24.08.2022 Papers and Posters of DCLS members at SLE 55 in Bucharest, 24-27 August 22

At this year’s conference of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 55) in Bucharest, 24 – 27 August 2022, a number of department members are presenting papers and posters.

Papers:

Chundra Cathcart, Jessica Ivani, Carlo Meloni and Balthasar Bickel

Complexity in clause linkage: exploring the evolution of left-branching dependencies

David Inman and Marine Vuillermet

Singular-plural stem alternation: A detailed typology and global distribution

Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi, Sebastian Sauppe, Caroline Andrews, Itziar Laka, Monique Flecken, Moritz Daum, Martin Meyer and Balthasar Bickel

The agent preference in comprehension and production: neurophysiological and behavioural evidence from Basque

Paul Widmer and Barbara Sonnenhauser

Extralinguistic factors can actuate change in novel contact situations. Evolving narrative conventions in Albanian–German bilinguals

Posters:

Stefan Schnell and Nils Norman Schiborr

Against discourse-based topicality