Wednesday, August 24th
Magdalena Wrembel. Presidential address. The dynamics of multilingualism: exploring and modeling the acquisition of third language phonology
Beatrice Szczepek Reed (keynote)Prosodic mirroring, alignment and affiliation in naturally occurring interaction
Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer, Heiner Drenhaus and Ingo ReichPredictability effects on the acceptability of mismatches under verb phrase ellipsis
Anthi RevithiadouThe role of accent strength and morphosyntactic structure in lexical accent assignment (ZOOM)
Stefan Hartmann, Jakob Neels and Tobias UngererA quantum of salience: Reconsidering the role of extravagance in grammaticalization
Ludivine CribleDiscourse markers in collaborative task-oriented dialogue: preliminary observations on discourse alignment
Javier Pérez-Guerra and Evelyn Gandón-ChapelaModelling Post-Auxiliary Ellipsis in Modern English (ZOOM)
Tammy GansterIndividual differences and the morphology-phonology interface: Stress placement in complex
English words
Muriel Norde, Sarah Sippach and Benjamin HouitteHappy as a frog in a lily pond: Phrasal similes as semi-schematic idioms
Monica-Mihaela RizeaFrom result to degree: Comparative corpus analysis of two death-related intensifiers, ‘to death’ and ‘de mori’
Mercedes Villalobos Cardozo, Liesbeth Degand and Ludivine CriblePredicting topic in conversation: A study of turn initial discourse markers in Spanish
Elena Nikishina and Alexander LetuchiyAbsolute and relative aspect in Russian: a parallel to absolute and relative tense
Malte Rosemeyer and María Sol Sansiñena¿Cómo va a ser posible? The interactional functions of future-inflected interrogatives in Spanish
Jesse Wichers Schreur, Marc Allassonnière-Tang, Kate Bellamy and Neige RochantPredicting grammatical gender in Nakh languages: Three methods compared
Lisa Schäfer, Robin Lemke and Ingo ReichExperimental investigations on the prefield restriction of German topic drop
Françoise RoseA multi-level approach to the diversity of Mojeño Trinitario nominalization strategies
Seckin Arslan, Mirjana Miric, Svetlana Cirkovic, Cristian Padure and Evangelia
AdamouDoes cross-language priming facilitate language change? Eye-tracking evidence from Romani- Romanian and Romani-Serbian bilinguals
Bert Cornillie and Giulia MazzolaA sociopragmatic account of the se passive in (pre)classical Spanish
David Inman and Marine VuillermetSingular-plural stem alternation: A detailed typology and global distribution
Amal Hassen, Barbara Hemforth and Anne AbeilléPreposition omission in French sluicing: an experiment
Virgelina Matapí Yucuna and
Magdalena Lemus SerranoNominalization and nominalization-based constructions in Yukuna
Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi, Sebastian Sauppe, Caroline Andrews, Itziar Laka, Monique Flecken, Moritz Daum, Martin Meyer and Balthasar BickelThe agent preference in comprehension and production: neurophysiological and behavioural evidence from Basque
Pawel UrbanikThe projective role of syntax in the alignment of pre-verbal action-depicting gestures and
speech
Bilge Palaz, Benjamin Bruening and Rebecca TollanDifferential Subject Island Effects in Sluicing and the Role of Contextual Support (ZOOM)
Martin Hilpert, Jennifer Rains and David Correia SaavedraInvestigating English clippings experimentally: How do speakers choose between consonant-final and vowel-final clippings?
Christine Howes, Arash Eshghi, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Patrick G. T. Healey, Julian Hough, Ruth Kempson, Gregory Mills, Matthew Purver and Mehrnoosh SadrzadehDialogue mis-alignment (ZOOM)
Monica Vasileanu and Anabella-Gloria Niculescu-GorpinFrom Nonce Words to Accepted Blends: A Corpus-based Study of Present-day Romanian
Álvaro Cortés RodríguezMultiple sluicing in Spanish: an experimental investigation of the clausemate condition violation with bound embedded pronouns
Giuseppe SamoTesting the generalisation ability of cartographic models in accounting V2: a quantitative study on grammatical clauses.
Paloma Opazo, Alan Cienki, Geert Brône and Bert ObenMultimodal alignment in office hour consultations
Tara Struik and Ans Van KemenadeCompeting micro-cues: variation, change, and loss of V2 in Middle and early Modern English
Alejandra Ortiz Villegas, Armando Mora- Bustos and Sergio Ibañez CerdaNon-canonical gerund constructions in the Colombian Andean Spanish (ZOOM)
Marie-Caroline PonsChepang’s direct-inverse system in need of historical, epistemic, and pragmatic explanations
Mitko SabevUnstressed vowel reduction and merger in monolingual and bilingual speakers of Bulgarian and Turkish
Adina Camelia Bleotu and Anton BenzExploring indirect inferences with epistemic adverbs in Child Romanian
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Mariana DamovaGround-sharing and discourse development prediction associated with the role of prosody in the interpretation of communicative connectives
Jacek WitkośCataphoric relations, c-command and phases: a crosslinguistic English/Polish study (ZOOM)
Samara Ruas and Francisco OrdonezThe codification of animacy in ellipsis: An experimental study in Spanish
Angela James and Katharina Zahner- RitterThe phonetics of sentence-level stress in German and English: A comparison between L1 and L2 productions
Thursday, August 25th
Eihab Abu-RabiahEffects of phonological and semantic similarities between words of two genetically-related languages in a
meaning recognition task
Uldanay Jumabai and Birsel KarakoçSemantic functions of the transformativizing postverbial constructions in Kazakh
Yoshiki Ogawa, Keiyu Niikuni and Yuichi WadaLexicalization as an Ongoing Change and the Cline of Lexicality: A View from the Complex Negative Adjectives in Japanese (ZOOM)
Víctor Royo Viñuales and An Van LindenInsubordinate como si clauses: a constructional typology of hypothetical manner constructions in Spanish
Kaius Sinnemäki and Noora AholaQuantifying contact-induced change: A multivariate typological approach
Güliz Güneş and Nicole DehéDon’t deaccent Given: A challenge to Radical Deaccentuation accounts from Icelandic
Katharina Zahner, Sophie Kutscheid and Bettina BraunHow experience with high and low pitch accents affects the cue weights in stress processing: Evidence from exposure-test paradigms using eye-tracking
Ezequiel Koile, Michael Daniel, Pierpaolo Di Carlo, Jeff Good, and Susanne Maria MichaelisIntroduction WS 11
Hiwa AsadpourA Multifactorial Analysis of Target Word Order Variation in the Languages of Northwestern Iran (ZOOM)
Ibtissem KnouziTextual borrowing practices of intermediate multilingual writers before and after admission in an English- medium university
Colleen O'Brien and Felipe SandovalLanguage contact in Kamsá, a language isolate of southwestern Colombia
Michael Daniel, Ezequiel Koile and
Nina DobrushinaStability of Lak and spatial separation among major languages of Daghestan
Annette HerkenrathTurkish and Kurmanji Kurdish as two ‘SOV-languages-with-exceptions’: Searching for common ground in a parallel corpus of contemporary novels
Gil Verbeke and Ellen SimonListening to accents: Comprehensibility, accentedness and intelligibility of non-native and World English varieties of English
Evelyn Gandón-Chapela and Francisco Gallardo-del-PuertoOn the ambiguity of English reflexive anaphora resolution in VP-ellipsis: Any target language proficiency effects? (ZOOM)
Poster Session and Coffee breakSenta Zeugin, Albert Wall, Patrick Santos Rebelo and Philipp ObristJessica Van de WeerdMihaela Tanase-DogaruDaria Seres, Joan Borràs-Comes and M. Teresa EspinalZoe TriburDaniela SchröderJohn Ryan and Victor Parra-GuinaldoSofiya Ros and Giada PalmieriMaria Reile, Helen Hint, Piia Taremaa and
Renate PajusaluThomas Payne and Voltaire OyzonManuel Padilla-MoyanoCristian Moroianu, Monica Vasileanu andCristina-Andreea Radu-BejenaruLuca MolinariHelle Metslang and Carl Eric SimmulJudith MeinschaeferTamdrin Lhamo and Zoe TriburAndra KüttVictoria Kazakovskaya and Reili ArgusAndra Kalnača and Ilze LokmanePingping Jia and Judith MeinschaeferHans Henrich HockRamin Hassanzadeh-NodehiPamela GoryczkaPegah FaghiriBruno Estigarribia and Ernesto Lopez AlmadaBianca Maria De PaolisReili Argus
Beatrice-Andreea PahontuAn experimental study on avertivity within Romanian progressive periphrasis domain
Maria Morozova and Alexander
RusakovContact, separation and language change: A perspective from an Albanian dialectal area
Jonathan GinzburgNon-Sentential Utterances, Sentential Utterances, and then Non-Sentential Utterances again: language acquisition and elliptical constructions
Daria AlfimovaObject marking strategies in Western Eurasia: When languages in contact agree TO each other
Arantzazu ElordietaMore on the modal particle ote in Basque: deriving the ironic reading in certain exclamative contexts
Leonardo Maria Savoia and Benedetta BaldiPhenomena in Romance verbal paradigms: syncretism, inflectional morphemes and thematic vowel
Sylwiusz Żychliński, Magdalena Wrembel, Kamil Kaźmierski, and Anna SkałbaGradient acceptability and language proficiency as factors in L3 acquisition of syntax
Maksim Fedotov, Sofia Oskolskaya and Vlada BaranovaExpressing absence in the Turkic languages of the Volga-Kama Sprachbund
Mary Lavissière and Laurent FediDoes an article by any other heading smell as sweet? Macrostructural variation in contracts.
Adam LedgewayComplementizers and relativizers: A unified category? Evidence from the Greek and Romance of southern Italy
Tatiana Nikitina (keynote)Character tracking in narratives in Wan (Mande): The use of demonstratives as an obviation strategy
Matti Miestamo, Ksenia Shagal and Olli SilvennoinenCoordinating negative clauses: A pilot study of cross-linguistic variation
Emanuela Cresti and Massimo MonegliaTopic vs. Allocutive in the Language into Act Theory. Corpus-based research on spoken Italian. (ZOOM)
Albert Wall and David Paul GerardsNumber-neutral indefinite objects in Brazilian Portuguese: new evidence for semantic incorporation
Xuan Guan, Zoe Tribur and Atshogs Yeshes VodgsalAn examination of how difference in degree of communicative pressure influences typological complexity in languages of Western Sichuan
Claudio Iacobini and Anna PompeiLight verbs and prefixed verbs as alternative aspectual strategies in Italian. A case study
Alexander Krasovitsky, Matthew Baerman, Greville G. Corbett and Maria KyusevaWord order and case marking in Bulgarian dialects
Kimberly OgerA Comparative Study of the Discourse Properties of Verb Phrase Ellipsis and British DO (ZOOM)
Scott DelanceyHierarchical indexation in an accusative language: Second position pronominal clitics in Klamath
Ekaterina Aplonova, Guillaume Guitang and Tatiana NikitinaPseudowords and ideophones in West African traditional narratives
Marco FavaroThe adverbial marking of illocutionary modification: reassessing the functions of modal particles in Italian (and beyond)
Saizhu HuThe semantic contribution of the constituents of Chinese classifier phrases: A corpus-based study (ZOOM)
Natalia Serdobolskaya and Anastasia EgorovaFrom relativization to complementation: identifying steps of evolution (ZOOM)
Tihomir RangelovA geographically determined spatial reference system in a small-offshore-island setting: The case of Ahamb (Vanuatu)
Björn Wiemer, Imke Mendoza and Barbara SonnenhauserPotential complementizers, quasi-auxiliaries and their possible impact on Slavic word order
Pei-Ci Li and Sheng-Fu WangFEMALE teachers get pregnant and MALE teachers commit sexual harassment? Implications of overt
gender markings of Chinese profession nouns
Round Table: Formal and functional approaches to grammatical variation (Corbett, Borer, Manzini, Moderator: Cornilescu)
Friday, August 26th
Einat KuzaiThe interplay between negation, scalarity, and involvement: On the Hebrew lo tagid construction
Ellen Brandner and Katrin Axel-ToberComplementation as relativization: New insights from equative-based complementizers
Luc Baronian and Nicolas Royer-ArtusoSearching for phonological evidence in songs from oral traditions (rather than in songs from written traditions)
Pierpaolo Di Carlo, Jeff Good and Nelson T. TschonghongeiSocial separation and language change in the Cameroonian Grassfields
Barend BeekhuizenTypes of meaning, types of variation: Expanding the scope of lexical semantic typology
Olena Shcherbakova, Susanne Maria Michaelis, Hannah J. Haynie, Simon Greenhill, Damián E. Blasi, Russell Gray, Volker Gast and Skirgård HedvigSocial correlates of boundness and informativity on a global scale
Ans van KemenadeAsymmetries between main clauses and subclauses in early English: do they pave the way for
innovation?
Erika Jasionytė-MikučionienėLithuanian response particles from a synchronic and diachronic perspective
Piotr SobotkaThe conceptual and categorial polarity of Northern Slavonic auxiliary words as a mechanism for changes in the grammatical status of linguistic units
Katsunobu Izutsu and Mitsuko Izutsu‘Someone who got angry and ran away from home, I was’: Narrative uses of the“VERB[CLAUSE]-p(e) a=ne” construction in Ainu (ZOOM)
Elisabeth KaukonenA corpus-based view of gender marking in Estonian language and the situation of feminist language
planning
Diana StolacRetro-digitization and interpretation of grammar books printed till middle of the 19th century
Henrik Liljegren and Jan Heegård PetersenNarrative structures in languages of the Hindu Kush: A preliminary corpus-based study
Eri Kashima, Francesca Di Garbo and Oona Oona RaatikainenMarriage patterns and language contact: Initial results from a worldwide comparison
Luigi Talamo, Annemarie Verkerk and Iker SalaberriA quantitative approach to clause type and language change: word order asymmetries in the Corpus of Indo-European Prose (CIEP)
Bridget DrinkaContact-induced retention and innovation in the Balkans: The role of migration, religion, and identity
Magda SevcikovaAnnotation of semantic categories in noun/verb conversion: A pilot experiment in Czech
Sepideh Koohkan and Johan van der
AuweraExpanding the typological horizon – Negative concord in Persian
Karolina GrzechAnalysing evidential practice in verbal art: methodological challenges of studying Upper Napo Kichwa narratives and songs
Bambang Kartono, Eric Reuland and Martin EveraertWhen Pronouns Are Like Reflexives: The Case of Nias
Nikolaos Lavidas and Vassilis SymeonidisHow language contact affects (dynamic) complexity: Evidence from the diachrony of null objects in Greek
Alexander RiceStrengthening the signal: Comparing narrative data from Amazonian Kichwa using three discourse elicitation methods
Erik Zobel, Charlotte Hemmings and Mary DalrympleMorphological Conservatism in Enggano Subordinate Clauses
Valentina Saccone and Doriana CimminoBeyond the topic-marking discourse function of Left Dislocations. Evidence from Italian, English, and Spanish spoken corpora
Patrick DendaleReflection on subcategories of inferential evidentials and the nature of ‘evidential inference’
Pavel OzerovThe interactional sources of topicality: a re-analysis of Left Dislocations and Contrastive Topics in Anal Naga
Nikos LiosisMedieval Greek & Modern Greek Dialects: Lexical residuality of a non-SNC stage in a SNC language
Jocelyn AznarUnderstanding oral narratives through text sequences: Towards a disciplinary versatile concept suitable for text documentation
Kim SchulteDo subordinate environments favour innovation in modal marking? A diachronic corpus study of modal periphrases in Spanish
Katja HannßHow salience and shift in salience create discourse coherence: Evidence from Chipaya (ZOOM)
Denys Teptiuk and Stef SpronckInterior dialogues: Narrative reported speech and thought in two indigenous languages
Simone MattiolaThe semantics of ti’tuik prarö in Akawaio (Cariban): A general extender in the Amazon
Thomas Stolz and Nataliya LevkovychOn loan conjunctions: A comparative study with special focus on the languages of the former Soviet Union
Alexander Letuchiy and Pavel RudnevLocality and constituent ordering in Russian negative concord constructions
Marwan Jarrah and Abdelrahman TakhainehArgument dropping, word order and the low IP area in Arabic grammar
Saturday, August 27th
Bonnie McLean et al. Best PhD presentation award at 2021. What’s in a name? On the persistence of motivated form-meaning mappings in lexicons
Matthew Stave. Best Postdoc presentation award at SLE 2021. Distribution of information beyond the word.
Mojgan OsmaniDifferential Argument Marking and Verbal Semantics: A Study of the Subject Clitics in Sanandaji Kurdish (ZOOM)
Nikolaus Ritt and Irene BoehmMorphotactic ambiguity affects the evolution of irregular past tense and participle forms ending in
sonorant+/t/
Egbert FortuinNegation in natural language: the function of non-compositional negation in the Dutch privative construction
Anna Balas, Magdalena Wrembel, Jarosław Weckwerth, Nicole Rodriquez, Zuzanna Cal and Karolina RatajPerception in L2 and L3: The relationship between English and Norwegian vowel assimilation patterns and the Euclidean distances
Stephanie Rotter and Mingya LiuRegister sensitivity of negative concord in American and British English