12th ichl , manchester , august 1995 here is the revised programme for the twelfth international conference on historical linguistics , hulme hall , manchester , 13-18 august 1995 . please note new dialling codes and revised phone numbers at the university of manchester up to the time of the conference : + 44 ( 0 ) 161-275 3194 or 3042 ( phone ) + 44 ( 0 ) 161-275 3187 ( fax only ) conference e-mail address : ichl1995 @ man . ac . uk bookings are still welcome ( discounted price until 15 june ) : e-mail / phone for info . if you can't attend , you can still get the book of abstracts as a member of ishl ( 15 pounds subscription ) . delegates whose papers have been accepted are reminded that a few camera-ready abstracts are still awaited : send to arrive by 30 june at the very latest . in extremis , e-mail text is preferable to fax . the book of abstracts will be mailed with final circular on 10-11 july . conference programme : sunday 13 august trip to grasmere and dove cottage ( lake district ) registration monday 14 august 9 . 00 welcoming address 9 . 05 plenary : alice harris , the mechanism of syntactic change session 1 10 . 05 wolfgang wurzel , on the development of incorporating structures in german 11 . 00 carol chapman , a subject-verb agreement hierarchy : evidence from analogical change in modern english dialects 11 . 30 dieter kastovsky , morphological restructuring : the case of old english and middle english weak verbs session 2 10 . 05 dudley k . nylander , creolisation and the nautical jargon theory : synchronic and diachronic perspectives 11 . 00 jacques arends , the development of clause linkage in suriname creoles 11 . 30 adrienne bruyn , complex prepositional phrases in sranan : grammaticalisation , substrate influence or both ? session 3 10 . 05 paul newman , the history of negation in chadic 11 . 00 ton van der wouden , the development of marked negation systems 11 . 30 jack hoeksema , the story of _ ooit _ session 4 10 . 05 silvia luraghi , zero anaphora of the direct object in classical greek 11 . 00 anatoliy polikarpov & richard schupbach , age of a word in the evolutionary model of language 11 . 30 renate raffelsiefen , semantic stability in derivationally related words 12 . 00 plenary : ian roberts , markedness , creolization and language change session 1 2 . 00 peter hendriks , kakari particles and the merger of the predicative and attributive forms in the japanese verbal system 2 . 30 kaoru horie , the cognitive nature of grammaticalization of overt nominalizers in modern japanese 3 . 00 anthony aristar , nominal type and the grammaticalization of cases session 2 2 . 00 leonid kulikov , vedic causative nasal presents and their thematic counterparts 2 . 30 warnow , don ringe , ann taylor & levison , character - based reconstruction of a linguistic cladogram 3 . 00 a . t . c . fox , on simplicity in linguistic reconstruction session 3 2 . 00 jean - luc azra , historical apparition of phonemic french nasal vowels 2 . 30 j . a . van leuvensteijn , vowel variation and adaptation in 16th and 17th century holland : language problems for immigrants 3 . 00 paul m . lloyd , the " invisible hand " at work : phonemic change as a " phenomenon of the third kind " session 4 2 . 00 masayuki ohkado , verb ( projection ) raising in old english 2 . 30 ans van kemenade , topics in old and middle english negative sentences 3 . 00 susan pintzuk , postposition in old english session 1 4 . 00 wallace l . chafe , borrowing within polysynthetic words 4 . 30 marianne mithun , the legacy of recycled aspect session 2 4 . 00 harold paddock , a deconstruction of pie laryngeals 4 . 30 tim pulju , indo - european * d - , * l - , and * dl session 3 4 . 00 isabel forbes , twenty years in the life of french colour terms 4 . 30 andrei danchev , word - final / b / / d / / g / in the history of english session 4 4 . 00 young - mee yu cho , language change as reranking of constraints 4 . 30 bjarke frellesvig , some recent changes in the tonology of kyoto japanese 5 . 00 plenary : theo vennemann , sprachbuende and language families in prehistoric europe evening reception at residence of university vice - chancellor , professor martin harris tuesday 15 august session 1 9 . 00 april mcmahon , insertion and deletion sound changes modelled in three phonological frameworks 9 . 30 mario saltarelli , from latin meter to romance rhythm : a parametric account 10 . 00 elke ronneberger - sibold , restructuring the rules for stress assignment in german ? evidence to the contrary 11 . 00 seiichi suzuki , the decline of the foot as a mora counting unit in early germanic 11 . 30 rachel mines , a generative model of old english poetic meter session 2 9 . 00 william j . ashby & paola bentivoglio , preferred argument structure across time and space 9 . 30 nicholas ostler , the development of transitivity in chibchan languages of colombia 10 . 00 theodora bynon , why has ergativity developed only in indic and iranian ? 11 . 00 allan dench , comparative reconstitution 11 . 30 michela cennamo , late latin pleonastic reflexives and the unaccusative hypothesis session 3 9 . 00 grev corbett & norman fraser , network morphology , synchrony and diachrony : an approach to syncretism 9 . 30 concepcion company - company , the interplay between form and meaning in the evolution of spanish : the case of cannibalistic datives 10 . 00 joel rini , the vocalic formation of the spanish verbal suffixes _ - ais / - as , - eis / - es , - is , - ois / - os _ 11 . 00 herbert schendl , morphological variation and change : the emode indicative plural 11 . 30 christiane dalton , english deverbal adjectives before and after the " french revolution " session 4 9 . 00 martin ehala , how a man changed a parameter value : the loss of sov in estonian subclauses 9 . 30 sharon millarm , language prescription : a success in failure 's clothing ? 10 . 00 richard j . watts , the changing voices of english grammarians : an approach to historical discourse analysis 11 . 00 john hewson , tense and aspect in proto - indoeuropean and ancient greek 11 . 30 vit bubenik , the development of aspect from ancient slavic to modern bulgaro - macedonian 12 . 00 plenary : barry blake , verb affixes from case markers : some australian examples session 1 2 . 00 ricardo bermudez - otero , ambisyllabicity in english historical phonology 2 . 30 donka minkova , constraint ranking in middle english stress-shifting 3 . 00 c . b . mccully , word - level stress rules in english historical phonology 4 . 00 robert w . murray , quantity in early middle english : orm 's phonological-orthographic interface 4 . 30 john hutton , the development of secondary stress in old english session 2 2 . 00 william croft , bringing chaos into order : mechanisms for the actuation of language change 2 . 30 suzanne kemmer , analogy in syntactic change : the rise of new constructions 3 . 00 margaret winters & geoffrey nathan , bringing the invisible hand to cognitive grammar 4 . 00 attila dobo , gyori & iren hegedus , a cognitive-naturalist look at the connection between inflectional and derivational morphology 4 . 30 peter koch , cognitive aspects of semanic change and polysemy : the " semantic space " have / be session 3 2 . 00 d . nurse , change in tense and aspect 2 . 30 anju saxena , diverging sources of newer tense / aspect morphology in tibeto - kinnauri 3 . 00 carmen terzan - kopecky , kategoriale entfaltungsprozesse : das tempussystem des deutschen 4 . 00 christopher lyons , the origins of definiteness marking 4 . 30 harry perridon , is the definite article in jutlandic a borrowing from german ? session 4 2 . 00 paul sidwell , vowel height and register tone in mon - khmer languages : evidence for vowel colouring laryngeals 2 . 30 martha ratliff , language alignment within the hmong - mien ( miao - yao ) family 3 . 00 cigdem balim , syntactic change in turkic languages : karaim and gagauz 4 . 00 margaret sharpe , the evolution of alawa , a north australian language : internal and external evidence 4 . 30 ian greenm the grammaticisation of verb compounding in northern australia 5 . 00 plenary : aditi lahiri , pervasion , simplification and optimization in language change evening reception at manchester town hall wednesday 16 august session 1 9 . 00 kate burridge , recent developments in modal auxiliaries in pennsylvanian german 9 . 30 thomas f . shannon , pragmatics vs grammar : on the functional motivation for some word order changes in dutch vs german 10 . 00 anna giacalone ramat , on some grammaticalization patterns for auxiliaries session 2 9 . 00 xavier dekeyser , loss of proto-typical meanings in the history of english semantics 9 . 30 laurel brinton , the origin of epistemic parentheticals in english 10 . 00 nik gisborne , the subjectivisation hypothesis : counter-evidence from the history of subject-raising ` perception ' verbs in english session 3 9 . 00 denis dumas , variation between the french clitics _ y _ and _ lui _ : semantics vs morphology 9 . 30 pieter van reenen & lene schoesler , declension in old and middle french : two opposing tendencies 10 . 00 hava bat - zeev shyldkrot le verbe _ voir _ : le developpement d ' un auxiliaire en francais session 4 9 . 00 jan terje faarlund , the changing structure of infinitival clauses in nordic 9 . 30 susan clack , have and be in brythonic celtic 10 . 00 alan h . kim , is quantifier - floating in japanese a recent innovation ? contextual analysis of the nq construction in old japanese 10 . 30 poster session and coffee session 1 11 . 00 paul t . roberge , multilevel syncretism and the evolution of afrikaans periphrastic possessive with _ se _ 11 . 30 muriel norde , grammaticalization vs reanalysis : the case of possessive constructions in germanic session 2 11 . 00 michael barlow , anaphors , agreement and grammaticalization 11 . 30 anna siewierska , on the origins of the order of agreement and tense markers session 3 11 . 00 chris pountain , capitalization 11 . 30 christiane marchello - nizia , the status of very low-frequency data as evidence in historical linguistics session 4 11 . 00 fred weerman , syntactic effects of morphological case 11 . 30 eirikur rcgnvaldsson & hroarsdottir , the stability and decline of ov word order in the icelandic vp 12 . 00 plenary : susan herring , ) from nominal to verbal predication in old dravidian : the discourse roots of category change afternoon free evening reception , buffet and exhibition at john rylands university library irish pub crawl thursday 17 august 9 . 00 plenary : paul kiparsky , the development of ergativity session 1 10 . 00 merja kytoe & voutilainen , developing the english constraint grammar parser for the analysis of historical texts 11 . 30 jonathan hope , auxiliary _ do _ : stylistics as a key to understanding language change 12 . 00 sylvia adamson , the historical present in early modern english session 2 10 . 00 marc picard , morphophonemic change as a product of frequency 11 . 00 roger lass , when is a sound change ? on telling the story of / r / - loss and its friends in english 11 . 30 betty phillips , word frequency and lexical diffusion in english stress shifts session 3 10 . 00 bridget drinka , the development of aspect in indo - european : clues from chronology 11 . 00 lilly lee chen , the evolution of the verb _ shi _ ` to be ' in chinese 11 . 30 carol justus , lexical and auxiliary have in indo - european session 4 10 . 00 andreas blank , towards a new typology of semantic change 10 . 30 beatrice warren , what is metonymy ? 11 . 30 christian kay , homonymy revisited : a multifactorial approach 12 . 00 plenary : anthony kroch , the time course of language change session 1 2 . 00 thomas cravens & luciano giannelli , sociolinguistic disturbance of implicational sound change 2 . 30 terttu nevalainen & helena raumolin - brunberg , reconstructing the social dimensions of diachronic language change 3 . 00 joyce tang boyland , a corpus study of the history of the past counterfactual in english : a case of grammaticalisation ? session 2 2 . 00 monique dufresne , fernande dupuis & mireille tremblay , expletives and change in french : a morphological approach to diachronic syntax 2 . 30 josep fontana , the syntax of old spanish narratives 3 . 00 cecilia poletto , the diachronic development of enclitic subject pronouns in lombard dialect session 3 2 . 00 claudia parodi & karen dakin , hispanisms in american indian languages : evidence for old spanish phonological reconstruction 2 . 30 kimberley parsons , some constraints on the borrowability of syntactic features ( and why none of them work ) 3 . 00 edith h . raidt , a comparison of morphological changes in the dutch of postwar immigrants in south africa , and those in the cape dutch of the early 18th century session 4 2 . 00 henning andersen , a new frontier in slavic historical dialectology 2 . 30 maria manoliu - manea , ) from _ deixis ad oculos _ to discourse markers via _ deixis ad phantasma _ 3 . 00 anneli sarhimaa , syntactic parallels in russian and karelian : some methodological problems 4 . 00 business meeting 5 : 00 plenary : elizabeth traugott , the role of the development of discourse markers in a theory of grammaticalization time not yet assigned : john charles smith exaptation and the evolution of personal pronouns in the romance languages evening conference dinner at adlington hall friday 18 august workshops 1 . changes in numeral systems organiser : jadranka gvozdanovic bernard comrie language change and cultural change in haruai numerals jadranka gvozdanovic types of numeral changes james hurford modelling emergence of numeral systems by genetic algorithm carol justus pre - decimal structures in counting and metrology eugenio ramon lujan martinez how the indo - european numeral system evolved into decimal 2 . the rise and fall of complex sentences organisers : lyle campbell and alice harris there will be papers by lyle campbell , allan dench , andrew garrett and spike gildea . there will also be a general discussion session . 3 . the influence of the hansa and low german on european languages organisers : laura wright and ernst hakon jahr there will be papers by kurt braunmueller , anne haavaldsen , ernst hakon jahr , jim milroy , muriel norde and laura wright . saturday 19 august trip to haddon hall and chatsworth