
effects on the
transitivity of labile
morphological
causatives
Sonia Cristofaro:
Diachrony and
explanations for
typological
universals, with
particular regard to
the
animacy/referential
hierarchy
Craig Callender:
Perception and
the High German
Tenues Shift
Tanja Ackermann &
Christian Zimmer:
How linguistic
processing
determines
language change –
psycholinguistic
evidence from
German inflectional
morphology
Antoine
Guillaume:
Reconstructing
the morphology
and syntax of
core argument
pronouns in
Takanan
languages
(Amazonian
Bolivia and Peru)
Kim Taewoo:
On the decline of
labile verbs in
Korean: its
motivation and
directionality
Andrea Sansò:
Where do
antipassives come
from? A study in
diachronic typology
Andrew Cooper:
The Germanic
Foot and the Old
English verse line
Frank Seifart:
Direct and indirect
affix borrowings
Glenn
Windschuttel:
Realignment in
Yagaria
Domenica
Romagno:
State
representation and
dynamic processes:
the aorist in -e:n in
Homeric Greek
Albert Alvarez &
Cristian Juarez:
The origin of the
antipassive_
causative
Marco Condorelli
& Dawn Archer:
VARD and
Spelling Changes:
A Systematic
Diachronic Study
of Early Modern
English
Orthography
Brian D. Joseph:
Borrowing versus
Inheritance: The
Balkan [-itsa] Crux
Katarzyna SowkaPietraszewska:
Syntactic behavior
of Spray-load verbs
in Old English
MIkyung Ahn &
Foong Ha Yap:
From
nominalization to
Passive Marking:
On the
development of
Korean -ti/-ci
Johan Muskala:
Manuel Padilla-
Miguel Lacalle
Robert
ʻGiveʼ – ʻTakeʼ
Alternation in the
Indo-European
Languages
Coffee Break
Jan Terje
Faarlund:
The development
of preposition
stranding in
Scandinavian and
English
Robert Cloutier:
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Putting stress on
herbals
18.00–18.30
Moyano:
Inflectional
borrowing and the
emergence of a
new verbal class in
Eastern Basque
The rise of
postposed
adpositionals in
the history of
Dutch
Palacios:
Classes of motion
verbs in Old
English. A Role and
Reference
Grammar Analysis
Mailhammer &
Elena Smirnova
How selectional
restrictions funnel
language change:
passive
constructions in
English and German
Stefan Thim:
Analytic drift
revisited: The fate
of derivational
affixes in English
Marion Elenbaas
& Kim Groothuis:
Verb-particle
combinations in
English and
Italian: A
diachronic
comparative
perspective
Malwina
Wisniewska:
Politeness and
impoliteness:
Middle English
second person
pronouns in Sir
Malory’s Arthurian
love triangles
Shuto Yamamura:
An Emergence of a
Novel Structure of
‘The + Adjective’
Constructions in
English
18.30-19.20
PLENARY: ADITI LAHIRI - PERTINACITY OF PHONOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON LOANS
9.00–9.50
Tuesday 28 July
Bridget Drinka PERFECTING THE NOTION OF SPRACHBUND:
PERFECTS AND RESULTATIVES IN THE “STRATIFIED CONVERGENCE ZONES” OF EUROPE
Room 1
Room 2
Room 3
Room 4
9.50-10.20
Alexander
Kristoffersen Lykke:
Unstressed /i/ and /u/ in
Old Norwegian: A study
of the Norwegian runic
material post 1050 CE
Livio Gaeta:
Anti-relevant, contraiconic but systemadequate: on
unexpected inflectional
changes
Ferdinand von
Mengden:
Innovation through
omission - an
alternative to
‘degrammaticalization’
Jakob Neels:
Adding a Diachronic
Dimension to the Case of
Let Alone
10.20–10.50
Katarzyna Buczek:
Levelling of i-umlaut in
classical and postclassical Old Frisian
Martina Da Tos:
Syntagmatically
conditioned allomorphy
and the evolution of the
present subjunctive
inflection in some
Ibero-Romance
varieties: the exception
which proves the rule
Jan Nuyts:
(De)grammaticalization
and iconicity
Bethany J. Christiansen &
Brian D. Joseph:
Old English Gone 'Bellyup': The Limits of Context
in Semantic Shift?
10.50–11.20
11.20–11.50
Irantzu Epelde Cendoya
& Oroitz Jauregi
Nazabal:
The loss of aspiration in
northern Basque
Coffee Break
Matthias Eitelmann,
Margarita Borreguero
Kari E. Haugland &
Zuloaga & Álvaro
Dagmar Haumann,
Octavio de Toledo y
From englisc to whatHuerta:
ish: On the diachrony of
Diverging results in the
-ish-suffixation
grammaticalization of
Latin ANTEA
Meike Pentrel:
Identifying discourse
functions of adverbial
clauses in historical texts
11.50–12.20
Ander Egurtzegi:
Anticipatory distant
‘voicelessness’
assimilation in Basque
Luise Kempf:
Factors driving word
formation change
Melissa Murphy:
A Grammaticalization
Analysis of Romance
Subordinating
Conjunctions
Holly Lakey:
I'm afraid it's history: The
pragmaticalization of fear
clauses in English
12.20–12.50
Izaskun Etxeberria,
Iñaki Alegria & Larraitz
Uria:
Induction of Phonology
and Morphology for the
Normalization of
Historical Texts
Camiel Hamans:
The permeable
boundary between
composition and
derivation
Laura Brugè & Avel·lina
Suñer:
Una volta: Building up
temporal subordinators
Vittorio Ganfi & Viviana
Masia:
Towards a pragmatic
account of the particle
persino/perfino in Italian:
steps of a
grammaticalization
process
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12.50–13.20
Nathan W. Hill:
The pre-history of Old
Chinese
Eugenio R. Luján:
The syntax and
semantics of ([N+V]V)
verbal compounds in
Ancient Greek
Natalie Operstein:
Contact-Induced
Phonological Change in
Zaniza Zapotec
Véronica Orqueda:
Reflexive nominal
compounds in Vedic
15.00–15.30
Rebecca Grollemund,
Simon Branford &
Mark Pagel:
Automated
reconstruction of
Proto-Bantu using a
statistical model of
phoneme evolution
15.30–16.00
Dmitry Idiatov:
Tonal marking of
intransitive predications
in Manding-Mokole as a
result of language
contact
Andrés Enrique-Arias &
Malte Rosemeyer:
On the interaction of
structural and
contextual factors in
language change:
mapping variation in
the expression of
possession in medieval
Spanish
Luca Ciucci & Pier
Marco Bertinetto:
Reconstructing the
possessive inflection of
Proto-Zamuco
13.20–14.30
14.30–15.00
16.00-16.30
16.30–17.00
17.00–17.30
Michela Cennamo:
Paths of
grammaticalization in
Romance voice systems
Lunch
Joseba A. Lakarra &
Borja Ariztimuño:
Advances in the
(internal)
reconstruction of
ProtoBasque:
Typological
comparison and the
grammaticalization
theory
Gwendolyn Hyslop:
Kurtöp: a case study in
historical linguistics and
language contact in the
Eastern Himalayas
Akiko Nagano &
Masaharu Shimada:
The English derivational
prefix a- as a bound
form of the functional
category Pred
Christine
Watson:
Truth and hearsay in 17thcentury Russian news
translations
Kersti Börjars & Kristin
Bech:
Noun phrase internal
word order developments
in Early Germanic
Anton Antonov:
From cislocative to
inverse marker: A case
of secondary
grammaticalization?
Lauren Fonteyn:
“You win some, you lose
none”: On diachronic
verbalization and
nominalization in the
history of the English
gerund
Sunhee Yae:
A Parametric
Reconsideration of the
Desiderative Verb
Siphta in Korean:
Desiderative or
Epistemic?
Gianina Iordachioaia &
Martina Werner:
Aspectual change in
English -ing and German
-ung nominalizations
Peter Petré & Freek
Van de Velde:
Differences and
similarities between
individuals in ongoing
grammaticalisation
Meta Links:
Morphosyntactic
variation in the
expression of conditional
semantics in earlier
English
Coffee Break
Elizabeth Cowper,
David Willis & Tam
Bronwyn Bjorkman,
Blaxter:
Daniel Currie Hall,
Pragmatic
Rebecca Tollan & Neil
differentiation of
Banerjee:
negative markers in the
Illusions of transitive
early stages of
expletives in Middle
Jespersen’s cycle in
English
North Germanic
Alexandra Lenz &
Nikolaus Ritt:
The semantic
development of MANAGE
verbs in Germanic
languages and what it
implies for
Subjectification Theory
17.30–18.00
Danica MacDonald:
Korean -tul: A
comparative
development between
North and South
Korean
Francesco Ciconte:
Locatives and
existentials: From Latin
to early Italo-Romance
Vladimir Polomac
& Jelena Petkovic:
Negative concord in
Slavic: Continuity or
development?
Sonja Zeman:
Splitting pathways:
‘Subjectification’ and the
grammaticalization of
polyphonic structures
18.00–18.30
Marie-Lucie Tarpent:
Life and death of a
penutian north
american family: The
case of takelman
Simona Rodina
Georgescu:
‘World’ in Different
Languages: a Cognitive
Approach
Elsa Oréal:
The negative existential
cycle in Ancient
Egyptian
Amalia RodríguezSomolinos:
From visual perception to
inference in the French
evidential markers
apparemment, il m’est avis
que and il paraît que
18.30-19.20
PLENARY: NICHOLAS EVANS - CONTACT WITHOUT CONVERGENCE
5
9.00–9.50
9.50-10.20
10.20–10.50
10.50–11.20
11.20–11.50
Wednesday 29 July
PLENARY: SALI TAGLIAMONTE - ROOTS AND BRANCHES IN THE VARIATION OF ENGLISH
Room 1
Martin Maiden:
Tiramisù and the history
of the Romanian
‘neuter’
Room 2
Dorota Krajewska:
Head-initial
constructions in a headfinal language: The case
of Basque nominal
phrases
Room 3
Jóhanna Barðdal,
Carlee Arnett, Stephen
Mark Carey, Guus
Kroonen, Gard B.
Jenset & Adam Oberlin:
Dative Subjects in
Germanic: A
computational analysis
of lexical semantic verb
classes across time and
space
Room 4
Teresa Biberauer:
Preserving Germanic
syntax via exotic means:
V2 in modern Afrikaans
Claudia Fabrizio:
On Italian -ata action
nouns: A diachronic
account
Mark Harvey & Robert
Mailhammer:
Are all Australian
languages related?
Evidence from the NonPama-Nyungan nominal
class prefixes
Jadranka Gvozdanovic:
Early Indo-European
Dialectal Innovations
Reconsidered
Francisco J. FernándezRubiera & Christine
Meklenborg Salvesen:
Clitic placement and V2 two sides of the same
coin
Pierluigi Cuzzolin:
On the diachrony of
‘anomalous’ adverbs in
some Indo-European
languages
Coffee Break
Yang Zhou:
Henning Andersen:
On Mechanisms of
Definite marking in
Contact-Induced
Slavic and Baltic:
Syntactic Changes:
Common inheritance or
Evidence from
parallel innovations?
Mandarin Dialects in
Western China
Anna Theresa Wenzel:
From V3 to V2: Temporal
Clauses and their
Development on the Left
Periphery
11.50–12.20
John Charles Smith:
The Evolution of ItaloRomance SpatioPersonal Deictic
Adverbs:
Subjectification and
Refunctionalization
Letizia Cerqueglini:
Uses of MIN ('from') in
Traditional Negev
Arabic
Na’ama Pat-El & Tonya
Kim Dewey:
The Development of
Definite Articles:A
counter revolution
Lieven Danckaert:
The OV-VO alternation in
the history of Latin: New
corpus evidence?
12.20–12.50
Teresa María Rodríguez
Ramalle & Cristina
Matute:
Adverbs and the Left
Periphery of Non-Finite
Clauses in Old Spanish
Veronika Hegedus:
Syntactic change in the
licensing of pre-nominal
PPs in Hungarian
Julen Manterola:
The grammaticalization
of Basque articles in
adpositional phrases:
why Basque is not an
exception
I-Hsuan Chen:
The Development of the
OV Order as a
Grammatical Category in
Chinese
12.50–13.20
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal:
From ideophonic
adverb to verb:
Another instance of
self-organisation in
languages
Michelle Waldispühl:
The grammar of
medieval Scandinavian
personal names: Theory
and method.
Urd Vindenes:
The development of
Norwegian complex
demonstratives
Jasper De Kind:
Word order in Kikongo
(Bantu, H16): On the
origins of a pre-verbal
focus position and the
pragmatic neutralization
of SOV
13.20–14.30
Lunch
Excursions
6
9.00–9.50
9.50-10.20
10.20–10.50
10.50–11.20
11.20–11.50
Thursday 30 July
PLENARY: ALICE HARRIS - ORIGINS OF MULTIPLE EXPONENCE AND EXPLANATION IN LINGUISTICS
Room 1
Room 2
Room 3
Room 4
Nominal and Verbal
Jun Chen & Dawei Jin:
Hiroshi Yoshino:
Henrik Rosenkvist:
Syntax in Early IndoDiscourse prominence
The Converbial
The rise of negative
European:
and bleaching in
Expressions in the
concord in four varieties
For Romano Lazzeroni
Chinese Numeral Phrase
Dullay Languages (East
of Swedish
Cushitic)
Romano Lazzeroni:
Perfect and middle
revisited
Eystein Dahl: Remarks
on the development of
the Vedic subjunctive
Francesco Rovai:
Impersonal passives and
non-canonical
alignment in the Italic
languages
Simon Branford,
Rebecca Grollemund,
Samantha Field, JeanMarie Hombert and
Mark Pagel:
A dated phylogenetic
tree of 1200 NigerCongo languages
Krzysztof Stronski,
Joanna Tokaj & Saartje
Verbeke:
Diachrony and typology
of converbs in IndoAryan
Coffee Break
Ulrike Demske:
Matthias Gerner:
Towards Coherent
Diachronic word classes
Infinitival Patterns in
universals
the History of German
Tommi Alho, Ville
Leppänen & Aleksi
Mäkilähde:
Normativity and language
change
11.50–12.20
Uta Reinöhl:
The Indo-Aryan
"alignment change"
revisited
12.20–12.50
Leonid Kulikov:
Many faces of the early
Indo-European
causative: Evidence
from Vedic and beyond
12.50–13.20
Bridget Drinka:
Alignment, Diathesis
and Aspect in Early
Indo-European
Yana Chankova:
Generating VfinIO(Dat)-DO(Acc)-Vnonfin Orders in Old English
and Old Icelandic
Natalia Stoynova:
Location, Goal and Path:
The «Locative» case in
Nanai and beyond
David Fertig:
Exceptional past and
participle forms of jpresent weak verbs in
West Germanic: A
reassessment of the
Old High German
evidence
Jaap van Marle:
On the ‘internalization’
of clitics
Andrea Ceolin, Cristina
Guardiano, Emilia
Monica, Giuseppe
Longobardi, Dimitris
Michelioudakis:
Greek and Romance in
Southern Italy: a syntactic
phylogeny
Larisa Leisiö:
Locative cases in
Northern Samoyedic
languages. A localistic
view
Richard Zimmermann:
Chain shifts in Syntax:
On the replacement of
th- with wh-elements in
Middle English
Sara Gómez Seibane:
Exploring the Diachrony
of Direct Object Clitic
Placement in Spanish
periphrastic
constructions
Giuseppina Silvestri:
Genitives and
(pseudo-)partitives in the
history of Romance:
a parametric account for
cross-linguistic evidence
13.20–14.30
14.30–15.00
15.00–15.30
Lukasz Jedrzejowski &
Katrin Goldschmidt:
On the development of
the infinitival marker zu
'to' in the history of
German. A corpusbased analysis
Elena Smirnova:
Finite and non-finite
complementation in
German: Competition
or co-evolution
Louise Sylvester, Richard
Ingham & Imogen
Marcus:
The penetration of French
into four occupational
domains in medieval
England
Romain Garnier
& Benoît Sagot:
Could Greek and Italic
share a same IndoEuropean substratum?
Theodore Markopoulos:
From Epistemic to
Deontic? The curious
incident of the Greek verb
endechetai
Ana Guilherme & Víctor
Lara:
How polite is você
('you')?
Alexander Bergs:
It’s all Greek to me?
Tracking changes in
micro-constructions
Luzius Thöny:
Waves in computerassisted simulations of
linguistic diffusion
John Haviland:
Zinacantec Family
Homesign
Lunch
7
15.30–16.00
Michael Daniel:
Location vs. Goal vs.
Source: Bipartite and
tripartite systems in
East Caucasian
languages
Julia Krasselt:
Verb Cluster
Serialization in Early
New High German:
Evidence from Corpus
Analyses
Andrej Sideltsev &
Maria Molina:
Enclitic -ma "but" in
Hittite: developing
extraordinary syntactic
behaviour
Edit Doron & Geoffrey
Khan:
Grammaticalization paths:
the case of Greenberg’s
cycle
16.00-16.30
Gilles Authier:
Towards a history of
case and location
markers in East
Caucasian
Luisa Steinhäuser:
On the Position of
Adverbial Clauses in
Early New High
German: A
Multifactorial Analysis
Elnora ten Wolde:
The origins of the ofapposition and related
of-binominal
constructions
Annemarie van Dooren:
Modal complements
in older stages of English
16.30-17.00
Annemarie Verkerk:
A phylogenetic
comparative
investigation of sourcegoal symmetries in IndoEuropean
Vit Bubenik:
On the Role of
Auxiliation in the
Implementation of
Temporal and
Aspectual Contrasts in
the History of Semitic
Languages
Rahel Beyer:
Language
standardization,
language practice and
multilingualism: the
case of German in
Luxembourg in the 19th
century
Gertjan Postma:
Dark Matter in Language
– systematic catalexis in
natural language
17.00-17.30
17.30-18.10
18.10-19.20
Coffee Break
PLENARY: MARCO MANCINI (TBA)
Business Meeting
9.00–9.50
Friday 31 August
PLENARY: ASHWINI DEO - FORMAL SEMANTICS/PRAGMATICS AND GRAMMATICALIZATION PATHS
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Workshops
18.30-19.20
Room 1
Diachronic
morphophonology:
lexical
accent
systems
Room 2
Diachronic
syntax and
(modern)
parametric
theory
Room 3
The
diachrony
of valence:
changes in
argument
structure
Room 4
The
grammatic
alization of
evidential
and
epistemic
markers
Room 5
Habituality
and
genericity
in flux
Room 6
Non-cladistic
approaches
to language
genealogy
Room 7
Patterns
and
models of
semantic
change
Room 8
Space in
diachrony:
asymmetries in
the space
domain and
their
developments
PLENARY: MICHAEL DUNN - QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS: AN EMERGING SYNTHESIS