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Programme

	Monday (D1)	Tuesday (D2)	Wednesday (D3)	Thursday (D4)	Friday (D5)
09:00–10:00	Paul Kiparsky[PL1] The word-order cycle	Aditi Lahiri[PL2] Phonological grammars: Pertinacious constraints on change	Lutz Marten[PL3] Historical linguistics and ubuntu translanguaging: Towards a model of multilingualism, language change and linguistic convergence in the Bantu Linguistic Area	Ans van Kemenade[PL5] Word order change, architecture and interfaces: Evidence from V2 word orders and their loss in the history of English	John Charles Smith[PL7] Fifty years of ICHL, 1973–2023
10:00–10:30	Coffee break
10:30–11:00	W1From climate change to language change, General sessions	W2Macro-level social motivations for language change: Contact, migration, and globalization, General sessions	Panel: Stefan Engelberg et al.[PL4] Empirical approaches to the dynamics of the lexicon – internet-based tools and research platforms at the Leibniz-Institute for the German Language	Panel: Nigel Vincent et al.[PL6] Linguistic models (with a focus on morphosyntactic change)	W8Filling in the diachronic gaps: the view of Old Iranian from the present, W11The diachrony of tone: connecting the field, W14Exploiting Standardized Cross-Linguistic Data in Historical Linguistics, General sessions
11:00–11:30
11:30–12:00
12:00–12:30
12:30–13:30	Lunch break
13:30–14:00	W1From climate change to language change, W5Conceptual metaphors in a comparative and diachronic perspective, W7Interactions at the dawn of history: Methods and results in prehistoric contact linguistics, General sessions	W2Macro-level social motivations for language change: Contact, migration, and globalization, W4Ambiguity (avoidance) as a factor in language change, W12From and Towards Demonstratives: Grammaticalization Processes and Beyond, General sessions	General sessions	W3Computational models of diachronic language change, W6Categorizers in diachrony, W9“Your birch-bark bag has something” – Grammaticalization and diachrony of locative, existential and possessive predication, W10The (Pre)History of the Languages of Japan – Current issues and prospects, W13New methods for old languages: the comparability of data, General sessions	W8Filling in the diachronic gaps: the view of Old Iranian from the present, W11The diachrony of tone: connecting the field, W14Exploiting Standardized Cross-Linguistic Data in Historical Linguistics, General sessions
14:00–14:30
14:30–15:00
15:00–15:30
15:30–16:00	Break				Farewell reception
16:00–16:30	W1From climate change to language change, W5Conceptual metaphors in a comparative and diachronic perspective, W7Interactions at the dawn of history: Methods and results in prehistoric contact linguistics, General sessions	W2Macro-level social motivations for language change: Contact, migration, and globalization, W4Ambiguity (avoidance) as a factor in language change, W12From and Towards Demonstratives: Grammaticalization Processes and Beyond, General sessions	Free afternoon: museums and nature	W3Computational models of diachronic language change, W6Categorizers in diachrony, W9“Your birch-bark bag has something” – Grammaticalization and diachrony of locative, existential and possessive predication, W10The (Pre)History of the Languages of Japan – Current issues and prospects, W13New methods for old languages: the comparability of data, General sessions	Farewell reception
16:30–17:00
17:00–17:30				Business meeting; then conf. dinner
17:30–18:00				Business meeting; then conf. dinner

Daily sessions (by last name)

Day 1: Monday, September 4

Registration begins at 8:00 in the ↗︎ New University building (Neue Universität).
Monday's plenary talk takes place in the “Alte Aula” on the first floor of the ↗︎ Old University building (Alte Universität), after that all lectures are in the New University building.

D1: General sessions

	Analytic methods Room: H1 (Chair: Haspelmath)	Historical morphology Room: H7, changed from H6 (Chair: Ritt)	History of tense and aspect Room: H12 (Chair: Arkadiev, Persohn)	Grammatical processes Room: H5 (Chair: Feltgen, Borjars)	Workshops
09:00–10:00	Paul Kiparsky[PL1] The word-order cycle (Location: Alte Aula, afterwards the New Aula)
10:00–10:30	Coffee break
10:30–11:00	Mailhammer & Harvey[184] The Comparative Method on a shoestring: Evaluating chance vs inheritance with a limited database	Maiden[43] A morphological freeloader: Ibero-Romance caber	Persohn[37] When ‘still’ comes to signal a near past	Ariztimuño & Salaberri[152] A new perspective on the evolution of mood and negation markers in Proto-Basque	Workshops: D1, D2, D4, D5 (see general programme)
11:00–11:30	Juge[270] The dominant-recessive hypothesis does not account for overlapping suppletion	Conradie[59] The Afrikaans auxiliary het 'have' from clitic to desinence	Coenen[127] The totalizing function of the Vedic particle cid	Börjars & Vincent[52] Auxiliary, light or lexical: the history of GO verbs
11:30–12:00	Pleyer et al.[128] The Interaction of the Cognitive and Community Level in Language Evolution: A Usage-Based Perspective	Hamans[67] A revolution in the history of affix-formation	Kümmel et al.[124] The development of future-referring constructions (in Indo-European languages)	Björnsdóttir et al.[203] The rise of raising in Early Modern English
12:00–12:30	Sims-Williams[147] Rehabilitating ‘non-proportional’ analogy	Janda & Joseph[135] West Germanic 2.sg. -st Revisited: The Role of Supervescence	Meisterernst[211] The diachronic development of future markers in Chinese	Gotthard[214] The rise of do-support during Scots anglicisation: Insights from the Parsed Corpus of Scottish Correspondence
12:30–13:30	Lunch break
13:30–14:00	Olivier[217] When change fails: evidence from French	Alfieri & Pozza[86] Adjectival typology in four ancient Indo-European languages	Juge[243] Periphrastic perfects reflect the lexical semantic distinctions of their auxiliaries	Manterola et al.[58] The history of the Basque pronoun zuek ‘you.all’ in relation to similar Romance developments
14:00–14:30	Gugán[228] Outliers in variation and change: atypical users of the variants of negation in Old and Middle Hungarian	Visser[111] Adverbs of degree from Old to Early New High German	Shamseddinov & Authier[31] Contact-driven grammaticalization and drift of new terminal tenses from go-periphrasis in Azeri and Kryz (East Caucasian)	Leddy-Cecere[116] The PRESENTATIVE > DEMONSTRATIVE Grammaticalization Pathway in Arabic
14:30–15:00	Gfeller[234] Persistence and Change of Colexifications in Indo-European	Fromm[129] The development of number strengthening in German declensional classes. A diachronic-dialectal corpus study	Kaye & Maisak[186] ‘Old presents’ and the layered history of the Andi verb	Tresoldi et al.[165] A Phylogenetic Study of the Cariban Family: Combining Linguistic and Archaeological Data
15:00–15:30	Gopal et al.[240] Correlations between linguistic features are reflected in their geospatial patterning: Introducing the geo-typological Sandwich Conjecture	Dedvukaj[68] Reanalyzing the Historical Constructions of Albanian Prepositions	Petré[206] Conservative pressure on the progressive: the passival	Feltgen[113] The shape of grammaticalization: matching the bridging context scenario with patterns of frequency use
15:30–16:00	Break
16:00–16:30	Saiz Sánchez[88] The periodization of the Pre-Classical French through the study of nennil and non in grammars, remarks and treatises (15th–17th centuries)		Mofidi[55] Competition in the aspect-mood domain: The standardization of a diachronic data set of New Persian	Mounole & Manterola[265] From distal demonstrative to resultative marker (through definite article): evidence from Basque
16:30–17:00	Tieku[281] Drivers of Diversity in the Construal of Quantity in the World’s Languages		Espíndola Moschner & Rosemeyer[148] Aspectual uses of saber + infinitive in South American Spanish varieties: a corpus-based study	Cluyse et al.[208] Latin placēre as an alternating Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat verb: A radically new analysis
17:00–17:30				Elens et al.[213] The Alternating Behavior of ‘Like’ in Old Norse-Icelandic: Facts or Fiction
17:30–18:00				Paterson, R.[280] Emergence of alternate argument alignment patterns in Northwest Kainji
18:00–18:45	Welcome reception

D1: Workshops

	W1 – RobbeetsFrom climate change to language change Room: H8	W5 – Kölligan & van BeekConceptual metaphors in a comparative and diachronic perspective Room: H4	W7 – Bjørn & KilaniInteractions at the dawn of history: Methods and results in prehistoric contact linguistics Room: H12a
10:00–10:30	Coffee break
10:30–11:00	Robbeets[W1.1] From climate change to language change
11:00–11:30	Berge[W1.2] Prehistoric climate changes and their effects on the development of the Eskaleut languages
11:30–12:00	Knapen[W1.3] Seals and sea ice: the (possible) climatic background of Amuric influence on Ainu
12:00–12:30	Miyamoto[W1.4] Spread of Proto-Japanese from Korean Peninsula to Japanese Archipelago influenced by natural environment change
12:30–13:30	Lunch break
13:30–14:00	Bradley[W1.5] Climate change and the dispersal of Proto-Tibeto-Burman	van Beek[W5.1] Clouds or Arrows? Conceptual Metaphors and the Etymology of Homeric Greek kertoméō ‘to mock; taunt’	Bjørn & Kilani[W7.0] Interactions at the dawn of history: An introduction to the workshop
14:00–14:30	Deng[W1.6] Climate change reflected in early Sino-Tibetan borrowings for crops and animals	Bartolotta[W5.2] The right-left conceptual mapping in a comparative and diachronic perspective	Hansen & Davletshin[W7.1] Tracing borrowings in and out of proto-Nahuatl
14:30–15:00	Sidwell[W1.7] Austroasiatic dispersal: sea levels and estuarine environments in late Neolithic Mainland SEAsia	Ginevra[W5.3] Indo-European Poetics meets Cognitive Linguistics: an integrated approach to the comparative reconstruction of metaphoric and metonymic expressions	Bostoen et al.[W7.2] Pre-Bantu substrate in Batwa Bantu languages of the Congo rainforest: A comparative study of nasal-oral stop cluster reduction
15:00–15:30	Heggarty[W1.8] Languages, ecology and climate change: Worldwide perspectives and the test-case of the Andes	Pompeo[W5.4] New meanings and old constructions: the conceptualization of ‘fearing’ and ‘protecting’ in Old Persian in comparison with other Indo-Iranian languages	Souag[W7.3] Prehistoric language contact in Berber
15:30–16:00	Break
16:00–16:30	Joseph[W1.9] (Im)mobility, climate, and language: Towards a geoanthropology of the Balkans	Roth[W5.5] Etymologies and emotions: Historical linguistics as a key to emotion categories	Widmer & Sonnenhauser[W7.4] Linguistic convergence in the Ancient Near East
16:30–17:00	Hudson[W1.10] Risk, resilience and the ecology of farming/language dispersals	Zampetta et al.[W5.6] Calidum hoc est! Metaphors of HOT and COLD in Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, and Latin	Wier[W7.5] Language Contact in the Ancient Caucasus: the View from Kartvelian
17:00–17:30		Kölligan[W5.7] Conceptual metaphors and etymology	Yurayong et al.[W7.6] An archaeolinguistic approach to Indianisation and Sinicisation of languages in Eastern Eurasia
17:30–18:00			Discussion

Day 2: Tuesday, September 5

D2: General sessions

	Historical morphology Room: H5 (Chair: Bostoen)	Historical phonology Room: H12a (Chair: Kümmel, Honeybone)	Historical lexical semantics Room: H2 (Chair: Luraghi)	Interfaces, semantics/syntax/ information structure Room: H9, changed from H6 (Chair: Barðdal)	Prosody, metrics Room: H8 (Chair: Pronk, Riad)
09:00–10:00	Aditi Lahiri[PL2] Phonological grammars: Pertinacious constraints on change (New Aula)
10:00–10:30	Coffee break
10:30–11:00	Rahman & Banerjee[169] The diachronic study of Bangla case marking system	Bonmann et al.[32] Towards a New Reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian Sound System	Fonteyn et al.[29] From ecological to lexical diversity: measuring vocabulary richness in historical corpora	Kisiel & Sobotka[51] The functional interpretation of semantic and syntactic shifts in the domain of North Slavic “conversive” preposition-pronominal constructions	Hualde[57] The diachrony of Basque accentuation: comparative method and internal reconstruction
11:00–11:30	Santamaria[263] The Greek suffix -θ- and the Caland System	Idiatov[65] Vowel reduction to /i/ in functional morphemes in Northern Sub-Saharan Africa	Farina et al.[114] WordNets and Treebanks. A study on the semantic field SEA in Latin and Ancient Greek classical prose	Huang[56] The Expression of Negation in Sabde Minyag	Västerdal[77] A case of Verschärfung in the Swedish dialect from Stora Rågö in Estonia
11:30–12:00	Torres-Latorre[176] Synthetic or analytical: factors which explain the formal variation of future and conditional in Old Catalan	Ongenae[66] Towards a Diachronic Account of P-lability in Latin: The Semantic Extension of the Active Intransitive as an Anticausative Strategy in Latin	Stratton[115] Where did wer go? Searching for s-curves in lexical change from Old English to Middle English	Chankova[97] As Syntax Interfaces with Information Structure: Old Icelandic Non-Canonical Scrambled Orders	Schulte[125] A re-assessment of Early Runic Metrics
12:00–12:30	Darling et al.[180] The Diachrony of Person-Number Marking of Subjects in Celtic	Šefčík[70] Bartholomae’s law revisited and remodelled	Bru[72] ‘So wrong that not even Menander uses it!’: the Atticist lexicographers on the Ancient Greek dialects	Bossuyt & Daveloose[104] Divergence and contact in Cappadocian concessive conditionals	Pronk[189] Tonogenesis in Baltic and Slavic languages
12:30–13:30	Lunch break
13:30–14:00	Meyer[187] Quasi-Suffixaufnahme in Classical Armenian	Tan[133] The Lost Cause: Inflection Class in Amarasi	Friedman[98] Obscenity as a Window into Slavic Linguistic History	Eyþórsson & Sigurðardóttir[126] Micro-level conflict in the productivity of anticausativization strategies: Evidence from the history of Icelandic	Hofmann[157] Evolving rhythms: A quantitative assessment of rhythmic alternation in the history of English
14:00–14:30	Round et al.[196] The natural stability of ‘unnatural’ morphology	Huback & Fontes Martins[94] R Deletion in Brazilian Portuguese: Diachronic and Synchronic Evidence for Lexical Diffusion	Serangeli[267] Rumpled chicken come home to roost. From [TO CARD – IMPURITY] to [TO PURIFY/HEAL (someone) – from DISEASE]. Evidence from Anatolian, Ancient Greek, and Old Indic	Voigtmann[142] Where do all the NPs go? – A corpus linguistic study on NP extraposition in German scientific writing from 1650 to 1900	Auderset[244] Is tone change more rapid and irregular than segmental change? – A Mixtec case study
14:30–15:00	Kozhanov[197] Diachronic stability of case functions: oblique in Romani dialects	Lionnet[225] Areal alignment and the loss of ATR harmony in Riverine Bua languages (Chad)	Concu[122] The use of “thank” and “to thank” in Old Saxon and Old High German	Tikhonov et al.[143] Pronoun history and infromation structure in 18th century non-religious Russian texts	Ritt & Hofmann[248] ‘Chained to the rhythm’: Using agent-based simulation to model the evolution of stress pattern diversity in English
15:00–15:30	Russell[212] Properties of Complex Compounds in Old Japanese	Chen[153] Verified Computational Rule-based Historical Phonology in Standard ML and Isabelle/HOL		Jonjić et al.[144] Isoglosses and distributions of features – Analyses of the Dialectological Atlas of the Russian Language	Riad[283] Hypotheses and scenarios in North Germanic tonogenesis
15:30–16:00	Break
16:00–16:30	Sigurðardóttir[220] From complex to simple prepositions in Icelandic: The case of á bak við to bakvið ‘behind’	Pierce[158] The History of /pf/ in New Braunfels German: Another Case of Rule Inversion?		Shcherbakova et al.[96] Diachronic pathways of definite articles distribution	Caso & Hale[273] Secondary predication in metrical texts: syntax-prosody mapping in ancient Indo-European languages
16:30–17:00	Wichers Schreur[221] Differential Place Marking and the reconstruction of the Proto-Nakh system of spatial cases	Reinöhl et al.[181] The loss of word-initial consonants in Kera’a – A challenge for phonological theory		Egedi[194] Demonstrative modifiers in Middle Hungarian: a complex picture of renewal	Boyeldieu[255] Tone split and tone replacement: toward the three-tone system of the ‘Western’ SBB Languages (Central Sudanic, Central Africa)
17:00–17:30	Strauss[235] Paradigmatic redundancy in the complement system of Basque	Honeybone[188] Can fortis stops spirantise without aspiration?		Dockum & Lu[245] Beyond the paradigm: Change and expansion in Thai pronominal reference	Litvinova[258] Reconstructing the Kugama tone system
17:30–18:00	Ulman[253] Genesis of the Japanese Compound Particles	Rapold[268] Secondary lateral obstruents in South Cushitic and their significance for the linguistic history of East Africa		Dömötör[175] From direct quotation to a chain of extended quotations: the history of Hungarian úgymond ’so to speak’

D2: Workshops

	W2 – Drinka et al.Macro-level social motivations for language change: Contact, migration, and globalization Room: H1	W4 – Zehentner & De CesareAmbiguity (avoidance) as a factor in language change Room: H4	W12 – Orqueda & González SaavedraFrom and Towards Demonstratives: Grammaticalization Processes and Beyond Room: H12
10:00–10:30	Coffee break
10:30–11:00	Drinka et al.[W2.1] Macro-level social motivations for language change: Contact, migration, and globalization
11:00–11:30	Nichols[W2.2] Reconstructing prehistoric sociolinguistics from modern grammatical evidence
11:30–12:00	Andersen[W2.3] Macro-changes at the dawn of history: The Slavic Expansion
12:00–12:30	Nijs et al.[W2.4] An information-theoretic approach to morphological and syntactic complexity in Dutch, English and German
12:30–13:30	Lunch break
13:30–14:00	Sobolev[W2.5] Contact as a major Motivation for Linguistic Change in the History of Balkan Slavic	Smirnova[W4.1] The role of ambiguity at different stages of diachronic change	Mithun[W12.1] Further Pathways Towards Demonstratives
14:00–14:30	Gvozdanović[W2.6] Ideology, language choice and language change	Ceuppens & De Smet[W4.2] Losing one’s senses: causes of obsolescence in lexical semantics	Brosig & Dolgor[W12.2] From spatial noun to medial demonstrative: the case of Khalkha Mongolian
14:30–15:00	Sowada[W2.7] Language use in Alsace from 1914 to 1919. Private texts between official legislation and individual identity construction	Felser[W4.3] Structural ambiguity in language comprehension and production	Ishiyama[W12.3] On the Development of Demonstratives into Personal Pronouns
15:00–15:30	Enrique-Arias[W2.8] Political influence as a factor in morphosyntactic variation: demonstratives este and aqueste in medieval Aragonese	Wolfsgruber[W4.4] Text-type specific conventions, subordinate environments and ambiguity (avoidance) in Medieval Spanish passive se-constructions	Stanković[W12.4] Types of contexts inducing the grammaticalization of demonstratives into definite articles – the case of a language without articles
15:30–16:00	Break
16:00–16:30	Mesthrie[W2.9] Macro sociohistorical forces, contact, convergence and the development of modern linguistic areas: insights from South Africa	Ritt & Böhm[W4.5] Sound changes tend to reduce morphotactic ambiguity	Næss[W12.5] Demonstratives taking over discourse: the grammaticalisation of deictic clitics in Äiwoo
16:30–17:00	Salmons[W2.10] Verticalization and the historical sociolinguistics of language maintenance	Seržant[W4.6] Ambiguity avoidance and DOM	Neri & de Vaan[W12.6] Origin and development of the Albanian demonstratives
17:00–17:30	Discussion	Haspelmath[W4.7] Ambiguity avoidance vs. expectation sensitivity as functional factors inlanguage change and language structures: Beyond argument marking	Luján & Ngomo Fernández[W12.7] From demonstratives to articles in the Celtic languages
17:30–18:00			Orqueda & Pooth[W12.8] Latin ecce: arguments in favor of its development from a PIE demonstrative

Day 3: Wednesday, September 6

D3: General sessions

	Interface with pragmatics Room: H5 (Chair: Gisborne)	Historical language norms Room: H4 (Chair: Schützler)	Translation Room: H2 (Chair: Mirelmann)	Periodisation/ reconstruction Room: H1 (Chair: Joseph)	Pragmatics, discourse Room: H9, changed from H6 (Chair: Sonnenhauser)
09:00–10:00	Lutz Marten[PL3] Historical linguistics and ubuntu translanguaging: Towards a model of multilingualism, language change and linguistic convergence in the Bantu Linguistic Area (New Aula)
10:00–10:30	Coffee break
10:30–11:00	Stefan Engelberg et al.[PL4] Empirical approaches to the dynamics of the lexicon – internet-based tools and research platforms at the Leibniz-Institute for the German Language (New Aula) “Empirical approaches to the dynamics of the lexicon” with Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus, Peter Meyer, Samira Ochs, Jan Oliver Rüdiger, Sascha Wolfer (Leibniz-Institute for the German language)
11:00–11:30
11:30–12:00
12:00–12:30
12:30–13:30	Lunch break
13:30–14:00	Bloom[80] Early New High German preposed adverbial clauses: integration and discourse functions	Currie[63] The emergence of a Welsh biblical literary standard and the evidence of early modern manuscript sermons	Mirelman[74] Translation as Royal Legitimation: The Concepts of “Source” and “Target” Language in Sumerian-Akkadian Royal Inscriptions from the Old Babylonian Period (2000–1600 BC)	Munteanu[73] Automating Comparative Reconstructions: Case Study in Austronesian and Ongan	Markopoulos[167] Epistemic modality out of 'playfulness': Modern Greek pezi
14:00–14:30	Halfmann & Korobzow[239] The Evolution of Spatial Orientation Systems in Mayan and Nuristani	Roth[79] Rhetoric, stylistic and argumentative strategies of German language female authors in the 17th century	Flaksman[150] Lost in translation. Onomatopoeic words in Old English glosses	Ricquier & Demolin[102] The Chronicle of Lingbe, an Extinct Bantu Language of East Congo	Bogdanowska-Jakubowska & Bogdanowska[75] Changes in the Polish address practices after the Second World War
14:30–15:00	Salvesen[109] Tracing the origins of resumption in Swedish	Schäfer[103] Dramatic texts as a source of stigmatization from below		Lindgren & Tresoldi[198] The Charition Mime: Decoding the “Indian Language” through Typology and Entropy	Boye[93] Grammaticalization as conventionalization of discursively secondary status: Isolating what is unique to grammaticalization, and deconstructing the lexical-grammatical continuum
15:00–15:30	Pan[38] ille ego and Recognitional Use of Demonstratives	Gelumbeckaitė et al.[247] The Postil Time Machine: “God help those who have begun writing down these books in Lithuanian”		Verkerk et al.[242] Exploiting phylogenetic modeling to uncover directionality in the emergence of universals	di Bartolo[154] Where and How? Request verb constructions in Ancient Greek
15:30–16:00	Westergaard & Boye[90] On semantic change in grammaticalization: Why it is never metaphoric	Daveloose[137] From de to ke: functional transfer of a topic shift marker from Turkish to Cappadocian Greek		Dinu et al.[279] Computational approaches for Romance related words discrimination	Potochnik[236] Doing Conversation Analysis in Latin: The Case of Hedging
16:00–16:30	Free afternoon: museums and nature
16:30–17:00
17:00–17:30
17:30–18:00

Day 4: Thursday, September 7

D4: General sessions

	Historical phonology Room: H2 (Chair: Holopainen)	Historical syntax Room: ES = “Ehemaliger Senatssaal” (Chair: Eyþórsson)	Historical morphosyntax Room: H9, changed from H6 (Chair: Rosenkvist)	Grammatical semantics Room: H6, changed from H7 (Chair: Igartua)	History of word order Room: H5 (Chair: Reinöhl)
09:00–10:00	Ans van Kemenade[PL5] Word order change, architecture and interfaces: Evidence from V2 word orders and their loss in the history of English (New Aula)
10:00–10:30	Coffee break
10:30–11:00	Nigel Vincent et al.[PL6] Linguistic models (with a focus on morphosyntactic change) (New Aula) “Linguistic models” with Kasper Boye, Ashwini Deo, Mirjam Fried, George Walkden
11:00–11:30
11:30–12:00
12:00–12:30
12:30–13:30	Lunch break
13:30–14:00	Holopainen[238] The emergence of word-initial voiced stops in Proto-Hungarian	Mendoza et al.[99] Anchoring patterns in emerging complement clauses in Slavic	Esher[105] Gascon u-perfects and the analogical foregrounding of inflectional class	Cennamo[173] Existential HAVE in Late Latin: insights on its diachrony in the passage to Romance	Poletto et al.[36] Learning how to count – a treebank analysis of V2 word order in two Medieval Romance languages through time
14:00–14:30	Hakimov[251] Fall of the jers: A multi-factorial analysis of the sound change progression in the Old Novgorodian birchbark texts	Inglese et al.[100] The anticausative alternation in Italian and Spanish: a historical corpus-based perspective	de Vos[121] Spread the German new(s): third-person reflexive zich in 17th-century Dutch newspapers	Benvenuto & Bichlmeier[278] The expression of predicative possession in Avestan	Brunner[112] The ordering of matrix clauses and subordinate causal clauses in the Old Bailey Corpus 1720–1913
14:30–15:00	Paterson, H.[282] Proto-Malayo-Polynesian: Some Phonetic Evidence for *l	Gosemann[118] Syntactic change and DLM in German: a corpus study	Gibson et al.[227] Morphosyntactic variation in Swahili: Tracing descriptions past and present	Igartua[254] Exploring the sources of animacy distinctions	Reetz[170] German V2-Argument Clauses from a Diachronic Perspective
15:00–15:30	Dockum & Wang[274] Quality vs. quantity: Contrast maintenance and tradeoff in Southwestern Tai vowels	Wolfe[78] Parallel Phases in the History of French	Jensen & Schack[84] Adverbs ending in -(l)ig ‘-ly’ and -(l)igt ‘-ly’ in Danish	Gobena[91] Predicative possession in the languages of the Ethiopian area	Dücker[171] Semantic factors influencing the change in position of German adnominal genitives in the 17th to 19th centuries
15:30–16:00	Break
16:00–16:30	Pounder[275] Morphologization of Phonological Processes as Integration	McCarley[233] Diachronic Null Subject Use across Latin American Spanish: Comparing Corpora	Rosenkvist[50] Structural ambiguity and reanalysis – the case of Swedish fortsatt	Pompei[272] The case of Italian seguente: an European instance of current change from verb to demonstrative?	Ebert et al.[219] Usage-based evolutionary models reveal context-specific word order change in Indo-European
16:30–17:00				Gisborne & Truswell[222] Contact and the origins of headed wh-relatives in Hungarian	Klævik-Pettersen[261] VSO orders in the Egeriae and Antonini Placentini itineraria; new evidence for the evolution towards Old Romance inversion systems
17:00–17:30	Business meeting, then conference dinner (New Aula)
17:30–18:00	Business meeting, then conference dinner (New Aula)

D4: Workshops

	W6 – Grestenberger et al.Categorizers in diachrony Room: H4	W9 – Däbritz“Your birch-bark bag has something” – Grammaticalization and diachrony of locative, existential and possessive predication Room: H12	W10 – Baudel et al.The (Pre)History of the Languages of Japan – Current issues and prospects Room: H12a
12:30–13:30	Lunch break
13:30–14:00	Grestenberger et al.[W6.0] Categorizers in diachrony	Däbritz[W9.1] “Your birch-bark bag has something” – Grammaticalization and diachrony of locative, existential and possessive predication	Satō & Bugaeva[W10.1] On stative/active intransitive split within tripartite alignment: A case of Kuril Ainu
14:00–14:30	Calabrese[W6.1] Inflectional vocalic pieces in Latin verbal morphology: a synchronic and diachronic analysis	Krasnoukhova et al.[W9.2] Negated but similar – Negation in the domains of locative, existential, and possessive predication: The case of Indo-European	Shimabukuro[W10.2] Debuccalization of *p in the Naha dialect of the Ryukyuan language
14:30–15:00	Alfieri[W6.2] On adjectivalizers in Rig-Vedic Sanskrit	Hengeveld[W9.3] The development of locative, existential and possessive predication from a functional perspective	Kinuhata[W10.3] Reconstructing the Proto-Japonic demonstrative system
15:00–15:30	Hasselbach-Andee[W6.3] One or All: The Development of Singulatives to Collectives in Semitic	Creissels[W9.4] ‘Be/have’ verbs in historical perspective	Baudel[W10.4] Reconsidering the classification of Hachijō: A glimpse from historical phonology
15:30–16:00	Break
16:00–16:30	Tan[W6.4] ‘Inalienable’ nominalisers across Meto	Camilleri[W9.5] Parallels in the development from locative and existential predications to possessive structures in Arabic and Hebrew	Majtczak[W10.5] Old, Middle and New: Periodisation as a back-burnered topic in the diachronic research of Japanese
16:30–17:00	Werner[W6.5] When verbal complexes become nouns via infinitive nominalization: A parallel to the verbal domain or category-individual?	Discussion	Baudel et al.[W10.6] The (Pre)History of the Languages of Japan – Current issues and prospects
17:00–17:30
17:30–18:00

	W13 – Cassarà et al.New methods for old languages: the comparability of data Room: H8
12:30–13:30	Lunch break
13:30–14:00	Cassarà et al.[W13.0] New methods for old languages: the comparability of data
14:00–14:30	Figura[W13.1] Dative Experiencer Psych Verbs in (Old) French
14:30–15:00	Trips & Rainsford[W13.2] How to use Yang’s Principles to model acquisition in diachrony. The case of psych verbs
15:00–15:30	Cassarà et al.[W13.3] Marked vs. unmarked unaccusativity with alternating verbs: Linking diachronic and experimental data
15:30–16:00	Break
16:00–16:30	Kodner[W13.4] Language Acquisition and a Process-Centered View of Language Change
16:30–17:00	Discussion
17:00–17:30
17:30–18:00

	W3 – Degaetano-Ortlieb et al.Computational models of diachronic language change Room: H1
12:30–13:30	Lunch break
13:30–13:45	Introduction
13:45–14:10	Al-Laith et al.[W3.1] A Diachronic Analysis of Using Sentiment Words in Scandinavian Literary Texts from 1870–1900
14:10–14:35	Jenset et al.[W3.2] Computational linguistic modelling of the temporal dynamics of scientific communication: a quantitative corpus study on the journal Nature
14:35–15:00	Maurer et al.[W3.3] Quantifying Changes in English Noun Compound Productivity and Meaning
15:00–15:25	Marr[W3.4] A computerized investigation of Albanian diachronic phonology
15:25–16:00	Break
16:00–16:25	Schlechtweg[W3.5] The LSCD Benchmark – A testbed for diachronic word meaning tasks
16:25–16:50	Amaral et al.[W3.6] Model evaluation for diachronic semantics: A view from Portuguese and Spanish
16:50–17:15	Rönchen et al.[W3.7] Using simulated data to evaluate models of Indo-European vocabulary evolution
17:15–17:40	Dereza et al.[W3.8] Evaluating historical word embeddings: strategies, challenges and pitfalls
17:40–17:50	Closing remarks
17:50–18:00

Day 5: Friday, September 8

D5: General sessions

	Language contacts Room: H9, changed from H6 (Chair: Drinka, Sowada)	Internal reconstruction Room: H6, changed from H7 (Chair: Andersen)	Mood and modality Room: H12 (Chair: Salaberri)	Reconstruction and periodization Room: H8 (Chair: Wolfe, Franco)	Language corpora Room: H5 (Chair: Mithun)
09:00–10:00	John Charles Smith[PL7] Fifty years of ICHL, 1973–2023 (New Aula)
10:00–10:30	Coffee break
10:30–11:00	Burns[146] Towards Quantifying Social Behavior in Language Contact	Bauer [191] Complexity in counting systems: early systems vs. modern numerical ones	Long [39] Separate clause source and initial-to-medial pathway: Formation of Chinese epistemic adverbial and sentence connective chéngrán	Pacchiarotti et al.[69] Uncovering lost paths in the Congo rainforest: A new, comprehensive phylogeny of West-Coastal and Central-Western Bantu	Rosemeyer et al.[138] A computational approach to detect discourse traditions and register differences: a case study on historical French
11:00–11:30	Iezzi[108] The role of French in the Johnsons’ correspondence	Sapp et al.[207] Another look at Noun-Genitive vs. Genitive-Noun in Early New High German	Rodríguez-Somolinos[48] From inference to hearsay: the development of the French parentheticals à ce qu’il paraît, comme il paraît, il paraît, paraît-il	Billing & Elgh[178] Computational Anatolian phylogeny using maximum parsimony	Sitchinava[286] A panchronic corpus of Old East Slavic and Russian: bringing together Slavic historical and modern corpus resources
11:30–12:00	Elter[183] Anglo-Scandinavian Contact Influence on Verbs Entering the Causative Alternation	Herce & Cathcart[199] Stem shortening in Romance verbs: the 'S morphome' at the intersection of token frequency and paradigmatic structure	Westergaard[92] The long and winding road of the Danish evidential vel – from epistemic modality via concessivity to evidentiality	Brown & Grollemund[230] Towards a new classification of Western Bantu languages using non-lexical data	Schützler[35] Third-person verb inflection in Shakespeare’s dramatic texts
12:00–12:30	Zeng[164] Ditransitive GIVE-construction in three Hainan Min-Chinese: Interaction between inherited structures and contact-induced changes	Reinöhl & Ellison[190] Metaphor, Overtness and Word Order Routinization	Sternefeld[123] What is ke and if so how many? – The Persian modal particle ke and its diachronic development	Pache[166] Evidence for a Chibcha-Jê connection	Bronikowska[40] Middle Polish adverb-like predicates ending in -a compared to other adverbial and adjectival predicates – corpus-based approach
12:30–13:30	Lunch break
13:30–14:00	Capano [237] It Ain't Over till It's Over. Bilingualism and language decay in Sicilian inscriptions	Kayenbergh & De Smet[89] Just a bystander? Semantic change in the English simple tenses	Assenzi[145] Hearsay in Historical German Newspapers (1740–1840)	Swanenvleugel[290] The Sardinian substrate lexicon and its Mediterranean comparanda	Nieder & Tomaschek[174] Classifying the origin of Maltese nouns – A cross-language approach employing phonotactics
14:00–14:30	Hirvonen[200] Contact-induced change of Negative Indefinites – the case of Meadow Mari	Gunnink et al.[232] An evolutionary loner in Southern African Bantu: The classification of Yeyi	Salaberri[30] Towards an account of the emergence, evolution and variability of emphatic negative coordination in Indo-European, part 2: A diachronic perspective	Mous[192] The classification of South Cushitic	Cattafi[264] Continuative relative clauses in Greek documentary papyri
14:30–15:00	Das[266] Areality through Migration: Investigating the Structure of Numeral Classifiers in the Eastern Himalayan Region Reveals Historic Contact Events	van Dam[41] Internal subgrouping of Northern Naga based on Bayesian phylogenetic analysis		Hernáiz[215] Exploring language variation and change in the distant past	Wieczorek[269] Discontinuous noun phrases containing adjective or adjective-like modifiers in Middle Polish texts. Preliminary research conducted on an experimental dependency treebank
15:00–15:30	Olguín-Martínez[25] The areality of the consecutive pattern in Mesoamerican languages			Franco[168] Explaining the speed of lexical change in historical Dutch
15:30–16:00	Farewell reception
16:00–16:30	Farewell reception
16:30–17:00
17:00–17:30
17:30–18:00

D5: Workshops

	W8 – Karim & GholamiFilling in the diachronic gaps: the view of Old Iranian from the present Room: H2	W11 – Auderset et al.The diachrony of tone: connecting the field Room: H12a	W14 – Jäger et al.Exploiting Standardized Cross-Linguistic Data in Historical Linguistics Room: H1
10:00–10:30	Coffee break
10:30–11:00	Karim & Gholami[W8.1] Filling in the diachronic gaps: the view of Old Iranian from the present	Božović[W11.1] Tone, stress and length interactions in Central Neo-Štokavian	Jäger et al.[W14.1] Exploiting Standardized Cross-Linguistic Data in Historical Linguistics
11:00–11:30	Kreidl[W8.2] Bactrian influence on local languages of Eastern Afghanistan	Lionnet[W11.2] Accent and tone: the double origin of the Paicî tone system	Brigada Villa et al.[W14.2] Universal Dependency for Historical Languages (UD4HL): Towards Standardized Syntactic Data for Historical Languages
11:30–12:00	Kim[W8.3] Steppe Iranian in the longue durée: contact, relative chronology, and internal reconstruction	Kirby & Pittayaporn[W11.3] Tone and voicing in Cao Bằng Tai: implications for tonal evolution and change	Rzymski[W14.3] From Old Data to Fresh Phylogenies — A Linguistic Data Journey in the Times of CLDF
12:00–12:30	Mohammadirad[W8.4] Remarks on the category of copula in Gorani dialects	Arnold[W11.4] Tone splits from vowel height in the Austronesian language of Raja Ampat	Forkel & Greenhill[W14.4] Phlorest: A Database of Consistent and Reusable Language Phylogenies
12:30–13:30	Lunch break
13:30–14:00	Gholami & Naghshbandi[W8.5] Polyptoton for the purpose of emphasizing within Iranian languages	Grimm[W11.5] A diachronic study of grammatical tone in northwestern Bantu	Dellert & Blaschke[W14.5] Configurable Language-Specific Tokenization for CLDF Databases
14:00–14:30	Belelli[W8.6] A historical-comparative glimpse on Laki dialects	Sæbø & Grossman[W11.6] A Database of Tonogenetic Events (DTE) and what it can tell us about tonogenesis	Blum & List[W14.6] A computational evaluation of regularly recurring sound correspondences
14:30–15:00	Suleymanov[W8.7] Semantic Shift and Morphosyntactic Convergence of Tense-Aspect-Mood Categories in Alazan Persian	Perekhvalskaya & Vydrin[W11.7] Tonal density and its correlation with the types of tonal systems: Diachronic aspects	Mertner & Guzmán Naranjo[W14.7] Exploring the Geographical Distribution of Missing Data Using Approximate Gaussian Processes
15:00–15:30		Auderset & Dockum[W11.8] The diachrony of tone: connecting the field	Discussion
15:30–16:00	Farewell reception
16:00–16:30	Farewell reception

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