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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) The locus of sociosyntactic variation: a neo-emergentist generative perspective
10:30 11:00 Coffee
11:00 11:45 Nicholas Catasso Verb-Third in German: Syntax, register and social perception
11:45 12:30 Mercedes Durham Non-canonical word order in South East Wales – Understanding socio-syntactic patterns
12:30 14:00 Lunch
14:00 14:45 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
14:45 15:30 Predrag Kovačević, Stef Grondelaers, Marko Simonović,
Stefan Ivanović and Martina Podboj		 Social Meaning in Syntax: Finite vs. Non-Finite Complements in Serbo-Croatian
15:30 16:00 Coffee
16:00 16:45 Katharina Pabst Exploring the relationship between stance and morphosyntactic variation: More evidence from complementizer (that)
16:45 17:30 Astrid Cleeren and Stefania Marzo A lifespan perspective on grammatical gender marking in urban vernaculars: Flemish Citétaal as a case study
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 10:45 Coffee
10:45 11:00 Lightning talks poster session
11:00 12:00 Poster session
  1. Benedetta Piceni, Chiara Arcadio, Stefania Marzo, Silvia
    Natale and Stefano De Pascale
  2. Corrine Minette Foko Mokam, Enoch Oladé Aboh, Maria del
    Carmen Parafita Couto, Felix K. Ameka and Anne
    Beatty-Martínez
  3. Tekla Gabunia
  4. Aria Adli and Nico Lehmann
  1. The social meaning of morpho-syntactic variation in contemporary Italian: on the role of mobility in language change
  2. Aspects of French-Gbe verbal constructions
  3. From karoche to davbustot: Domain-Specific Grammaticalization of Borrowings in Georgian
  4. Modeling register at the interface between social factors and grammar
12:00 13:00 Lunch
13:00 14:00 Invited speaker: Emma Moore (University of Sheffield) What does syntax mean? Understanding the social life of syntax
14:00 14:15 Closing discussion