DiGS 19 Programme

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6-8 September 2017
Stellenbosch, South Africa

Proudly hosted by Stellenbosch University and the University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Location: The Wallenberg Research Centre at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (STIAS)
http://stias.ac.za/research-facilities

Wednesday 6 September 2017

08:00 - 08:30	Coffee and Registration
08:30 - 09:00	Welcome and Introduction Prof Ilse Feinauer (Vice-Dean, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Stellenbosch University)
09:00 – 09:40	George Walkden (University of Konstanz) Early Germanic Preposition Stranding Revisited
09:40 – 10:20	Marco Coniglio (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), Roland Hinterhölzl (Università Ca' Foscari, Venice) & Svetlana Petrova (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) Mood Alternations in Old High German Subordinate Clauses
10:20 – 10:50	Coffee
10:50 – 11:30	Gabriela Alboiu (York University) & Virginia Hill (University of New Brunswick-Saint John) Non-finite Forms in Root Clauses
11:30 – 12:10	Montse Batllori (Universitat de Girona), Lluïsa Hernanz (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) & Carlos Rubio (Centre de Lingüística Teòrica) Andean Ecuadorian Spanish Gerund Complexes: Grammatical Change in Language Contact Environments
12:10 – 12:50	Jacopo Garzonio (Università di Padova) & Chiara Gianollo (Università di Bologna) From nec to né: The Interaction of Focus and Negation
12:50 – 14:00	Lunch (on-site)
14:00 – 14:40	Alexandru Mardale (INALCO – Paris) & Edgar Onea (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) Prepositional Semantics in the Grammaticalization of DOM in Old Romanian
14:40 – 15:20	Katalin É. Kiss (Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) & Orsolya Tanczos (Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) From Possessor Agreement to Object Marking: The grammaticalization path of the Udmurt -(j)ez suffix
15:20 – 16:00	Virginia Hill (University of New Brunswick-Saint John) & Alexandru Mardale (INALCO – Paris) On the Interaction of DOM and Clitic Doubling in Romanian
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee
16:30 - 17:30	INVITED SPEAKER Jenneke van der Wal (Leiden) Resetting object marking parameters in Bantu

Thursday 7 September 2017

08:30 - 09:00	Coffee
09:00 – 09:40	Pritha Chandra (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) & Gurmeet Kaur (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) On Braj Ergativity: Person through the Ages
09:40 – 10:20	Paola Crisma (Università di Trieste & University of York) & Susan Pintzuk (University of York) The Noun Phrase and the 'Viking Hypothesis'
10:20 – 10:50	Coffee
10:50 – 11:30	Kari Kinn (University of Oslo) Stability and (Apparent) Change in Heritage Norwegian Nominal Structure. A View from Predicate Nouns
11:30 – 12:10	Marieke Meelen (University of Cambridge), Khalid Mourigh (Leiden University) & Lisa Cheng (Leiden University) V3 in Multilingual Urban Varieties of Dutch
12:10 – 12:50	Mareike Keller (University of Mannheim) Stability and Variation of Inflectional Morphology in Medieval Code-switching
12:50 – 14:00	Lunch (on-site)
14:00 – 14:40	Jordan Kodner (University of Pennsylvania) A Learners' Perspective on the Rise of the English Dative Alternation
14:40 – 15:20	Jorik van Engeland (UiL-OTS/Utrecht University) Word Order in Double Object Constructions: A Diachronic Study of Dutch
15:20 – 16:30	Coffee and Poster Session
16:30 – 17:30	INVITED SPEAKER Enoch Aboh (Amsterdam) Acquisition, change, population factors, and grammaticalization

Conference Dinner

Friday 8 September 2017

08:30 - 09:00	Coffee
09:00 – 09:40	Judy Bernstein (William Paterson University), Paco Ordonez (Stonybrook University) & Francesc Roca (Universitat de Girona) Origins and Change: On the Evolution of Articles with Proper Names
09:40 – 10:20	Tom McFadden (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin) Stative-resultative Participial Structures and the Loss of the BE Perfect in English
10:20 – 10:50	Coffee
10:50 – 11:30	Christine Salvesen (Universitetet i Oslo) The Resumptive Cycle
11:30 – 12:10	Ermenegildo Bidese (Università di Trento) & Alessandra Tomaselli (Università di Verona) Linear Versus Non-linear V2 Languages
12:10 – 12:50	Afra Pujol i Campeny (University of Cambridge) Verb Position in Old Catalan
12:50 – 14:00	Lunch (on-site)
14:00 – 14:40	Hannah Booth (University of Manchester) & Christin Schaetzle (University of Konstanz) Word Order Change, Case and Expletives in the History of Icelandic
14:40 – 15:20	Jordan Kodner (University of Pennsylvania) & Christopher Cerezo Falco (University of Pennsylvania) Principled Assessment of Population Structure in Models of Language Change
15:20 – 16:30	Coffee and Poster Session
16:30 – 17:30	INVITED SPEAKER David Lightfoot (Georgetown) Invention and variation

Poster presentations

Sigríður Sigurðardóttir (Ghent University) & Tolli Eythórsson (University of Iceland)

Weather Pro(s) and Cons

Ans van Kemenade (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) & Meta Links (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
Modal Particles in the History of English from a West-Germanic Perspective

Ida Larsson (Universitetet i Oslo) & Bjorn Lundquist (Universitetet I Tromsø)
Argument Placement in Mainland Scandinavian – Stable Variation and Parametric Change

Chiara De Bastiani (Università Ca' Foscari, Venice) & Roland Hinterhölzl (Università Ca' Foscari, Venice)
OV and VO Order in the Transition from Old English to Middle English: A Language-internal Account

Anna Bartra-Kaufmann (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona/Centre de Lingüística Teòrica)
Bare Passive Infinitives in Old Romance

DiGS 19 Programme

6-8 September 2017 Stellenbosch, South Africa

Wednesday 6 September 2017​

​Thursday 7 September 2017​

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Friday 8 September 2017​​