LINGUIST List 21.2644 Fri Jun 18 2010 Confs: Syntax, Historical Ling/UK Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Alastair Appleton, Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference: DiGSXII Message 1: Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference: DiGSXII Date: 18-Jun-2010 From: Alastair Appleton <awa21cam.ac.uk> Subject: Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference: DiGSXII E-mail this message to a friend Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference: DiGSXII Short Title: DiGSXII Date: 14-Jul-2010 - 16-Jul-2010 Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom Contact: Theresa Biberauer Contact Email: mtb23cam.ac.uk Meeting URL: http://www.cilr.cam.ac.uk/digs/ Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Syntax Meeting Description: DiGS (Diachronic Generative Syntax) is an established international conference which brings together researchers working on syntactic change within a generative framework. This year, 20 years since the first conference in the series, DiGS returns to its first host-country. DiGS XII will be held at Queens' College in Cambridge, England, from 14 to 16 July 2010. Invited Guest Speakers: - Roland Hinterhölzl (Humboldt Universität, Berlin) - Marit Julien (Lund) - Adam Ledgeway (Cambridge) - Paul Kiparsky (Stanford) - Katalin É. Kiss (Budapest, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) - Susan Pintzuk (York) - Ann Taylor (York) If you have any queries about the conference, please contact Theresa Biberauer on mtb23cam.ac.uk. Organising Committee: - Alastair Appleton - Theresa Biberauer - Elliott Lash - Ioanna Sitaridou - George Walkden Conference website: http://www.cilr.cam.ac.uk/digs/ We are pleased to announce that the programme for the 12th International Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference (DiGS XII), to be held in Queens' College, Cambridge, UK, from 14-16 July, has now been finalised. The programme is given below, and can also be found on our website at: http://www.cilr.cam.ac.uk/digs/programme.shtml Registration is now open, and you'll be eligible for early registration if we receive both your registration form and payment by 28th June. Again, full details are given on our website (http://www.cilr.cam.ac.uk/digs/registration.shtml), along with practical information, including advice on how to get to Cambridge. If you have any queries, please e-mail digscilr.cam.ac.uk We hope that you will be able to join us and we look forward to seeing you in Cambridge! DiGS XII Programme: Wednesday 14 July 8:00-8:45 Registration/Coffee 8:45-9:00 Welcome 9:00-10:00 Invited Speaker Marit Julien (Lund) - On Negation, Tense and Participles in Finnic and Sámi 10:00-10:30 Coffee 10:30-11:10 Edith Aldridge (University of Washington) - Cliticization as an Intermediate Stage in the Loss of Movement 11:10-11:50 Krzysztof Migdalski (University of Wroclaw) - On the Loss of Tense and Verb-Adjacent Clitics in Slavic 11:50-12:30 Sonia Cyrino (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) - On the Loss of Verb-movement in Brazilian Portuguese 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-14:40 Joel Wallenberg (University of Iceland) - What Doesn't Change, Doesn't Change: Antisymmetry and Heavy NP Shift across Germanic 14:40-15:20 George Walkden (University of Cambridge) - Verb-third in Early West Germanic: a Comparative Perspective 15:20-16:00 Charlotte Galves (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) & Maria Clara Paixão de Sousa (University of São Paulo) - The Loss of V2 in the History of Portuguese: Subject Position, Clitic Placement and Prosody 16:00-16:30 Coffee 16:30-17:10 Edith Kádár (University Babes-Bolyai) & Márta Peredy (RIL HAS) -Discourse Orientedness and the Lack of Aspect - the Role of Verbal Particles in Hungarian 17:10-18:10 Invited Speaker Roland Hinterhölzl (HU-Berlin/Università di Venezia) - The Development of IPP-infinitives: Implications for the Syntax-morphology Interface Thursday 15 July 9:00-10:00 Invited Speakers Ann Taylor (York) & Susan Pintzuk (York University) - VO Order, Clause Type and Information Status in Old English 10:00-10:30 Coffee 10:30-11:10 Joan Maling (Brandeis) & Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir (University of Iceland) - From Passive to Active: Stages in the Icelandic ''New Construction'' 11:10-11:50 Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Iceland) - The Emergence of Independent Accusative 11:50-12:30 Dimitris Michelioudakis (University of Cambridge) - The Evolution of Inherent Case in Greek 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-14:40 Chris Reintges (CNRS & University Paris 7) - Complexity Growth and how Syntax drives Morphological Change 14:40-15:20 Eric Fuss (Universität Frankfurt) & Carola Trips (Universität Mannheim) - The Northern Subject Rule: a Synchronic Puzzle with a Diachronic Solution 15:20-16:00 Anne Breitbarth (Ghent University) - Indefinites, Negation and Jespersen's Cycle in the History of Low German 16:00-16:30 Coffee 16:30-17:10 Ana Maria Martins (University of Lisbon) - Negation and NPI Composition Inside DP 17:10-18:10 Invited Speaker Katalin E. Kiss (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) - A Negative Cycle in 12-15th Century Hungarian Friday 16 July 9:00-10:00 Invited Speaker Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge) - Complementation and Complementizers in the Dialects of the Salento 10:00-10:30 Coffee 10:30-11:10 Lieven Danckaert (Ghent University) - Left Edge Fronting in Latin Embedded Clauses 11:10-11:50 Caitlin Light (University of Pennsylvania) - The Origins of Expletive there in West Germanic 11:50-12:30 Virginia Hill (University of New Brunswick - Saint John) - ''Dummy'' pe in Romanian: a Historical Perspective 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-14:40 William Haddican, Daniel Ezra Johnson & Eytan Zweig (York University) - Change in the Event Semantics of ''be like'' Quotatives 14:40-15:20 Rosmin Mathew (CASTL, University of Tromsø) - Reanalysis of Quotativals: A Minimalist Exploration 15:00-16:00 Veronika Hegedus (Research Institute for Linguistics, HAS) - The Grammaticalization of Postpositions in Old Hungarian 16:00-16:30 Coffee 16:30-17:10 John Whitman (Cornell) & Yuko Yanagida (University of Tsukuba) - The Formal Syntax of Degrammaticalization 17:10-18:10 Invited Speaker Paul Kiparsky (Stanford) - The Paradox of Simplification in OT Alternates: Sarah Courtney (Cornell) - Reconstructing the Brythonic Left-Periphery: Medieval Evidence Montserrat Batllori (Universitat de Girona) & Maria-Luïsa Hernanz (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) - Sentential Focus and Polarity: Asymmetries between Spanish and Catalan Ailis Cournane (University of Toronto) - The Development of Subject Agreement: An Analysis of Reanalysis Posters: Heather Burnett (UCLA) - VP Shells and the Evolution of Secondary Predication in the History of French Ed Cormany (Cornell) - Diachronic Changes in Friulano Subject Clitics Elly van Gelderen (Arizona State University) & Terje Lohndal (University of Maryland) - Adjectives from Old Norse to Modern Norwegian Pavel Grashchenkov - On the Discreteness of Grammar (Change): Turkic Serial Verbs Aroldo Andrade (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) - Syntactic Change and Markedness: the Case of Clitic Climbing in the History of Portuguese Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 18-Jun-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.