FoDS 8

FORMAL DIACHRONIC SEMANTICS 8

PROGRAM

September 28th

9:45-10:00    Welcome

10:00-11.00  INVITED SPEAKER: Ashwini Deo (The Ohio State University)

                     TBA

11:00-11:30  M.Teresa Espinal, Cristina Real-Puigdollers, & Xavier Villalba (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB)

From epistemicity to verum: the diachronic semantics of vaya in Spanish

11:30-11:45  Coffee Break

11:45-12:15  Marco Biasio (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia)

Severing Intersubjectivity from Old East Slavic and Old Stokavian Performatives

12:15-12:45  Remus Gergel & Maike Puhl (Universität des Saarlandes)

Saarland nommo “again”: evidence for a structural co-imprint of iteratives

12:45-14:15  Lunch

14:15-14:45  Ariel Cohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

Type-shifting and the origins of the progressive and the habitual: Evidence from the Biblical Hebrew participle

14:45-15:15  Raquel Montero Estebaranz (Universität Konstanz)

Mood Alternations. On the Divergent Trajectory of Negated Imperatives and Negated Declarative Clauses

15:15-15:45  Coffee Break

15:45-16:45  INVITED SPEAKER: Klaus von Heusinger (Universität zu Köln)

                     Meaning-change in the development of Differential Object Marking

September 29th

10:15-11:00  INVITED SPEAKER: Chiara Giannolo (Universita di Bologna)

                     (An)other story: synchrony and diachrony of Italian altro ‘other’

11:00-11:30  Martin Kopf (Universität des Saarlandes)

Even in the beginning

11:30-12:00 Coffee Break

12:00-12:30  Kurt Erbach (Heinrich Heine Universität of Düsseldorf)

The diachrony of countability in English

12:30            Lunch