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Location: The workshop is going to take place in the Centrum für Nah- und Mitteloststudien (CNMS), Deutschhausstraße 12, next to the Elisabethkirche. There will be signs at the entrance directing you to the conference room.

October 3^rd, 2012

20.00 - Get-together
            Location: Hotel und Gasthaus "Zur Sonne" (at the Market Square)

October 4^th, 2012

Session 1 - Chair: Paul Widmer

• 09.00 – 09.30 - Greville Corbett (Surrey): Hybrid nouns and their complexity
• 09.30 – 10.00 - Hans-Olav Enger (Oslo): When friends and teachers become hybrids
• 10.00 – 10.30 - Damaris Nübling (Mainz): D'Ingrid and ääs - Hybrid names in German dialects 
• 10.30 – 11.00 - Coffee break

Section 2 - Chair: Florian Sommer

• 11.00 – 11.30 - Katarzyna Miechowicz-Mathiasen (Poznań): On Sentential Agreement with Numeral Phrase Subjects in 15th – 17th c. Polish
• 11.30 – 12.00 - Horst Simon (FU Berlin): Where does respect-agreement come from?
• 12.00 – 12.30 - Stephen Wechsler and Kyle Jerro (Austin): Bantu DP-internal person agreement: a typological rarity
• 12.30 – 14.30 - Lunch

Section 3 - Chair: Erich Poppe

• 14.30 – 15.00 - Michele Loporcaro (Zurich): The impact of morphology on change in agreement systems
• 15.00 – 15.30 - Jan Klom and Gunther De Vogelaer (Münster): Semantic agreement competing with syntactic agreement: the case of Dutch pronouns
• 15.30 – 16.00 - Lien De Vos (Liège): Lexical versus semantic agreement: a salience-based competition?
• 16.00 – 16.30 - Coffee break

Section 4 - Chair: Magnus Breder Birkenes

• 16.30 – 17.00 - Guðrún Þórhallsdóttir (Reykjavík): Gender agreement in the history of Icelandic
• 17.00 – 17.30 - Silvia Luraghi (Pavia): From non-canonical to canonical agreement
• 17.30 – 18.30 - Preliminary results from the Marburg Project on Agreement
• 20.00 -             Dinner

October 5^th, 2012

Section 5 - Chair: Elisabeth Rieken

• 09.00 – 09.30 - Balthasar Bickel, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Taras Zakharko and Giorgio Iemmolo (Zurich): Are there diachronic universals of agreement systems?
• 09.30 – 10.00 - Marlou van Rijn (Amsterdam): From cross-reference to agreement within the possessive noun phrase
• 10.00 – 10.30 - Bettina Jobin (Umeå): Challenging monotonicity
• 10.30 – 11.00 -
• Coffee break

Section 6 - Chair: Cyril Brosch

• 11.00 – 11.30 - Olav Hackstein (Munich): Congruence despite obsolescence in verbal forms
• 11.30 – 12.00 - Rosemarie Lühr (Jena): Gender agreement in Indo-Euoropean
• 12.00 – 12.30 - Manuel Widmer (Bern): The transformation of verb agreement into epistemic marking: evidence from Tibeto-Burman
• 12.30 – 14.30 - Lunch

Section 7 - Chair: Kerstin Plein

• 14.30 - 15.00 - Antje Dammel (Mainz): Determinants of subject-verb agreement in NP+ NP coordination. a diachronic approach
• 15.00 – 15.30 - Aaron Griffith (Vienna): Agreement in Old Irish
• 15.30 – 16.00 - Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal (Jerusalem / Harvard): The role of agreement in the diachronic changes of reciprocal constructions
• 16.00 – 16.30 - Coffee break

Section 8 - Chair: Jürg Fleischer

• 16.30 – 17.00 - Lameen Souag (London): The Development of Indirect Object Agreement in Berber: Beyond nominal hierarchies
• 17.00 – 17.30 - Remi van Trijp (Sony CSL Paris): Explaining Case Syncretism: A Case Study on German Definite Articles
• 17.30 – 18.00 - Michael Cysouw (Marburg): Agreement in massively parallel text: an attempt to induce typological parameters
• 18.00 - 18.30 - Final discussion