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2nd funding period (September 2018-August 2021)
2nd funding period (September 2018-August 2021)
- Carola Trips: Effects of language contact through translation: an explanation for the rise of impersonal and reflexive argument structures in Middle English. MEMC network conference, 6th-8th January 2020, University of Cardiff. [slides (PDF)]
- Michael Percillier: Mapping of lemmatisation annotation to multiple Middle English corpora. Workshop 20: (Semi–)automatic retrieval of data from historical corpora. SLE 2019, 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leipzig, 21-24 August 2019. [handout (PDF)] [slides (PDF)]
- Michael Percillier: A variationist approach to the spread of emergent features in Middle English. Journée d'études: Internal variation. Focus on diamesic variation / Variation, oral, écrit, Strasbourg, December 7th, 2018. [slides (PDF)]
- Carola Trips: The rise of the reflexive use of Middle English psych verbs under contact influence. The shaping of transitivity and argument structure, Pavia, October 25th-27th, 2018. [slides (PDF]
- Yela Schauwecker: Typological boundaries in historical language acquisition: Motion events in Anglo-French (1066-c15). The shaping of transitivity and argument structure, Pavia, October 25th-27th, 2018. [slides (PDF)]
- Achim Stein: Alternations involving datives in the history of French. The shaping of transitivity and argument structure, Pavia, October 25th-27th, 2018. [slides (PDF)]
- Achim Stein: FoDS 2018: "The development of the French passive: an event-semantic account". Formal Diachronic Semantics, Oslo, 13-14.9.2018.
1st funding period (September 2015-August 2018)
1st funding period (September 2015-August 2018)
- Michael Percillier: Adapting the Dynamic Model to historical linguistics: Case studies on the Middle English and Anglo-Norman contact situation. ICEHL 2018, Edinburgh; general session (contact). [handout (PDF)] [slides (PDF)]
- Carola Trips: Old English psych verbs as syntactic outliers in Middle English: the role of borrowed French verbs. ICEHL 2018, Edinburgh; Workshop 8: English as a syntactic outlier (Ian Roberts, George Walkden)
- Yela Schauwecker: Contact influence from Early English: Preverbal elements in Anglo-French. Summer School in Historical Linguistics of Germanic Languages (SUM-UP), Potsdam, June 27-30, 2018. [slides (PDF)]
- Michael Percillier: A Toolkit for lemmatising, analysing, and visualising Middle English Data. Corpus-based Research in the Humanities (CRH), Vienna, 25.-26.1.17. [slides (PDF)]
- Yela Schauwecker: Typological flexibility: Anglo-Norman morphology and its sociolinguistic implications. Premier Symposium International de Morphologie (ISMo). Lille, France, December, 13-15th 2017.
- Achim Stein, Carola Trips, Sarah Dessì Schmid, Katrin Axel-Tober: Workshop on Multilinguism and medieval language contact: syntax and semantics of verbs, XXXV. Romanistentag des DRV. Zurich, Switzerland, 8-12 October 2017, including the following three talks by members of BASICS (1st funding period):
- Richard Ingham: Contact influence and variation in the argument structure of later Anglo-Norman verbs. XXXV. Romanistentag des DRV. Zurich, Switzerland, 8-12 October 2017.
- Michael Percillier: Contact-induced variation and constructional competition? The case of prepositional secondary predicate constructions in Middle English. XXXV. Romanistentag des DRV. Zurich, Switzerland, 8-12 October 2017. [handout (PDF)] [slides (PDF)]
- Yela Schauwecker: Language contact from a typological perspective: the goal-constituent in Anglo-Norman. XXXV. Romanistentag des DRV. Zurich, Switzerland, 8-12 October 2017. [slides (PDF)]
- Michael Percillier: Dynamic modelling of medieval language contact: The case of Anglo-Norman and Middle English. XXXV. Romanistentag des DRV, Zurich, Switzerland, 8-12 October 2017. [handout (PDF)] [slides (PDF)]
- Michael Percillier: Allostructions and language contact: The case of prepositional secondary predicate constructions in Middle English. SLE 2017, 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Zurich, Switzerland, 10–13 September 2017. [handout (PDF)] [slides (PDF)]
- Richard Ingham: The Middle English Prepositional Dative: Grammaticalisation and Contact with French. SLE 2017, 50th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Zurich, Switzerland, 10–13 September 2017. [slides (PDF)]
- Carola Trips: Themed session Modelling language acquisition in diachrony at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, LAGB, Canterbury, 4-7 September 2017, including the following three talks by members of BASICS:
- Achim Stein, Shanley Allen: The development of the English recipient passive considered in the light of psycholinguistic research. LAGB, Canterbury, 4-7 September 2017, themed session: Modelling language acquisition in diachrony. [slides PDF]
- Yela Schauwecker, Achim Stein: The acquisition of argument-structure across typological boundaries: manner-of-motion verbs in Anglo-French. LAGB, Canterbury, 4-7 September 2017, themed session: Modelling language acquisition in diachrony. [slides (PDF)]
- Carola Trips, Helen Engemann: Cross-linguistic effects in written corpora from contact situations: diachronic and psycholinguistic perspectives. LAGB, Canterbury, 4-7 September 2017, themed session: Modelling language acquisition in diachrony. [slides (PDF)]
- Achim Stein: L2 acquisition of Old French structural dative as a trigger for the English recipient passive. ICHL 23, 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July - 4 August 2017, workshop "New Historical Perspectives on Non-Dominant Speakers as Agents of Contact-Induced Language Change". [slides (PDF)]
- Carola Trips: Copying of argument structure: a gap in borrowing scales and a new approach to contact-induced change. ICHL 23 International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July-4 August 2017. [slides (PDF)]
- Achim Stein: Changement syntaxique, contact linguistique et acquisition du langage. Diachro VIII, Université de Strasbourg, 2-4 February 2017. [Invited keynote talk] [slides (PDF)]
- Achim Stein, Yela Schauwecker: Automatic morphosyntactic and dependency annotation of the Anglo-Norman text database. Grammar & Corpora, IdS Mannheim, 9-11 November 2016. [slides (PDF)]
- Michael Percillier: Verb lemmatization and semantic verb classes in a Middle English corpus. KONVENS, Bochum, 19.-21.9. 2016. [poster (PDF)]
- Carola Trips: Borrowing of argument structure: a gap in borrowing scales. ICEHL 2016, 22-26 August Essen. [slides (PDF)]
- Richard Ingham: Middle English borrowing from French: nouns and verbs of interpersonal cognition in the Early South English Legendary. ICEHL 2016, Essen 22-26 August Essen.
- Achim Stein: Les verbes français outre-Manche: emprunt lexical ou réplication grammaticale? CILFR, Rome, 18.-23.7.2016.
- Carola Trips, Achim Stein, Richard Ingham: The role of French in the rise of the recipient passive in Middle English: can structural Case be borrowed? DiGS, Gent, 29.6.-1.7.2016. [slides (PDF)]
- Michael Percillier, Yela Schauwecker: Using Beth Levin’s verb-classes as an approach to investigate systematic semantic change in Middle English verbs of French origin: a case study. Association for French Language Studies Conference. Belfast, 2016. [slides (PDF)]
- Achim Stein: Old French Dependency Parsing: Results of Two Parsers Analysed from a Linguistic Point of View. LREC, Portoroz, 23.-28.5.2016. [poster (PDF)]
- Carola Trips, Achim Stein: A comparison of multi-genre and single-genre corpora in the context of contact-induced change. Conference on diachronic corpora, genre and language change, Nottingham 8.-9.4.2016. [slides (PDF)]
- Carola Trips, Richard Ingham: The form of argument structure under contact influence. LAGB, London, 15.-18.9.2015. [slides (PDF)]
- Carola Trips, Achim Stein: How passive were the English in medieval times? The development of the recipient passive in Middle English as a posssible case of contact-induced change. SLE, Leiden, 4.9.2015. [slides (PDF)]
- Richard Ingham: Choix des mots, choix des langues: contacts linguistiques en Angleterre médiévale. Colloque 'Le Choix des Mots', Poitiers, October, 2015.
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