Tuesday, August 06 morning

chair 9.00-9.30 Auditorium 2 Tolli Eythorsson Ans van Kemenade Language contact effects on syntax and pragmatics: a case study from early English Undervisningsrom 1 Bridget Drinka Lieven Danckaert From Latin to Romance, discontinuities in passive BE-periphrases Undervisningsrom 2 Sverre S. Johnsen Anna-Marleen Pessara Assimilation vs. Boundary Marking in German un-Derivatives: A Diachronic Perspective Undervisningsrom 3 Susan Pintzuk Theodore Markopoulos Contact-induced grammaticalization and the sociolinguistics of contact Grupperom 4 Mari Hertzenberg Natalia Mull Retrieval and evaluation on the basis of bilingual historical corpora in reference to the translation of Latin participle constructions in Old High German texts Silvia Luraghi and Eleonora Sausa Two ways to conceptualize emotions: competing constructions in Ancient Greek Rebecca Grollemund, Simon Branford, Andrew Meade and Mark Pagel New Bantu language tree derived from statistical model of phoneme evolution Grupperom 7 Dag Haug Frans Plank Time for change

9.30-10.00

Erwin Komen Diachronic text charting

Nigel Vincent The diachrony of complex predicates: causatives in Romance

Camiel Hamans From mono- to disyllabic templates. A study of a recent language change

Jac Conradie Afrikaans between English and Dutch

Natalie Operstein The Problem of Language Transmission in Genetic Linguistics and Language Classification Keisuke Sanada On the Rise of Subjective Obligation Usage of English Must: A Blended Usage Hypothesis

10.00-10.30

Joanna Nykiel Grammatical variation as seen in ellipsis

Sam Wolfe Medieval Sardinian: New Evidence for Syntactic Change from Latin to Romance

Elan Dresher Contrastive Vowel Features in West Germanic and Old English

Jennifer Hendriks Stability of idiolects in unstable times: life stages and lifespan changes of immigrants in the Early Modern Dutch urban context Kristin Bech Roland Mittmann From the digitized glossary to the automatically pre-annotated text: Pre-processing the grammatical data for the Old German reference corpus

10.30-11.00 chair 11.00-11.30

Dagmar Haumann Kari Kinn Null arguments in Old Norwegian in an early Germanic perspective

Kristine Eide Gabriela Alboiu and Virginia Hill Root Clauses with Gerund Verbs

11.30-12.00

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Ulla Stroh-Wollin Virginia Hill The spread Nikolaus Ritt Using corStrong and weak ad- of subjunctive clauses: a pus data for comparing jectives in definite noun Romanian perspective actual histories to potenphrases in Old Swedish tial alternatives PLENARY IN AUDITORIUM 1: Kersti Brjars Modelling linguistic change: grammaticalisation and persistence LUNCH

COFFEE BREAK Hans-Olav Enger David Fertig Analogy, Plain and Simple: The Development of Exceptions to Sievers' Law in Gothic and Umlaut Alternations in the Old Norse Short-Stem Class-1 Weak Verbs Gunter Schaarschmidt A Lower Sorbian sound change that got derailed

Jan Terje Faarlund Michael Pleyer and Stefan Hartmann The Historical, Biological, and Developmental Dynamics of Language: Converging Perspectives on Language Evolution and Change Tore Janson Protolanguage or protolanguages?

Tuesday, August 06 afternoon

chair 14.00-14.30 Auditorium 2 Hanne Eckhoff Cynthia Allen Old English Possessed Body Parts in Contact Undervisningsrom 1 Henning Andersen Christine Watson The pluperfect in 17thcentury translations from Polish into Russian Undervisningsrom 2 Allison Wetterlin Remco Knooihuizen Contact, shift and vowel length in Shetland Norn Undervisningsrom 3 Mara Jos Lpez-Couso Andrs Enrique-Arias The expression of possession in medieval Spanish or how a parallel corpus can bring new insights into the study of complex variable phenomena Evie Couss Lexical expansion in the have and be perfect in Dutch. A diachronic collostructional analysis Kerri Russell and Peter Sells The syntax of mood constructions in Old Japanese: A corpus based study Grupperom 4 Ulrike Demske Michela Cennamo Anticausativization between Late Latin and early Italo-Romance:the semantics of predicates and the syntax of voice Grupperom 7 Beln Mndez-Naya Jadranka Gvozdanovic Evaluating alleged typological changes which took place before the earliest written documents

14.30-15.00

John Lowe Partial (de)grammaticalization and its consequences: the English possessive

Roland Meyer Productivity in syntactic change: Polish and Czech impersonals

15.00-15.30

Andre Zampaulo When history repeats itself: The evolution of the palatal lateral consonant in Spanish and Portuguese Assumpci Rost How can variation lead to phonological change. The case of "yesmo" in Spanish COFFEE BREAK Gjertrud Stenbrenden Michela Cresci Phonetic Factors in Camuno *nloss and *m-maintenance in word-final syllables

Naiditch Larissa Quotative modality in Early New High German. Evidence from texts of the 16th century

Thomas Smitherman On the Methodology of Argument Structure Reconstruction Ana Lusa Costa, Clara Pinto, Fernanda Pratas, Gael Vaamonde and Rita Marquilhas Philological accuracy and IT resources

15.30-16.00 chair 16.00-16.30

16.30-17.00

Ulla Stroh-Wollin Kristin Bech and Christine Meklenborg Salvesen 'Superficial typology': the so-called 'verb-second constraint' in Old English and Old French Christine Meklenborg Salvesen and George Walkden Diagnosing embedded V2 in Old French and Old English

Nikolas Gisborne Jhannes Jnsson and Brynhildur Stefnsdttir Moving out of Pps in the history of Icelandic

Kirsten Kragh Kristin Killie The grammaticalization of the English progressive: cross-linguistic perspectives

David Willis The grammaticalization of a new negative modal and the spread of negative concord in Welsh

Rosangela Lai A multidisciplinary approach to diachronic variation in Sardinian - The case of stop-plus-liquid sequences

Mariko Goto Pickbourn (1789) and the Aspectual Restriction on the Progressive

Michela Cennamo Hanne Martine Eckhoff, Tore Nesset and Laura Janda Being and becoming in Old Church Slavonic: Grammatical and constructional profiles of byti Pavel Grashchenkov Null subjects and agreement in the history of Russian

Eirik Welo Christina Skelton A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Ancient Greek Dialects

Robert Ratcliffe Quantifying linguistic diversity and correlating it with diachrony: Arabic as a test case

Wednesday, August 07 morning

chair 9.00-9.30 Auditorium 2 Ans van Kemenade Richard Zimmermann The development of subject positions in Old English Kristian Andersen Rusten Empty referential subjects in Old English prose and poetry Undervisningsrom 1 Hans Petter Helland Brigitte L.M Bauer Brace Constructions in Late Latin and Old French Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Lene Schsler Regrammation and paradigmatization. Reanalyses of the deictic relative construction with progressive function in French Sandrine Tailleur WhInterrogatives in Laurentien French: Extensive Variation, Diglossic Situation Undervisningsrom 2 Jan Terje Faarlund Hyung-Soo Kim Emphatic reduplication in Turkish: The multiple origins of linking consonant Patrizia Noel A corpuslinguistic approach to serialisation changes in the Wackernagel chain Undervisningsrom 3 shild Nss Guro Flgstad and Ingrid Falkum Diachrony and procedural meaning: The case of the Rioplatense preterit Katerina Somers Analogy and innovative agreement in the history of German Grupperom 4 Hans-Olav Enger Francesco Gardani Behind the scenes of inflectiona 2000-year timeline of evolution Yolanda RiveraCastillo The Emergence of Nasal Vowels in Haitian Creole and Saramaccan Grupperom 7 Karen Dakin

9.30-10.00

Marie-Lucie Tarpent The Penutian phylum and the comparative method

10.00-10.30

Nynke de Haas The Northern Subject Rule in Northern Middle English: morphosyntactic conditions on verbal inflection beyond subject type and adjacency Kristine Eide Alejandra GonzalezPerez The evolution of the pronoun 'le' and the origins of `lesmo' in Spanish: A diachronic study Noriko Matsumoto The Ongoing Historical Developments of the ComeV and the Go-V Sequences in English

Fumihito Arai Variationist Analysis of Phonetic Reduction in the Grammaticalized Motion Verb in Japanese

Alana Johns Eroding Ergativity: Revealing Structure?

Sarah Roberts The early development of Hawai'i Creole English: A reassessment

Daniel Valle and Adam Tallman Expanding the basis for the genetic classification of Panoan languages

10.30-11.00 chair 11.00-11.30

Dag Haug Synnve Myking Evidence for a Scrambling Position in Old and Middle French

COFFEE BREAK Eirik Welo Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead The intrusive nasal in Ved. pmn, svdyn etc.: sound law or analogy?

11.30-12.00

Miriam Bouzouita Decomposing the Old Spanish Left-Periphery Using a Parallel Corpus

Chundra Cathcart Rates of Irregular Change: Phonological Reduction and Grammatical Convergence in Iranian

Hubert Cuyckens Stefan Hartmann Constructional Change at the Interface of Cognition, Culture, and Language Use: A Diachronic Corpus Study of German Nominalization Patterns Johannes Reinhart The History of Predicatives in the Slavic Languages

Kristin Bech Rachel Hendery Detecting diachronic signal obscured by synchronic noise

Hanne Eckhoff Katja Hannss Traces of Pukina: Reconstructing Pukina on the basis of Kallawaya

Livio Gaeta, Claudio Iacobini, Davide Ricca, Marco Angster, Aurelio De Rosa and Giovanna Schirato MIDIA: A balanced diachronic corpus of Italian

Tadasu Hattori From Quantity to Height: Diachronic Change in the Preferences of Basic Scalar Adjectives for Nouns Denoting a Gradable Property in Japanese

12.00-13.00 13.00-14.00

PLENARY IN AUDITORIUM 1: Juliette Blevins Advances in Proto-Basque Reconstruction (joint work with Ander Egurtzegi) LUNCH

Thursday, August 08 morning

chair 9.00-9.30 Auditorium 2 Ferdinand von Mengden Nikolas Gisborne and Robert Truswell The origins of clause-medial wh-relatives in Middle English Undervisningsrom 1 Nikolaus Ritt Magnus Breder Birkenes Plural allomorphy in German dialects: the case of subtraction Undervisningsrom 2 Jan Terje Faarlund Nathan Hill Relative chronology of Burmese sound changes Undervisningsrom 3 Grupperom 4 Livio Gaeta Jan Nuyts and Karolien Janssens Parentheticals revisited Grupperom 7 Tore Janson Birgit Ricquier, GillesMaurice de Schryver, Jasper De Kind and Koen Bostoen A Diachronic Corpus for African Languages: The Exceptional Case of Kikongo Maud Devos and GillesMaurice de Schryver From 'habitually going' to 'maybe': grammaticalization and lexicalization of an epistemic sentence adverb in Swahili Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Rebecca Grollemund, Jasper De Kind and Koen Bostoen Language Dynamics in the Lower Congo region of Central-Africa: A Phylogenetic Approach Eirik Welo Alexandre Franois and Siva Kalyan Subgrouping without trees: A glottometric study of the northern Vanuatu linkage Louise Esher The rise and fall of functional coherence in autonomous morphology

9.30-10.00

Peter Petre Chance, fortune, or was it something else that happened? Syntactic change and functional redistribution in happen-constructions Marion Elenbaas The diachrony of light verbs in English and Dutch

10.00-10.30

Elzbieta Adamczyk and Arjen P. Versloot A multivariate analysis of morphological variation in plural inflection in North Sea Germanic languages Margot Kraaikamp Variation in pronominal gender agreement: semantic versus lexical gender in the history of Dutch

Gjertrud Flermoen Stenbrenden The development of early Middle English : spelling evidence

Karolien Janssens and Jan Nuyts Subjectivity in the Dutch mental state predicates

Henning Andersen Slavic and the birth of Standard Average European

Ulyana Senyuk Interaction between Discourse Structure and Clause Combining: Evidence from a Corpus Study in Early New High German

10.30-11.00 chair 11.00-11.30

Nigel Vincent Xavier Bach and Louise Esher On the paradigmatic status of infinitives in French and Occitan

11.30-12.00

12.00-13.00 13.00-14.00

Montserrat Batllori Sverre Stausland Matthew Juge Local Monica Gonzalez Pragand Assumpci Rost Johnsen Vowel reduc- analogy as a source of maticalization and synSyntactic and phonolotion in Old English suppletion in Catalan tactic distribution. About gical evidence in favour the historical evolution of of the grammaticalizathe Spanish epistemic adtion of Northern Catalan verb de verdad negative poc/poca PLENARY IN AUDITORIUM 1: Martin Maiden On the Rise of Genus Alternans. Evidence from Romance Languages LUNCH

Hans-Olav Enger Klaus-Michael Kpcke and David Zubin Schminke: Mechanisms of Gender Integration and Gender Change in German Mary Niepokuj Exploiting variation to sidestep phonological problems

COFFEE BREAK Gjertrud Stenbrenden Stephen Laker On the Development of Contrastive Voice in English Fricatives:A Comparative Perspective

Dag Haug Timothy Vance and Mark Irwin A Rendaku Database for Old Japanese

Jan Nuyts Livio Gaeta Lat. ecce / It. ecco: the long road of a primary cognitive scaffolding

Thursday, August 08 afternoon

chair 14.00-14.30 Auditorium 2 Cynthia Allen Tsukusu Jinn It Historicity of the Cumbrian Dialect of English: Dialectizing Process through Language Contact Undervisningsrom 1 Lars Heltoft Gaberell Drachman, Nikolaos Lavidas and Angeliki MalikoutiDrachman Preverbs in the history of Greek:On predicting and changing idiomatic vs. compositional readings Rosa Mara Ortiz Ciscomani Constructional change and schematization: grammaticalization of an adverbial locution in Spanish Undervisningsrom 2 Johanna Nichols Allison Wetterlin and Aditi Lahiri The diachronic development of std & tonal accent in North Germanic Undervisningsrom 3 Walter Bisang Ulrike Heidemeier and Mihaela-Mariana Morcov From Romance to Proto-Romance: On reconstructing the conjugation of PRom.*a-'e-re to have and *' ss-e-re to be' Flavia Pompeo and Maria Carmela Benvenuto The syncretism of genitive and dative in Old Iranian Grupperom 4 Renata Szczepaniak Amalia Rodriguez Somolinos Il mest avis que: the evolution of a French evidential marker Grupperom 7 Harold Koch Don Daniels How to change but stay the same: Clause coalescence in Papua New Guinea

14.30-15.00

Anna Theresa Schmidt Clause Combining as Syntactic Coding of Temporal Relations in Old German

Andreas Baumann When uniform stress placement collapsed: the history of English word stress told by Evolutionary Game Theory Carlos Gussenhoven Revisiting the Central Franconian Tonogenesis

15.00-15.30

Julia Krasselt On word order in infinitival complement constructions in Early New High German

Kristine Gunn Eide A corpus based approach to information structure and syntax in the diachrony of Portuguese

Nikolaos Lavidas Reorganizing Voice in the Diachrony of Greek: The Role of Prescriptivism and Frequency in Language Change

Fumiko Yoshikawa Rhetorical Questions in Middle English Religious Prose: Their Illocutionary and Perlocutionary Acts, Textual Functions, and Related Genres Kim Schulte and Jos Luis Blas Arroyo The changing fate of modal periphrases in Spanish: a multivariate approach within diachronic corpus linguistics Tatiana Niktina Rachel Klippenstein The ungrammaticalization of rather: evidence against grammaticalization

Bethwyn Evans The development of grammatical asymmetries: unmarked 3PL objects in Oceanic languages

15.30-16.00 chair 16.00-16.30

Jac Conradie Jack Hoeksema The diachronic development of embedded yes/no in Dutch

16.30-17.00

Robert Cloutier Directional phrases in the history of Dutch

COFFEE BREAK Eirik Welo Stephen Parkinson, Aditi Lahiri and Ballari Ray-Chaudhuri Disparity in loanword adaptation: Portuguese and English loans in Bengali Eugen Hill The Prosodic Change Hypothesis from a Neogrammarian perspective

Tolli Eythorsson Toshiko Yamaguchi Person marking in the history of Japanese: The role of linguistic signs

Harold Koch shild Nss Generic agents in Reefs-Santa Cruz: Proto Oceanic *in revisited

Josep M. Fontana Looking Back to Move Forward: Adjectival Passives, Verbal Participles or just Deverbal Adjectives?

Reijirou Shibasaki From parenthetical to main clause: The case of the problem is in the history of American English

Malcolm Ross The ergative proclitics of Austronesian verbs: a reconstructional error?

17.00-18.00

BUSINESS MEETING

Friday, August 09 morning

chair 9.00-9.30 Auditorium 2 Peter Sells Bjarke Frellesvig, Stephen Wright Horn and Yuko Yanagida Differential object marking in Old Japanese: A corpus based study Undervisningsrom 1 Nikolaos Lavidas Eirik Welo Discontinuous constituents in Classical and Later Greek Undervisningsrom 2 Kristin Bech Veturlii skarsson Loanwords with the prefix be- in Icelandic: An investigation of 19th century private letters Undervisningsrom 3 Christine Meklenborg Salvesen Eva Skafte Jensen The Three Masculine Musketeers and the case morphology of Middle Danish Grupperom 4 David Willis Horst Simon How old is Standard Average European really? The history of German as a test case Grupperom 7 Leonid Kulikov William Chang, David Hall, Chundra Cathcart and Andrew Garrett Dating ProtoIndo-European. A revised computational analysis supports the steppe hypothesis Eugenio R. Lujn Ordinals and superlatives in Proto-Indo-European

9.30-10.00

Tomoko O. Hansen The Peculiar Dative Marking of Giver with Verbs of Receiving in Japanese Zixi You Syntax and semantics of split intransitivity in Japanese: A comparative study of Old Japanese and Modern Japanese

Joanne Stolk A diachronic account of dative by genitive replacement in papyrological Greek Thanasis Georgakopoulos The SOURCEGOAL asymmetry in Ancient Greek motion events

10.00-10.30

Jrg Fleischer The fate of lexical hybrids and their agreement forms in continental West Germanic Ryuichi Hotta The Diffusion of Diatones and Frequency Effects

Hans-Olav Enger Vocabular Clarity and Faroese conjugation

Carlos Garca Castillero Clause type, polarity and locative copula in Old Irish Sabine Haeusler Eurolinguistics from a diachronic perspective

Ivar Berg Stages in deflexion: The (case of) Norwegian dative (case)

Jhanna Bardal, Valgerur Bjarnadttir, Serena Danesi, Tonya Kim Dewey, Thrhallur Eythrsson, Chiara Fedriani and Thomas Smitherman The Story of Woe

10.30-11.00 chair 11.00-11.30

Silvia Luraghi John Charles Smith Plural Formation between Latin and Gallo-Romance: a case study in typological divergence

11.30-12.00

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Cynthia Johnson, Gergely Kntor On the Fuyo Osawa The gramRory Turnbull, Rachel Rise of Non-C Mint in maticalization of an inBurdin, David HowHungarian: A Corpus- flectional ending: tocroft and Tsz-Him Based Diachronic wards a formal theory of Tsui A methodology Approach grammaticalization for quantifying intuitionistic claims about morphological change PLENARY IN AUDITORIUM 1: Elly van Gelderen Generative Grammar and Historical Linguistics: LUNCH

Eirik Welo Mari Johanne Hertzenberg An accessibility theory approach to distinguishing definite articles and third person personal pronouns from demonstratives in Late Latin Rie Obe Kunna and Mughu: On the Use of Two Modal Verbs in Middle Danish

COFFEE BREAK Marit Westergaard Vilja Oja and SvenErik Soosaar A unique word for hell: Estonian prgu

Eva Skafte Jensen Oscar Strik The Evolution of Verbal Inflection in the Scandinavian Languages

Eugenio Lujn Johanna Nichols and Ruprecht von Waldenfels Better characters for better phylogenies: Slavic test cases

Leonid Kulikov Labile verbs and transitivity in Indo-European and beyond: A diachronic typological perspective

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Friday, August 09 afternoon

chair 14.00-14.30 Auditorium 2 Hans-Olav Enger Lameen Souag Personal pronouns as a source for demonstrative system expansion Undervisningsrom 1 Undervisningsrom 2 Christine Meklenborg Salvesen Harold Koch Patterns in the diffusion of nomenclature systems: Australian subsections in comparison to European days of the week Undervisningsrom 3 Jan Terje Faarlund Balthasar Bickel, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Taras Zakharko and Giorgio Iemmolo Are there diachronic universals of agreement systems? Grupperom 4 Kristin Bech Gurn rhallsdttir, sta Svavarsdttir, Eirkur Rgnvaldsson, Haraldur Bernharsson, Jhannes B. Sigtryggsson, Veturlii skarsson and Wim Vandenbussche Is it possible to reverse a linguistic change? Language change and standardization in 19thcentury Icelandic Renata Szczepaniak and Klaus-Michael Kpcke The historical development of sentence-internal capitalization of words in German Grupperom 7 Brigitte Bauer Bridget Drinka Roof Languages and the European Perfects

14.30-15.00

Dorota Krajewska Diachrony of relative clauses: postnominal and prenominal relatives in Basque

Thomas Dougherty Prehistoric Language Contact in Northeast Asia in a Single Lexical Item

Ivn Igartua Economy in grammar: the emergence of inverse marking patterns in inflectional systems

15.00-15.30

Na'ama Pat-El The Importance of Being a Process: the Aramaic definite article as a test case

15.30-16.00 16.00-17.00

Luisa Miceli and T. Manuel Padilla- Marit Westergaard Mark Ellison New Per- Moyano Genitive and Tams Eitler Late spectives on Language Subjects in Eastern Middle English word Change: L2 Transmis- Basque: a Case of order: The effect of insion and the Cognitive Change in Alignment formation structure and Basis for Contactsociolinguistic factors Induced Differentiation of Lexical Forms COFFEE BREAK PLENARY IN AUDITORIUM 1: Tecumseh Fitch Phylogeny of Language and the Glossogeny of Languages

Serena Danesi Between the historical languages and the reconstructed language:The verbal adjective + dative construction in Latin, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit and Avestan Tatiana Nikitina and Dag Haug Latin constructions with participles in a diachronic perspective