Parentheses indicate mode of presentation — all sessions will be hybrid (Zoom attendance enabled).
All talks will take place in Rm 104 of the Linguistics Department, 10 Washington Place, New York, NY. For fully remote sessions, in person attendees are still welcome to attend in Rm 104.
Wednesday, June 8
Workshop: Child learners in syntactic change: theory and methods
| 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | [updated later start] Welcome Mingle & Coffee+ |
| [cancelled] Invited speaker: Kathryn Schuler (University of Pennsylvania) | |
| 10:30 AM – 10:55 AM | Workshop opening discussion |
| Workshop Session 1 (In person) | Session Chair: Espen Klævik-Pettersen (University of Agder) |
| 10:55 AM – 11:30 AM | The role of input variability for the acquisition and loss of V2 [abstract pdf]
Marc Meisezahl, Simon Kirby, and Jennifer Culbertson (University of Edinburgh) |
| 11:30 AM – 12:05 PM | Auxiliary-initial declaratives as a window into competing grammars during early stages of first language acquisition [abstract pdf]
Rebecca Woods, Johannes Heim (Newcastle University), and Joel Wallenberg (University of York) |
| 12:05 PM – 2:00 PM | Lunch |
| Workshop Session 2 (In person) | Session Chair: Naomi Lee (NYU/Baruch College) |
| 2:00 PM – 2:35 PM | Child learners in morphosyntactic change: derivational morphology beyond analogy and productivity [abstract pdf]
Laura Grestenberger (Austrian Academy of Sciences) |
| 2:35 PM – 3:10 PM | Children take steps toward cyclic and non-cyclic diachronic changes [abstract pdf]
Erin Hall (California State University San Bernardino) and |
| 3:10 PM – 3:45 PM | What are your values? [abstract pdf]
Paola Crisma (Università di Trieste), |
| 3:45 PM – 4:00 PM | Break |
| Workshop Session 3 (In person) | Session Chair: Ailís Cournane (NYU) |
| 4:00 PM – 4:35 PM | Syntactic reanalysis as internal change: exploring the dangers of intake [abstract pdf]
Brian Gravely (University of Arizona) |
| 4:35 PM – 5:00 PM | Workshop Wrap-Up Discussion |
| 5:00 PM – 5:15 PM | Break |
| DiGS Session 0 (In Person) | Session Chair: Gary Thoms (NYU) |
| 5:15 PM -5:50 PM | Information Theoretic Constant Rate Effects [abstract pdf]
Joel C. Wallenberg (University of York), |
| 6: 00PM – | Informal Social Gatherings |
Thursday, June 9
| 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM | Welcome Coffee+ |
| 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM | Invited speaker: Language use and syntactic change [abstract pdf]
Lieven Danckaert (Université de Lille) |
| 10:00 AM – 10:10 AM | Break |
| Session 1 (Posters, mixed) | Session Chair: Ailís Cournane (NYU) |
| 10:10 AM – 10:30 AM | Poster session Lightning Talks (4 x 5mins, no Q period) |
| 10:30 AM – 11:05 AM | Poster session Posters will remain up during the day. |
| Session 2 (Mixed) | Session Chair: Kaustubh Ghoshal (NYU) |
| 11:05 AM – 11:40 AM | Towards a unified mechanism for the diachronic development of periphrastic alternations [abstract pdf]
Artemis Alexiadou, Foteini Karkaletsou (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Izabella Malta, Thomas McFadden (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft),Dan Morris (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), and Giorgos Spathas (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft) |
| 11:40 PM – 12:15 PM | From movement verb to evaluative intensifier: The evolution of Spanish ‘vaya’ [abstract pdf]
M.Teresa Espinal, Cristina Real and Xavier Villalba (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) |
| 12:15 PM – 2:00 PM | Lunch |
| Session 3 (In Person) | Session Chair: Laura Grestenberger (Austrian Academy of Sciences) |
| 2:50 PM – 3:25 PM | Defectivity and auxiliary syncretism: diachronic aspects [abstract pdf]
Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge) and |
| 3:25 PM – 4:00 PM | Spec-to-Head Reanalysis and Labelling in the history of Welsh [abstract pdf]
Marieke Meelen and Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge) |
| 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM | Break |
| Session 4 (In Person) | Session Chair: Joel Wallenberg (University of (Old) York) |
| 4:15 PM – 4:50 PM | On the losses of enclisis and clitic climbing in the diachrony of French [abstract pdf]
Marc Olivier (Ulster University) |
| 4:50 PM – 5:25 PM | Change in root-sensitivity of Basque allocutive marking [abstract pdf]
William Haddican (CUNY-Queens College), |
| 5:25 PM – 6:00 PM | The loss of complex pronouns in Québec French : A formal account [abstract pdf]
Mireille Tremblay (University of Montreal) |
| 6:00 PM – | DiGS welcome with food & drink; Linguistics Department (Rm 103 & Lobby) |
Friday, June 10
| 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM | Welcome Coffee+ |
| Session 5 (Remote) | Session Chair: Ailís Cournane (NYU) |
| 9:00 AM – 9:35 AM | From relative proadverb to complementizer: The evolution of the Hungarian hogy ‘that’ [abstract pdf]
Katalin É. Kiss (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics) |
| 9:35 AM – 10:10 AM | Sources for question particles [abstract pdf]
George Walkden (University of Konstanz) |
| 10:10 AM – 10:45 AM | Stability and change in the C-domain in American Swedish [abstract pdf]
Ida Larsson (Østfold University College) and |
| 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM | Break |
| 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Invited speaker: Inclined to Agree: from Pronominal Copula to Predicative Agreement [abstract pdf]
Tamisha Tan (Harvard University) |
| 12:00 PM – 2:15 PM | Lunch |
| Session 6 (Mixed) | Session Chair: Ross Rauber (NYU) |
| 2:15 PM – 2:50 PM | Covert Ā-movement in the Syntax and Lower Copy Realization: Evidence from Coptic Wh-in-situ [abstract pdf]
Chris Reintges (National Research Center CNRS) |
| 2:50 PM – 3:25 PM | Generative syntax and the linguistic prehistory of Eurasia [abstract pdf]
Andrea Ceolin, Cristina Guardiano (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia), |
| 3:25 PM – 4:00 PM | Extending Parametric Comparison: Some Preliminary Results on Older Indo-European Languages [abstract pdf]
Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge), |
| 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM | Break |
| Session 7 (Mixed) | Session Chair: Alice Corr (University of Birmingham, current visitor at NYU) |
| 4:15 PM – 4:50 PM (Remote) | [cancelled] Syntactic evolution of the state prefix in Na-Dene [abstract pdf]
James Crippen (McGill University) |
| 4:50 PM – 5:25 PM | Evidence for an articulated DP structure from the history and diversity of Romance languages [abstract pdf]
Judy Bernstein (William Paterson University), |
| 5:25 PM – 5:45 PM | Closing remarks |
| 5:45 PM – 6:05 PM | Business meeting |
| 6:05 PM – | Informal Social Gatherings |
Posters: (Lightning talks will be in this order)
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- Vegans, Teetotalers, and the Decoupling of Case and Agreement in Old Hungarian
(Remote, abstract pdf)
Tamás Halm, Research Institute for Linguistics (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) - Revisiting diachronic change in the nominal domain from Latin to modern Romance
(Remote, abstract pdf)
Andreas Blümel (University of Göttingen) - Prosodic cues to syntactic features: How prosody guides reanalysis
(In Person, abstract pdf)
Giuseppe Magistro, Anne Breitbarth and Claudia Crocco (Gent University) - Alive despite all odds: Oblique subjects in the history of Icelandic
(Remote, abstract pdf)
Sigridur S Sigurdardottir (Yale University) and Thorhallur Eythorsson (University of Iceland)
- Vegans, Teetotalers, and the Decoupling of Case and Agreement in Old Hungarian