Cycles in Language Change
Edited by Miriam Bouzouita, Anne Breitbarth, Lieven Danckaert, and Elisabeth Witzenhausen
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Edited by Miriam Bouzouita, Assistant Professor, Ghent University, Anne Breitbarth, Associate Professor, Ghent University, Lieven Danckaert, CNRS Researcher, University of Lille, and Elisabeth Witzenhausen, Phd student, Ghent University
Miriam Bouzouita is Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at Ghent University, where she is coordinator of the Diachronic and Diatopic Linguistics (DiaLing) research group. She also leads research projects on grammatical variation in spatial adverbial constructions in Spanish dialects, and on the morphosyntactic annotation and parsing of the COSER corpus. Her interests include Ibero-Romance historical linguistics and dialectology, and she has published on the grammaticalization of clitics, the future, and the left periphery.
Anne Breitbarth is Associate Professor of Historical German Linguistics at Ghent University. She has published on issues in historical syntax and language change in High and Low German, as well as Dutch and English, and has led projects building parsed corpora for historical Low German and Southern Dutch dialects. She is the author of The History of Low German Negation (OUP, 2014) and editor of several volumes on language change in the domains of negation and polarity, as well as diachronic change and stability in grammar.
Lieven Danckaert currently works as a CNRS researcher at the University of Lille. He was previously employed at Ghent University, where he obtained his PhD in 2011. His expertise is in generative grammar and Latin syntax, with special emphasis on the study of word order and the use of quantitative, corpus-based methods. He is the author of two monographs: Latin Embedded Clauses: The Left Periphery (Benjamins, 2012) and The Development of Latin Clause Structure: A Study of the Extended Verb Phrase (OUP, 2017).
Elisabeth Witzenhausen is a PhD student in historical linguistics at Ghent University, working on the functional change of the preverbal negative marker in Continental West Germanic languages within a generative framework. She uses both quantitative and corpus-based methods and is interested in the syntax-semantics interface, clause linking, and modality, as well as onomastics.
Contributors:
Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Montserrat Batllori, University of Girona
Judy B. Bernstein, William Paterson University of New Jersey
Andreas Blümel, University of Göttingen
Miriam Bouzouita, Ghent University
Anne Breitbarth, Ghent University
Marco Coniglio, University of Göttingen
Lieven Danckaert, University of Lille
Karen De Clercq, Ghent University
Susann Fischer, University of Hamburg
Eric Fuß, University of Bochum
Jacopo Garzonio, University of Padua
Elly van Gelderen, Arizona State University
Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo, University of Girona and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Kari Kinn, University of Oslo
Moreno Mitrovic, University of Cyprus
Mario Navarro, University of Hamburg
Francisco Ordóñez, Stony Brook University
Cecilia Poletto, University of Padua and Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Isabel Pujol Payet, University of Girona
Francesc Roca, University of Girona
Silvia Rossi, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Emanuela Sanfelici, University of Padua
Jorge Vega Vilanova, University of Hamburg
Elisabeth Witzenhausen, Ghent University
