Language Change: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
Hosted by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 20-21 January 2021
Zoom
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
17:00 – 17:10 Gathering and Opening remarks
Session 1
17:10-17:17 Paul Kiparsky Stanford University
Syntactic change: Traversing the fitness landscape
17:18:-17:25 Benjamin Sluckin Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Itamar Kastner University of Edinburgh
A locative human impersonal subject: Metonymy-driven change at the interfaces
17:26-17:33 Ekaterina Georgieva Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
How before turns into rather: Evidence from Turkic and Uralic
17:34-17:41 Noa Bassel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
A reflexive cycle
17:42-17:49 Alexandra Simonenko Ghent University
Evolution of pre-nominal possessives: A comparative quantitative
study of French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian
17:50-18:10 Discussion
18:10-18:25 Break
Session 2
18:25-18:32 Adina Moshavi Bar-Ilan University
Ordinality in Biblical Hebrew temporal expressions: A diachronic study
18:33-18:40 Tania Notarius Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Polis – the Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities
Middle voice in Ugaritic: The N-stem and Gt-stem in typological and historical perspective
18:41-18:48 Christian Locatell Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Subjectivity and subordination: The interaction between syntax and semantics
18:49-18:56 Kevin Grasso Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The resultative to perfective to past path in Semitic
18:57-19:04 Nora Boneh Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tracking auxiliary come
19:05-19:12 Aynat Rubinstein Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Recurrent change: On the semantics and pragmatics of pathways
19:13-19:30 Discussion
19:30-19:40 Break
Session 3
19:40-19:47 Shane Steinert-Threlkeld University of Washington
Two approaches to explaining semantic universals
19:48-19:55 Chiara Gianollo University of Bologna
Cycles of renewal and scalar meaning
19:56-20:03 Remus Gergel Universität des Saarlandes
Cyclicity effects in the development of presuppositions
20:04-20:20 Discussion
Thursday, January 21, 2021
18:00 – 18:03 Gathering and Opening remarks
Session 4
18:03-18:10 Patience Epps University of Texas at Austin
Exploring rates of replacement in grammatical morphology
18:11-18:18 Freek Van de Velde Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Turning ideographic questions into nomothetic operationalizations
18:19-18:26 Shira Tal Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson University of Edinburgh, Eitan Grossman and Inbal Arnon Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The impact of information structure on the emergence of differential object marking: An experimental study
18:27-18:34 Svetlana Dachkovsky, Wendy Sandler Haifa University,
and Rose Stamp Bar-Ilan University
Time will tell: grammaticalization of time expressions in Israeli Sign Language ISL
18:35-18:42 Tamás Halm Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Why almost and almost are not even approximately the same: The diachronic semantics of approximatives in Hungarian
18:43-18:50 Ashwini Deo Ohio State University
Demonstrative contrasts and the loss of exophoricity
18:51-19:07 Discussion
19:08-19:17 Break
Session 5
19:17-19:24 Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal Hebrew University of Jerusalem
How can history inform semantics: A formal study of external negation
19:25-19:32 Lieven Danckaert CNRS, Université de Lille and Chiara Gianollo University of Bologna
Latin quidem: the interplay of scalarity with negation and contrast in semantic change
19:33-19:40 Omri Amiraz and Eitan Grossman Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Why new future markers are often banned from negative contexts
19:41-19:48 Regine Eckardt Universität Konstanz
The perfect winner: On the historical pragmatics of preterite loss in Southern German varieties
19:49-20:05 Discussion
20:05-20:30 Wrap up discussion
Language Change: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives 