Slide 1 From wh to y/n: The features of C Elly van Gelderen Konstanz, 24-25 January 2014 Slide 2 Aims 1. examine sources of certain interrogatives and look at some stages…

Slide 1 The Copula Cycle and semantic features Elly van Gelderen 13-14 March 2014 Bologna, Copula Workshop Slide 2 Outline A.A little on generative historical syntax B.Examples…

Slide 1 The Diachrony of Pronouns and Demonstratives: Feature Economy meets Old Norse Elly van Gelderen Tucson, 18 November 2011 [email protected] Slide 2 Aims To examine…

Slide 1 Minimalist Parsing Scott Drellishak CompLing Lab Meeting 2/1/2006 Slide 2 Overview Four parts: Four parts: 1. Whirlwind tour of Minimalism 2. Formal definition of…

Slide 1 Null arguments in Athabascan Elly van Gelderen and Mary Willie Arizona State University and University of Arizona ICHL, Osaka, 26 July 2011 Slide 2 Workshop description…

Slide 1 Changes in Anaphora throughout the history of English Elly van Gelderen Frankfurt, 9 March 2012 [email protected] Slide 2 Aims To examine the distribution of…

Semantic and formal features in language change Elly van Gelderen DGfS, March 2012 Outline 1 What are the Minimalist features? 2 How do they work in language change and why?…

Loss and gain in grammar: Aspect, case, and definiteness in Early Middle English Elly van Gelderen, Loss and Gain PhD Seminar 21 May 2015, Kristiansand, Norway Outline Why…

Minimalist Parsing Scott Drellishak CompLing Lab Meeting 2/1/2006 Overview Four parts: Whirlwind tour of Minimalism Formal definition of a Minimalist Grammar Algorithms for…

The Copula Cycle and semantic features Elly van Gelderen 13-14 March 2014 Bologna, Copula Workshop Outline A. A little on generative historical syntax B. Examples of Grammaticalization…