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<p>Dear PLING Colleagues,</p>
<p>I changed the time to try to accommodate someone. This is the
final version! Sorry.. <br>
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<p>Could you please send out the following:<br>
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<p>I am happy to announce that Dr Alexandra Simonenko from the
University of Gent will visit our Department. She will give a talk
at 4:30pm (precise time) on Thursday, 26 January 2023 entitled <span
style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0);
background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">"Syntactic changes tracking a
<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline
!important" class="ContentPasted0"> morphological and </span>semantic
reanalyses" in Hörsaal 1, Sensengasse 3a, 1090, Wien.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0);
background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The talk is concerned with
the changes in historical French syntax which can be argued to
correlate with 1) the disappearance of case marking and 2) the
disappearance of proximal/distal distinction in demonstratives.
She currently holds an ERC starting grant called CAUSALITY on </span><span
style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0);
background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="caret-color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:
PannoTextLight, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;
font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width:
0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration:
none; display: inline !important; float: none;">“Modeling
causes of language change and conservatism” working on
Germanic languages. You can find out more about her work here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://research.flw.ugent.be/en/alexandra.simonenko">https://research.flw.ugent.be/en/alexandra.simonenko</a></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0);
background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="caret-color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:
PannoTextLight, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;
font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width:
0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration:
none; display: inline !important; float: none;">Best wishes,</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0);
background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="caret-color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:
PannoTextLight, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;
font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width:
0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration:
none; display: inline !important; float: none;">Kriszta<br>
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