Thursday, 16^th May 2019

09.20 Conference opening

09.30 Lutz Marten - Alignment and identity in language change (Plenary talk)

10.30 Coffee break

11.00 Ruth Kempson, Arash Eshghi, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Julian Hough & Christine Howes - Reflections on language, cognition, normativity and evolution

11.40 Matthew Purver, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Gijs Wijnholds & Ruth Kempson -Incremental Semantic Judgements

12.20 Stergios Chatzikyriakidis - Constructive Dynamic Syntax

13.00 Lunch break

14.00 Tori Larsen - The Dynamics of Control: A PRO Analysis

14.40 Hannah Gibson - An incremental account of the light verb ‘piga’ in Swahili

15.20 Miriam Bouzouita - Documenting Dialects in the Digital Age

16.00 Conclusion of 1^st day session

19.30 Conference Dinner at Brown's Kitchen, Valletta Waterfront.

Friday, 17^th May 2019

09.30 Plenary: Eleni Gregoromichelaki - DS grammars as resources for the control of distributed action systems (Plenary talk)

10.30 Coffee break

11.00 Christine Howes & Arash Eshghi - Feedback Relevance Spaces: A Dynamic Syntax account of dialogue data

11.40 Vladislav Maraev, Arash Eshghi, Julian Hough, Christine Howes & Chiara Mazzocconi - Laughter relevance spaces

12.20 Jieun Kiaer - Grammar for Non-Verbal Gestures: Translanguaging in Dynamic Syntax?

13.00 Lunch break

14.00 Open discussion - The future of Dynamic Syntax

16.00 Conference conclusion

Programme Committee

Stavros Assimakopoulos (University of Malta), Miriam Bouzouita (Ghent University), Ronnie Cann (University of Edinburgh), Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (University of Gothenburg), Arash Eshghi (Heriot-Watt University), Hannah Gibson (University of Essex), Eleni Gregoromichelaki (Heinrich Heine Universitaet & King's College London), Julian Hough (Queen Mary University of London), Christine Howes (University of Gothenburg), Ruth Kempson (King's College London), Jieun Kiaer (University of Oxford), Lutz Marten (SOAS University of London), Matthew Purver (Queen Mary University of London)