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GLAC 22 2016
22nd Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference University of Iceland May 20–22, 2016
Program [May 13, 2016]
Friday May 20, 2016 Session A Árnagarður 201 7.30–8.30 Syntax Chair: Dorian Roehrs Margaret Blevins & Helen Schmel
Heritage Varieties Chair: Karen Roesch Nicole Dehé (University of Konstanz) The intonation of polar questions in North American Icelandic
Phonology Chair: Þorgeir Sigurðsson David Fertig (University at Buffalo (SUNY)) Staying weird: Analogical change in high frequency forms
Peter Hallman (University of Vienna) The German double object alternation and its consequences for the treatment of ‘inherent’ case Luke Adamson & Ava Irani (University of Pennsylvania) On the (in)extractability of nominal PP adjuncts
Blake Allen & Gunnar Ólafur Hansson (University of British Columbia) How to fill a paradigm in Icelandic
Frans Gregersen (The University of Copenhagen LANCHART Centre) Some issues in the investigation of Danish in the Americas Gertrud Reershemius (Aston University) Remnants of Western Yiddish in rural northwest Germany: New insights from the LCAAJ archive
Andrew Kostakis (Indiana University) Rhotic allophony in ProtoGermanic
Michael Dunn (Uppsala University) Naming the body in Germanic: etymology and evolution
Jeannette Marsh (Baylor University) The role of Gallo-Romance contact in the West Germanic Consonant Gemination
Tonya Kim Dewey, Martin Findell, Paul Heggarty, Cormac Anderson & Russell D. Gray (University of Minnesota, Morris, …) CoBL: The Germanic test case
Syntax Chair: Avery Andrews Robert A. Cloutier (University of Amsterdam) P positions in older Dutch
Phonology Chair: Aðalsteinn Hákonarson Colin Grant (Indiana University) The Interaction of West Germanic Gemination and Sievers’ Law in Upper German Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy & Joe Salmons (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Contrastive Hierarchy Analysis of Old English Vowels T. A. Hall (Indiana University) Phonemic and derived glides in Middle High German
Historical Linguistics Chair: Magnús Snædal Joseph Salmons (University of Wisconsin–Madison) Linkages and West Germanic subgrouping
Kari Kinn (University of Oslo) Bare singular nouns in Middle Norwegian
10.00–10.30
10.30–12.00
13.00–14.00
Historical Linguistics Chair: Guðrún Þórhallsdóttir Cynthia Johnson, Guus Kroonen, Leonid Kulikov, Esther Le Mair, Sigríður Sigurðardóttir & Jóhanna Barðdal: How to Succeed in Germanic without Really Trying
Coffee in Árnagarður
Jolien Scholten
Morphology Chair: Tonya Kim Dewey Matthias Fingerhuth (University of Texas at Austin) Separable Prefix Verbs in Binnendeutsch and Swiss Standard German Arash Farhidnia
(UiL OTS, Utrecht University) Definitely possessive: The role of the definite article in possessive structures in eastern varieties of Dutch
(Radboud University Nijmegen) Complex verbs in German: Univerbation, incorporation and back formation as word formation tools
Ingunn Hreinberg Indriðadóttir & Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson (University of Iceland) Weight effects and Heavy NP Shift
Milena Šereikaitė (University of Pennsylvania) Towards a typology of Baltic lexical prefixes and Germanic particles
Heritage Varieties Chair: Haraldur Bernharðsson Hyoun-A Joo (Penn State) Split auxiliary system in heritage German: Restructuring at the syntax-semantics interface Donald Reindl (University of Ljubljana) Swimming against the Tide: Slovenian Influence on Gottschee German Zebulon Pischnotte (University of Utah Asia Campus) Colloquial speech in Bitburger German
Plenary Lecture in Háskólatorg HT-102 — Chair: Tonya Kim Dewey 12.00–13.00
Session E Árnagarður 422
Morphology Chair: Katrín Axelsdóttir Þorsteinn Indriðason (University of Bergen) On Bound Intensifiers in Icelandic
(U. of Texas at Austin, U. Potsdam) The progressive aspect in Kiezdeutsch
8.30–10.00
Session B Session C Session D Árnagarður 301 Árnagarður 311 Árnagarður 304 Conference registration in Árnagarður (first floor)
Kristján Árnason (University of Iceland) Internal and external effects in the linguistic history of Scandinavia: a view from Iceland Lunch in Háskólatorg
Rebecca Colleran (University of Edinburgh) Keeping it in the family: Disentangling contact and inheritance in closely related languages
Joshua Bousquette (University of Georgia) The Perfective-Durative Contrast in Gothic: Evidence for Language Contact
14.00–16.00
Friday May 20, 2016 — continued
Session A Árnagarður 201
Session B Árnagarður 301
Session C Árnagarður 311
Session D Árnagarður 304
Session E Árnagarður 422
Syntax Chair: Ingunn Indriðadóttir John te Velde (Oklahoma State University) Licensing V2-violations in German: prosodic remapping at the syntaxPF interface Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson & Elísa Guðrún Brynjólfsdóttir (University of Iceland) V2 in a sign language
Pragmatics Chair: Richard J. Whitt Maria Bonner (Syddansk Universitet) Zur historischen Pragmatik der Formalität
Heritage Varieties Chair: Kristín Jóhannsdóttir Christine Evans (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Auf der linken Seite da: Left dislocation in Northern German
Historical Linguistics Chair: Kevin French
Alexander Lorenz (University of Texas at Austin) Case Syncretism in Texas German
Sonja Müller (Universität Wuppertal) Assertive outsiders: V1- and WoVE-clauses in German
Patricia Wiley (UCLA) “Gerade nicht!” — “Eben doch”: Focus particles, information structure & interlocutor perspectives Sarah Fagan (University of Iowa) Moving forward and its German counterpart
Gísli Harðarson & Susanne Wurmbrand (University of Connecticut): Forging Agreement: on the relation between fake indexicals and agreement
Torsten Leuschner & Sylvia Jaworska (Ghent Univ. & Univ. of Reading): Cross-Linguistic Discourse Analysis: New Vistas for Lexical Borrowing Research
Phonology Chair: David Fertig Katrin Fuchs (The University of Texas at Austin) Changes in German Vowel Length Marking in the 16th and 17th Century Franziska Kruger (Indiana University Bloomington) Fortis-lenis neutralization in Upper Saxon & its implementation in the phonological grammar Erin Noelliste (Indiana University) Bavarian German r-Flapping: Evidence for a dialect-specific Sonority Hierarchy Johanneke Sytsema (University of Oxford) What happened to Open Syllable Lengthening in Frisian?
Syntax Chair: Cynthia Allen Johan Brandtler & David Håkansson (Ghent University, Uppsala University) Heading North: The syntactic status of Swedish negation Christine B. Østbø Munch (Queen Maud University College) On the change from verb-initial negative imperatives to negationinitial imperatives in Norwegian
Morphology Chair: Robert Howell Roslyn Burns & Reem Alattas (University of California, Berkeley) Paradigm Internal vs External Motivations: The Case of Ablaut Classes in Plautdietsch Paula Fenger (University of Connecticut) Stress is what gives you the allomorphs! Allomorphy in Dutch derivational affixes Jac Conradie (University of Johannesburg) Sources of Afrikaans modal particles
16.00–16.30
16.30–18.00
18.00–19.00
B. Richard Page (Penn State) Language Maintenance and Language Policy in the GermanAmerican Church Karen Roesch (IUPUI) Documenting Dialect Death: German Dialects in Southern Indiana
Bettelou Los (University of Edinburgh) Old English Word Orders and Discourse: the case of Ælfric Katerina Somers (Queen Mary, Univ. of London) Asyndetic verb-final clauses in Otfrid von Weissenburg’s Evangelienbuch Matteo Tarsi (University of Iceland) Loanwords vs. native words in Old and Middle Icelandic
Coffee in Árnagarður Heritage Varieties Chair: Hans Boas Joel Stark
Phonology Chair: Jeannette Marsh
(University of Wisconsin-Madison) German-English Contact in EighteenthCentury Pennsylvania: Evidence from Newspaper Advertisements
Lisa Yager (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Last In, First Out? Exploring Case Loss in Wisconsin Heritage German Lara Schwarz (Pennsylvania State University) Antecedent Preferences in Bilingual German Populations
Samantha Litty (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Where’s the FON in that? The development of ‘final obstruent neutralization’ in WI German varieties Arjen P. Versloot & Elzbieta Adamczyk (Univ. of Amsterdam; Univ. of Wuppertal & Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) Apocope and imutation in West Germanic root nouns
Historical Linguistics Chair: Matteo Tarsi David Willis (University of Cambridge) Reconstructing focus and constituent negation in West Germanic Eline Laperre (Queen Mary, University of London) Resilient preverbal negation in historical Dutch Neil G. Jacobs (Ohio State University) What Yiddish loans tell us about language
Wine reception cohosted by Chargée d’Affaires of the Federal Republic of Germany Ms Diane Röhrig — in Háskólatorg (Litla-Torg)
Saturday May 21, 2016 Session A Árnagarður 201
Session B Árnagarður 301
Session C Árnagarður 311
Session D Árnagarður 304
Session E Árnagarður 422
Syntax Chair: Christopher Sapp
Syntax Chair: Þórhallur Eyþórsson
Heritage Varieties/Sociolinguistics Chair: Zebulon Pischnotte John Bellamy & Kristine Horner (University of Sheffield) Debating Luxembourgish The Lived Experiences of Young People in a Multilingual Context
Phonology/Historical Linguistics Chair: Tracy A. Hall
Historical Linguistics/Sociolinguistics Chair: Ludger Zeevaert
Elliott Evans & Rex Sprouse (Indiana University) Double Definiteness, Diachrony, and Danish
8.00–9.30
Fabian Heck (University of Leipzig) The Non-Monotonic Derivation of Scandinavian Object Shift
Marjolein Poortvliet (University of Oxford) Descriptive Perception Verbs as ‘flavoured’ Copulas: Evidence from Dutch Andrew Kraiss (University of Maryland University Colleges-Europe) The Grammatical Gender Cycle
Alexander Pfaff (CASTL/University of Tromsø) Inside and Outside the Icelandic DP: Some Notes on Adjectival Inflection
Jonas Keller (University of Zurich) Unusual Gender Assignment in the Lindisfarne and West-Saxon Gospels
Syntax Chair: Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir Christopher D. Sapp (University of Mississippi) Sá in Old Icelandic: from demonstrative to relative
Semantics Chair: Paul Roberge
Sociolinguistics Chair: Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson Bettina Larl (University of Innsbruck) Geolocating German on Twitter
Phonology/Historical Linguistics Chair: Laura Catharine Smith Robert Kristof Paulsen (University of Bergen) The High, the Low, and the Ugly
Syntax Chair: Joan Maling Antonio Fábregas & Michael Putnam (Univ. of Tromsø; Penn State) Deriving Passives Without Passive Voice
Carlee Arnett & Valerie Wuerz (UC Davis) A Cursory Attempt at a Network Analysis of ‘es’ in the History of German Jonah Rys (Ghent University) Functional and non-functional use of the ACC/DAT-alternation with German two-way prepositions.
Linda Evenstad Emilsen (Østfold University College) Contrastivity in a Norwegian dialect
Jade Jørgen Sandstedt (University of Edinburgh) Written or Sound Pattern? Disambiguating Old Norwegian Vowel Harmony
Dennis Wegner (University of Wuppertal) Deriving perfect and passive from a single form? Past participial identity in Germanic
Sverre Stausland Johnsen (University of Oslo) Dialect change and diffusion in South-East Norway
Tam Blaxter & Kari Kinn (Univ. of Cambridge, Univ. of Oslo) Broken vs. unbroken forms of the 1st sg. pronoun in Middle Norwegian
Hans-Martin Gärtner (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Did the Valkyries Maintain Individual To-Do-Lists? Some Remarks on the Grammar and Use of Adhortatives
9.30–10.00
10.00–11.30
Roslyn Burns (University of California, Berkeley) Island Hopping: Dialects in the New World Plautdietsch Speech Archipelago Hans Boas & Todd Krause (The University of Texas at Austin) A new approach towards a systematic comparison of GermanLanguage Islands
Aðalsteinn Hákonarson (University of Iceland) The Icelandic Quantity Shift and Monosyllabic Lengthening Þorgeir Sigurðsson (University of Iceland) Were distinctions made by accents in Old Norse? Gjert Kristoffersen (University of Bergen) Spreading of tonal accent in West Norwegian, categorical or gradual?
Jacob Reis (The University of Texas at Austin) “I frog mi wos i do dua”: Analysis of Orthography in Styrian Song Lyrics Tim William Machan (University of Notre Dame) English, Norwegian, and the Politics of Genealogy
Coffee in Árnagarður
Edwin Ko & Quirin Würschinger (Georgetown Univ., LMU Munich) Addressing the Actuation Problem of the Icelandic New Transitive Impersonal
Jim Wood (Yale University) Reflexive Datives and Argument Structure
Caterina Saracco & Alberto Agnesina (Univ. of Pavia, Theol. Insti. San Gaudenzio, Novara) The conceptualization of mind, soul and heart in Old Saxon Heliand: Some help from Cognitive Linguistics
11.30–12.00
Poster Session in Tröð Plenary Lecture in Háskólatorg HT-102 — Chair: Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson
12.00–13.00
Höskuldur Þráinsson (University of Iceland) There is no “Icelandic A and B” nor “Faroese 1 and 2” Lunch in Háskólatorg
13.00–14.00
Lane Sorensen (Indiana U.-Bloomington) Middle Low German Conservation and Infiltration in “Die Niederdeutschen Leberreime des Johannes Junior v. J. 1601”
Saturday May 21, 2016 — continued
14.00–16.00
Session A Árnagarður 201
Session B Árnagarður 301
Session C Árnagarður 311
Session D Árnagarður 304
Session E Árnagarður 422
Syntax Chair: Matthew Whelpton Ásgrímur Angantýsson & Dianne Jonas (Univ. of Iceland, Goethe University Frankfurt) On the Syntax of Adverbial Clauses in Icelandic
Morphology Chair: Joseph Salmons
Sociolinguistics/SLA Chair: Carlee Arnett Lindsay Preseau (UC Berkeley) Acquiring a Multiethnolect: Kiezdeutsch meets the Refugee Crisis
Phonology/Metrics Chair: Patrick Farrugia Klaus Johan Myrvoll (University of Oslo) The prefix loss in Early Nordic: A re-examination of the metrical evidence
Syntax Chair: Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson Eli Rugaard & Christer Johansson (University of Bergen) Do balanced bilinguals trip in the garden path?
Lara Schwarz & Nora Hellmold (Pennsylvania State University) The consequences of Age of Acquisition on second language narration strategy Donald Vosburg (The Pennsylvania State University) The Effects of Group Dynamics on Language Learning and Use in an MMORPG
Douglas P.A. Simms (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) Rǫgnvaldr jarl Kali Kolsson’s LV 1 and the Bugge-Sieversche Regel
Dorian Roehrs (University of North Texas) Adjectives are in Phrasal Positions
Megan Hartman (University of Nebraska at Kearney) Old Norse and Old English Hypermetric Connections
Valeria Molnar (Lund University) Questions in Focus – Focus in Questions
Maria Grozeva (New Bulgarian University) L2/L3 Strategies in language teaching and learning
Mikael Males (University of Oslo) Semantic Typology in Old Icelandic Poetological Terminology
Federica Cognola & Roland Hinterhölzl (Ca Foscari, Venezia) High subjects, criterial positions and restrictions on wh-movement
Historical Linguistics Chair: Martin Findell
Syntax Chair: John te Velde
Dirk Pijpops, Katrien Beuls, Freek Van de Velde (University of Leuven, Vrije Universiteit Brussel): Explaining the success of the Germanic weak suffix in the face of a transparent strong inflection
Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir & Þórhallur Eyþórsson (Ghent University, Univ. of Iceland) Two types of Impersonalization in Icelandic
Paul Roberge (Univ. of North Carolina Chapel Hill): The Incredible Weakness of the Germanic Third Weak Verb Class
Kristín Jóhannsdóttir, Michael Putnam & Volker Gast, (Univ. of Akureyri, Penn State Friedrich-Schiller, University of Jena): Fine-tuning event structure: OVERmodification in Icelandic
Mary Allison, Matthew Boutilier, Robert Howell & Katerina Somers (Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison; Queen Mary, Univ. of London): Pronominal cliticization, analogy and additive morphology: The case of Old High German -mês Laura Catharine Smith, Katharina Schuhmann, Charlotte Champenois, Nicola Schmerbeck
Gísli Rúnar Harðarson (University of Connecticut) Heads up! On DP internal movement in Icelandic
(Brigham Young, Univ. of Bonn, Ball State U.): The Role of Prosody in Shaping
German Plurals: A Study
16.00–16.30
Coffee in Árnagarður Syntax Chair: Margrét Jónsdóttir
16.30–18.00
Joan Maling & Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir (Brandeis Univ., Univ. of Iceland) The new transitive impersonal construction in Icelandic Einar Freyr Sigurðsson (University of Pennsylvania) Breaking down the passive/active dichotomy Elisabet Engdahl & Anu Laanemets (Univ. of Gothenburg, Univ. of Copenhagen): Distinguishing impersonal and prepositional passives in Mainland Scandinavian
18.00–18.45 19.30
Corpus Linguistics Chair: Katerina Somers
Bettina Larl, Claudia Posch, Gerhard Rampl, Irina Windhaber (University of Innsbruck) The Alps as a Corpus Richard J. Whitt (Univ. of Nottingham): Using Corpora to Track Changing Thought Styles: Evidentiality, Epistemology, and Early Modern English Christopher Tabisz (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison): “Kurz vor Schön”: Linguistic Attitudes and Perceptions of Berlinish, Magdeburgish, Leipzigish and SG
SLA Chair: Tonya Kim Dewey
Ashley Roccamo (University of Southern California) Measuring the effects of peer feedback on L2 German pronunciation gains Martje Wijers (Ghent University) Path-breaking predicates: Verb complementation in Swedish as a Foreign Language.
Katrín Axelsdóttir (University of Iceland) All the King’s Runes
Jelke Bloem (University of Amsterdam) Are there meaning differences between verb cluster word orders?
Kevin French (University of Iceland) Representation of the Old Norse goddess name Gefjun in Icelandic manuscripts
Yana Chankova (South-West University) Direct Object Scrambling and Double Object Scrambling: Information Structural Implications
Ludger Zeevaert (The Árni Magnússon Inst. for Icelandic Studies): Differences in the use of indirect-speech constructions in manuscripts of Njáls saga
Kajsa Djärv (The University of Pennsylvania) Toward a typology of copular sentences
SGL Business Meeting in Árnagarður 301 Banquet at Bryggjan brugghús bistro & brewery at Grandagarður 8
Posters in Tröð Dana McDaniel & Jazmyn Sylvester-Cross (University of Southern Maine) Wh-extraction possibilities in Germanic: The role of the language production system Denny Berndt, Vincent DeLuca, David Miller & Jason Rothman (University of Reading, Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø) Remapping of Aspectual Features in Adult L2 Acquisition: Am vs. Beim in L2 German Hans Boas, Marc Pierce & Todd Krause (University of Texas at Austin) A New Collaborative Interface for Online Language-Lesson Design Judith Atzler & Guido Halder (Washington & Jefferson College) Welcome to Lindenstrasse: A German series for all levels and all skills Margrét Jónsdóttir (University of Iceland) Icelandic Experiencer Verbs, subject case alternations, and obligatory reflexive pronoun Mario Ruiz & Gabriel, Christoph (Hamburg University, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) VOT in Pomerano — Portuguese Bilinguals Mary Blockley (Univ. of Texas at Austin) Singular indefinite pronouns in Old English and the insufficiency of case Melody Pattison (University of York) Suburban and Rural Variation Between /y/ and /u/ in Achterhoeks Shawn Nissen, Teresa Bell, Laura Catharine Smith, & Kate E. Lester (Brigham Young University) The Efficacy of Using Electropalatographic Biofeedback in Second Language German Instruction Valentina Concu (Purdue University) Weinrich’s Tense Categories of Narration and Comment in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials
University of Iceland campus GLAC venue: Árnagarður, Tröð, Háskólatorg
Reykjavík Center GLAC: University of Iceland campus, Bryggjan Restaurant