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GENERAL SESSION PAPERS - ORAL PRESENTATIONS

AUTHOR NAMES TITLE

Ekaterina Aplonova An unusual reported speech construction in Bashkir and Chuvash

Peter Arkadiev Grammaticalization by semantic enrichment: from progressive to proximative to avertive in Lithuanian

Sandra Auderset, Adam James Ross Tallman and Carmen Hernandez

Revisiting clitic phenomena in Mixtec

Gilles Authier Verbal morphological complexity in contact: evidence from Lezgic (East Caucasian)

Matthew Baerman Featural transubstantiation in Kadu agreement classes

Jóhanna Barðdal, Peter Alexander Kerkhof and Roland Pooth

Oblique Anticausatives: Dependent-Marked Anticausativization

Khaled Barkaoui Changes in Metadiscourse Use in Second Language (L2) Learners' Writing on Different Tasks after L2 Instruction

Russell Barlow Differential argument marking and flexible word order in symmetrical voice languages: Evidence from Suwawa

Andreas Baumann and Nikolaus Ritt Abundance and other correlates of linguistic stability: formal predictions and evidence from sparse lexical items

Rodrigo Becerra Variable constituent order in Mapudungun: semantics, information structure, and construals

Karin Beijering and Katarzyna Janic A cross-linguistic study of benefactive double object constructions: constraints, variation and grammaticalization

Garbiñe Bereziartua and Beñat Muguruza Aseguinolaza

The use of Basque dialects in social networks: Searching for informality and legitimacy

Henrik Bergqvist and Karolina Grzech What’s theoretical about evidentiality?

Gabriela Bîlbîie and Israel de la Fuente A semantic constraint on optional THAT in English: the role of factivity

Matea Birtić and Ivana Brač Psychological Object Experiencer Verbs in Croatian

Eva-Marie Bloom Ström and Matti Miestamo The use of the augment in Nguni languages with special reference to the referentiality of the noun

Oliver Bond and Tatiana Reid Associated motion as an applicative in Nuer

Anna Bondaruk and Ewa Willim Causation in Adversity Impersonals in Polish

Tom Bossuyt (Non)finiteness in concessive conditionals

Koen Bostoen and Sara Pacchiarotti On the origin of verb-final subject indexes in Ngwi (West-Coastal Bantu, DRC)

Joseph Brooks and Russell Barlow Plural and non-plural nominal number in Northeast New Guinea

Jorina Brysbaert and Karen Lahousse Contrastive subjects modified by contrastive adverbs in different registers of French

Svetlana Burkova The expression of modality in Russian Sign Language

Anouk Buyle Oh, give him the sack, if you please: a corpus investigation of the social value of requests

Natalia Cáceres Arandia Multifunctionality in dependent clauses in Cariban languages

Gerd Carling, Niklas Johansson and Johan Frid The evolutionary mechanisms of vocal iconicity. A study on basic vocabulary of the Indo-European family

Matthew Carter What Licenses Polyfunctionality?: The Case of /b3/ in Ket

Michela Cennamo and Delia Bentley Thematic and lexico-aspectual constraints on V-S agreement: evidence from Northern Italo-Romance

Yi-Yang Cheng Differential Agent Marking and Symmetrical Voice in Kanakanavu, an Austronesian Language of Taiwan

Maria Cheremisinova Ges What: Comparative-Attenuative Polysemy in Beserman Udmurt

Eleanor Coghill Affinal kinship terms in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialects

Jac Conradie The refurbishment of the Afrikaans past participle

Greville Corbett and Sebastian Fedden German gender: a statistical approach

Denis Creissels The typology of noun-modifying clause constructions revisited

Sonia Cristofaro On the diachronic emergence of alienability splits cross-linguistically: two types of counterexamples to frequency-based explanations

Kirsten Culhane Reconsidering the typology of prosodic feet: evidence from the greater Timor region

Ewa Dabrowska and Laura Becker The influence of modality vs. register on grammar

Carlo Dalle Ceste Debonding beyond degrammaticalization: a view from the Pacific

Saverio Dalpedri On modal verbal adjectives in Ancient Greek

Don Daniels Aisi semi-embedded clauses resolve an insubordination paradox

Anna De Marco and Emanuela Paone “Mi scusi!”. Prosodic cues and perceived politeness in L2 Italian learners' apologies

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

Isabeau De Smet, Laura Rosseel and Marie-Esther Poivre

Does dived take longer dan dove? Strong and weak verb forms and iconicity.

Stefan Dedio and Paul Widmer Object multirepresentation in the history of the Indo-European language family

Patrick Dendale and Johanna Miecznikowski The nature of Inference in inferential evidentiality. Illustrated with French lexical evidentials

Pedro Diaz Lammertyn and María Sol Sansiñena The Spanish <conditional + progressive> and the interplay between lexical and grammatical aspect

Quy Ngoc Thi Doan Blocking effect in Vietnamese: The interaction of mình-binding with the 1st person value

Carmen Dobrovie Sorin (In)definiteness in quality and quantity superlatives in Romance and beyond

Nina Dobrushina Optatives in the Caucasus. Evidence for a linguistic or discourse area?

Bridget Drinka Reassessing the Indo-European data: An integrated approach

Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk and William Kretzschmar

Complex Natural Systems for Language

Elad Eisen, Eitan Grossman and Steven Moran Defining and operationalizing ‘borrowability’ in phonology

Könül Əliyeva and Matthew Zaslansky Acceptable Avar: Experimental data on variation in free constituent order in the Dzhar dialect

Daria Ermakova Middle voice systems in Slavic: a synchronic view on diachronic differences

Caleb Everett and Colleen O'Brien Color salience, color term evolution, and the issue of relatedness

Thorhallur Eythorsson and Sigridur S Sigurdardottir Distinguishing between pronouns and expletives in Icelandic

Benjamin Fagard and Alexandru Mardale Motion event description in Romanian: Romance core and language contact

Yiwei Fang, Xianhui Ye, Song Lu and Foong Ha Yap

Tracing the grammaticalization of a middle voice marker: a diachronic study of ke (可) constructions in

Chinese

Sebastian Fedden Agreement and argument realization in Mian discourse

Maksim Fedotov, Sofia Oskolskaya and Natalia Zaika

Caritive as a negative marker

Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon Phoneme inventory size and monosyllables: a cross-linguistic study

Alon Fishman, Daniel Asherov, Nicole Katzir, Inbal Arnon and Mira Ariel

What do or constructions 'say'?

Christian Forche A Noun in Verb’s Clothing? When a verb won’t take finite forms

Michael Franjieh, Greville Corbett and Alexandra Grandison

How classifiers become gender in Oceania: an experimental approach

Minoru Fukuda, Takeshi Furukawa and Koichiro Nakamura

A Cartographic Analysis of "Clausal" Nominal Expressions in Colloquial Japanese

Kazuhiko Fukushima Aboutness Made Explicit for East Asian Relative Clauses

Livio Gaeta The challenge of complexity: Morphological change and language contact in Walser German

Ivan Gamov Essential features of Kildin Saami non-finites

Jerzy Gaszewski Affinity analysis reveals Central European areal traits in verb argument marking

Valeria Generalova 2 ×2 = ? Applicatives and transitivizers as valence-increasing or valence-maintaining devices in Salish

Ion Tudor Giurgea Temporal modifiers and the Romance imperfective

Michał Głuszkowski Voicing and devoicing in non-standardized insular language in the conditions of Slavic-Slavic language contact

Timothy Gupton Information structure and word order acceptability in Cibaeño Dominican Spanish: an experimental approach

Matías Guzmán Naranjo and Olivier Bonami Distributional assessment of derivational semantics

Camiel Hamans From Matter to Pattern Borrowing

Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen Cyclic changes to the French negative coordinating conjunction

Stefan Hartmann, Nikolas Koch and Antje Endesfelder Quick

Emerging Networks: The Traceback method and the early constructicon

Martin Haspelmath Toward a standard list of grammatical comparative concepts: The Grammaticon

Rachel Hatchard Whole-form storage and frequency effects beyond the word: An analysis of preserved grammatical constructions in aphasia.

Katharina Haude Applicative nominalizations in Movima

Lars Hellan Syntax and Semantics of Light Reflexives in Norwegian

Yoselin Henriques On the possible emergence of a new 1st plural person marker in rural varieties of Madeiran Portuguese

Annette Herkenrath and Birsel Karakoç Embedding wh in bilingual Turkish: A corpus-pragmatic study

Helen Hint and Elsi Kaiser Overt and zero third person reference in Estonian – when and why

Daven Hobbs A Diachronic Analysis of Nheengatu Subordination Constructions

Miao-Ling Hsieh Non-Complement Tsit-e in Taiwanese Southern Min: From an Adverbial Expression to a Complementizer to an Adverbial Subordinator

Emil Ionescu Scope marking by intonation in negative clauses. The case of Romanian

Katarzyna Janic Non-obligatoriness of an applied phrase in applicative (periphrastic) constructions

Ioana Jieanu Linguistic interferences in the speech of Romanian children leaving in Slovenia

Nina Julich-Warpakowski Motion verbs in music criticism: Their conceptual and communicative motivation

Johannes Kabatek The papal bull “Ineffabilis Deus” (1854) translated: presentation of a parallel corpus and analysis of 19th century Ibero-Romance varieties

Danny Kalev From motion to aspect: Hebrew's emerging verb-particle constructions

Shuan Karim The Diachrony of Central Kurdish Applicative Markers

Csilla Kász The Semantics and Valency of Verbs of the Stem X (-stVCCVC-) in the Quran - A corpus-based Analysis

Liudmila Khokhlova and Boris Zakharin Hindi-Urdu light verbs revisited

Victoria Khurshudyan, Pegah Faghiri and Pollet Samvelian

Modern Eastern Armenian: OV or VO?

Simon Kirby, Jonas Nölle, Jennifer Culbertson and Kenny Smith

Spatial language and environment: A causal, experimental approach using virtual reality

Sergei Klimenko Caritive Constructions with ka-nouns in Tagalog

Ibtissem Knouzi Task effect on Second language writers’ use of metadiscourse markers

Ezequiel Koile and George Moroz Detecting linguistic variation with geographic sampling

Viktorija Kostadinova Using online language use data to explore morpho-syntactic language variation in English

Alexey Kozlov Prospective aspects and temporal adverbials: an attempt at a typology

Joanna Kwiatkowska and Björn Wiemer Diachronic dynamics of a stem-derivational aspect system: how cluster analysis helps discover patterns

Cristina Lastres-López Pragmaticalization and decategorialization in conditional constructions: Evidence from English and Spanish

Nikolaos Lavidas and Leonid Kulikov Typology of preverbs and transitivity in diachrony: Evidence from Greek and beyond

Mary C. Lavissière The “-r- that characterizes the future” in Spanish: discourse functions of futurizing verb forms in Old Spanish poems

Oksana Lebedivna The Fourth Palatalization of Velars in Southwest Ukrainian: The Case of the Kryvorivnja Dialect

Paulina Łęska and Jacek Witkos Anti-Cataphora effects, Agree and phases

Diana Lewis English modal adverbs at right periphery: the recent evolution of 'actually' and 'in fact'

Liina Lindström, Maarja-Liisa Pilvik and Plado The choice of negation pattern in Võro and Seto 

Helen

Andrea Listanti, Jacopo Torregrossa and Liana Tronci

The acquisition of VS structures in L2 Italian in a developmental perspective: a corpus-based study

Christian Locatell A Semantic Map of Adverbial Conjunctions in Classical Hebrew

David Lorenz Incipient grammaticalization in synchronic language use – a study of epistemic adverbials in English

Dana Louagie Multiple nominal construals in Australian languages: Towards a typology

Marcia Dos Santos Machado Vieira Passive predication in Portuguese: alternation in Construction Grammar

Martin Maiden Inflexion-class change, ‘contamination’, and word-structure

Timur Maisak Adverb/postposition ‘after’ to sequential connective ‘then’ to discourse pragmatic marker in Andi (Nakh-Daghestanian)

Anastasia Makarova and Olivier Winistörfer DOM in the making. The emergence of Differential Object Marking in Aromanian varieties

Maxim Makartsev and Max Wahlström Ambitransitivity as an areal feature in the Balkans

Jacky Maniacky Some Non-Prototypical Features of the Applicative Morphology in Ngangela (Bantu K12, Angola)

Costanza Marini and Elisabetta Jezek When Numbers Surface as Verbs

Michalis Marinis Paradigmatic uniformity under the pressure of intensive language contact

Florian Matter Integrating grammatical description, text collection and dictionary: Language documentation and description for the digital age

Lidia Mazzitelli Grounding strategies in Lakurumau narratives

Giulia Mazzola, Bert Cornillie and Malte Rosemeyer

Socio-stylistic aspects of diachronic variation: the case of Spanish asyndetic complementation between the 15th and the 18th century

Chiara Melloni and Gianina Iordachioaia Zero suffix in English and Italian deverbal nouns

Susanne Maria Michaelis Interrogative constructions in creoles and sign languages

Vitor Miguez Certainty, possibility, probability: Epistemic and strategic uses of Galician adverbs

Manoah-Joël Misago, Koen Bostoen and Sara Pacchiarotti

The applicative and the expression of location in Rundi (Bantu JD62)

Marianne Mithun Applicatives and Beyond

Steven Moran and Eitan Grossman Temporal bias: a new type of bias for typologists to worry about

George Moroz and Nina Dobrushina The speakers of minority languages are more multilingual

Beñat Muguruza and Garbiñe Bereziartua “We were told women should not speak like that”: the fade-out of the Basque informal form of address hika among women

Lars Naborn, Eline Zenner and Dorien Van de Mieroop

No elbows on the table, and no colloquialisms either! How Flemish caregivers’ choices in Child-Directed Speech reflect broader linguistic ideologies

Fujio Nakamura Ways of Expressing Ordinal Numerals in the History of English: From one and twentieth to twenty-first

Takanobu Nakamura Distributivity as Presupposed Logical Entailment: Floating Non-counting Numeral Quantifiers in Japanese

Savithry Namboodiripad Gradience in constituent order within and across languages: Insights from acceptability judgment experiments

Oana Niculescu Preserving and digitally restoring forgotten stories from romania’s national phonogramic archive

Peter Juul Nielsen The diachrony of the Danish IO and its promotion to subject in passive constructions

Mads Nielsen and Maria Messerschmidt Backgrounded motion events: A crosslinguistic study of associated motion in Mesoamerica

Tatiana Nikitina and Ekaterina Aplonova Reported speech at the intersection of grammar and style: The speech-introducing function of interjections

Dmitry Nikolaev Co-occurrence classes of consonants and the modular structure of consonant inventories

Irina Nikolaeva Non-directional possession in possessive applicatives

Patrizia Noel Prosodic finalisation: German und und und and etc. etc. etc. ‘and so on’

Jonas Nölle and Takanobu Nakamura Does variation in universal quantifiers reflect an optimal division of conceptual space?

Elissavet Nouchoutidou Complementizer selection and its variation in L2 Greek

Maryam Nourzaei The emergence of definiteness from diminutives in Shirazi: tracing a new grammaticalization pathway

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

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

Yoshiki Ogawa Prohibition against Category Resumption by Cyclic (Zero) Derivation and the Phase Impenetrability Condition

Verónica Orqueda, Francisca Toro and Lucía Martínez

Diachronic development of functions of se and sibi in Latin

Alejandra Ortiz Villegas, Armando Mora-Bustos and Sergio Ibáñez Cerda

Applicative Constructions in the Colombian Spanish from the Andes

Mojgan Osmani Subject clitic as phasehood diagnostic in Sanandaji Kurdish

Tania Paciaroni Spatial distribution and properties of Differential Object Marking in Gascon

Vladimir Panov Thinking non-aprioristically of discourse markers, modal particles, and the like

Esther Pascual, Stef Spronck and Arie Verhagen Demonstration in description: Rethinking the direct vs. indirect speech dichotomy

Rebecca Paterson Marked nominative alignment from reanalyzed relative clauses

Nantke Pecht Progressive aspect in a Dutch-German-Limburgish contact variety

Erika Petrocchi Multilinearity and multimodality in grammar The interaction of prosody, syntax and gestures in special questions expressing surprise and surprise-disapproval in a cross-cultural and cross-modal perspective

Dirk Pijpops Lectal contamination. How lexical biases in linguistic variation may originate from lectal differences

Hilla Polak-Yitzhaki and Yael Maschler Beyond Recipient’s Lack of Understanding: Hebrew 'ATA LO MEVIN (‘you don’t understand’)

Cecilia Poletto and Alessandra Tomaselli Resilient subject agreement morphosyntax in the Germanic Romance contact area

Hanna Pook The case variation of the pronoun mis ‘what’ in partial object position in Estonian dialects

Margarita Popova Gender Agreement in NP and Clausal Domain: Theoretical and Typological Overview

Antje Endesfelder Quick and Stefan Hartmann Individual differences in bilingual language acquisition: A cross-corpus traceback study

Cristina Andreea Radu-Bejenaru The living language: Morphological adaptation of Anglicisms in Romanian and Bulgarian

Tihomir Rangelov and Julie Barbour Multi-verb constructions in Ahamb (Vanuatu): Between serialisation and echo reference

Josep Enric Ribera Encapsulation and intersubjectivity in parliamentary debate

Nikolaus Ritt, Alexandra Zöpfl and Magdalena Schwarz

Is subjectifcation driven by listeners?

Monica-Mihaela Rizea Grammaticalization of result clause constructions as degree modifiers: Evidence from Romanian and English

Oleksandra Romaniuk and Inna Stupak Small Talk in American and Ukrainian dating cultures: a cross-cultural analysis of female nonverbal communication

Kristian Roncero Gender fluidity in Chamalal

Malte Rosemeyer and María Sol Sansiñena The influence of sentence type on the interpretation of Spanish future constructions

Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada Body and body-part configurations in Piaroa (Jodï-Sáliban)

Paulette Roulon-Doko Le statut des prépositions issues de noms en Gbaya

Eloisa Ruppert, Isabeau De Smet and Freek Van de Velde

Demography as an explanatory factor in language change. A case study on Dutch preterites

Alba E. Ruz Directionality in N/V conversion: what do meaning and usage say?

Ali Salehi Adjunct Incorporation in Soranî

Vieri Samek-Lodovici Frontable and Unfrontable Foci

Cristina Sánchez López and Margot Vivanco Gefaell

Diachrony of Spanish analytic middle constructions

Stefan Savić Past Anterior in Xhosa as Marker of Contradiction

Sergey Say Nominal causal constructions: Capturing variation across Slavic

Valentina Schiattarella and Valentina Serreli Discourse Markers and language contact. Evidence from a Berber-Arabic context.

Ilja Seržant Typology of partitives

Marlieke Shaw Accommodation biases: loan adjectives in Dutch and Middle English

Olena Shcherbakova and Simon Greenhill How do case systems evolve?

Leon Shor and Michal Marmorstein Multimodal double-voicing in Israeli Hebrew discourse

Kaius Sinnemäki and Francesca Di Garbo System internal vs. sociolinguistic factors of variation in case systems

Piotr Sobotka and Magdalena Żabowska Slavic grammaticalization chains: Categorial and conceptual shifts in grammaticalization pathways for function words

Barbara Sonnenhauser and Anastasia Makarova Micro-variation in a larger picture. Feature generalisation in Macedonian short pronouns

Przemyslaw Staniewski and Adam Golebiowski Telic structure of visual, auditory and olfactory source-based perception verbs in Polish

Thomas Stolz and Nataliya Levkovych Increasing segmental complexity in morphological paradigms

Piia Taremaa, Helen Hint, Maria Reile and Renate Pajusalu

Constructional variation in Estonian: demonstrative pronouns and adverbs as determiners in noun phrases

Miriam Thegel How does a verb become a modal? Diachronic development of the newcomer necesitar ‘need to’ in the Spanish modal system

Marili Tomingas The use of Livonian personal pronoun tämā/ta and demonstrative pronoun se in spoken language

Tiago Tresoldi Evaluation of Bayesian phylogenetics through linguistic simulations

Pilar Valenzuela and Sanderson Oliveira Degrees of Temporal Remoteness in Pano, Contribution to the Typology of Tense

Johan van der Auwera Indefinites - the existential strategies

Jozina Vander Klok The neglected syntactic functions of optional applicative morphology in Javanese

Rossella Varvara Constraints on nominalizations: investigating the productivity’s domains of Italian -mento and -zione

Andra Vasilescu and Mihaela Gheorghe Compound speech acts

Albert Ventayol-Boada From noun classifiers to subordination: Origins of relativizers and the complementizer ña in Tù'un na Ñuu Sá Mátxíí Ntxè'è (Mixtecan, Otomanguean)

Paola Vernillo and Rossella Varvara The linguistic categorization of actions: an image-schematic approach.

Åke Viberg Basic verbs in lexical typology and second language acquisition

Alexey Vinyar Noun Incorporation and Absolutive in Chukchi: towards a force-dynamic account

Teodora Vukovic The grammaticalization of the definite article in Torlak

Albert Wall, Philipp Obrist, Senta Zeugin and Johannes Kabatek

The variation of Differential Object Marking in Spanish: Experimental data from four varieties and across six constructions

Jarosław Weckwerth An apparent-time study of /t/-glottalization in the British Royal Family

Nikolaus Wildner Multimodal Packaging in Action Formation: Existential Relative Clause Constructions in Spoken Hebrew Discourse

Olivier Winistörfer The Balkan Sprachbund. A multi-variate approach to the ‘prototypical’ case of language contact

Jacek Witkos The PIC in the spotlight: Agree without limits but Move with caution!

Sally Wong, Eric Reuland and Martin Everaert Effects of the Mandarin reflexivizing prefix zi- on clausal complements in its domain

Jingting Ye Towards a semantic map for property words

Rodica Zafiu From ad hoc categorization to evaluation: the Romanian marker alde

Alexander Zahrer Chaining clauses, serializing verbs? Ambiguities in the status of non-finite verbs in Muyu.

Matthew Zaslansky Persistence and variation in Turkic deponent verbs

Eva Zehentner Resolving competition in English verbal argument structure: NPs vs PPs

Fernando Zúñiga “Subjective applicatives” in Mapudungun, Even, and beyond

Paulina Zydorowicz /f t b ow t b m i f t i / On the survival of Polish clusters in extemporaneous speech

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WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS

AUTHOR NAMES TITLE

WS 1 THE GRAMMATICALIZATION OF MANNER EXPRESSIONS INTO COMPLEMENTIZERS

Convenors: Caroline Gentens & Kasper Boye Borja Ariztimuño-Lopez Manner expressions in Basque: dialectal and cross-linguistic comparison, and some grammaticalization

paths

Marianne Desmets and Estelle Moline From Manner to Quotation in French : the case of comme

Wojciech Guz Tak and tak-i as quotative markers in Polish

Rodrigo Hernáiz The grammaticalization of manner expressions into complementizers: Insights from Semitic languages

Mikko Höglund and Caroline Gentens Factive manner complementizers: A diachronic case study

Dorota Krajewska The Basque marker bait-: from a manner expression to subordinator

Eda-Riin Leego and Denys Teptiuk Manner expressions in Finno-Ugric: their use in quotative constructions and beyond

Julian Rentzsch From deverbal noun to complementizer: The case of the Turkish verbal noun -(y)Iş

Natalia Serdobolskaya and Irina Kobozeva Diachronic evolution of the subordinator kak in Russian

Stef Spronck What do manner expressions add to the semantics of mistaken-belief constructions? An Australian survey

Yvonne Treis The grammaticalization of similative morphemes and manner demonstratives in Ethiopian languages

Nigel Vincent Manner and mood: complementizers in southern Italy

Björn Wiemer Polish jakoby: an exotic similative-reportive doughnut? Tracing the pathway and conditions of its rise

WS 2 TOWARDS A DIACHRONIC TYPOLOGY OF MIDDLE VOICE

Convenors: Guglielmo Inglese & Andrea Sansò Uldis Balodis Is Yuki -il a middle voice suffix?

Valeria A. Belloro and Lilián Guerrero Between active and passive: middle voice in Yaqui

Carlota de Benito Moreno From oppositional to non-oppositional: Middle-marked verbs with no valency change in Spanish

Spike Gildea Synchrony and Diachrony of Middle Voice: the Cariban Detransitive

Silvia Luraghi and Dionysios Mertyris The Greek middle voice across millennia

Yankee Modi and Mark Post Trans-Himalayan "middle voice" and the case of Macro-Tani languages: Functions, origins and categorical status

Marteen Mous Semantic development of the middle in Cushitic

Naonori Nagaya The middle voice in symmetrical voice languages: Toward a diachronic typology

Lengson Ngwasi The oppositional and non-oppositional middle functions of the reflexive prefix in the Tanzanian Bantu languages Hehe, Nilamba and Nyaturu

Sara Pacchiarotti and Leonid Kulikov The origin of the middle voice and the rise of labile syntax in Bribri

Andrea Sansò and Dawid Gajewski From agent-oriented verbalizer to middle marker: The diachrony of the middle voice in Malayo-Sumbawan

Emily Smith The reflexive and middle voice in Hittite: A diachronic analysis

Kenneth Van Bik The Origin and Divergence of Middle Voice in Kuki-Chin Languages

WS 3 THE GRAMMAR OF THINKING: COMPARING REPORTED THOUGHT AND REPORTED SPEECH ACROSS LANGUAGES

Convenors: Daniela Casartelli, Pekka Posio, Silvio Cruschina & Stef Spronck Bert Cornillie On inferential hearsay readings in European languages

Sophia Fiedler Thinking out loud? 'Je pense' ('I think'), 'je me dis' ('I tell myself') and 'j'étais là' ('I was there') in French talk-in-interaction

Alessandra Giorgi Reported speech contexts and complementizers across languages

Karolina Grzech Reporting, perspective-taking and epistemic stance: The polyfunctionality of the Upper Napo Kichwa reportative construction.

Bryn Hauk Reporting thought without saying “think”: Unintroduced attitude reports in Tsova-Tush corpora

Anja Hennemann Reporting on ‘thinking’ in Spanish and Portuguese and the role of the subject pronoun

Fuhui Hsieh The morphosyntax and semantics of SAY verbs in Formosan languages

Prapatsorn Jiemwongsa Thought Presentation Embedded in Speech Presentation in Thai News Reports

Elena Perekhvalskaya Said or Intended: SAY transmitting intentions in Mwan

Afra Pujol i Campeny The left periphery of reported speech and reported thought in Old Catalan

Eva-Maria Remberger To say, to think, to want

Denys Teptiuk Self-quotations of speech and thought, and how to distinguish them

Sofia Yaroshevich Is thinking like saying? The case of Tabasaran

WS 4 DERIVATIONAL ZERO AFFIXES Convenors: Gianina Iordăchioaia & Chiara Melloni Diana Anitescu On Romanian Zero Derived Nominals

Pavel Caha, Karen De Clercq and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd

Zero morphology and change-of-state verbs

Bożena Cetnarowska The interaction of compounding and conversion in Construction Morphology

Serena Dal Maso and Sabrina Piccinin Zero-affixation and morphological processing in Italian

Anna Maria Di Sciullo Zero Morphology, Interface Asymmetry and Computational Complexity

Matthias Gerner Succinct Typology of Derivational Zero Affixes

Heidi Harley (keynote) In defense of zeros

Nikos Koutsoukos and Angela Ralli Zero affixes and derivational paradigms in Modern Greek adjectives

Verginica Mititelu, Svetlozara Leseva and Ivelina Stoyanova

Semantic Analysis of Verb-Noun Conversions in Princeton WordNet

Matteo Pellegrini and Fabio Montermini The fuzzy boundary between affixation and conversion in Ancient Greek denominal verbs

Marc Richards Zero-Derivation By Phase

Magda Sevcikova Zero-derived nominals in a language with obligatory verbal suffixes: The case of Czech

Petra Sleeman Derivational zero suffixes and their alternatives

Salvador Valera (keynote) The semantics of noun-to-verb zero derivation/conversion in English and in Spanish

WS 5 MULTIFUNCTIONALITY AND SYNCRETISM IN NON-FINITE FORMS

Convenors: Ksenia Shagal, Pavel Rudnev and Anna Volkova Bernat Bardagil The loss of Jê nominal verbs in Panará

Daria Bikina, Denis Rakhman, Aleksey Starchenko and Svetlana Toldova

Kazym Khanty non-finite forms: multifunctionality and variability in the amount of structure

Maria Bloch-Trojnar The structural underpinnings of the multifunctionality and syncretism in non-finite forms in Irish

Magdalena Lemus Serrano Gender and number markers in Yukuna (Arawakan): from nominalization to clause-chaining

Nikita Muravyev TAME in multifunctional non-finites: towards a unified account of nominalized forms in Northern Khanty

Eric Reuland Puzzling patterns in non-finite forms

Krzysztof Stroński and Saartje Verbeke Multifunctionality of non-finite constructions in Indo-Aryan

Jonathan Washington, Francis M. Tyers and Ilnar Salimzianov

Multifunctionality of non-finite verb forms in Turkic languages

WS 6 NEGLECTED SYNTACTIC FUNCTIONS AND NON-SYNTACTIC FUNCTIONS OF APPLICATIVE MORPHOLOGY

Convenors: Sara Pacchiarotti & Fernando Zúñiga Hannah Gibson, Lutz Marten, Maarten Mous and Kristina Riedel

Applicatives and prepositions in Bantu

Lilián Guerrero Unusual applicative constructions in Yaqui

Hilde Gunnink Neglected functions of the Bantu applicative in relation to Locations: new insights from Fwe (K402)

Dominique Knuchel Applicatives in Kogi (Chibchan)

Martin Kohlberger The functions of applicative morphology in Shiwiar (Chicham, Ecuador)

Yury Lander and Irina Bagirokova The argument-adjunct continuum and the diversity of Circassian applicatives

Thomas Payne Applicatives and Voice in Waray

Doris Payne The Applicative(-like) Functions of Nilotic Directionals

Mark Post and Yankee Modi Applicatives in Tani (Trans-Himalayan, Northeast India): Forms, functions and historical origins

Camille Simon Applicative Constructions and the Introduction of Attitude Holder in Tibetan

Christina L. Truong and Bradley McDonnell Semantic and syntactic functions of western Indonesian applicative morphology

An Van Linden Spatial prefixes as applicatives in Harakmbut

Sylvie Voisin and Denis Creissels Benefactive applicatives and instrumental applicatives in Atlantic languages (Niger-Congo)

WS 7 DISCOURSE PHENOMENA IN TYPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Convenors: Alessandra Barotto & Simone Mattiola Doriana Cimmino On the topic-marking function of Left Dislocations and Preposings. Variation across spoken and written

Italian and English

Donna Gerdts A taxonomy of rhetorical repetitions in Hul’q’umi’num’ Salish

Katsunobu Izutsu and Mitsuko Izutsu Marking beginning or end: topic-shift conceptions in Ainu, Japanese, and English

Łukasz Jędrzejowski and Wojciech Guz Polish że 'that' and its discourse functions

Erika Just Differential indexing as a means of information structure management - a typological overview

Atsuko Kanda Utsumi Discourse Functions of Aspectual Clitics in Languages of Southeast Asia

Elena Martínez Caro Small words matter: Oh as a marker of discourse transition in English and its equivalents in Spanish

Jesus Olguin Bridging linkage in the world’s languages

Ekaterina Rakhilina and Polina Bychkova Towards Pragmatic Construction Typology: The case of Discourse Formulae

Seongha Rhee Repetitive Constructions and Stance-Marking: The Case in Korean

Stefan Schnell, Geoffrey Haig, Nils Schiborr and Maria Vollmer

Introducing new referents: A corpus-based cross-linguistic perspective

Claire Stabile and Bryn Hauk Discourse-pragmatic elements under language contact: The case of Pidgin like and Tsova-Tush k’aco

Martine Vanhove Discourse connectives in Beja: From diachrony to typology

WS 8 CONTACT AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF LANGUAGE FACULTY

Convenors: Maria Rita Manzini & Greta Mazzaggio Theresa Biberauer Peripheral significance: the action at the edge of Kaaps Afrikaans phases

Stefania Costea and Adnana Boioc Apintei Is the placement of subjects to be changed through contact? The view from Lipovan Romanian and Moldovan Romanian

Ricardo Etxepare, Georg Kaiser and Simon Dold Trapped in the Parameter: Interrigatives in Contact in the Basque Country

Cristina Guardiano and Melita Stavrou Modeling syntactic change under contact: the case of Italiot Greek

Alexandru Nicolae and Adina Dragomirescu At the crossroad of Croatian and Italian Dialects: Subject clitics in Istro-Romanian

Diego Pescarini Nominal syntax (and morphology) at the Ligurian/Occitan border

Anna Roussou A Balkan view on the left periphery: Modal and discourse particles

Leonardo Maria Savoia and Benedetta Baldi Contact in Celle di San Vito Franco-Provençal dialect: possessives

Alessandra Tomaselli, Andrea Padovan and Ermenegildo Bidese

Circumventing the 'that-trace' effect: Different strategies between Germanic and Romance

WS 9 NEW PERSPECTIVES ON WORD ORDER FLEXIBILITY

Convenors: Savithry Namboodiripad, Natalia Levshina & Alex Kramer Laura Becker and Matías Guzmán Naranjo Word order flexibility across types of argument realizations and argument structures

Holger Diessel Word order variation in the domain of complex sentences: Processing and grammaticalization

Christian Ebert, Balthasar Bickel and Paul Widmer

Word order variation in Baltic, Slavic, Germanic and Romance

Dina El Zarka Flexible word order in a contact situation: Investigating syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors influencing word order in Arabic in a Persian-speaking environment

Pegah Faghiri and Juliette Thuilier Exploiting the advantages of sentence production paradigms in the study of constituent ordering preferences

Alex Kramer The effect of register on dependency length in two flexible languages

Natalia Levshina How efficient are human languages? Testing trade-offs between word order flexibility, case marking and

semantic cues

Zoey Liu The Relationship between Word Order Flexibility and Dependency Length Minimization

Chiara Naccarato, Anastasia Panova and Natalia Stoynova

Word-order flexibility in genitive noun phrases: A corpus-based investigation of contact varieties of Russian

Rachel Nordlinger, Gabriela Garrido Rodriguez, Sasha Wilmoth and Evan Kidd

What drives word order flexibility? Evidence from sentence production experiments in two Australian Indigenous languages

Eva Schultze-Berndt Constituent order and information structure in an Australian language: implications for constituent order typology

Luigi Talamo and Annemarie Verkerk Rigid vs. free word order in modern Indo-European languages: an information theoretic measure of the relative position of selected syntactic relations in a multilingual, parallel corpus of literary fiction

Marc Tang Optimal parameters for extracting constituent order

WS 10 THEORETICAL, APPLIED AND EXPERIMENTAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE INFLUENCE OF ENGLISH TODAY

Convenors: Anabella-Gloria Niculescu-Gorpin Nino Amiridze Borrowing '-ing': Georgian-English language contact

Ana-Maria Barbu The role of the cognates in facilitating the English influence on the Romanian morphosyntax

Valentina Cojocaru English discourse markers in spoken Romanian: pragmatic borrowings or a code-switching phenomenon?

Cătălina Corbeanu Anglicisms in the language of Romanian children. A corpus study

Henrik Gottlieb Coming to terms with Anglicisms

Aaditya Kulkarni Borrowing and disappearance of light verbs

Cristian Moroianu, Anabella Gloria Niculescu-Gorpin and Monica Vasileanu

Verbal Anglicisms: A Shifting Pattern?

Rania Papadopoulou and George J. Xydopoulos Transliterated vs. non-transliterated forms of newly imported English loanwords in Modern Greek

Gillian Roberts, Eline Zenner and Laura Rosseel Children’s preference for English-sounding neologisms: An experimental approach

Cristina Andreea Stan Uses and functions of Romanian OK in professional spoken interaction. A corpus analysis

Jean Mathieu Tsoumou English as an International Language: English/French Language Alternation in Politically Motivated CMC in Congo-Brazzaville

Tobias Ungerer and Alex Lorson ‘When you speak English, so do I’ - How German speakers align in their use of Anglicisms

Monica Vasileanu and Anabella-Gloria Niculescu-Gorpin

Word Formation Patterns in the Age of Global English. The Case of Romanian Lexical Blending

WS 11 DISCOURSE MARKER USE: FROM PRODUCTION TO COMPREHENSION

Convenors: Liesbeth Degand & Maria Josep Cuenca Mira Ariel Hebrew 'harey': Sometimes old, sometimes new

Joanna Blochowiak, Cristina Grisot and Liesbeth Degand

Is causality processed faster than temporality? An experimental investigation of implicit and explicit relations in French.

Zoe Broisson and Liesbeth Degand How egocentric is Discourse Marker use? Evidence from speech production under cognitive load

Maria Josep Cuenca Translating discourse markers: from production to comprehension and back

Eva Hajičová and Jiří Mírovský Focalizers and discourse relations

Maria Cristina Lo Baido Syntactic parenthesis and prosodic integration: some clues to understand discourse markers production and use

Óscar Loureda, Inés Recio Fernández and Adriana Cruz

Principles of Cognitive Processing of Discourse Marking

Pekka Posio and Malte Rosemeyer The discourse marker bueno in spoken and written Mexican and Peninsular Spanish

Sorina Postolea and Ariadna Stefanescu The Romanian Markers 'altfel' and 'de altfel'. Discourse Domains and Functions in Use

Jennifer Schumann and Sandrine Zufferey Empirical evidence for the role of connectives on the acceptability of straw man fallacies

Ekaterina Tckhovrebova and Sandrine Zufferey Do teenagers understand connectives from the written mode?

Frances Yung, Jana Jungbluth and Vera Demberg

Modeling the interplay of rational production and comprehension of discourse connectives

WS 12 IT-CLEFTS: SYNTAX, EVOLUTION, TYPOLOGY

Convenors: Caterina Bonan & Adam Ledgeway Aroldo Andrade The discourse role of NP Pseudocleft types in Portuguese

Lena Baunaz and Genoveva Puskas A peeling approach to wh-clefts in French

Adriana Belletti and Giuliano Bocci Subject vs object clefts: A fresh perspective on a robust asymmetry

Charlotte Bourgoin and Kristin Davidse Exploring the notion of focus in it- and c’est-clefts: the interplay between syntax, information structure and prosody

Anna Cardinaletti Cleft vs. simple wh-questions in Italian

Anne Helene Hauge Clefts and “special” questions in Norwegian

Karen Lahousse and Morgane Jourdain C’est-clefts in French L1 acquisition. Emergence of syntax and Information Structure & the structural analysis of clefts.

Alina McLellan Focalization strategies in Reunion Creole and beyond: two types of it-cleft?

Marieke Meelen Diachronic development of identificatory clefts in the history of Welsh

Jean-Yves Pollock and Cecilia Poletto Special clefts in French and Northern Italian

Giuseppe Samo and Paola Merlo Interventions effects in Cleft Structures: a study in quantitative computational syntax.

Wenli Tang Decomposing Chinese Clefts: A Cartographic Approach

Laura Tramutoli and Mara Marsella It-clefts in palenquero creole and the specificational copula