ULCL - Comparative diachronic syntax

8.45-9.15	registration
9.15-9.30	opening
9.30-10.25	Theresa Biberauer and Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge) Parameter Interaction and Word-Order Change in the History of English
10.30-11.25	Thomas McFadden (University of Pennsylvania) On the Synchronic and Diachronic Role of Case-Marking in Word Order
11.30-11.50	coffee/tea
11.50-12.45	Jan-Wouter Zwart (Groningen University) A Comparative Perspective on Syntactic Change in the History of English
12.50-14.00	lunch (canteen in building 1174, top floor)
14.00-14.55	Hedde H. Zeijlstra (University of Amsterdam) On the Diachronic Development of Negation
15.00-15.55	Yukiko Morimoto (ZAS, Berlin) Bridging Synchrony and Diachrony in Stochastic OT
16.00-16.20	coffee/tea
16.20-17.15	Susann Fischer (University of Stuttgart) Mesocliticization and Clitic Climbing in Old Romance
17.20-18.15	Patrick McConvell (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies) Down and Out: Downward Migration and Loss of Pronominal Clitics in Australian Aboriginal Languages
18.20-19.20	drinks
19.45-	dinner (for those who want to join)

9.15-10.10	Erika Chisarik (University of Manchester) and Wim van der Wurff (Leiden University) From 'Say' to 'Because': Grammaticalisation and Reanalysis
10.15-11.10	Miao-Hsia Chang (National Taiwan Normal University) and Marina Y. Chen (Chung-Kuo Institute of Technology) Volition Verb Movement in Taiwanese Southern Min and Mandarin Chinese
11.15-11.35	coffee/tea
11.35-12.30	Kazuha Watanabe (Cornell University) The Development of Continuative Aspect: A Comparative Study
12.35-14.00	lunch (in town)
14.00-14.55	Geert Booij (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Ans van Kemenade (University of Nijmegen) and Bettelou Los (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) The Diachrony of Complex Predicates in West Germanic
15.00-15.55	Marion Elenbaas (University of Nijmegen), Corrien Blom (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), and Geert Booij (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) The Diachrony of Complex Predicates: A Case Study of English and Dutch
16.00-16.15	coffee/tea
16.15-17.10	Nigel Vincent and Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Manchester) The Rise and Fall of Dative Subjects
17.15-18.10	Leonid Kulikov (University of Nijmegen/Leiden University) Grammaticalization of a Reciprocal Pronoun in a Diachronic Perspective: Evidence from Vedic Sanskrit

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