| November 10, Thursday |
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| 8:15-9:15 | Registration |
| 9:15-9:30 |
Opening remarks Katalin É. Kiss (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics) |
| Session 1, chair: Remus Gergel | |
| 9:30-10:30 |
Yesterday's syntax is
today's syntax? Multi-verb constructions featuring GO and COME in
the history of Hebrew Nora Boneh (invited speaker, Hebrew U) [slides] |
| 10:30-11:10 |
The diachronic development
of the Upper-German Perfekt Julia Braun (U Tübingen) [handout] |
| 11:10-11:30 | Coffee break |
| Session 2, chair: Cécile Meier | |
| 11:30-12:10 |
The subjectification of
the existential "there" Bozhidara Hristova (Saarland U / U Stuttgart) |
| 12:10-12:50 |
Situational semantics
of demonstratives and the definiteness cycle (online talk) Alexandra Simonenko (U Ghent) & Anne Carlier (U Sorbonne) [slides] |
| 12:50-14:00 | Lunch break |
| Session 3, chair: Julia Braun | |
| 14:00-14:40 |
How did the 'politeness
effect' develop in the case of two Hungarian adverbs, majd 'later'
and talán 'perhaps'? Viktória Virovec (U Debrecen) [slides] |
| 14:40-15:20 |
On the
grammaticalization of not-at-issue content. The case of mirative
‘um-zu'-clauses in German Łukasz Jędrzejowski (U Cologne) [slides] |
| 15:20-15:40 | Coffee break |
| Session 4, chair: Regine Eckardt | |
| 15:40-16:40 |
Developing a human
diachronic simulation paradigm Remus Gergel (invited speaker, Saarland U) [slides] |
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November 11, Friday |
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| Session 1, chair: Nora Boneh | |
| 9:30-10:30 |
Meaning interfaces in
language change: free choice, unconditionals and appositives Marco Degano (invited student speaker, U Amsterdam) [slides] |
| 10.30-11.10 |
Situational biases in
diachrony: how register distinctions emerge (online talk) Jordan Chark (ZAS) |
| 11.10-11.30 | Coffee break |
| Session 2, chair: Josh Phillips | |
| 11.30-12.10 |
From Old English to
Middle English: Universal Quantifiers Sigrid Beck (U Tübingen) [handout] |
| 12.10-12.50 |
Deverbal Adjectives and
Negatability Patterns Cécile Meier & Helmut Weiß (U Frankfurt) |
| 12:50-14:00 | Lunch break |
| Session 3, chair: Sigrid Beck | |
| 14:00-14:40 |
Diyari ‘marla’ : the
pathway from intensifier to aspectual NPI Josh Phillips, Jack Sullivan, Will Wegner & Claire Bowern (Yale U) |
| 14:40-15:20 |
The Dynamic
Standpoint on the Semantics of Localizers in Mandarin Chinese
(online talk) Chihjen Cheng (U Ottawa) |
| 15:20-15:40 | Coffee break |
| Session 4, chair: Marco Degano | |
| 15:40-16:40 |
Semantic Universals and
Language Change — How to become a determiner Regine Eckardt (invited speaker, U Konstanz) [slides] |
| 16:40-17:10 | Business meeting |
| 17:10-17:20 | Closing remarks |