Workshop at ALS, Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th July 2006,
University of Queensland

Centre for Research on Language Change

Grammatical change: theory and description

The Centre for Research on Language Change (CRLC) will be holding a workshop at the Australian Linguistic Society conference in July 2006. The workshop will take place on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th July at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

Summary of Workshop Theme

The theme of the workshop will be Grammatical change: theory and description. We welcome submissions dealing with any of the following:

• data-based studies of grammatical change in particular languages

• theoretical aspects of change

• contact-induced change

• language-internal change

• reconstruction of changes

Please note that the format of the sessions will be 20 minutes for each paper, followed by 10 minutes for questions.

Selected papers will be published with Pacific Linguistics as part of the CRLC's publication series, Studies in Language Change.

Programme

Saturday 8th July

Time	Presenter	Title
09:00 -- 10:00	Randy LaPolla (Plenary)	The how and why of syntactic relations
10:00 -- 10:30	Erich Round	Yoking phonology in the service of syntactic reconstruction: the case from Tangkic
10:30 -- 11:00	Dianne Jonas	Syntactic variation in Shetland Dialect
11:00 -- 11:30	MORNING TEA
11:30 -- 12:45	ALAA plenary (Felicity Cox)
12:45 -- 02:00	LUNCH
02:00 -- 02:30	Winnie Chor	Directional verbs as kickoffs in grammaticalization processes: Cantonese verbal particles as an illustrative example
02:30 -- 03:00	Priscilla Ngan	Does degrammaticalization exist in Medieval Chinese
03:00 -- 03:30	James McElvenny	The diachronic development of directional complement constructions in Mandarin

Sunday 9th July

Time	Presenter	Title
09:45 -- 11:00	ALS Plenary (Rosalind Thornton)
11:00 -- 11:30	MORNING TEA
11:30 -- 12:00	Joe Blythe	From Ethic Datives to Number Markers in Murriny Patha
12:00 -- 12:30	Ilana Mushin and Jane Simpson	Interactions between pragmatics and syntax in the development of Australian pronominal clitics
12:30 -- 01:00	Nicholas Evans, Ruth Singer and Bruce Birch	Clause merger and the evolution of the Iwaidja/Mawng reciprocal construction
01:00 -- 02:00	LUNCH
02:00 -- 02:30	Cynthia Allen	Substantival adjectives in the history of English and the nature of syntactic change
02:30 -- 03:00	Barbara Kelly	Adding to the class of modals: Ought it be considered grammaticization?
03:00 -- 03:30	Heidi Quinn	How to get from have to have got
03:30 -- 04:00	AFTERNOON TEA
04:00 -- 04:30	Laurie Reid	Vowel grade harmony in syntactic change
04:30 -- 05:00	Ritsuko Kikusawa	Development of Applicative Constructions in Austronesian Languages
05:00 -- 05:30	Anna Pucilowski	On the gradual nature of syntactic change: support from split-ergativity in Maori
05:30 -- 06:00	Celeste Louro	Argentinian River Plate Spanish: the preterit and the present perfect

Workshop coordinated by:
Rachel Hendery (rachel.hendery@anu.edu.au)
Jennifer Hendriks(jennifer.hendriks@anu.edu.au)

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