PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME (updated 15 May, 2016) (pdf download)
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Thursday 19 May2016
| 8.00 – 9.00 | Welcome and registration (room A1.04) | |
| 9.00 – 9.15 | Conference opening (room A1.04) | |
| 9.15 – 10.15 | Keynote lecture 1: Stefan Th. Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara) Syntactic alternation research: taking stock and suggestions for the future. (room A1.04) |
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| 10.15 – 10.45 | Coffee break (room A1.04) | |
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| 10.45 – 11.15 | Jason Grafmiller, Benedikt Heller, Melanie Röthlisberger and Benedikt Szmrecsányi. Syntactic variation and probabilistic indigenization in World Englishes. |
Elisabeth Verhoeven. Syntactic variation and syntactic uniformity across languages: A crosslinguistic corpus study on linearization devices. |
| 11.15 – 11.45 | Gosse Bouma. Agreement Mismatches in Dutch Relatives. |
Simone Ueberwasser. Case variation in German PPs: Influence of the regional distribution. |
| 11.45 – 12.15 | Laurence Romain. The alternation strength of causative verbs: a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the interaction between the verb, theme and construction. |
Jonah Rys. A verb-centered approach to the ACC/DAT alternation of German two-way prepositions: Integrating qualitative and quantitative methods. |
| 12.15 – 13.30 | Lunch break (room A1.04) | |
| 13.30 – 14.30 | Keynote lecture 2: Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt University, Berlin) Language variation and change: the case of heritage grammars (room A1.04) |
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| 14.30 – 15.00 | Dirk Speelman and Stefan Grondelaers. The noemen/heten alteration: on the rapid emergence of a new variant. |
Trang Phan. Syntactic variation between the two plural markers in Vietnamese. |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Annelore Willems and Gert De Sutter. Understanding PP placement in written Dutch. A corpus-based multifactorial investigation of the principal syntactic, semantic and discursive determinants. |
Alexandra Simonenko, Benoit Crabbé and Sophie Prévost. Quantificational dimension of Taraldsen’s Generalisation: The loss of pro-drop and rich verbal inflection in French. |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Coffee break (room A1.04) | |
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| 16.00 – 16.30 | Jelke Bloem, Arjen P. Versloot and Fred Weerman. Verbal cluster order and processing complexity. |
William Harwood and Tanja Temmerman. Barking up the right tree: Idiomatic constructions and syntactic domains in English and Dutch. |
| 16.30 – 17.00 | Dirk Pijpops and Dirk Speelman. An alternation study of Dutch psych verbs. |
Sjef Barbiers, Hans Bennis and Lotte Hendriks. Merging Verb Cluster Variation. |
| 17.00 - 17.30 | Eugenia Mangialavori Rasia and Ana Laura Marusich. Alternative constructions for Romance deadjectival verbs: relevant correlations between eventive and argument structure. |
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Friday 20 May 2016
| 9.00 – 10.00 | Keynote lecture 3: Hendrik De Smet (University of Leuven) The changing functions of competing forms: Attraction and differentiation. (room A1.04) |
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| 10.00 – 10.30 | Malte Rosemeyer and Scott Schwenter. Priming and Frequency in Language Change: the Spanish Past Subjunctive. |
Johanna Lorenz. Subordination in language contact situations: Complement clauses in Caucasian Urum. |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Anton Granvik. Syntactic variation and change in the rise of the shell noun construction in 16th century Spanish: presence vs. absence of the preposition de in nominal complement clauses (N que vs. N de que) |
Pegah Faghiri and Pollet Samvelian. Persian Phrase Structure: Lessons from Studies on Word Order Variations. |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Coffee break (room A1.04) | |
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| 11.30 – 12.00 | Henri Kauhanen and George Walkden. A production bias model of the Constant Rate Effect. |
Leonid Kulikov. Dative subject construction and their syntactic variants in Eastern Slavic: Archaism or early innovation? |
| 12.00 – 12.30 | Mathieu Avanzi and Elisabeth Stark. A crowdsourcing approach to the description of regional variation in French clitic-clusters. |
Jeroen Claes and Daniel Ezra Johnson. Cognitive constraints on language variation: Agreement with English presentational ‘there be’ and Spanish presentation ‘haber’. |
| 12.30 - 13.00 | Monique Dufresne, Mireille Tremblay and Rose-Marie Dechaine. Determiners and feature hierarchy in Old French. |
Borja Herce. A quantitative analysis of the synchrony and diachrony of Spanish time constructions with ‘hacer’. |
| 13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch break (room A1.04) | |
| 14.00 – 15.00 | Keynote lecture 4: Robert J. Hartsuiker (Ghent University) Shared syntax in multilinguals: learning, translation, and variation (room A1.04) |
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| 15.00 – 15.30 | Tanya Karoli Christensen, Torben Juel Jensen and Marie Herget Christensen. Does word order affect attention to changes in complement clauses? Testing a semantic hypothesis experimentally. |
Patrick Brandt and Eric Fuss. A corpus-based analysis of pronoun choice in German relative clauses. |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Anti Arppe, Atticus Harrigan and Katie Schmirler. So similar in principle, but so different in practice – mixing texts, elicitation and experimentation in the study of the Plains Cree independent and conjunct verb constructions. |
Leah S. Bauke. Handling syntactic variation in compounds and idioms. |
| 16.00 – 16.30 | Coffee break (room A1.04) | |
| 16.30 - 17.30 | Keynote lecture 5: Stefan Grondelaers (Radboud University, Nijmegen) Subtitles, tweets, and syntax. Big data from small input. (room A1.04) |
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| 17.30 – 17.45 | Closing remarks (room A1.04) | |