Formal Diachronic Semantics 7

Szervező: Elméleti és kísérletes szintaxis kutatócsoport•Általános és Magyar Nyelvészeti Intézet

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