Conference program

15:00 - 18:00

Palazzo San Tommaso, Foyer

Piazza del Lino 2

8:30 - 18:00

Palazzo San Tommaso, Aula Bottigella

Piazza del Lino 2

Registration 8:30 - 9:45

Please ask for directions at the reception

Opening

Complexity, stability, simplification and innovation: A kaleidoscope for observing the Germanic islands in the Italian Alps

Livio Gaeta (Torino)

SESSION 1

Chair: Ivanović

How Processing and Prediction influence German Object Order

Sophia Voigtmann (Kassel) & Joanna Helen Wall (Saarland)

The Question of Fixed Base Orders in German 

Tibor Kiss, Alicia Katharina Börner & Simon Masloch (Bochum)

Preposition stranding and pronominal asymmetries in Old English

Stefan Ivanović & Tanja Milićev (Novi Sad)

The position of the finite verb in Wymysorys

Stefan Savić (Zürich)

Lunch break 13:00 - 14:30

SESSION 2

Chair: Bucci

Non-Canonical agreement in Central Scandinavian

Luca Riccardelli (Sapienza - Roma)

There is (not) another way: Partitive of Negation

Giacomo Bucci (Universiteit Gent/Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

Possessive dative constructions

Ann-Marie Moser (Zürich) & Thilo Weber (Leibniz-Institut, Mannheim)

Coffee break 16:00 - 16:30

SESSION 3

Chair: Caprioli

Contact-induced word order change in Old Swedish and Middle Low German 

Ben de Slagmulder (Ghent)

Social dinner 20:30

9:30 - 18:15

Palazzo San Tommaso, Aula Bottigella

Piazza del Lino 2

Weather expressions in diachrony: Evidence from Icelandic

Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir (University of Iceland, Reykjavík)

SESSION 4

Chair: Mathys

Reconstruction of Verb Valency Properties for Proto-Germanic

Henrik Hornecker (Berlin Humboldt)

Null referential arguments in Old Norse

Audrey Mathys (Louvain-la-Neuve)

The genesis of Dat-Gen with verbs of lacking

Jóhanna Barðdal & Laura Bruno (Ghent)

Argument realization in Old English

Tania Ahmad & Eystein Dahl (Poznań)

Patterns of Valence Realization in Everyday Communication

Lea Muller (Trier)

Lunch break 13:00 - 14:30

SESSION 5

Chair: Smith

Finiteness shifts in participial constructions

Dominika Skrzypek & Marta Woznicka (Poznań)

Small Talk: The Syntax of Diminution Across Germanic

Pamela Goryczka (Brno)

Dutch Directional Locative Alternation

Meg Smith (Fryske Akademy, Leeuwarden)

Coffee break 16:00 - 16:30

SESSION 6

Chair: De Bastiani

When can pronouns function as demonstratives? 

Kerstin Hoge (Oxford)

Rethinking the grammaticalization of the definite article in Older German 

Marco Coniglio (Göttingen) & Chiara De Bastiani (Venezia)

Final remarks 18:00 - 18:15

Light refreshments at Caffè dell'Università 18:30