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GENERAL SESSION PAPERS - ORAL PRESENTATIONS

AUTHOR NAMES TITLE

Omri Amiraz A diachronic explanation for cross-linguistic variation in the use of inverse-scope constructions

Cormac Anderson Place interactions in varieties of Irish

Iván Andrés-Alba Ancient Greek καρπός ‘wrist’ and ἀστράγαλος ‘ankle(bone)’ as botanic-based metaphors

Reili Argus and Victoria Kazakovskaya Acquisition of diminutives in typologically different languages: Evidence from Russian and Estonian

Peter Arkadiev Caritive morphology in Abaza: from derivation to inflection and back

Timofey Arkhangelskiy God knows what as an indefinite pronoun

Ignacio Arroyo Hernandez "Lo único es que" as a pragmatic marker in Spanish. From sentence to discourse.

Amalia Arvaniti Towards a post-diglossic sound system for Greek

Sandra Auderset, Adam Tallman and Carmen Hernández Martínez

Revisiting clitic phenomena in Mixtec

Peter Auer and Frans Hinskens Language variation as a one-dimensional vehicle of social meaning. Looking at Eckert’s ‘cline of interiority’ from two perspectives

Gilles Authier Phonological areas, contact zones and historical gender morphology in East Caucasian

Matthew Baerman, Jeremy Pasquereau and Helen Sims-Williams

Adaptive analogy in Word-and-Paradigm morphology: the case of Seri (isolate) verbs

Khaled Barkaoui A Longitudinal Study of Metadiscourse Use in Second Language Learners’ Writing

Ana Maria Barros Brito Transparent relative clauses as predicative free relatives: evidence from Portuguese

Carmelo Alessandro Basile Necessity modals on Singaporean blogs: a contrastive and comparative analysis

Rodolfo Basile Situative strategies in Finno-Ugric and Beyond

Elena Battaglia Constructionalization of discourse functions in the history of Italian: a corpus study of ‘infatti’

Andreas Baumann On the role of emotion in lexical reproduction

Kate Bellamy and Martha Mendoza Associated motion in Purepecha

Erica Biagetti From Standard Marker to Adaptor: the case of Vedic iva

Gabriela Bilbiie A non-elliptical analysis of polar verbless clauses

Adina Camelia Bleotu Denominal verbs and creativity: An experimental approach

Stavros Bompolas and Dimitra Melissaropoulou Accounting for the Asia Minor Greek dialectal variation: a comparative dialectometric approach

Charlotte Bourgoin, Karen Lahousse and Kristin Davidse

On cleft ellipsis: a syntactic and functional account of reduced c’est-clefts

Kasper Boye and Maria Messerschmidt Distinguishing lexical and grammatical adpositions

Anna Branets The role of Language Exposure in Mediated Receptive Multilingualism

Benjamin Brosig A distinct marker of completion and inadvertence within the tense-aspect-evidentiality-system of Khalkha Mongolian

Jorina Brysbaert and Karen Lahousse The influence of formality on the expression of contrast in French: A corpus analysis of contrastive adverbs and emphatic pronouns

Irina Burukina Reflexive pronouns as possessed DPs in Hill Mari

Marta Capano ˈkume a se ˈʧama ʧy tø muˈʤe? A case of pragmaticalization in Liguria, Italy.

Gerd Carling, Marc Tang, Silvia Luraghi, Sunny Pydugadu, Olof Lundgren and Filip Larsson

The lexical and typological trajectory of Indo-European gender evolution

Noelia Castro Chao Pathways from adverbial subordination to complementation: The case of English till and until

Michela Cennamo Lexico-aspectual constraints on split intransitivity and auxiliary selection in Italo-Romance: variation and change in synchrony and diachrony

Marina Chumakina and Ekaterina Lyutikova Unusual agreement targets and controller choice: the case of Khwarshi

Jac Conradie The refurbishment of the Afrikaans past participle

Sonia Cristofaro Diachronic pathways to constructional harmonies and what they mean for typological universals

Sandra Cronhamn Semantic Perspectives on Baniwa Classifiers

Sonja Dahlgren Contact ‘iotacism’

Andriy Danylenko Bessarabian Ukrainian: A New Linguistic Area in the Making?

Anna De Marco and Emanuela Paone The effect of explicit instruction on the use of discourse markers in Italian as L2

Stefano De Pascale and Dirk Pijpops Token-based distributional semantics for grammatical alternation research

Noemi De Pasquale and Antoine Guillaume Associated motion in Western Sicilian: a preliminary account

Isabeau De Smet and Laura Rosseel Does 'he dived' take longer than 'he dove'? An experimental inquiry into iconic patterns in verb morphology

Sydelle de Souza and Alina Villalva Root and word-based diminutives in European Portuguese

Stefan Dedio The diachrony of word-like domains in Welsh

Scott Delancey The Copula to Negative shift in Kiranti in Tibeto-Burman context: Tracing the onset of Jespersen’s Cycle

Anna Maria Di Sciullo Coordinate conjunction extended projection

Bridget Drinka The Sacral Stamp of Greek: Periphrastic Constructions in New Testament Translations of Latin, Gothic, and Old Church Slavonic

Julien Dufour Quality-sensitive stress as a language change process in the prehistory of the “Modern South Arabian” branch of the Semitic family

Kepa Erdozia and Noèlia Sanahuja The Facilitatory Role of L1 Syntax in the Initial Acquisition of L2 Syntax

Riku Erkkilä and Jaakko Helke Synchrony and diachrony in Ket incorporation

Sebastian Fedden, Matías Guzmán Naranjo and Greville Corbett

Typology meets data-mining: the German gender system

Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon Languages with more speakers tend to have shorter words, more phonemes per syllable, and more words per clause

Jesús Fernández-Domínguez English verb-to-noun conversion and its role in nominal compounding

Markku Filppula Celtic Englishes’ in the light of evidence from The Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English

Egbert Fortuin Unbounded repetition, habituality and aspect

Karlien Franco and Dirk Geeraerts What makes the clock tick? The effect of concept characteristics and sociocultural variation on lexical replacement rates

Michael Franjieh, Greville Corbett and Alexandra Grandison

Cognitive effects of possessive classifiers: visualising complex data with dendrograms

Jacopo Garzonio and Enrico Castro Unexpected orders in special cells: 1PL and 2PL forms in a Northern Venetan variety

Ulrich Geupel Affix Rivalry of Ancient Greek Abstract Nouns: A Matter of Domains?

Riccardo Ginevra Locative Alternation in Proto-Indo-European: a Lexical-Constructional Approach to Historical Semantics and Root Polysemy

Athanasia Gkouma, Maria Andria and Spyridoula Bella

Pragmatic competence in L2 Greek: A longitudinal study of Spanish and Catalan learners

Ager Gondra Testing the Interface Hypothesis: heritage speakers’ perception and production of Spanish subject position with unergative and unaccusative verbs

Karolina Grzech and Erika Sandman From egophoric to evidential and back again: Functional similarities of epistemic marking from the Tibetan Plateau and the Amazonian Foothills

Gustavo Guajardo The Transitivity Index: A continuous measure of Transitivity

Jadranka Gvozdanovic Subjective modality in western West and South Slavic: complex developments and theoretical implications

Martin Haspelmath Variable argument marking and the difference between general and particular linguistics

Anna Hatzidaki and Mikel Santesteban Emotional attractors in subject-verb number agreement

Elisabeth Heiszenberger and Elissa Pustka Orthography: Leading part or minor part? The emergence of liaison in French as a foreign language

Lars Hellan Norwegian Valence Dictionary (NorVal)

Tiit Hennoste, Külli Habicht, Helle Metslang, Külli Prillop, Kirsi Laanesoo, Liina Pärismaa, Elen Pärt, Andra Rumm, Andriela Rääbis and Carl Eric Simmul

I think, I hope, it seems: complement-taking predicates as discourse markers in different registers in Estonian

Borja Herce The diachrony of inflection clases: what can information-theoretic measures and quantitative approaches contribute to historical linguistics?

Annette Herkenrath A parallel text approach to impersonality in written academic Turkish and Kurmanji Kurdish

Alberto Hijazo-Gascon and Maria Andria Semantic contrasts in deictic motion between Modern Greek and Spanish

Helen Hint, Piia Taremaa, Maria Reile and Renate Pajusalu

Is referential choice affected by text type?

Sampsa Holopainen Assessing irregular and “sporadic” developments in the prehistory of Hungarian vocalism

Marianne Hundt and Eva Zehentner Competition in the history of English verbal argument structure: NPs vs PPs

Monica Irimia DOM co-occurrence restrictions in Romance: beyond clitic clusters

Aleksandra Jarosz Proto-Ryukyuan ‘rice’ words and the spread of Japonic into the Ryukyu islands

Dawei Jin Complex NP island effects are stronger in why-questions: An experimental study

Pavlina Kalm Semantics of Locative Instruments in English

Andra Kalnača and Ilze Lokmane The Latvian vocative – morphology and syntax interface

Anna Kampanarou Three types of existential constructions in Greek: their distribution and syntax.

Jessica Kantarovich Inverse marking as a type of object agreement: Evidence from Chukchi

Csilla Kász Cognate Accusative Noun Phrases in the Qur'an - A Contribution to the Discussion on Cognate Objects

Kultida Khammee and Seongha Rhee Small and cute? Small and bad?: Semantic network of diminutives in Thai and Korean

Anatoliy Khudoliy Metaphors as Persuasive Tools in D. Trump Public Discourse

Soung-U Kim Non-canonical egophoric marking in Jejuan

Seppo Kittilä The unspecified external evidence particle vissiin of Finnish

Ibtissem Knouzi and Noah Khan ESL Student-initiated questions: an interactional ethnography case study

Nikolas Koch, Antje Endesfelder Quick and Stefan Hartmann

Discourse priming and individual differences in first language acquisition. A traceback approach

Petr Kocharov Default meaning and root levelling of the history of the Armenian verb

Martin Kohlberger Building bridges between cartography and the documentation of endangered knowledge

Daria Konior and Andrey Sobolev Profiling of dialect speakers: an experimental study in South Slavia

Linda Konnerth How does clusivity disappear? A historical microtypology of South-Central Trans-Himalayan

Dominika Kovarikova Corpus Study of Grammatical Categories: the GrammatiCat Online Tool

Olga Krasnoukhova Typology of standard negation: Insights and lessons from South American languages

Andra Kütt and Reili Argus Acquisition of referentiality in elicited narratives of Estonian-speaking children

Natalia Kuznetsova, Irina Brodskaya and Elena Markus

Isochrony and “anti-isochrony” in the Soikkola Ingrian trisyllabic foot

Mary C. Lavissière and Laurent Fedi Unfreezing legal genres: maritime shipping agreements and diachronic variation

Oksana Lebedivna Change of Common Slavic O to I in Southwest Ukrainian: The Case of the Kryvorivnja Dialect

Natalia Levshina Bounded rationality and limited efficiency: From binary trade-offs to a causal network of Subject and Object cues

Chang Liu Two types of Presentational Amalgam Constructions in Mandarin Chinese

Clara Lombart Prosody, gesture and information structure in interaction: the case of contrastive focus in French

Ellison Luk Constructing conditionals in Australian languages: a typological study

Silvia Luraghi Beyond affectedness - Partitive objects and degrees of agenthood in Ancient Greek

Borana Lushaj The gradience of Middle Albanian vowel length contrasts

Marcia dos Santos Machado Vieira Support verb complex predicates in Portuguese varieties

Vasiliki Makri Borrowed nouns: Gender change in the diachrony of Heptanesian Greek?

Yael Maschler and Anna Inbar Causality and epistemic stance: A multimodal analysis of Hebrew ki ‘because’-clauses in talk-in-interaction

Florian Matter Irregular first person inflections in Cariban: converging factors for morphological (dis-)similarity

Simone Mattiola and Andrea Sansò A typology of denominal verb formation

Lidia Mazzitelli Genericity and habituality in Lakurumau

Giulia Mazzola From Distance to Immediacy: asyndetic complements in Classical and Present-day Spanish

Johanna Miecznikowski, Elena Battaglia and Christian Geddo

Addressee-centered evidential markers in talk-in-interaction. The case of Italian 'vedere'+'che' constructions

Liljana Mitkovska, Eleni Bužarovska and Nataša Stojanovska-Ilievska

Crosslinguistic influence in Second Language Acquisition: post-verbal subjects in L2 English

Janina Mołczanow, Beata Łukaszewicz and Anna Łukaszewicz

Duration adjustment mechanisms in Ukrainian: the case of pretonic lengthening

Lucia Molinu The athematic infinitives in old Sardinian

Zarina Molochieva and Zaira Khalilova Proper names in the Nakh-Daghestanian languages

Steven Moran, Nicholas Lester and Eitan Grossman

Inferring recent evolutionary changes in speech sounds

Ricardo Napoleão de Souza and Josefina Bittar Final Lengthening in Paraguayan Guarani: Phonological and Morphosyntactic Variables

Rexhina Ndoci In-group and out-group perceptions of a Greek L2 variety: The case of Albanian Greek

Dirk Noël Constructional attrition in a radically usage-based model of language (change)

Miina Norvik, Uldis Balodis, Valts Ernštreits, Gunta Kļava, Helle Metslang, Karl Pajusalu and Eva Saar

Typological convergence in the Central Baltic area

Maryam Nourzaei The emergence of definiteness Marking from Evaluative Morphology in Persian: Internal Variation and Diachronic Pathway

Jan Nuyts Explaining the re-autonomization process in the Dutch modals

Colleen O'Brien Argumenthood of non-focused elements in Philippine-type languages

Alejandra Ortiz, Sergio Ibañez Cerda and Armando Mora

Verbal diminutive morphology in the Colombian Spanish from the Andes

Tania Paciaroni Partitive constructions in Gascon: A Romance perspective

Manuel Padilla Cruz Ad hoc concepts and non-propositional meaning

Giada Palmieri and Renato Miguel Basso On the ambiguity of se-clauses and the role of natural reflexivity in Brazilian Portuguese

Mariagrazia Palumbo and Anna De Marco Metadiscoursive discourse markers in a corpus of Italian migrants in Munich

Panagiotis Panagopoulos, Maria Andria and George Mikros

Exploring the development of written syntactic complexity in L2 Greek: The case of Spanish and Catalan L1 learners

Anastasia Panova On independent pronouns in languages with pronominal affixes: Evidence from Abaza

Jeremy Pasquereau and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr Degree constructions in Seri

Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou, Lena Gialabouki, Angeliki Alvanoudi and Christos Ananiadis

From the recipients’ perspective: m/m(h)m and nods in Greek conversations

Laura Peiró-Márquez and Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano

Motion events in Spanish from a multimodal perspective: what gesture reveals about non easily encodable semantic components and its congruency

Yana Penkova Future anterior in Ruthenian as a key to understanding its evolution in East Slavic

Erika Petrocchi Prosody of Emotions. The relation between (prosodical) linguistic and affective functions of nonmanual components in Sign Language.

Jozefien Piersoul, Freek Van de Velde and Dirk Pijpops

How meaning change can cause form change: the origin and evolution of the Dutch psych verb alternation

Pekka Posio and Riie Heikkilä Variation and change in the expression and functions of the first-person singular in six European newspapers, from 1960 to 2010

Valentin Radulescu and Daniel Van Olmen Impersonalization in Romanian versus English

Maria Laura Restivo On the development of the particles formed with the Italian adverb 'pur(e)'

Eric Reuland Variation in Binding Patterns

Seongha Rhee Functional Competition and Complementation among Multiple Forms: The Case of Layered Korean

Datives

Nikolaus Ritt, Magdalena Schwarz, Theresa Matzinger, Andreas Baumann and Vanja Vukovic

Quantifying changes in gender bias in the Google Books Corpus

Raquel P. Romasanta Language contact and substrate language effect in Asian varieties of English

Kristian Roncero Back in the future: the unexpected fate of West Polesian de-obligative and de-volitive future grams

Laura Ros García Eventualities within the nominal domain: The case of 'no + event deverbal nominal' in Spanish

Malte Rosemeyer and Eitan Grossman Why don’t grammaticalization pathways always recur?

Corinne Rossari, Claudia Ricci, Linda Sanvido and Cyrielle Montrichard

Modality and argumentative patterns

Julian Andrej Rott and Ana Krajinović From formation to alternation: The case of the Nafsan psych domain

Fedor Rozhanskiy and Elena Markus The development of Votic-Ingrian convergent varieties: evidence from a chain rune

Cristina Ruiz-Alonso On definite article el: a spell-out of inherent case? Evidence from Spanish

Eloisa Ruppert, Freek Van de Velde and Hubert Cuyckens

The influence of demographic changes on the morphological and syntactic complexity of German

Vieri Samek-Lodovici Defining Contrast

Noèlia Sanahuja and Kepa Erdozia The Impact of Lexical Co-activation through Cognates on L2 Rule Learning

Eneile Saraiva and Marcia Machado Vieira Indeterminacy and impersonalization in Brazilian Portuguese discursive practices

Anju Saxena, Lars Borin and Bernard Comrie Himalayan linguistic prehistory in a new light

Marcel Schlechtweg and Holden Härtl The processing of scare quotes in English

Svenja Schmid and Laura González López On vocative positions in Spanish wh-interrogatives: new insights into the left periphery

Magdalena Schwarz, Theresa Matzinger and Nikolaus Ritt

Assessing the effect of shared language and other social group markers on trust

Ilja Seržant Typology of partitives

Olena Shcherbakova, Damián Blasi, Volker Gast, Russell Gray and Simon Greenhill

Evolution of case systems

Leon Shor, Anna Inbar, Yael Reshef and Einat Gonen

From deixis to vagueness: Hedging expressions in Modern Hebrew

Agnieszka Słoboda Borrowing, reanalysis and extension as mechanisms underlying syntactic changes of structures with infinitive in Old Polish

Andrey N. Sobolev How much “dialect” does contemporary oral speech production in a “base” South Slavic patoi contain?

Piotr Sobotka and Magdalena Żabowska An adverb in a dynamic perspective - the mechanisms of decategorialization and discursization of adverbs in the northern Slavic languages

Marzena Stępień Polish deconverbal discourse markers with the exponent of negation

Vassilis Symeonidis and Nikolaos Lavidas Changes in linguistic complexity and the diachrony of anticausatives in Greek

Nafiseh Taghva, Vahideh Abolhasani Zadeh and Amirsaied Moloodi

Durational rhythmic variability of Persian between-sentence

Luigi Talamo, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Katrin Menzel, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Yuri Bizzoni, Tania Avgustinova and Annemarie Verkerk

Surprisal and information structure of human referents across syntactic roles: evidence from European languages

Piia Taremaa The expression of motion speed in a morphologically rich language

Denys Teptiuk and Johannes Hirvonen Perspective shift in reported discourse of Finno-Ugric languages

Miriam Thegel Language change across registers: competing Spanish modals in the 18th and 19th centuries

Marili Tomingas Frequently used discourse particles and their functions in spoken Livonian recordings

Pâmela Travassos and Marcia Dos Santos Machado Vieira

Constructional variation: a cross-linguistic comparison

Beata Trawinski Negation Raising as a Semi-Performative Operation. Corpus Evidence from Polish and German

Eleni Tzimopoulou, Jenny Hartman and Carita Paradis

Cross modality in audition - Descriptions and experience ratings of everyday acousmatic sounds

Freek Van de Velde and Isabeau De Smet An alternative to generalized linear models: Markov models for multi-state language change

Johan van der Auwera, Motoki Nomachi and Olga Krasnoukhova

Balto-Slavic connective negation and negative concord

An Van Linden Where alienability accounts fall short: Bound nouns in Harakmbut

Sébastien Vandenitte Comparing multimodal quotation in a sign and a spoken language: a pilot study on enactment in LSFB and Belgian French utterance reports

João Veloso Segment complexity and segment inherent weight : the behaviour of palatality in Portuguese

Åke Viberg Semantic extensions across semantic fields and languages A contrastive study of the patterns of polysemy of Cutting and Breaking verbs in English and Swedish

Ferdinand von Mengden The dialectics of loss and upgrading in language change

Katherine Walker and Eva van Lier Alternating pronominal indexing in Kamang

Björn Wiemer Boundedness in present and future: Implicational hierarchies in the treatment of non-deictic present tense

Sally Wong, Eric Reuland and Martin Everaert The peculiar blocking effect in the complement of Mandarin zi-verbs

Magdalena Wrembel, Ulrike Gut, Romana Kopečková and Anna Balas

Perception and production of L2 and L3 rhotics in young multilinguals; an exploratory cross-linguistic study

Jingting Ye Frequency and coding patterns of adjectives: a cross-linguistic corpus study

Ka-Fai Yip and Benjamin Tsou Differential Metaphorization and Grammaticalization in Chinese Light Verbs

Aigul Zakirova From noun plural to plural agreement: evidence from Andi dialects.

Eugen Zaretsky and Benjamin P. Lange Phonological short-term memory: Does ethnic background matter?

Marius Zemp, Fernando Zúñiga and Benjamin Brosig

On the link between evidentiality and egophoricity in languages of the Greater Himalayan Region

Iuliia Zubova, Denys Teptiuk and Eda-Riin Leego On syntactic and semantic adaptation of Russian discourse particles ved’ and že in Eastern Finno-Ugric languages

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WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS

AUTHOR NAMES TITLE

WS 1: ADJECTIVE: THE UNKNOWN CATEGORY

Convenors: Alexander Peter Pfaff & Alexandra Rehn Rong Chen Dependency Reversal in Central African Languages

Alison Biggs and Zhuosi Luo The morphosyntax and semantics of Adjective Classifiers

Mirella L. Blum On the definition of adjectives in Dinka

Gjorgje Bozhoviq Adjectives in Albanian: Evidence from Negation

Viktor Koehlich The Adjective Category in Japanese

Charles Lam Adjectives in Cantonese Are Not Verbs

Lanko Marusic and Rok Žaucer A definite article inside the AP domain

Merit Müller Adjective attribution marking in Aanaar Saami: A determinant of the adjectival category?

Svetlana Petrova Strong and weak adjectives in Old High German: A corpus study

Arturas Ratkus Definite adjective forms in early Germanic: From nominal periphrasis to agreement

Vasiliki Rizou, Foteini Karkaletsou, Nikolaos Tsokanos and Artemis Alexiadou

What heritage languages can tell us about the category adjective: evidence from Heritage Greek

Paulette Roulon-Doko Adjective versus Ideophone in an African language, a typological problem

Petra Sleeman Deverbal categories in French: verbs, adjectives or both?

WS 2: ARTIFICIAL/PERIPHERAL STRUCTURES: WHAT CAN THEY TELL US ABOUT THE (MORPHO)PHONOLOGY OF NATURAL LANGUAGES Convenors: Nina Topintzi & Giorgos Markopoulos Birgit Alber, Sabine Arndt-Lappe and Joachim Kokkelmans

Truncation, clippings and blends: universal structures and their variation

Noam Faust QoTeT paradigm migration in Modern Hebrew: A minor pattern with major implications

Athina Kikiopoulou and Nina Topintzi

Weight effects in Greek? Insights from binomials

Joachim Kokkelmans Nonce words in research on language contact-induced hybrid grammars: Brussels French

Theodoros Lyriotakis Peripheral and artificial structures in French L3 interlanguage grammar: The case of nonce loanblends

Julian Lysvik and Maria Evjen Artificial Language Learning experiment shows that native Norwegian speakers avoid word-final voicing

Kalomoira Nikolou and Anthi Revithiadou

Gradient phonological similarity in blend formation

Kevin Tang and Dinah Baer-Henney

The necessity of modelling lexical effects during artificial language learning paradigm

Marc van Oostendorp Esperanto Phonology As A Large-Scale Linguistic Experiment

WS 3: BUILDING MODALITY WITH SYNTAX: FOCUS ON ANCIENT GREEK

Convenors: Camille Denizot & Liana Tronci Rutger Allan In a Mello Mood. The Greek Auxiliary Méllo between Tense, Aspect, and Modality

Marina Benedetti and Chiara Gianollo

Modal uses of knowledge verbs in Ancient Greek

Klaas Bentein Modeling the syntax of Ancient Greek modal particles: Reconsidering dê in Classical historiography

Michele Bianconi, Felicia Logozzo and Elisabetta Magni

Syntactic expressions of modality: optatives and ‘optatival constructions’ in the Greek of the Gospels

Jesús de la Villa and Jesús Polo Completive hoti vs ho:s as mark of evidentiality in Ancient Greek. Synchrony and diachrony.

Giuseppina Di Bartolo Counterfactual conditions in colloquial Ancient Greek

Ezra la Roi A diachronic syntax of counterfactual mood attraction from Archaic to Classical Greek

Rafael Martinez Expressing modality via parenthetic accord clauses in ancient Greek

Martin Masliš Evidentiality and complementation in Ancient Greek: the inferential gradient in the synchronic distribution of complementation strategies

Antonio R. Revuelta Puigdollers Mood in clause combination: formal and pragmatic features

Emilia Ruiz-Yamuza Conditional subordinate clauses and verbal moods: a case study

Rodrigo Verano Modality, (Inter)subjectivity and Politeness in Addressee-Oriented Assertions in the Dialogues of Plato

WS 4: CAUSATION: FROM CONCEPT TO GRAMMAR

Convenors: Marta Donazzan, Clémentine Raffy & Klaus von Heusinger Artemis Alexiadou The building blocks of causation: evidence from non-canonical realization

Ben Ambridge Speakers’ preference for more versus less-transparent causatives: Computational modeling, grammaticality judgment and production data from English, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese and K’iche’

Andrea Ariño-Bizarro and Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano

Speakers’ preferences for the conceptualisation and encoding of causative constructions in Spanish

Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal, Noa Bassel and York Hagmayer

Causes and Conditions

Bridget Copley Intentions and dispositions

Renata Enghels The causative constructional network in Spanish: a stringent case of language productivity at work

Vittorio Ganfi and Valentina Piunno

Causativity and Complex Prepositions in Italian and Romance languages

Lilián Guerrero Opportunistic jussive predicates in Yaqui

Jens Hopperdietzel, Malte Zimmermann and Mary Amaechi

Force calculation is cylcic

Olga Kagan A Force-Dynamic Approach to Perfectivity

Iva Novakova and Yanka Bezinska

Causation in Bulgarian: evidence from 3- to 6-year-old monolingual children

Monika Rind-Pawlowski Causative Constructions in Khinalug

Lucia Tovena Enabling and causes

WS 5: COGNITIVE MECHANISMS DRIVING LANGUAGE CHANGE

Convenors: Carola Trips, Achim Stein, Yela Schauwecker & Michael Percillier Seckin Arslan Restructuring in grammatical evidentiality in Turkish as a heritage language and implications for cognitive

modulators of contact-induced change

María Eugenia Arthuis Blanco A psycholinguistic approach to feature borrowability in historical contact scenarios

Alexander Bergs Language contact and language change from a constructional perspective

Timothy Colleman On the role of contact in the emergence of two new argument structure constructions in present-day Afrikaans

Ailís Cournane Experimental acquisition evidence that children may drive modal verb incrementation

Ulrike Demske Syntactic Change and Language Processing: Extraposition in the History of German

Maia Duguine and Aritz Irurtzun Mechanisms triggering the use of bare nouns in a language without bare nouns

John Hawkins and Luna Filipovic On bilingualism-induced language change: What will change, when and why?

Nicole Hober The implications of linguistic awareness for contact-induced change

Guglielmo Inglese and Anne Wolfsgruber

The rise of non-oppositional middle verbs: the case of Old French

Gerrit Jan Kootstra Cross-linguistic structural priming as a potential mechanism of contact-induced language change

Savithry Namboodiripad Shared processing strategies as a mechanism for contact-induced change in flexible constituent order

Marlieke Shaw and Hendrik De Smet

Loan word accommodation biases in Dutch and Middle English: a question of processing cost?

Michelle Troberg The role of analytic vagueness in the loss of Old French directional particles

Sophia Voigtmann Information Density as a Measurement of Processing Difficulties in Historical Data

WS 6: COMPLEX PREDICATES ACROSS LANGUAGES: VARIATION AND ACQUISITION (COMPLANG)

Convenors: Olga Borik, Silvia Sánchez & Ismael Teomiro Yanka Bezinska Complex Causative Predicates of French and Bulgarian Children aged 3 to 6 years

Paolo Della Putta and Francesca Strik Lievers

How complex are verbal periphrases to learn and unlearn? The case of <ir/andare a + infinitive> from L1 Spanish to L2 Italian

Yoshio Endo The syntax and semantics of multiple V-V-V constructions

Fatemeh Faroughi Persian Complex Predicates, Syntactic or Morphological Units

Kazuhiko Fukushima Complex Predicates as a Testing Ground for Linguistic Theories/Concepts

Fedor Golosov Telicizing light verbs in Poshkart Chuvash

Emre Hakguder, Lenore Grenoble and Jessica Kantarovich

Complex Predicates in a Language Shift Environment: Sakha

Laura Horváth Udmurt Complex Predicates with ’give’, ’throw’ and ’leave’

Ivan Kapitonov and Pavel Rudnev In support of post-syntactic head movement: loanword accommodation in Kunbarlang verb phrases

Eva Kardos, Marton Janosy, Gergely Petho and Andrea Szavo

Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition: evidence for non-facilitative transfer from the acquisition of resultatives in L3 Spanish

Marin Kežić The role of image and force-dynamic schemas in the formation of Croatian complex predicates: the case of the light verb baciti

Zaira Khalilova Complex verbs in Bezhta

Hideki Kishimoto The Roles of Verbs and Nouns in Japanese Light Verb Constructions

Bracha Nir Predicate chaining and clause complexes in Hebrew and English: A discourse-based analysis

Anna Pompei Verb-particle constructions and prefixed verbs: a case of applicative formation? A diachronic perspective on complex verb formation

Tihomir Rangelov Coverbs in the languages of Vanuatu and beyond

Patricia Schneider-Zioga and Kenneth Van Bik

Pretending in Lai

William Snyder Complex Predicates: Connecting Crosslinguistic Variation to Acquisition

Maria Luisa Zubizarreta Morpho-syntactic and Prosodic Cues in Complex Predicates. A Case Study.

WS 7: CONSTRUCTIONAL ANALYSIS IN MULTIMODAL PERSPECTIVE

Convenors: Mirjam Fried, Kiki Nikiforidou & Alex Bergs Angeliki Alvanoudi The Negative-Directive-Construction in Greek: Pragmatic and prosodic aspects of de mu les? (‘tell me’)

Roberta Cicchirillo, Claudia Roberta Combei, Francesca Masini and Miriam Voghera

The prosody of list constructions

Svetlana Dachkovsky, Shirit Cohen-Koka, Rose Stamp and Bracha Nir

Multimodal Signs: PALM-UP as a Textual Discourse Marker

Anna Inbar Rectification constructions in Israeli Hebrew: A multimodal approach

Jakub Jehlička and Eva Lehečková From boundaries to contours – a multimodal-construal approach to aspectuality

Claudia Lehmann An integrated approach to multimodal ironic constructions

Manon Lelandais A multimodal approach to syntactic coordination in spontaneous conversation

Pavel Machač and Mirjam Fried Utterance comprehension in spontaneous speech: phonetic reductions and syntactic context

Kiki Nikiforidou Multimodality, conventionality and inheritance in dialogic constructions

Marina Terkourafi Exploring relations between constructions

Peter Uhrig Exploring the interaction of gesture and prosody in a large corpus

Arie Verhagen Construction grammar, multimodal communication, and design features of language: Preliminaries to a coherent research program

WS 8: CONTINUATIVE AND CONTRASTIVE DISCOURSE RELATIONS ACROSS DISCOURSE DOMAINS: COGNITIVE AND CROSS-LINGUISTIC APPROACHES

Convenors: Matthias Klumm, Anita Fetzer & Evelien Keizer Cecilia Maria Andorno, Sandra Benazzo and Christine Dimroth

More than one Contrast. Crosslinguistic and intralinguistic comparison of Contrast marking through task-elicited speech

Amalia Canes-Nápoles Discourse markers as topic managers. But how exactly?

Doriana Cimmino Contrastive discourse relations and non-canonical syntax. A case study of Left Dislocations in spoken and written Italian

Ludivine Crible Connectives and other discourse signals: Parallelism in addition and contrast

Debopam Das and Markus Egg Continuity in discourse: A case study on causal and contrastive relations

Anita Fetzer and Matthias Klumm The linguistic realization of Continuation and Elaboration in (English) discourse: A context-based analysis across narrative and argumentative genres

Carolin Harthan Initial vs. Medial Placement of Contrastive Linking Adverbials in Written Present-Day English

Na Hu, Aoju Chen, Fang Li, Hugo Quené and Ted Sanders

The role of prosody in expressing subjective and objective causality in Mandarin discourse

Mitsuko Izutsu and Katsunobu Izutsu

When discursive glue comes off: Japanese contrastive and continuative connectives in spoken discourse

Ekkehard König Towards a typology of contrastive relations and contrastive connectives

Marian Marchal, Pim Mak and Ted Sanders

Genre-based expectations for coherence relations

Elena Martínez Caro Digression, topic resumption and discourse coherence: Comparing English and Spanish

Amália Mendes, Deniz Zeyrek and Giedre Giedr Valu nait Oles kevic ien

Explicit and implicit relations of continuity and contrast in a multilingual discourse bank

Inés Recio Fernández and Óscar Loureda

Processing causal and counter-argumentative connected discourse

Augustin Speyer Discourse relations and the German prefield

Mathis Wetzel and Sandrine Zufferey

How do Learners process Continuous and Discontinuous Relations?

WS 9: DISSECTING MORPHOLOGICAL THEORY 1: DIMINUTIVIZATION ACROSS LANGUAGES AND FRAMEWORKS

Convenors: Stela Manova, Boban Arsenijevic, Laura Grestenberger & Katharina Korecky-Kröll Angel Alonsocortés Diminutive formation in Spanish : evidence for word morphology

Boban Arsenijevic and Marko Simonovic

Diminution, categorization and declension class in Serbo-Croatian

Wolfgang Dressler, Elisa Mattiello and Veronika Ritt-Benmimoun

Typological impact of morphological richness and priority of pragmatics over semantics in Italian, Arabic, German, and English diminutives

László Fejes Borrowed or inspired? Komi diminutive under Russian influence

Laura Grestenberger and Dalina Kallulli

Verbal diminutives and cross-categorial syncretism

Camiel Hamans The parallel between diminutives, hypocoristics and embellished clippings in English and Dutch

Lina Inčiurait -Noreikien and Bonifacas Stundžia

Diminutivization in Lithuanian: The case of noun borrowing

Silva Nurmio and Olga Kagan Diminutive or singulative? The suffixes -in and -k in Russian

Mirena Patseva Prosodic factors in the selection of Bulgarian diminutive suffixes in the perspective of Headmost accent theory

Peter Rebrus, Péter Szigetvári and Miklós Törkenczy

Diminutives: Templatic morphology in an agglutinative language

Maria Rosenberg The Swedish suffix -is and its place in the theory of diminutivization

Dmitri Sitchinava and Stela Manova

Slavic diminutive morphology: An interplay of scope, templates and paradigms

Olga Steriopolo, Giorgos Markopoulos and Vassilios Spyropoulos

Parameters of variation in the syntax of expressive size suffixes: Case studies of Russian, German, Spanish, and Greek

Elizaveta Tarasova and José Antonio Sánchez Fajardo

Pejorative suffixation in present-day English: A sociolinguistic analysis of -ie and -o nominalisations

Utku Türk Decomposing so-called diminutives in Turkish

Maria D. Voeikova Structural functions of diminutives in modern Russian

WS 10: EVIDENTIAL STRATEGIES. DESCRIPTION AND EXPLANATION

Convenors: María Isabel Pérez Jiménez, Silvia Gumiel Molina & Aoife K. Ahern Aoife Ahern, Jose Amenos-Pons and Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes

Evidentiality from a developmental perspective: conjectural future in Catalan / Spanish bilinguals

Angeles Carrasco On evidentiality and perception. Ambivalent adjectives in the Spanish non-finite complements of ver, ‘see’

Hans-Jörg Döhla and Anja Hennemann

When an evidential becomes a contact-induced evidential strategy. The case of Guaraní particles in Paraguayan Spanish

Victoria Escandell-Vidal Testing evidential interpretations with estar+ILP. A preliminary survey

Edita Gutiérrez-Rodríguez and Pilar Pérez-Ocón

Evidentiality and variation in the complementizer phrase: the case of deísmo

Elly Ifantidou and Lemonia Tsavdaridou

Mirative evidentials and non-propositional meaning

Víctor Lara-Bermejo The creation of evidentiality in Ibero-Romance

Manuel Leonetti Individual-level predicates, locative adjuncts and perspectivization

Eric Mélac Evidentiality and and its grammaticalization in French: A contrastive study based on a spoken French-Tibetan corpus

Sara Sanchez-Alonso, Fraibet Aveledo and Maria Pinango

The Acquisition of Spanish Copula Verbs in 4-12-year-old Children

Jennifer Tan Evidential value of Spanish igual

Elena Vilinbakhova Evidential interpretations of Spanish uno vs. English one: evidence from parallel corpora

Rodica Zafiu From context-dependent evidential strategies to grammatical specialization: how the Romanian conjectural future becomes a presumptive mood

Chiara Zanchi Evidentiality in Herodotus’ Histories: a first survey

WS 11: EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES TO ROMANCE MORPHOSYNTAX

Convenors: Senta Zeugin, Albert Wall, Philipp Obrist, Johannes Kabatek & Patrick Santos Rebelo Aixiu An and Anne Abeillé Gender agreement with coordinated nouns in French : an experimental approach

Begoña Arechabaleta Regulez and Silvina Montrul

An Experimental Investigation of Language Variation and Change in Mexican Spanish

Iria de-Dios-Flores and Juan Carlos Acuña-Fariña

Lexical control in Spanish obligatory complement control constructions: examining the contrast between subject and object control verbs.

Irene Fally and Eva Smolka Experimental Perspectives on Romance Prefix Verbs

Martín Fuchs Experimental methods for language variation and change in Spanish

Vicky Leonetti and Jacopo Torregrossa

Investigating the interpretation of null and overt pronouns in Spanish by means of a graded judgement task and a sentence continuation task

Sophie Mürmann Differential Object Marking and agentivity in Sicilian and Catalan. Evidence from an acceptability judgement study

Philipp Obrist, Albert Wall, Senta Zeugin, Johannes Kabatek and Patrick Santos Rebelo

Combining elicitation tasks and acceptability judgments in search of infrequent structures; A case study in Differential Marking of inanimate-reference objects in Spanish

Diego Romero Heredero Affectedness and Differential Object Marking in Spanish: a double perspective study

Alina Tigau and Klaus Von Heusinger

Romanian direct object marking and discourse prominence – Experimental evidence from a paragraph continuation task

Alina Villalva Core issues in the field of experimental morphology

Klaus Von Heusinger and Marco Garcia Garcia

Differential Object Marking and discourse prominence in Spanish

Carmen Widera An experimental analysis of the variable use of il in finite impersonal constructions in modern spoken French

Senta Zeugin Differential Object Marking and language contact: an experimental study of Spanish and Romanian

WS 12: ICONICITY IN PROSAIC LEXICON

Convenor: Ian Joo Aleksandra Cwiek Are German Pokémon Names Sound-Symbolic?

Maria Flaksman Hidden iconicity: de-iconization of Russian and English imitative lexicons

Bonnie McLean, Michael Dunn and Mark Dingemanse

Two measures are better than one: combining ratings and guessing experiments for a more nuanced picture of iconicity in the lexicon

Keiko Murasugi and Kimi Akita Japanese binomial adjectives

Lalita Murty and Vasanta Duggirala Iconicity of Adverbial Nouns of Time and Space in Telugu

José Antonio Sánchez Fajardo Iconic prosody and prosaic bases: a construction-based analysis of words ending in {o} in contemporary English

WS 13: INDEXICALITY

Convenors: Peter Juul Nielsen & María Sol Sansiñena Henning Andersen The price of indexicality. The view from isomorphism

Karin Beijering The development of (self)benefactive double object constructions in Norwegian

Hans-Olav Enger Multifunctional indexes: two Scandinavian examples

Teresa Flera Indexicality in Contexts of Literary Fiction

Livio Gaeta Evolutionary steps for linguistic signs: the role of indexicality

Lars Heltoft Domain-straddling indexicality - the Greenlandic causative

Binene Horchani Indexicality of transcategorial morphemes

Caterina Mauri and Francesca Masini

Multi-layered indexicality

Stepan Mikhailov Losing indices: How an anaphoric article developed from a 2SG possessive in Northern Khanty

Francois Nemo Indexicality in the minimal/non-minimal (or less minimal) sign relationship

Peter Juul Nielsen From symbol to index: the semiotic alignment of the Danish free indirect object

Katja Politt and Gabriele Diewald Paradigmaticization as indexicalization: German “medio-passive” constructions with and without lassen

Stéphane Robert Beyond insubordination: a Wolof verbal form indexing situational dependency

Stef Spronck Are there non-indexical expressions?

Eva Zehentner The history of the English dative alternation: from morphosyntax to pragmatics

WS 14: INTEGRATING SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND TYPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE VARIATION

Convenors: Silvia Ballarè, Francesca Di Garbo, Guglielmo Inglese & Eri Kashima

Alessandra Barotto, Simone Mattiola and Caterina Mauri

A socio-typological approach to conditionals: focus on counterfactuals

Laura Becker, Matías Guzmán Naranjo and Samira Ochs

The influence of sociolinguistic factors on conditional constructions

Bert Cornillie and Malte Rosemeyer

Syntactic elaboration: the case of auxiliation in the realm of communicative distance

Peter Dekker, Marian Klamer and Bart de Boer

Analysing contact-induced simplification in Alorese using agent-based models

Nina Dobrushina Intra-language variation in a typological perspective

Minella Duzerol Variation in Martinican complementation: a sociogrammatical approach

Lorenzo Ferrarotti Isolation and Complexification: some Evidence from Northern Italian Dialects

Anja Hasse and Guido Seiler Filling the gap in a typology of mixed languages

Jonathon Lum, Bill Palmer, Alice Gaby and Jonathan Schlossberg

Sociolinguistic and typological variation in frames of spatial reference

Mara Marsella The copula system in Palenquero. A preliminary variationist study

Susanne Maria Michaelis The systematic contributions of substrates and lexifiers in creolization

Adriano Murelli A scale of standardness for relative constructions in European varieties?

John Peterson A sociolinguistic-typological approach to the linguistic prehistory of South Asia

Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez Variation, the role of frequency and social indexicality in the acquisition of Basque ergativity

Konstantinos Sampanis, Utku Türk and Umut Gülsün

Defining borrowing hierarchies in the light of sociolinguistic and geodemographic causation: contact-induced morphosyntactic change in Asia Minor Greek.

Matthew Stave, Kilu von Prince and Frank Seifart

A usage-based approach to morphological typology

Natalia Stoynova Language-inherent variability or contact-induced change? The clitic že ‘I mean’ in Russian speech of Nanai and Ulcha speakers

Verena Weiland Sociolinguistic parameters of Spanish fricative pronunciation: a corpusphonological study

Debra Ziegeler and Christophe Lenoble

Typological explanation and grammaticalization in a New English variety: Singapore English.

WS 15: INVESTIGATING LANGUAGE ISOLATES: TYPOLOGICAL AND DIACHRONIC PERSPECTIVES

Convenors: Iker Salaberri, Dorota Krajewska, Urtzi Reguero, Eneko Zuloaga, Borja Ariztimuno, Maitena Duhalde, Oxel Uribe-Etxebarria, Sergio Monforte, Ekaitz Santazilia & Koldo Ulibarri

Luca Alfieri Linguistic isolates and the comparative method: On the controversial genetic affiliation of Burushaski

Anna Bugaeva Ainu, an isolate in Northeast Asia: what makes it unique?

Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Kellen Parker van Dam, Shelece Easterday, David Inman and Marine Vuillermet

Is there a typological profile of isolates?

Fernando O. de Carvalho On the affiliation of Yaathe, a (presumed) isolate from northeastern Brazil: A research program and some tentative results

Spike Gildea and Katharina Haude An Austronesian-type voice system in an Amazonian isolate

Ekaterina Gruzdeva and Juha On the external and internal history of Nivkh (Amuric) in a comparative perspective

Janhunen

Abbie Hantgan The case of the Big Bang - a methodology for tracing the history of a language and population isolate

Carmen Jany California isolates: Language contact and genetic classification

Florian Lionnet How typologically and areally unusual is Laal?

Julen Manterola Etymologies and etymography in a language isolate: the case of Basque

Irina Nikolaeva Syntactic reconstruction in isolates research: Proto-Yukaghir core grammar and Uralic

Jesus Olguin Martinez Temporal adverbial clauses in language isolates

Thomas Schwaiger Reduplication in language isolates: Special or run-of-the-mill?

Angela Terrill Baroque accretions and isolation: A view on language isolates

Matthias Urban Language Isolates and the linguistic prehistory of the Central Andes

Rik Van Gijn, Leonardo Arias, Nicholas Q. Emlen, Nora Julmi and Sietze Norder

The social life of isolates: a multidisciplinary approach to reconstructing the history of isolates in the north-west Amazon

WS 16: ITALIAN HERITAGE LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES

Convenors: Margherita Di Salvo & Eugenio Goria Edoardo Cavirani Gender and Number microvariation in Italian heritage varieties

Chiara Celata and Naomi Nagy Phonological change in Heritage Italian spoken in Toronto: social factors and lexical frequency

Evandro L. T. P. Cunha Designing and building a web corpus of Talian (Brazilian Venetian language)

Valentina Del Vecchio The role of well-defined areas of origin in the trends of language contact phenomena in contexts of migration: The case of an Italian community in Bletchley (Milton Keynes)

Margherita Di Salvo and Naomi Nagy

Differential Object Marking in two Italian communities abroad: Diatopic and network variation

Maria Francesca Ferin, Miriam Geiss, Tanja Kupisch and Theodoros Marinis

Rhetorical Questions in German-dominant Heritage Speakers of Italian

Manuela Frontera Cues of dialect attrition in Italian-Argentinian trilingual speakers

Guilherme D. Garcia and Natalia Brambatti Guzzo

Using corpus data to map phonological patterns in Brazilian Veneto

Marta Lupica Spagnolo Italian in Transit: Attempting a definition on the basis of distribution and functions of generalized present infinitives

Silvia Natale and Stefania Marzo Standardization of neostandard Italian abroad

Giulia Pepe Between new and old: An analysis of the linguistic practices of post-war and post-2008 crisis Italian migrants

in the UK

Andrea Peskova Italian Heritage Speakers in Buenos Aires

Simone Pisano, Vittorio Ganfi and Valentina Piunno

Heritage Sardinian: a corpus-based study

Angela Ralli Contrasting Italianese and Greek Canadian as target languages. The case of English loan nouns in the immigrant speech in Montreal (Canada)

Antonia Rubino ‘Amore it’s a sweet word’: Attitudes towards heritage languages amongst third generation Australian-Italian youth

Lucija Šimičić and Ivana Škevin Rajko

Language ideologies, attitudes and practices among Italian speakers in Croatia

WS 17: MOUNTAIN LINGUISTICS

Convenor: Matthias Urban Marc Alllassonnière-Tang and One-Soon Her

Mountains, rivers, and word orders of numeral bases and classifiers in Tibeto-Burman

Raffaele Cioffi, Marco Angster, Marco Bellante, Paolo Benedetto Mas, Livio Gaeta, Adriano Murelli, Aline Pons, Gianmario Raimondi and Matteo Rivoira

Mountain Linguistics: The Western Alpine Landscape

Michael Daniel and Alexey Koshevoy

Language altitude and language size

Caleb Everett A frequency-based approach to exploring potential effects of ambient air pressure reduction on ease of articulation

Henrik Liljegren Small-scale convergence in the Hindu Kush mountain area

George Moroz On the correlation between phoneme inventory size and elevation: the case of Dagestan

Johanna Nichols Mountain river thinking: Vertiality and language stacks

Ronald Schaefer and Francis Egbokhare

Edo North: Refugium and Micro-Accretion Zone

WS 18: THE SYNTAX OF ARGUMENT STRUCTURE ALTERNATIONS ACROSS FRAMEWORKS - SAS21

Convenors: Svitlana Antonyuk, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández & Isabel Oltra-Massuet Josep Ausensi and María Eugenia Causative verbs and intransitive causatives

Mangialavori Rasia

Ane Berro, Ane Odria and Beatriz Fernández

The interaction between the implicit subject and the person restriction in Basque impersonals

Alison Biggs On two classes of unaccusatives in Shantou Teochew (Southern Min)

Alessandro Bigolin and Josep Ausensi

Against a lexicalist account of the Argument-Per-Subevent Condition

Anna Bondaruk and Bożena Rozwadowska

Alernating arguments of Polish psych verbs

Isabel Crespí Resultative and stative passives in Catalan: an approach from event structure

Mara Frascarelli Focus Fronting and Argument Structure

Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo and Rafael Marín

Argument structure alternations and aspectual shift in extent verbs

Peter Hallman Argument hierarchies and alternations in causative and double object constructions

Heidi Harley Polysemy and monosemy in the object-drop alternation

Margherita Pallottino Restructuring antipassives: the argument structure of complex events

Cilene Rodrigues When a possessor runs away from home, where does it go? A study on external possession and types of verbal argument structure

Juan Romero and Javier Ormazabal

Ditransitive Alternation as Raising to Object

Silvia Sánchez-Calderón The syntactic alternating architecture of English and Spanish double object and prepositional dative constructions from an acquisition approach

Nomi Shir and Tova Rapoport The lexicon-syntax and information structure interfaces

WS 19: TOWARDS A HOLISTIC UNDERSTANDING OF LANGUAGE CONTACT IN THE PAST

Convenors: Nikolaos Lavidas, Ioanna Sitaridou, and Igor Yanovich Evangelia Adamou, Quentin Feltgen and Cristian Padure

A unified approach to the study of language contact: How cross-language priming drives change in noun-adjective order

Mary Baltazani, Joanna Przedlacka and John Coleman

Historical intonation and contact: two case studies

Hannah Davidson Influences on Mauritian Creole’s early development of past marking

Adina Dragomirescu Word order in old Romanian: at the crossroad between Latin heritage and Old Church Slavonic influence

Andrés Enrique-Arias Political influence and competing grammars in language contact: variation between este and aqueste in medieval Aragonese

Patience Epps Specialist discourse, language contact, and language change: Observations from Amazonia

Daven Hobbs Evolutionary Linguistics as a Theory of Language: Implications for Contact-Induced Change

Brian Joseph Towards a Reductionist View of Language Contact Effects

Olesya Khanina and Valentin Gusev

Towards a holistic understanding of the linguistic past: the Northern Samoyedic case

Nikos Liosis On the Grammar of Western Thrace Albanian: what is old or new, what is conduct-induced or areal, and other inextricably intertwined questions.

Christopher Lucas Towards an integrated model of change: language contact, dialect contact, internal variation

Friederike Lüpke Multilingual presents as a window into multilingual pasts

Lutz Marten and Hannah Gibson Tracing inheritance and contact in Bantu languages: Evidence from morphosyntactic variation

Antoine Primerano Koineization and language contact in the history of Spanish: an examination of several morphosyntactic changes

Wojciech Sowa Dialectology, typology and variation: the theory of ‘Balkan Indo-European’ and its implications for the history of the Ancient Greek dialects

Krzysztof Stroński Language contact in South Asia – typology meets diachrony

Sali Tagliamonte Contact as alignment: Community norms in bilingual Ontario

Ianthi Tsimpli, Alexandra Prentza and Maria Kaltsa

Language contact effects are bidirectional: morphosyntax and the view from feature interpretability

Stavroula Tsiplakou Focus (on) clefts: aspects of gradience in bidialectal acquisition.

WS 20: WORD ORDER AND PROSODY

Convenors: Maia Duguine and Aritz Irurtzun Ricardo Etxepare Verb-first restrictions in two varieties of Basque

Caroline Fery and Gisbert Fanselow

The role of prosody in a typological survey of discontinuous nominal phrases

Isabelle Franz, Markus Bader and Gerrit Kentner

The influence of rhythm on placing the German object pronoun

Cassandra Freiberg Prosody-induced word order variation in Ancient Greek? Evidence from Herodotus' Histories

Keffyalew Gebregziabher Word order anomalies in Tigrinya: Evidence for PF phenomena

Farhat Jabeen Word order and intonation of wh-questions in Urdu

Benazir Mumtaz and Miriam Butt Prosodic Phrasing in Interaction with Word Order and Case Marking in Urdu/Hindi

Kristina Riedel and Seunghun Lee Focus word order and Penultimate Lengthening in two Bantu Languages

Heete Sahkai, Anders Holmberg and Anne Tamm

The Prosodic Structure of V2 Clauses in Estonian

Balázs Surányi and Ádám Szalontai

Focus-marking in prosody and word order in Hungarian: No escape from syntax

Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria Revisiting the architecture of Polar Questions (PQs) and their answers