Programme

Invited speakers 

Dr Jenneke van der Wal - The innovative diachrony of Bantu clefts

Prof Pierre Larrivée - Losing it: Null subject in the history of French

Prof Ana Maria Martins - Expressive verb movement (when change is not loss)

Prof Ane Breitbarth - Continuity and change: Tying together some loose ends at the tail of Jespersen’s Cycle

General session

Dimitris Michelioudakis, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Nikos Angelopoulos, Pantelis Chatzoudis, Elena Anagnostopoulou - Phylogenies probe (the architecture of) grammar: head directionality parameters in IE

Alberto Frasson - How is Slavic Kako (Un)like Romance Quomodo?

Eric Fuß, Benjamin L. Sluckin - ‘Go’ as a modal raising verb: The emergence of an infinitival medio-passive in German

Nicola D'Antuono - From negative affix to intensifier: The cross-categorial reanalysis of Irish an-

Paola Crisma - Syntactic history as history of systems

Marc Meisezahl, George Walkden - The emergence of English -ing-complements

Ferroni Sofia, Sanfelici Emanuela - The rise and fall of complex subordinators

Jan Casalicchio, Francesco Costantini, Nicola D'Antuono, Gabriele Ganau, Fernando Giacinti, Emanuela Li Destri, Elena Marcati, Angelapia Massaro, Cecilia Poletto, Emanuela Sanfelici - The steep path from OV to VO

Łukasz Jędrzejowski - "Ansonsten" ‘otherwise’ as a complementizer. Its origin, development and use

Núria Bosch - The rise of expressive negation in a proper noun: the case of Rita in Catalan

Nora Veronika Dehmke - A new analysis of Old Irish Verbal Syntax: a vP-remnant approach

Ruth Kramer, Chris Reintges - Adjacency Matters for Contextual Allomorphy: New Evidence from Coptic

Teresa Cabré, Cristina Real Puigdollers - Diachronic change in dative clitics in non-Valencian Catalan

Tatyana Slobodchikoff - Definiteness, Demonstrative Pronouns, and the Absence of the Definite Article in Old Russian

Charles Yang, Carola Trips - Productivity and Syntactic Change: Verb-Subject Inversion in the History of English and the Influence of French

Moreno Mitrović, Richard Waltereit, Uli Sauerland - Register & change in Latin conjunction marking

Mikael Berger, Johan Brandtler, Eric Lander - A paradigmatic approach to the historical development of Swedish negators

Francesco Pinzin, Tommaso Balsemin, Cecilia Poletto, Emanuela Sanfelici, Papa Hamatt Touré -The loss of V2 and scrambling: testing the parallel phase hypothesis

Carola Trips, Tom Rainsford, Jordan Kodner - Diachronic l(earn)ability: Modelling acquisition of labile verbs in Middle English

Faruk Akkus, Elabbas Benmamoun - Categorial Features and Syntactic Change: The Case of the Present Tense in Sason Arabic

Piyapath T Spencer - Towards Syntactic Economy: A Diachronic Case Study of Postverbal Preposition Ellipsis in Thai

Anna Fitiskina - The syntax of archaic and innovative relativisers in Old East Slavic

Danny L. Bate - Much ado about the no-thing: a fresh synchronic and diachronic syntactic analysis of the Old Irish preverb no·

Marco Coniglio and Alberto Valiera - Diachronic Perspectives on Adverbial w-Connectors in German

Workshop

Mattie Wechsler, Gabriel H. Gilbert, Peter Gado - Pronoun > Passive: The diachronic syntax of Javanese di=

Fernando Giacinti, Francesco Costantini - On the evolution of subject clitic systems in contact environments the case of Bisiac

Tamisha L Tan, Leah J Pappas - The development of voice and verb alternations in Hawu

John Whitman - Contact, Persistence, and Wh Relatives in Northern Iroquoian

Elisabeth J. Kerr, Bernat Bardagil - Reconstructing changes in verbal synthesis without written records

Elliott Evans, Christopher Sapp, and Rex A. Sprouse - Featural change in the Early New High German DP

Tamisha L. Tan - Morphosemantic reanalysis and the innovation of inalienable nominalisers across Meto

Yiming Liang, Alexandra Simonenko - Revisiting Taraldsen’s Generalization: A New Metric for Quantifying Syncretism

Sabrina Bertollo, Paola Crisma, Cristina Guardiano, Fae Hicks, Romano Madaro, Emanuela Sanfelici, Giuseppina Silvestri - The noun on the move: Rethinking N-raising from Latin to Modern Italian

Michelle Troberg, John Whitman - The Sequence Glosses in the Glosas Emilianenses and Old Spanish Syntax

Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, Ion Giurgea - Taxonomic Nouns across Languages and the diachrony of Romanian fel ‘kind’

Christopher Sapp and Elliott Evans - West Germanic verb cluster orders in an articulated TP framework

Frances Dowle - Welsh ‘r-’ : Lessons on positive polarity and portmanteaux

Artioli A., Creanga C., Guardiano C., Longobardi G., Motta F., Sgarro A., Sorge G. - Indo-European and its closest relatives: is there any?

Sarah Gordon - The loss of null subjects in Old and early Middle English: the role of information structure

Dimitris Michelioudakis, Georgios Kostopoulos, Elena Anagnostopoulou - Ancient Greek had passives after all. Revisiting the distribution of (non)-active morphology.

Aaron Yamada - Historical Spanish no(n)nada and the role of the prepositional phrase

Nicholas Catasso, Christine Meklenborg - A comparative look at adverbial resumption in the diachrony of Scandinavian and German

Elena Anagnostopoulou, Morgan Macleod, Christina Sevdali - Intervention effects with symmetrical passives in Ancient Greek

Espen Klævik-Pettersen - Participle-object agreement in Old and Middle French: Resultativity rather than word order

Shangyan Pan - Syncretism of ‘give’ & the emergence of functional heads

Martin Maiden, Oana Uță Bărbulescu, Ștefania Costea - When Istro-Romanian meets Croatian: the strange fate of the definite article

Bertollo Sabrina, Madaro Romano, Tomaselli Alessandra - Relative clauses in the Germanic varieties in the Alps: some cues from the diachrony of Cimbrian and Timavese under the pressure of (Italo)Romance