Publications and conferences

Gemma gave a talk entitled "Overt Pronouns on the Rise in Latin American Spanish: a diachronic corpus study" on 9 July at ICLaVE in Vienna.

On 19th June, Gemma gave a talk entitled 'Accounting for Orality in a diachronic Spanish corpus' at ICAME in Vigo.

Gemma took part in HiSoN in Zürich and gave a talk on the 5th of June entitled "Accounting for Orality in a diachronic Spanish corpus".

George and Henri both participated in a workshop on Understanding Grammar Change that took place at the university of Edinburgh on the 4th-5th June 2024. George gave a talked entitled 'Implicational universals, probabilities and grammar competition' and Henri gave a talk entitled 'Variational learning: Anatomy of an algorithm'.

The STARFISH team was invited to give the talk "Sociolinguistic Typology Meets Historical Linguistics" on 3rd June at the online colloquium "Modern Developments in Historical Linguistics", organised by Marco Coniglio, Agnes Jäger and Eric Fuß.

Gemma gave an invited talk entitled 'The effects of orality on subject pronoun expression in a Spanish corpus' on 22nd May.

Several members of STARFISH attended and presented at sunny ICHL26 in September. Gemma presented a talk entitled 'Diachronic Null Subject Use across Latin American Spanish: Comparing Corpora' and George took part in the panel 'Linguistic models (with a focus on morphosyntactic change)'. Additionally, Henri presented his work with Deepthi Gopal in a talk 'Correlations between linguistic features are reflected in their geospatial patterning: Introducing the geo-typological Sandwich Conjecture'.

George Walkden co-organised a workshop with Adam Schembri entitled 'Sociolinguistic typology: advances and challenges' at the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) conference which took place on the 29th August-1st September. The slides to the introductory talk are here.

Raquel Montero presented in the workshop on 'Internal and External Causes of Change: A Diachronic Corpus Study of Mood Variation.'

Several members of the project headed to Paris for DiGS in July to present their work. Henri gave a talk entitled 'Contact-induced change as an emergent property of complex systems: Linking population dynamics, linguistic theory and psychology of learning'. On the 5th, Raquel presented her work 'Mood alternations: The diachronic development of the polarity subjunctive'. Molly presented her work in a talk and poster with the title 'A formal account of diachronic case and adposition change' on the 6th, and George gave a talk entitled 'Adult language acquisition and change' and presented a poster entitled 'Raising out of control' with Sigríður Björnsdóttir, Lisa Gotthard and Chiara Riegger.

Molly presented her doctoral work on the relationship between case and adpositions at CGG32. Slides to the talk found here, and the abstract here.

In January at NELS 2023, Raquel and Maribel Romero presented their research with the talk 'Examining the Meaning of Polarity Subjunctive'.

Raquel gave a talk entitled 'Examining the Locality of Polarity Subjunctive in Peninsular Spanish' at Going Romance 2022.

Gemma recently presented her work on null subjects at CODILI, the slides of which can be found here.

As part of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution , Henri presented his research through a poster entitled 'A critical population threshold for contact-induced simplification.'

The whole STARFISH team attended and thoroughly enjoyed the International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL22) in August, presenting their research in the form of a talk: 'Sociolinguistic typology meets historical corpus linguistics'. Abstract here. In addition, several members of the group offered talks on their individual work. The slides for each are available for download via clicking on the respective titles.

Henri Kauhanen gave a talk entitled 'A critical threshold for the population fraction of L2 speakers necessary and sufficient to bring about contact-induced language change' as part of the workshop 'Acting on actuation: Why here, why now?'

In the main conference, Raquel Montero delivered a talk entitled 'The Loss of Plural Concord in Quantifiers and Adjectives in Middle English'. Abstract here.

Finally, a talk entitled 'Changes in Null Subjects in Latin American Spanish: a diachronic corpus study' was presented by Gemma McCarley. Abstract here.

At the 11th Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference 2022 (HiSoN), Gemma McCarley gave the talk 'Changes in Null Subjects in Latin American Spanish: A Diachronic Corpus Study'.