Confirmed Speakers

Ashwini Deo (Yale University) The emergence of accusative objects in New Indo-Aryan ergative clauses.

Raphael Finkel (University of Kentucky) Computational methods to elucidate aspects of Pamir language morphology

Songül Gündoğdu (Boğaziçi University) Ergative-accusative patterns in Kurmanji: language internal change or Turkish influence?

Geoffrey Haig (University of Bamberg) Alignment change in Iranian: what happened to agreement?

Andrew Hippisley & Greg Stump (University of Kentucky) The morphomics of split-ergativity in Indo-Iranian

Paul Kiparsky (Stanford University) Ranking volume predicts directionality: an OT-based theory of syntactic drift

Agnes Korn (Universität Frankfurt) Patterns of ergativity and differential object marking in Iranian

Laura Mahalingappa (Duquesne University) Change and acquisition of split-ergativity in Kurmanji Kurdish

Annie Montaut (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris) From the parallel constructions for past and modal future to the meaning of the ergative case markers

John Payne (University of Manchester) Alignment and coordination in Iranian

Pollet Samvelian (Université de Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle) Clitics and alignment in Iranian languages

Saartje Verbeke (Universiteit Gent) Alternating argument constructions in Indo-Aryan: Case studies from Nepali and Kashmiri