Schedule - Workshop "Parallel text analysis in diachronic research"

February 22, 2018

	Session 1 – Chair: Jürg Fleischer
09.15 – 09.30	Welcome
09.30 – 10.15	Damián Blasi and Balthasar Bickel (University of Zurich) Corpus-based Typology as a Window on the Evolution of Syntax
10.15 – 11.00	Andrés Enrique-Arias (University of the Balearic Islands) and Malte Rosemeyer (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Using a parallel corpus of medieval biblical translations to control for structural and stylistic factors in morphosyntactic variation. The evolution of the Old Spanish article + possessive construction.
11.00 – 11.30	Coffee break
	Section 2 – Chair: Kerstin Plein
11.30 – 12.15	Michael Cysouw (University of Marburg) Dynamic universals in the linguistic marking of location, extracted from parallel texts
12.15 – 14.15	Lunch
	Section 3 – Chair: Paul Widmer
14.15 – 15.00	Robert Östling (Stockholm University) Extracting word order information from parallel texts
15.00 – 15.45	Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli, Georg A. Kaiser and Katharina Kaiser (University of Konstanz) Word order change in Romance interrogatives. Implications from a parallel text analysis of Bible translations
15.45 – 16.15	Coffee break
	Section 4 – Chair: Ricarda Scherschel
16.15 – 17.15	Jürg Fleischer, Erich Poppe, Paul Widmer, Magnus Breder Birkenes, Stephanie Leser-Cronau, Kerstin Plein, Ricarda Scherschel (University of Marburg) Preliminary results from the Marburg Agreement Project
(19.00	Dinner: Location: Market, Markt 11, 35037 Marburg)

	Section 5 – Chair: Erich Poppe
09.00 – 09.45	Dag Haug (University of Oslo) The PROIEL parallel corpus of Old Indo-European New Testament translations
09.45 – 10.30	Dmitri V. Sitchinava (Russian Academy of Sciences / Higher School of Economics, Moscow) East Slavic parallel corpora: diachronic and diatopic variation in Belarusian, Ukrainian, and Russian
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee break
	Section 6 – Chair: Ricarda Scherschel
11.00 – 11.45	Natalia Levshina (University of Leipzig) Grammaticalization paths and clines: visualization and data mining
11.45 – 12.30	Bernhard Wälchli (Stockholm University) Is grammatical gender less complex than commonly believed? Extracting the feminine gender gram from parallel texts
12.30 – 13.00	Final discussion