diachronic generative syntax conference fifth diachronic generative syntax conference digs 5 york uk 30 may 1 june 1998 pleased announce fifth diachronic generative syntax conference held york uk 30 may 1 june 1998 york historic town interest excellent facilities communications invited speakers monique dufresne fernande dupuis universite du quebec montreal ans van kemenade vrije universiteit amsterdam anthony kroch university pennsylvania david lightfoot university maryland ian roberts university stuttgart nigel vincent university manchester scheduled halfday session monday morning 1 june syntactic change learnability plans progress publish edited volume papers conference note information links additional information found digs 5 web site http www york ac uk lang13 wish added digs 5 mailing list please send message digs york ac uk message contain request added list include name affiliation postal address email address telephone number fax number conference programme session 1 saturday morning 30 may nigel vincent university manchester invited speaker syntactic change optimality theory null arguments latin romance eric haeberli university geneva syntax nonpronominal subjects old middle english alexander williams university pennsylvania diachrony dummies middle english jaklin kornfilt syracuse university moving relative agreement turkic time session 2 saturday afternoon 30 may tony kroch university pennsylvania invited speaker statistical fingerprints grammatical parameter settings chung hye han university pennsylvania evolution dosupport english imperatives eir 237kur rognvaldsson university iceland syntax imperative old scandinavian thorbjorg hroarsdottir university tromso interacting movements history icelandic lars olof delsing lund university ov vo variation old swedish session 3 sunday morning 31 may ian roberts university stuttgart invited speaker theoretical implications syntactic infixation anna roussou university wales bangor wh interrogatives classical greek modern greek miriam butt aditi lahiri universitat konstanz status light verbs historical change ana maria martins university lisbon polarity items romance underspecification lexical change session 4 sunday afternoon 31 may ans van kemenade hil vrije universiteit invited speaker negation verb position gothic early west germanic frank beths vrije universiteit reconsidering loss v movement jacob hoeksema university groningen verb positions dutch present participle clauses bettelou los vrije universiteit categorial status old english infinitives business meeting session 5 monday morning 1 june learnability session david lightfoot university maryland invited speaker cues contingency change mark arnold university maryland wherefore lost english v raising new evidence syntactic triggers acquisition john lumsden universite du quebec montreal analogical change acquisition inflectional paradigms ted briscoe university cambridge evolutionary perspectives diachronic syntax session 6 monday afternoon 1 june monique dufresne fernande dupuis universite du quebec montreal invited speakers role verbal prefixes status grammatical change thorhallur eythorsson university manchester development syntactic affixation baltic david willis university oxford reanalysis old russian periphrastic verbal constructions john whitman cornell university relabelling alternates 1 montse battlori dillet francesc roca urgell universitat de girona value ds old spanish modern spanish 2 gertjan postma leiden university negative polarity syntactic ghe particle middle dutch 3 nancy mae antrim university texas el paso becoming clitic prenominal possessive romance 4 redouane djamouri waltraud paul ehesscnrs fundamental changes vp structure chinese reflected distribution adverbial pps conference location activities except conference banquet held king manor mediaeval building centre york close minster king manor part university located main campus conference activities held main campus university campus 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