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In the last session of #DiGS24 it’s Theresa Biberauer and Cora Cavirani-Pots, “The IPP Effect in Afrikaans: Something Old, Something New”.
Next #DiGS24 talk is by Alex Rehn, presenting (via Zoom) joint work with Hannah Booth, "Possession, case and the OCP in the history of High and Low German".
There’s a generalization that diminutives grammaticalize from elements meaning “child”. Indo-Iranian -ka- seems to violate this generalization. Today’s talk: the development follows unidirectional reanalysis on a path from partitive to diminutive. #DiGS24
DiGS 25 (2024) will be in Mannheim, hosted by Carola Trips and colleagues. #DiGS24
Today’s keynote at #DiGS24 is by Emanuela Sanfelici, “The syntacticization of discourse in diachrony: insights from subordination”.
Next ⚡️ talk is Carola Trips (University of Mannheim) & Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania), “Grammaticalization as distributional learning: English modals in history”. #DiGS24
Next lightning talk: Phil Branigan & Nicholas Welch (Memorial University of Newfoundland), “Multiple head movement and the diachronic stability of Dene verb morphology”. #DiGS24
Lightning talk now on “Allomorphy in innovative Basque allocutive constructions the phasal structure of finite embeddings” by Bill Haddican (CUNY), Irantzu Epelde, Urtzi Etxeberria & Ricardo Etxepare (UMR 5478 IKER). #DiGS24
Next talk is by Marco Coniglio (Göttingen), “Paradigm shifts in German personal pronouns”. #DiGS24
Next talk is by Dana Isac, “Agree in Old Romanian”. #DiGS24
(Using Wolverine, objectively the best Beamer theme.)
The Northern Subject Rule interacts with the standard English agreement grammar in historical Scots, and a third grammar – with zero endings across the board – is innovated, leading to three-way competition. #DiGS24
Closing keynote of the first day is by Alexandra Simonenko, “A language change approach to probabilistic universals: case and order”. #DiGS24
Last session of the first day of #DiGS24 opens with Raquel Montero Estebaranz (@KonstanzLing), “The development of polarity subjunctive”.
Lots of discussion now about morphology-syntax connections in diachrony. Too clunky to work, but too good to abandon? #DiGS24
Next #DiGS24 talk is by Marc Olivier @loiseaulivier, “Evidence for high infinitive placement in Old French”.
First talk of the main #DiGS24 conference is by Lena Baunaz presenting joint work wirh Caterina Bonan, “Revisiting French wh-in-situ from a micro-diachronic perspective”.
Between 1150 and 1700, the number of French-origin verbs increases dramatically. Most of these are end-state verbs rather than change-of-state verbs, which mostly have a native etymology. #DiGS24
Last talk of FALC at #DiGS24 is “The results of contact: tracing changes in resultativity encoding in Middle and Early Modern English in contact with Old French”, by Tara Struik, Lena Kaltenbach & Carola Trips.
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