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students.wisc.edu>GLAC2: The Second Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference Society for Germanic Philology PROGRAM Friday, April 26 8:30-10:30 Historical Phonology I Page: On Verner's Law Davis, Iverson, Salmons: Peripherality in the spread of the OHG Consonant Sh= ift Buccini: Consonantal palatalization in the southern Dutch dialects and its relationship to the development of umlaut Syntax Ekerot: Outline of a typology of adverbial constructions Kappus: More evidence for the DP analysis from Swabian Philology Kallinger: The Philologist's Task: To provide evidence for the linguist, but what evidence? An application to Das Buch von Troja II Woods: The New Philology and Germanic Linguistics: Where do they connect? Israel: Nibelungen des Nordens 11-12:30: K. J. Mattheier: Soziolinguistik der II. Lautverschiebung 2-4 Accentual-Metrical Riad: The origin of the Scandinavian tone accent Holtman & Zonneveld: A linguistic analysis of poetic rhyme Golston & Riad: The meter of Beowulf Syntax =46agan: Tests for unaccusativity revisited Abraham: Unaccusativity, split ergativity, & Burzio's generalization revisit= ed Van Gelderen: The self in reflexives Sociolinguistics I Zimmermann: The art of academic praise: A matter of politeness Listen: Polite German SIE and abstractions of address in Late Middle Low Ge= rman Dailey-O'Cain: Die Bayern klingen alle wie Kabarettisten 4:30-5:50 Rhotics Kuipers: Vocalic /r/ in Old English break and backing of [E] Humbert: Stable variation in the behavior of -r- in Dutch dialects Gender assignment Steinmetz: The Great Gender Shift and the fate of neuter nouns Kilarski: Gender assignment of English loans in Scandinavian 5:50: RECEPTION, Max Kade Institute Saturday, April 27 8:30-10:30 Language Contact Southern: Convergence vs. normativism: contact-induced change, standard languages & the Drang nach Normen Evans: Bodleian MS Laud 626 as early evidence of grammatical borrowing in Middle English Roberge: Remarks on an adjectival peculiarity of Afrikaans Cognitive Linguistics Diessel: German wenn: A study in cognitive semantics Shannon: Hawkins' Performance Theory and ordering in Dutch & German Hens: The semantics of the pluperfect in German Yiddish King: Word boundary and drift in Yiddish Jacobs: Phonemic and phonetic vowel length in Yiddish dialects Manaster-Ramer: Yiddish plural origins 11-12:30 Ellen F. Prince: The Non-unitary Nature of Yiddish Subject-Prodrop 2-4 Hist. Verb Morphology Niepokuj: Zero-grade vocalism in TVT- roots in Germanic and other IE languages: A treatment in Optimality Theory Varley: The longer present optatives in OHG =46ertig: Changes in the stem vowels of the German modal verbs English Historical Syntax Blockley: Subordination and word order in OE verse made explicit Iyeiri: Negative contraction in ME verse and chronological conditions Crawford: The impersonal construction in OE and syntactic theory Sociolinguistics II Benndorf: German-American clubs: Maintenance efforts & reality Holsinger: Sociolinguistic variables in the speech of 19th century German students Lane: Understanding dialect history through sociodemographic history: Thyboron, Denmark 4:30-5:50 Computers Becker: Recasting Lautgesetze in computer code Mood & Aspect Arnett: Processual and statal passives in Old Saxon: wesan vs. werdan Mun: Referenzzeit und Temporale Perspektivzeit in Diskursanalyse des deutschen Perfekts Word Order Louden: Synchronic aspects of Pennsylvania German word order Eichinger: Distanz als Planungshilfe: Zur Funktion der Satzklammer im heutigen Deutschen 8:30-9:30 Robert Stockwell: Vocalization, length & diphthongs in Early Engl= ish Sunday, April 28 9-11:20 Consonantal Changes Stevens: On the bifurcation and repression theories Denton: Versch=E4rfung & gemination: Processes in complementary distribution =46ulk: Consonant gemination in OE and West Germanic The Syntax of NPs te Velde: Deriving conjoined NPs/DPs: Must the underlying structures be claused? 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