GR-05, English Faculty Building, West Road


2008-03-18 15:30: Dichotomous matrix languages: Word order convergence in Welsh-English speech (Peredur Davies & Margaret Deuchar (Bangor))

2008-03-18 16:10: Syntactic developments in Irish non-finite complementation (Elliot Lash (Cambridge))

2008-03-18 16:50: Comparative continuity (Remus Gergel (Tübingen))

2008-03-19 09:20: Jespersen’s Cycle in German from the phonological  perspective of syllable and word languages (Renata Szepaniak (Mainz))

2008-03-19 10:00: Change and continuity in syntactic marking of negation focus: _nalles_ (Agnes Jäger (Frankfurt/Main))

2008-03-19 11:10:  Has anything changed at all? (Katrin Axel (Saarbrücken) & Helmut Weiß (Frankfurt/Main))

2008-03-19 14:15:  A case of degrammaticalization in Northern Swedish (Henrik Rosenkvist (Lund))

2008-03-19 14:55: An article evolving: Contact-induced or language-internal change? (Mila Vulchanova & Valentin Vulchanov (Trondheim))

2008-03-19 16:45: SVO forever: The case of Chinese (Redouane Djamouri, Waltraud Paul (CNRS-EHESS, CRLAO, Paris) & John Whitman (Cornell))

2008-03-20 09:20: Directionality in word order change in Austronesian languages (Edith Aldridge (University of Washington, Seattle))

2008-03-20 10:00: Word order change in Central Coast Salish ( Patricia Shaw, Jill Campbell & Larry Grant (University of British Columbia, Vancouver))

2008-03-20 11:10: Syntactic restructuring of the locative system in siSwati: Variation and language contact (Lutz Marten (SOAS))

2011-05-09 10:00: Commandeering language? Linguistic prescriptivism and variation in Quebec today (Leigh Oakes, QMUL)

2011-05-09 10:40: Speaker attitudes to the French language in France and Québec: Purist or moderate? (Olivia Walsh, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-09 11:30: The development of normative metalanguage in English grammars, 1677-1712. (Thomas Godard, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-09 12:00: Introducing the Corpus of Dutch English: Background and methodological insights (Alison Edwards, University of Cambridge)

2011-05-09 12:30: Polynomia in Sardinia and Corsica: A case study (Elena Pala, University of Cambridge)