The 10th Diachronic Generative Syntax

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Thursday, August 7
9:00Opening Remarks
9:20-10 Victor Acedo Matellán (University of Barcelona) & Jaume Mateu (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
The path from satellite-framed Indo-European to verb-framed Romance
10-10:20Coffee break
10:20-11Edith Aldridge (University of Washington)
ZHI and ZHE - A note on the historical development of Chinese relative clauses
11-11:40Kyongjoon Kwon (Harvard University)
The emergence of the nominative object construction in the Circum Baltic areas
11:40-2:00Lunch
2:00-3:00 Ans van Kemenade (Radboud University Nijmegen)
The interaction of syntax and information structure in Old and Middle English
3-3:40 Paola Crisma (University of Trieste / UCLA)
Pursuing an old “will-o’-the-wisp”: The nature of Old English se
3:40-4:00Coffee break
4-4:40 Thomas McFadden (University of Stuttgart)
Overt subjects of infinitives and for-to in the history of English
4:40-5:20Caitlin Light & Joel C. Wallenberg (University of Pennsylvania)
The loss of Quantifier Movement and OV in English: An illusory connection
5:20-6:00 Remus Gergel (University of Tübingen)
From 'sooner' to 'rather' up the LF of comparison
Friday, August 8
9-10:00 Katrin Axel (Saarland University)
The Janus-Faced Syntax of Old High German: Indo-European Legacy — Beginnings of Verb-Second
10-10:40 Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge)
Continuity and change in Afrikaans negation: Facts and implications
10:40-11Coffee break
11-11:40Joel C. Wallenberg (University of Pennsylvania)
Scrambling and phrase structure in Early and Modern Yiddish
11:40-12:20John Sundquist (Purdue University)
Structure and variation of relative clauses in the history of Norwegian
12:20-2:00Lunch
2:00-3:00 Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge)
Diachrony and Deficiency
3-3:40 Brian Agbayani & Chris Golston (California State University, Fresno)
PF Movement in Latin
3:40-4 Coffee break
4-4:40Nerea Madariaga (University of the Basque Country)
Change and continuity in the subcategorization of Indo-European middle-passive verbs
4:40-5:20Allison Kirk (Leiden University)
The absence of topicalization around an interrogative/relative in Koine Greek
5:30 Poster session
7:00 Dinner at Statler Hotel
Saturday, August 9
9:00-10:00Anthony Kroch (University of Pennsylvania)
V2 loss revisited: a quantitative comparison of English and French
10:00-10:40Glenda Newton (University of Cambridge)
Motivating the loss of V-to-C movement in Old Irish
10:40-11:00Coffee break
11-11:40Sonia Cyrino (University of Cambridge)
The loss of clitic climbing in Brazilian Portuguese revisited
11:40-12:20Hakyung Jung (Harvard University)
Recapturing the development process of the possessive perfect: The be-perfect in North Russian
12:20-2:00Lunch
2:00-3:00Mark Hale (Concordia University)
Wackernagel's so-called Law
3:20-4:00Chris Reintges (Paris Diderot University)
Increasing morphological complexity
4:00-4:40Theresa Biberauer, Glenda Newton (University of Cambridge) & Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle University)
Defining diachronic pathways: The Final-Over-Final Constraint