Thursday 10th May
18.00-19.00 Conference Registration

19.00 Welcome address

19.05 Tony Kroch. “Interface Effects on Word Order Frequencies in the History of English.”

20.10 Wine Reception

Friday 11th May
09.00 Registration
09.30 David Adger. “Where is Variability in the Grammar?”
10.30 Andrew Nevins & Jeffrey Parrott. “Variable Rules Meet impoverishment Theory.”
11.15 Coffee
11.30 Christina Tortora, Judy Bernstein, Marcel den Dikken, Raffaella Zanuttini, Goldie Ann Dooley, & Erin Quirk. “Subject Agreement Variation: confronting the hypothesis space with novel data.”
12.15 Miriam Bouzouita, Ruth Kempson & Ronnie Cann. “Production Pressures in Syntactic Variation and Change.”

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Poster Session

14.30 Charles Yang. “The Origin and Scope of Syntactic Variations.”
15.30 Coffee
15.45 Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Uriel Cohen Priva, Scott Grimm, Sander Lestrade, Gorkem Ozbek, Tyler Schnoebelen, Susannah Kirby, Misha Becker, Vivienne Fong & Joan Bresnan. “A statistical Model of Grammatical Choices in Children’s Productions of Dative Sentences.”
16.30 Karen Miller & Cristina Schmitt. “Effects of Variable Input in the Acquisition of Plural in Dialects of Spanish.”

17.15 Poster session

19.30 Conference Dinner

Saturday 12th May
09.30 Sjef Barbiers. “Impossible and Unrealized Syntactic Structures.”
10.30 Coffee
10.45 Lisa Green, Tom Roeper and J. Michael Terry. “Stable Nodes and Unstable Features: A feature-based account of variation in question inversion and negative inversion in African American English.”
11.30 M. Siobhán Cottell, Alison Henry & Joanne Close. “Predicate Fronting and Aspect in Three Dialects of English.”
12.15 Lunch

13.45 Joan Bresnan. “Probabilistic Knowledge of Syntax -- evidence from the English dative.”
14.45 Jóhannes G. Jónsson. “Variation in Morphosyntax: some lessons from Insular Scandinavian.”
15.30 Coffee
15.45 Martin Salzmann and Guido Seiler. "Variation as the exception or the rule? Swiss relatives revisited.
16.30 Höskuldur Þráinsson.“V-?:it partly depends on the morphology.”

Roundtable discussion.
17.20-18.00 David Adger, Sjef Barbiers, Joan Bresnan, Tony Kroch, Charles Yang

Alternates:
Kristine Bentzen, Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson, Þorbjörg Hróarsdóttir & Anna-Lena Wiklund. “The Force Behind V2.”
Bernadette Plunkett. “Inter and Intra-speaker Variation in French interrogatives.”

POSTERS confirmed so far:
Paolo Chinellato. “Generational and Intra-speaker Variation in Vicentino: the case of undifferentiated clitics.”
Minoru Fukada. “Two Types of Genitive Markers in Nonstandard Japanese.”
Glyn Hicks. "Capturing variation in condition B effects across Germanic languages." Virginia Hill. “Pragmatically Driven Variation.”
Susagna Tubau. “Allomorphy Rules, Multiple Grammars and Optionality of the Sentential Negative Marker in Negative Concord Constructions in Catalan.”