Practical Information - Generative Linguistics in the Old World

GLOW 36 WORKSHOP PROGRAM II:Syntactic Variation and ChangeTuesday 2 April8.45–9.00 Welcome and announcements9.00–10.00 Keynote speakerMarit Westergaard (University of Tromsø)Microvariation as Diachrony10.00–10.20 Coffee break10.20–11.00 Maria Luisa Zubizarreta (University of Southern California)Stages of grammaticalization of the assertion structure inSpanish varieties11.00–11.40 Theresa Biberauer and Ian Roberts (Cambridge University)Size Matters: on Diachronic Stability and Parameter Size11.40–11.50 Short break11.50–12.30 Jan Don, Paula Fenger and Olaf Koeneman (Amsterdam)Restricting language change through micro-comparativeanalysis12.30–13.50 Lunch break13.50–14.30 Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel)and Marjo van Koppen (Utrecht University)Lexical items merged in functional heads: Thegrammaticalization path of ECM-verbs in Dutch dialects14.30–15.10 Will Oxford (University of Toronto)'Same', 'different', 'other', and the historical microsyntax of theDegree Phrase15.10–15.30 Coffee break15.30–16.10 Elizabeth Cowper (University of Toronto) and Daniel Hall (SaintMary's University)A neoparametric approach to variation and change in Englishmodals17