We are pleased to announce that the 24th Diachronic Generative Syntax conference (DiGS24) will be held at the University Paris Cité (France) from July 4-7, 2023.
Date: 04-Jul-2023 – 07-Jul-2023
Location: Paris, France
Contact: Lieven Danckaert
Contact Email: digs24aParis@gmail.com
Meeting URL: http://digs-2023.llf-paris.fr
Since its first installment in 1991, DiGS has established itself as one of the world’s leading venues for the formal investigation of syntactic change. More information about the history (and near future) of this conference series can be found at http://walkden.space/digs/.
DiGS24 will be co-hosted by the ‘Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle’ (LLF, UMR 7110, Université Paris Cité) and ‘Savoirs, Textes, Langage’ (LLF, UMR 8163, Université de Lille). The main conference will be preceded by a one-day workshop ‘Formal Approaches to Language Contact’, which will take place on July 4. More information about this thematic workshop can be found at http://digs-2023.llf-paris.fr/?fichier=falc.
Meeting organizers: Heather Burnett, Karen De Clercq, Chris Reintges (CNRS, Université Paris Cité) and Lieven Danckaert (CNRS, Université de Lille)
The invited speakers for the conference are:
– Metin Bağrıaçık (Boğaziçi University, invited speaker for the workshop)
– Emanuela Sanfelici (University of Padua)
– Alexandra Simonenko (Ghent University)
– George Walkden (University of Konstanz)
PROGRAMME :
Registration for DiGS24 is now open (please go to https://digs24.sciencesconf.org). If you wish to attend the entire conference (workshop included), please choose the option “Workshop + conference” and leave the field “Number of days you will attend” empty. Only if you wish to register for 1, 2 or 3 days should the latter option be specified. Please register before June 10.
FALC, July 4
13:30-14:00 Coffee + Registration
14:00-14:10 Welcome
14:10-15:10 Metin Bağrıaçık: TBA
15:15-15:55 Zetao Xu
Contact targets the featural level: A gradience in morphological borrowing
15:55-16:20 Coffee
16:20-17:00 Kari Kinn & Ida Larsson
Embedded verb placement in North American and Argentine heritage Scandinavian
17:05-17:45 Henri Kauhanen
Contact-induced change as an emergent property of complex systems
17:50-18:30 Tara Struik, Lena Kaltenbach & Carola Trips
The results of contact: tracing changes in resultativity encoding in Middle and early Modern English in contact with Old French
Main conference, July 5
9:00-9:25 Coffee + Registration
9:25-9:30 Welcome
Session 1: French clausal syntax
9:30-10:10 Lena Baunaz & Caterina Bonan
Revisiting French wh in-situ from a micro-diachrony perspective
10:15-10:55 Marc Olivier
Evidence for high infinitive placement in Old French
10:55-11:20 Coffee
Session 2: Verb movement in French/Romance
11:20-12:00 Espen Klævik-Pettersen
Verb movement and phasehood in French clausal syntax
12:05-12:45 Afra Pujol i Campeny
The loss of V2 in Old Catalan
12:45-14:00 Lunch
Session 3: Finno-Ugric syntax
14:00-14:40 Katalin É. Kiss
From parataxis to hypotaxis in the Ugric languages
14:45-15:25 Irina Burukina
Historical reanalysis of postpositions into Mood in Uralic
15:25-15:50 Coffee
Session 4: Mood and polarity
15:50-16:30 Raquel Montero Estebaranz
Mood alternations: The diachronic development of the polarity subjunctive
16:35-17:15 Nicola D’Antuono
Negative paths: on the interaction between negation and a polarity item in Old Italian
17:15-17:30 Coffee
17:30-18:30 Alexandra Simonenko: TBA
July 6
Session 5: OV-VO
9:30-10:10 Tommaso Balsemin, Francesco Pinzin & Cecilia Poletto
Where do we start from? Deriving the consistency principle from basic OV order
10:15-10:55 Héctor Vázquez Martínez & Beatrice Santorini
A variational model of the loss of English OV
10:55-11:20 Coffee
Session 6: Agreement
11:20-12:00 Lisa Gotthard & Joel C. Wallenberg
Three-way grammar competition during the Scots anglicisation
12:05-12:45 Daniela Isac
Agree in Old Romanian
12:45-14:00 Lunch
Session 7: Pronouns
14:00-14:40 Benjamin Sluckin
Exaptation of silent elements: (not-so) expletive pro in English Locative Inversion
14:45-15:25 Marco Coniglio
Paradigm shifts in German personal pronouns
15:25-17:00 Lightning talks and poster session
– Wyn Shaw: A diachronic analysis of inversions in French
– Molly Rolf: A formal account of diachronic case and adposition change
– Bill Haddican, Irantzu Epelde, Urtzi Etxeberria & Ricardo Etxepare: Allomorphy in innovative Basque allocutive constructions and the phasal structure of finite embeddings
– Carola Trips & Charles Yang: Grammaticalization as distributional learning: English modals in history
– Phil Branigan & Nicholas Welch: Multiple head movement and the diachronic stability of Dene verb morphology
– Sigríður Björnsdóttir, Lisa Gotthard, Chiara Riegger & George Walkden: Raising out of control
17:00-18:00 Emanuela Sanfelici: TBA
July 7
Session 8: DP structure
9:30-10:10 Laura Grestenberger
No small endeavor: The diachrony of diminutives and the nominal spine
10:15-10:55 Hannah Booth & Alexandra Rehn
Possession, case and the OCP in the history of High and Low German
10:55-11:15 Coffee
Session 9: Back to language contact
11:15-11:55 Theresa Biberauer & Cora Cavirani-Pots
The IPP effect in Afrikaans: something old, something new
12:00-13:00 George Walkden: TBA