LINGUIST List 12.157

Tue Jan 23 2001

Confs: Structural Typology and Syntactic Change

Editor for this issue: Lydia Grebenyova <lydialinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Andrew Simpson, Structural Typology and Syntactic Change

The Leverhulme SOAS/KCL Workshop on Structural Typology and Syntactic
Change

Friday, January 26th, SOAS, London.
There is no charge for attendance.
Morning session: Room UG1, 30 Russell Square, London WC1H OXG.
Afternoon session: Room 116, SOAS, Russell Square, London WC1H OXG.

9.10 Ian Roberts. Cambridge.
A Typology of Parametric Change?

10.00 Nigel Vincent . Manchester.
The Evolution of Romance Clitics: an Optimality Theory Approach

11.20 Ruth Kempson and Lutz Marten. KCL, SOAS, London
Language Change and the Dynamics of Tree Growth

12.10 Caroline Heycock and Theodora Alexopoulou, Edinburgh
Quantifier Scope vs Functional Binding in Relative Clauses

2.00. Andrew Simpson. SOAS, London.
Fossilised Movement.

2.50 Susan Pintzuk. York.
Deriving Object-Verb Order in Old English

4.00 Jamal Ouhalla QMW, London
Grammaticalisation in Berber

4.50 John Whitman and Waltraud Paul Cornell and EHESS Paris
Diachronic Reanalysis in the Minimalist Program


ALL WELCOME