Venue: L201 (in Lingvisthuset)

08:30-18:00

Registration open - Please register

08.45–9.00

Welcome and announcements

09.00–10.00

Keynote speaker: Marit Westergaard (Tromsø): Microvariation as Diachrony

10.00–10.20

Coffe/Tea break

10.20–11.00

• Ángel J. Gallego (Barcelona): Syntactic variation in Romance v (PDF 99 kB)

11.00–11.40

• Theresa Biberauer and Ian Roberts (Cambridge): Size Matters: on Diachronic Stability and Parameter Size (PDF 81 kB)

11.40–11.50

Short break

11.50–12.30

• Jan Don, Paula Fenger and Olaf Koeneman (University of Amsterdam): Restricting language change through micro-comparative analysis (PDF 141 kB)

12.30–13.50

LUNCH

13.50–14.30

• Jeroen Van Craenenbroeck (Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel) and Marjo Van Koppen (Utrecht University): Lexical items merged in functional heads: The grammaticalization path of ECM-verbs in Dutch dialects (PDF 117 kB)

14.30–15.10

• Will Oxford (University of Toronto): 'Same', 'different', 'other', and the historical microsyntax of the Degree Phrase (PDF 138 kB)

15.10–15.30

Coffe/Tea break

15.30–16.10

• Elizabeth Cowper (University of Toronto) and Daniel Hall (Saint Mary's University): A neoparametric approach to variation and change in English modals (PDF 40 kB)

16.10–16.50

• Peter Svenonius (University of Tromsø): Licensing of Dative Case in Four Nordic Languages (PDF 84 kB)

16.50–17.00

Short break

17.00–17.40

• Jacopo Garzonio (Venice) and Cecilia Poletto (Frankfurt): Bare quantifiers and the like: analyzing the internal structure of functional words (PDF 40 kB)

17.40–18.00

Concluding remarks

• PDF Version of the programme (PDF 130 kB)