Formal Diachronic Semantics 7
Formal Diachronic Semantics (FoDS) is a forum dedicated to the exploration of semantic change, carried out within the paradigm of formal semantics/pragmatics. FoDS7 will be hosted by the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics (Budapest, Hungary) on November 10-11 2022, in a hybrid format: we hope that most participants will be able to participate in-person, but it will also be possible to participate on-line.
Invited speakers
Nora Boneh (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Regine Eckardt (University of Konstanz)
Remus Gergel (Saarland University)
Invited student speaker:
Marco Degano (University of Amsterdam)
Important dates
Abstract submission deadline (extended): 31 July 2022 (23:59 Central European Standard Time)
Notification of decision: 16 September 2022
Conference: 10-11 November 2022
Program
| November 10, Thursday | |
| 8:15-9:15 | Registration |
| 9:15-9:30 | Opening remarksKatalin É. Kiss (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics) |
| Session 1, chair: Remus Gergel | |
| 9:30-10:30 | Yesterday’s syntax is today’s syntax? Multi-verb constructions featuring GO and COME in the history of Hebrew Nora Boneh (invited speaker, Hebrew U) [slides] |
| 10:30-11:10 | The diachronic development of the Upper-German Perfekt Julia Braun (U Tübingen) [handout] |
| 11:10-11:30 | Coffee break |
| Session 2, chair: Cécile Meier | |
| 11:30-12:10 | The subjectification of the existential “there” Bozhidara Hristova (Saarland U / U Stuttgart) |
| 12:10-12:50 | Situational semantics of demonstratives and the definiteness cycle (online talk) Alexandra Simonenko (U Ghent) & Anne Carlier (U Sorbonne) [slides] |
| 12:50-14:00 | Lunch break |
| Session 3, chair: Julia Braun | |
| 14:00-14:40 | How did the ‘politeness effect’ develop in the case of two Hungarian adverbs, majd ‘later’ and talán ‘perhaps’? Viktória Virovec (U Debrecen) [slides] |
| 14:40-15:20 | On the grammaticalization of not-at-issue content. The case of mirative ‘um-zu’-clauses in German Łukasz Jędrzejowski (U Cologne) [slides] |
| 15:20-15:40 | Coffee break |
| Session 4, chair: Regine Eckardt | |
| 15:40-16:40 | Developing a human diachronic simulation paradigm Remus Gergel (invited speaker, Saarland U) [slides] |
| November 11, Friday | |
| Session 1, chair: Nora Boneh | |
| 9:30-10:30 | Meaning interfaces in language change: free choice, unconditionals and appositives Marco Degano (invited student speaker, U Amsterdam) [slides] |
| 10.30-11.10 | Situational biases in diachrony: how register distinctions emerge (online talk) Jordan Chark (ZAS) |
| 11.10-11.30 | Coffee break |
| Session 2, chair: Josh Phillips | |
| 11.30-12.10 | From Old English to Middle English: Universal Quantifiers Sigrid Beck (U Tübingen) [handout] |
| 12.10-12.50 | Deverbal Adjectives and Negatability Patterns Cécile Meier & Helmut Weiß (U Frankfurt) |
| 12:50-14:00 | Lunch break |
| Session 3, chair: Sigrid Beck | |
| 14:00-14:40 | Diyari ‘marla’ : the pathway from intensifier to aspectual NPI Josh Phillips, Jack Sullivan, Will Wegner & Claire Bowern (Yale U) |
| 14:40-15:20 | The Dynamic Standpoint on the Semantics of Localizers in Mandarin Chinese (online talk)Chihjen Cheng (U Ottawa) |
| 15:20-15:40 | Coffee break |
| Session 4, chair: Marco Degano | |
| 15:40-16:40 | Semantic Universals and Language Change — How to become a determiner Regine Eckardt (invited speaker, U Konstanz) [slides] |
| 16:40-17:10 | Business meeting |
| 17:10-17:20 | Closing remarks |