Speaker: Tara Struik (University of Mannheim) Title: The results of contact: Tracing changes in resultativity encoding in the history of English in contact with French Place: Trans 10, room 0.19 / MS Teams Abstract:This talk will focus on the question to what extent the large influx of Old and Middle French verbs effected structural changes in the realisation of resultative…

On 17 October, Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge) will give a SIL talk entitled On the core significance of the periphery: an Afrikaans case study. This talk is part of the Syntax Interface Lecture Series, and will complement the UTL lecture series on Three factors, variation, contact  that Theresa will give on 16-18 October. You can…