Workshop Program

LSRL 48, YORK UNIVERSITY, KEELE CAMPUS

Wednesday, Apr 25, 2018:
Workshop on Romance Diachrony at the Interfaces, Schulich ELC-X211     

8:30-9:15 Registration (ELC X211) & Coffee (Executive Dining Lounge - ELC ground floor)
9:15-9:30 Welcome
9:30-10:30
(ELC-X211)
Chair:
Gabriela Alboiu
Plenary Talk:
Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge):
Formal Features and Emergent Parameters in Syntactic Change
10:30-11 Registration (ELC X211) & Coffee break (Executive Dining Lounge - ELC ground floor)
11-12:30
(ELC-X 211)Chair:
Ruth King
Old Ibero-Romance reduplicated numerals at the syntax-semantics interface,
Alice Corr (University of Birmingham)
The Frames Approach to Metonymic Change: The Purpose Frame in French,
Jim Law (Univ. of Texas at Austin)
Re-bracketing and ad sensum agreement:
A formal approximation to the grammaticalization of binominal quantifiers,
Chad Howe (University of Georgia) & Timothy Gupton (University of Georgia)
12:30-2:30 Lunch break
2:30-3:30
(ELC-X211)Chair:
Gavin  Antonio Bembridge
Diachronic reanalysis and the satellite versus verb-framed distinction
Michelle Troberg (UTM)
Formal convergence and divergence: creative parametric (re)setting in Latin/Romance syntactic change,
Keith Tse (The University of York)
3:30-4 Registration (ELC X211) & Coffee break (Executive Dining Lounge - ELC ground floor)
4-5
(ELC-X211)
Chair:
Michelle Troberg
From Morphology to Syntax: Remarks on the evolution of Romance Imperatives,
Montserrat Batllori (Universitat de Girona)
Cyclic change in affixal negation: from Latin to Romance, Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo (Universitat de Girona)
5:30-7:30 LSRL 48 Reception  (CIBC Lobby, ACE)

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