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Program

Wednesday 17 September 2025
9:00 9:30 Arrival & coffee
9:30 10:30 Invited speaker: Theresa Biberauer (Cambridge University/University of Stellenbosch) TBA
10:30 11:00 Coffee
11:00 11:45 Nicholas Catasso Verb-Third in German: Syntax, register and social perception
11:45 12:30 Melissa Farasyn Verb-third in French Flemish: a microvariational approach to the interplay between syntax, discourse and social context
12:30 14:00 Lunch
14:00 14:45 Mercedes Durham Non-canonical word order in South East Wales – Understanding socio-syntactic patterns
14:45 15:30 M. Carmen Parafita Couto, Emma Bierings, Iarina Albu, Laia
Colina Fortuny, Corrine Foko Mokam, Floor van den Bergh,
Anne Beatty Martínez, Felix Ameka and Enoch Aboh
Comparative Insights into Spanish-English Code-Switching
15:30 16:00 Coffee
16:00 16:45 Predrag Kovačević, Stef Grondelaers, Marko Simonović,
Stefan Ivanović and Martina Podboj
Social Meaning in Syntax: Finite vs. Non-Finite Complements in Serbo-Croatian
16:45 17:30 Katharina Pabst Exploring the relationship between stance and morphosyntactic variation: More evidence from complementizer (that)
19:00 Dinner
Thursday 18 September 2025
8:30 9:00 Arrival & coffee
9:00 9:45 Cora Cavirani-Pots and Stef Grondelaers Adverbial diminutives and contrastive reduplication in a post-colonial setting: A pilot study into the morphology of Curaçaoan Dutch
9:45 10:30 Kobe De Neve, Hanne Smet, Timothy Colleman and Anne-Sophie
Ghyselen
Is er iets ermee aan de hand? The Syntax of Pronominal Adpositional Constituents in Surinamese, Netherlandic, and Belgian Dutch as a Barometer for Endonormative Standardization
10:30 11:00 Coffee
11:00 11:15 Lightning talks poster session
11:15 12:30 Poster session
  1. Hielke Vriesendorp, Nathaniel Dziura and Johanna Grace
  2. Benedetta Piceni, Chiara Arcadio, Stefania Marzo, Silvia
    Natale and Stefano De Pascale
  3. Corrine Minette Foko Mokam, Enoch Oladé Aboh, Maria del
    Carmen Parafita Couto, Felix K. Ameka and Anne
    Beatty-Martínez
  4. Tekla Gabunia
  5. Dana Serditova and Katie Carmichael
  6. Aria Adli and Nico Lehmann
  7. Boyi Zheng
  1. Social and Internal Constraints on Dialect Levelling of Grammatical Variation in Sheffield English (1981-2020)
  2. The social meaning of morpho-syntactic variation in contemporary Italian: on the role of mobility in language change
  3. Aspects of French-Gbe verbal constructions
  4. From karoche to davbustot: Domain-Specific Grammaticalization of Borrowings in Georgian
  5. Meet Me on Tomorrow by Your Mama’s House: A sociolinguistic investigation of phrasal constructions in New Orleans English
  6. Modeling register at the interface between social factors and grammar
  7. Versified Mandarin: Its Socio-Syntactic Parsing
12:30 14:00 Lunch
14:00 14:45 Astrid Cleeren and Stefania Marzo A lifespan perspective on grammatical gender marking in urban vernaculars: Flemish Citétaal as a case study
14:45 15:15 Coffee
15:15 16:15 Invited speaker: Emma Moore (University of Sheffield) TBA
16:15 16:30 Closing discussion