Workshop 2 - Syntactic Variation and Change

*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
11.00–11.40		Theresa Biberauer and Ian Roberts (Cambridge): Size Matters: on Diachronic Stability and Parameter Size
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
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
14.30–15.10		Will Oxford (University of Toronto): 'Same', 'different', 'other', and the historical microsyntax of the Degree Phrase
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
16.10–16.50		Peter Svenonius (University of Tromsø): Licensing of Dative Case in Four Nordic Languages
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
17.40–18.00		Concluding remarks


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Workshop 2 - Syntactic Variation and Change