ICHL XVII Final Program

Monday August 1, 2005
7:30	Registration tables open in the Pyle Center
8:00	Opening Remarks, Magdalena Hauner, Associate Dean, Letters & Science
	Room 325-326	Room 313	Room 121	Room 309
	Grammaticalization: Theoretical perspectives Chair: Bridget Drinka	Germanic verbal morphology Chair: Geert Booij	Contact & change Chair: Robert Howell	Language reconstruction & relations in Northeast Asia
8:30	Matthew Juge Metaphor and teleology do not drive grammaticalization	Robert Mailhammer Exceptions in the system of the Germanic strong verbs: Classes IV and V	Rita Morandi Language change in a Bavarian speech island in Northern Italy — The case of Cimbrian in Luserna
9:00	Henrik Rosenkvist Four perspectives on grammaticalization	David Fertig The structure and analogical attraction of the strong verb classes in West Germanic	Paul T. Roberge Moving targets: Creolization as language construction	Alexander Vovin & Kerri Russell Introduction
9:30	Henning Andersen Grammation, regrammation, and degrammation — Tense loss in Russian	Jac Conradie The final stages of deflection: The case of Afrikaans het ‘have’	Jürg Fleischer The origin of Eastern Yiddish vos relative clauses: Germanic, Semitic, or Slavic?	Leon A. Serafim A test of rapid language change through language adoption, utilizing the westward spread of the Ryukyuan dialect of Japonic
10:00	Coffee
10:30	Elizabeth Closs Traugott & Laurel J. Brinton Lexicalization and grammaticalization all over again	Robert Mailhammer Reduplication and ablaut in the Germanic strong verb	Christiane Wanzeck The change of German loanwords in the English lexicon	John R. Bentley Where does Yonaguni belong? A new classification of an aberrant dialect
11:00	Jan Terje Faarlund A mentalist interpretation of grammaticalization theory	Hendrik de Smet The emergence of verbal characteristics in the gerund in Late Middle and Early Modern English	Bhavani Saravanan Phonological assimilation of Tamil loanwords	Alexander Vovin Koreo-Japonic or Koreanized Japanese?
11:30	Plenary: Ruth Kempson (King’s College, London): Dynamic Syntax, dialogue modelling and syntactic change, introduced by Anja Wanner, Room 325-326
12:30	Lunch
	Room 325-326	Room 313	Room 121	Room 309
	Grammaticalization (cont.)		Contact & change (cont.) Chair: Bruce Spencer	Language reconstruction & relations in Northeast Asia (cont.)
2:00	Elly van Gelderen Lateral grammaticalization or late merge?		Camiel Hamans Reanalysis as a driving force in language change: The case of international English	Moriyo Shimabukuro Searching for natural accent changes in the Japonic languages
2:30	Sakaya Abe From motion to completion to subjectivity: Semantic and structural constraints on grammaticalization		Peter Siemund Innovation and grammaticalization	Kerri Russell Vowel assimilation in Western Old Japanese derivational morphology
3:00	Coffee
	Romance verbal syntax Chair: Mark Louden	Slavic nominal morphology Chair: David Fertig
3:30	Yu-Chang Liu Past historic and the perfect: Tense shift in the history of French	James Kirby Implicational structure in Czech nominal morphology	Pieter van Reenen The Hollandish roots of Pella Dutch in Iowa	Alexander Vovin & Kerri Russell Closing remarks
4:00	Kim Schulte One construction, two developments: Romance infinitives with overt subjects	Konstantin Krasukhin Studies in the history of Russian declension	Lawrence Reid Cross-generational change in the phonological system of a Philippine language
4:30	Eric Mathieu Aspects of the left periphery in Old French: Topics and stylistic fronting	Nerea Madariaga An economy approach to the triggering of the Russian predicative instrumental case	Gunter Schaarschmidt Doukhoborism in English: The loss of a language for specific purposes
5:00		Andrea Sims Paradigmatic reshuffling: The Croatian genitive plural(s)	Taru Nordlund Between oral and written: Letters from the 19th century peasant writers
5:30	Plenary: Steven Fassberg (Hebrew U.): Infinitival forms in Aramaic, introduced by Cynthia Miller, Room 325-326
7:00	Reception: Angelic Brewing Company (322 W. Johnson St. – turn south from State St.) NOTE: You must wear your badge to get refreshments!

Tuesday, August 2, 2005
	Germanic verbal syntax Chair: Monica Macaulay	Case changes Chair: Carol Justus	Geography, spread & drift Chair: Luanne von Schneidemesser	Constructions & language change
8:30	Gertjan Postma Loss of asymmetric V2 in the history of English and the structure of the pronominal paradigm	Kenjiro Matsuda & Satoshi Nambu Change and variation of ga/no conversion in Tokyo Japanese	Regina Smith The Lower Alemannic dialect: Transitional area or the far side of an ‘isoglossic abyss’?	Alexander Bergs & Gabriele Diewald Introduction
9:00	Michael Hegarty Feature-based functional categories and the syntax of Old English	Thomas Stewart & Brian Joseph How big can a case system become? Evidence from Scottish Gaelic	Bridget Drinka The explanatory value of areal influence: The Balkan perfects	Geert Booij The progressive construction in Dutch: Recursivity of grammaticalization patterns
9:30	Camilla Thurén Changes of Swedish present participles in small clauses, 1250-1800	Richard Ashdowne & John Charles Smith Lexical diffusion and the loss of the Old French case system	Thomas Shannon Word order shift in Germanic: Hawkins' performance principles and drift	Peter Petré & Hubert Cuyckens Bedusted, yet not beheaded: The role of be-’s constructional semantics in its conservation
10:00	Coffee
10:30	Marion Elenbaas The structural development of particle verbs in the history of English	Vit Bubenik & John Hewson Systemic reduction in Indo- European case systems	Ritsuko Kikusawa & Satoshi Kinugasa Toward the application of GIS in historical linguistic analyses	Suzanne Kemmer & Martin Hilpert Constructional grammaticalization in the make-causative
11:00	Dominique Alice Boulonnais Auxiliary do: A case of syntactic change?	Heidi Quinn Licensing, blocking, and English pronoun case		Marianne Mithun Multiphrasal constructions as borrowable starting points for grammaticalization
11:30	Plenary: Michele Loporcaro (U. Zürich): Facts, theory and dogmas in (Romance) historical linguistics, introduced by Thomas Cravens, Room 325-326
12:30	Lunch
	Germanic verbal syntax (cont.) Chair: Anja Wanner	Case changes (cont.) Chair: Thomas Stewart	Language planning Chair: Paul Roberge	Constructions & language change (cont.)
2:00	Fuyo Osawa Voice alternation: The emergence of syntactic passives	Dieter Kastovsky The genesis of the Modern English genitive plural: Structural and phonostylistic factors	Wim Vandenbussche Sociohistorical linguistics in Flanders (Belgium): Language choice and quality in Flanders' town chanceries during the long 19th century	Tatiana Nikitina Mixed categories and word order change
2:30	Nirada Simargool Historical development of the English middle construction	John Charles Smith The refunctionalization of the nominative-accusative opposition between Latin and Gallo-Romance	Diapo Lekganyane Language planning	Nina Azumi Yoshida The role of the topiccomment construction in the reanalysis of ‘things’
3:00	Coffee
			Syntactic change Chair: Vivian Lin
3:30	Robert A. Cloutier In and out of the Brace: VO phenomena in the history of Dutch	Fedor Rozhanskiy The shift in the Votic case system as related to other Balto-Finnic languages	Jürg Fleischer The inflected predicative adjective in Old High German	Malcolm Ross Negative verbal clause construction in Puyuma
4:00	Evie Coussé Changing word order in the sentence-final verb cluster in Dutch	Hope Dawson Defying expectations: The generalization of a less-frequent variant	Johanna Wood Is there a DP in Old English?	Elizabeth Traugott Bits/shreds of evidence for the grammaticalization of negative and positive polarity constructions
4:30	Ulrike Demske & Nicola Frank V-final root clauses in Early New High German?		Jan Terje Faarlund The reanalysis of focus constructions in Chiapas Zoque	Gunther de Vogelaer Construction genesis as degrammaticalisation? On doubled pronouns in Dutch
5:00	Plenary: Ans van Kemenade (Radboud U.): Discourse relations and word order change, introduced by Mark Louden, Room 325-326

Wednesday, August 3, 2005
	Room 325-326	Room 313	Room 121	Room 309
	Spanish se impersonals Chair: Jorge Porcel	Germanic gender Chair: Marc Pierce	Standards & change Chair: Betty Phillips	Constructions & language change (cont.)
8:30	Javier Elvira The demise of the Old Spanish impersonal constructions	Elke Ronneberger-Sibold Interaction of gender marking and morphosyntax in the history of the Germanic languages	Bruce Spencer Urban Interactions and Written Standards in Early Modern Germany	Mirjam Fried Transpositional morphologyconstruction grammar: A diachronic perspective
9:00	Johan Pedersen The Spanish impersonal seconstruction	Santeri Palviainen Variation in West Germanic grammatical gender	Nils Langer & Winifred Davies Bad German from 1700-2000: Origin, transmission and current status	Jan-Ola Östman Formulaic expressions in context: From minimal variation to language change
9:30	Coffee
	Syntactic change Chair: Elly van Gelderen	Sound change Chair: Thomas Purnell	Lexical change Chair: Helena Rahders-Johnson
10:00	Claire Bowern The diachronic stability of head marking	Patrick Honeybone Segmental structure and phonological change: The irrelevance of acquisition	Frank Landesbergen The semantic development of Dutch krijgen from a constructional perspective	Martin Hilpert Where did this future construction come from? The case of Swedish komma att V
10:30	Gary Holland An Indo-European raising construction	Laura Catharine Smith The resilience of prosodic templates in the history of West Germanic	Anja Wanner & Heidrun Dorgeloh Verbs of argumentation in scientific English — A historical analysis	Wallace Chafe Syntax as a repository of historical relics
11:00	John Sundquist Variable use of negation in Middle Low German	Richard Page On the irregularity of open syllable lengthening in German	Susan Garzon The use of address terms in 18th century Virginia electoral politics	Alexander Bergs & Gabriele Diewald Summary and discussion
11:30	Plenary: Keren Rice (U. Toronto): The role of prosody in constraining language change: Word formation in the Athapaskan verb, introduced by Monica Macaulay, Room 325-326
12:30	Lunch
Excursion: Taliesin (1:30 pm departure from Lowell Hall)

Thursday, August 4, 2005
	Room 325-326	Room 313	Room 121	Room 309
	Semantic change Chair: Martha Ratliff	Sound change (cont.) Chair: Richard Page	Romance sociohistorical linguistics Chair: Ray Harris	The role of semantics and pragmatics in the development of case
8:30	Kelly Lynne Maynard Humor is a mechanism of semantic change: The case of shock and awe	Kurt Goblirsch Lenition and vowel lengthening in Germanic	Tonya Wolford A corpus study of changes in the subjunctive: Spanish in the Southwestern U.S.	Shobhana Chelliah & Johanna Barðdal Introduction
9:00	Emmie Li 'Expressivity' as the trigger of language change	Betty Phillips Dialects, borrowing, and lexical diffusion: The case of OE a > o before nasals	Andrés Enrique-Arias On the origin of the preposition en to express 'direction to' in the Spanish spoken in Majorca	Johanna Barðdal The development of case in Germanic
9:30	Anastasia Smirnova Color terms in Bulgarian— A diachronic perspective	Marc Pierce On the exceptions to Sievers' Law in Gothic	Jennifer Dionne & France Martineau Gender and number agreement in written working-class Montreal French	Thórhallur Eythorsson & Jóhannes Gísli Jonsson More or less regular: Oblique case in Insular Scandinavian
10:00	Coffee
10:30	Marcin Grygiel Construction and reconstruction of meaning: A data driven approach	Kenneth Wireback Does an 'aversion' to word boundary phenomena have an effect upon sound change?	Fernando Tejedo Sociolinguistic evidence of the term Latin as a sociolectal register in Hispano-Romance (13th-16th centuries)	Michael Noonan Patterns of development, patterns of syncretism of relational morphology in the Bodic languages
11:00	Agnieszka Lazorczyk & Roumyana Pancheva Historical changes in the meaning of 'both' in Slavic	Gessiane Picanco Phonotactics and sound change in Munduruku	Michael L. Mazzola Social hypotheses and formal proposals	Misumi Sadler From a spatial marker to a perspective marker: The Japanese particle ni
11:30	Plenary: B. Elan Dresher (U. Toronto): Cause and effect in phonological change, introduced by Thomas Purnell, Room 325-326
12:30	Lunch
	Germanic verbs Chair: Gary Holland	Sound change (cont.) Chair: Laura Catherine Smith		The role of semantics and pragmatics in the development of case (cont.)
2:00	Marie-Eve Ritz Perfect change: Diachrony meets synchrony	Stefan Engelberg Improving the perceptibility of lexemes in borrowing processes		Shobhana Chelliah Semantic role to contrastive focus: Evidence for change through subjectification
2:30	Jamie Barrios English phrasal verbs and perfective aspect	Eduardo Rivail Ribeiro & Christiane Cunha de Oliveira Vowel shift in Central Jê		Sturla Berg-Olsen Variation and change involving the Latvian genitive
3:00	Coffee
			Sociohistorical theory: Chair: Regina Smith
3:30	Ulrike Demske Infinitival complementation in Old High German	Youichi Nagato Phonological reduction processes in grammaticalization in Arabic dialects	Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky How bad is ‘bad data’?	Hanne Martine Eckhoff A construction grammar approach to the competition between genitive, dative and denominal adjectives in the history of Russian
4:00	An van Linden, Hubert Cuyckens & Jean-Christophe Verstraete Adjective and verb complementation compared in the history of English	Sang-Cheol Ahn & Gregory K. Iverson Structured imbalances in the emergence of the Korean vowel system	Alexander Bergs Variatio delectat? 20 years of historical sociolinguistics	Shobhana Chelliah & Johanna Barðdal Discussion
4:30	Jan Ole Askedal The systematic status and historical development of the logophoric subjunctive in German		Philippe Caron Toward a notion of 'chronolectal boundary'
5:00	Business meeting, Room 325-326
7:00	Banquet: El Dorado (744 Williamson St., ca. 1 mile beyond the Capitol)

Friday, August 5, 2005
	Room 325-326	Room 313	Room 121	Room 309
	Relatives Chair: John Sundquist	Grammaticalization in the Americas Chair: Rand Valentine	Genetic relations Chair: Joseph Salmons	Dating Indo-European dialectal changes in grammatical category
8:30		Sergio Romero Cliticization, morphology and the rise of new constructions in Maya K'iche': A diachronic study	Marie-Lucie Tarpent The importance of non-affixal morphology for Penutian classification and comparison	Carol F. Justus Introduction
9:00	Rachel Hendery ‘Universal paths of change’ in the relative clause construction: Myth meets methodology	Daniel Hintz From directionals to past tense in Quechua	Karen Dakin Considerations about coronal consonants in Uto-Aztecan	Vit Bubenik Middle and perfect in Proto- Semitic with special reference to IE
9:30	Takao Kanasugi A pragmatic and functional pressure in the pronominalization of relative 'that'	Ardis Eschenberg The development of evidentiality in Omaha	Sergio Meira The Cariban-Tupi (Ka-Tu) hypothesis	Andrii Danylenko The ‘Greek accusative’ vs. the ‘new Slavic accusative’ in the impersonal environment: Areal or structural discrepancy?
10:00	Coffee
	Clitics Chair: Monica Macaulay
10:30	Barry Alpher Pama-Nyungan pronominal clitics		Martha Ratliff & Judy Holst Decoupling ‘basic’ and ‘stable’	Bridget Drinka Stratified chronology and the IE verb
11:00	Miriam Bouzouita Clitics, parsing strategies and the left-periphery: A Dynamic Syntax account of clitic placement		Søren Wichmann Using typological data for establishing genealogies: the case of the America	Martin Huld IE perfects, participles and the origins of Albanian ablaut
11:30	Plenary: William Labov (U. Pennsylvania): Fitting family tree and wave models into a general theory of language change, introduced by Robert Howell, Room 325-326
12:30	Lunch
	Verbs Chair: Vit Bubenik	Comparative dialectology Chair: Monica Macaulay	Genetic relations (cont.)	Dating Indo-European dialectal changes in grammatical category (cont.)
2:00	Julia Papke Order and meaning in Sanskrit preverbs	Ritsuko Kikusawa A phonological, lexical, and morphosyntactic comparison of pronouns and pronominal systems in five Malagasy dialects	Paul Black Lexicostatistics with massive borrowing: The case of Jingulu and Mudburra	Eugenio R. Luján IE dual nominal markers and the ending of dwo:(u) '2'*
2:30	J. Christopher Wood Tense and aspect from Egyptian to Coptic		Barry Alpher & Claire Bowern Yolngu classification	Dag Trygve Truslew Haug Building a conjugation: The creation of the Latin verbal system
3:00	Coffee
	Grammaticalization: Case studies Chair: Shannon Dubenion-Smith	Morphological Theory Chair: Andrea Menz	Romance Morphosyntax Chair: Fernando Tejedo-Herrero
3:30	Taeho Kim The negation marker an in Korean revisited: From a diachronic point of view	Martin Maiden An enduring legacy: Intramorphological signata	Maria Manoliu Overgrammaticalization and/or subjectivization: From preposition to conjunction, Lat. DE in Romanian	Brigitte L.M. Bauer The definite article in IE
4:00	Patricia Amaral & Chad Howe The Portuguese perfect puzzle and the grammaticalization of ter/haver	Brian Joseph & Richard Janda A reconsideration of analogy and optimization	David Heap & Enrique Pato The evolution of article + possessive in 15th century Spanish	Eystein Dahl The IE subjunctive and questions of relative chronology
4:30	Reijirou Shibasaki Functional convergence via grammaticalization	Alan Dench Demonstrative paradigm splitting in the Pilbara languages of Western Australia	Luis Silva-Villar In Quest of the Old Galician-Portuguese ar-er	Carol F. Justus A chronology for changes in IE voice categories
5:00		Carmen Scherer The role of productivity in word formation change	Giuliana Fiorentino Action nouns and the infinitive in Italian: A case of "adaptive variability"	Bridget Drinka Concluding remarks