Programme

Monday, 06.03.2023

TimeReferentsTitle
09.00–09.30Registration
09.30–10.00Lena Schnee & Stefan Hartmann (HHU Düsseldorf)Welcome
10.00–10.40Agnes Jäger (Universität Jena)The origin of German werden + infinitive future – an alternative scenario
10.40–11.00Coffee break
11.00–11.40Elena Smirnova (Université de Neuchâtel)Future constructions in German: a case of “failed grammaticalization”?
11.40–12.20Julia Hübner (Universität Hamburg)Future constructions in competition. New perspectives on the development of German future constructions in the early modern period
12.20–14.00Lunch break
14.00–14.40Svetlana Petrova (Universität Wuppertal)The expression of future-in-the-past in the history of German
14.40–15.20Sarah Ihden (Universität Hamburg) & Lena Schnee (HHU Düsseldorf)Expressing future reference in Middle Low German – a corpus-based approach
15.20–15.40Coffee break
15.40–16.20Joseph Reisdoerfer (Luxembourg)Expressing Future Time in Luxembourgish
16.20–17.00Olaf Mikkelsen (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań & Université Paris 8) & Dylan Glynn (Université Paris 8)Motion-based vs volition-based futurity in Germanic: a quantitative corpus-driven investigation
19.00Workshop Dinner
Hirschchen

Tuesday, 07.03.2023

TimeReferentsTitle
09.00-09.40Nadine Dietrich (University of Edinburgh)Semasiological and onomasiological seamlessness in semantic change: the case of be going to and the expression of plan
09.40–10.20Elzbieta Adamczyk (Universität Wuppertal)Future tense markers in early Germanic: Patterns of distribution and change in Old English and Old Frisian
10.20–11.00Dominika Skrzypek (Adam Mickiewicz Universität Poznań)The future that  did not happen. On the diachrony of the verbs varda and bliva in Swedish (1300-1750)
11.00–11.30Coffee break
11.30–12.10Björn Wiemer (JGU Mainz)The entanglement of grammaticalization and hypoanalysis in the rise of futures in Slavic languages
12.10–12.50Robin Meyer (Université de Lausanne)Hypoanalysis and aspectual diversification: the Armenian future in diachrony 
12.50–14.10Lunch break
14.10–14.50Hannah Gibson (University of Essex), Lutz Marten (SOAS University of London) & Teresa Poeta (University of Essex)The future tense in Bantu: a comparative-diachronic perspective
14.50–15.30Seongha Rhee (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies) & Kultida Khammee (University of Phayao)Grammaticalization of Future Markers in Korean and Thai
15.30–16.00Closing discussion