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HUBERT CUYCKENS

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Refereed talks at international meetings (since 2001)

16. (2006) with L. Heyvaert. Finite and gerundive clause complementation: Variation and change. Paper presented at CSDL 2006 (Conceptual structure, Discourse, and Language), San Diego, 3-5 November 2006.

15. (2006) with P. Petré. The Copula construction in Old and Middle English:On the interaction between constructions and lexicon. Paper presented at the Workshop “Constructions and language change”, CSDL 2006, 3-5 November 2006. Paper also presented at the High Desert Linguistic Society, Albuqerque, 9-11 November 2006.

14. (2006) with A. Van linden. The development of deontic meaning in adjectives: The role of conceptual metonymy, invited inferencing, and subjectification. Paper presented at the Second International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, University of Munich, 5-7 October 2006.

13. (2006) with P. Petré. Old English weorðan and its replacement in Middle English. Paper presented at the ICEHL 14 (International Conference on English Historical Linguistics), Bergamo, 21-25 August 2006.

12. (2006) with P. Petré. Aspects of the emergence and diffusion of the for...to-inifnitive. Paper presented at DELS (Directions in English Language Studies), Manchester, 6-8 April 2006.

11. (2005) with P. Petré. Bedusted, yet not beheaded: The role of be-'s constructional semantics in its conservation. Paper presented at the Workshop “Constructions and language change”, XVII International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July-5 August 2005.

10. (2005) with A. Van linden. Adjective and verb complementation compared in the history of English. Paper presented at the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, University of Madison, 31 July- 5 August 2005.

9. (2005) with B. Szmrecsanyi (Freiburg). The role of register in the shift from to -infinitive to gerundive complement. Paper presented at ICLC9 (9th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference), Seoul, 17-22 July, 2005.

8. (2005) with A. Van linden. Aspects of the grammaticalization of content disjuncts. Paper presented at the New Reflections on Grammaticalization 3 Conference, University of Santiago de Compostela, 17-20 July 2005.

7. (2005) with A. Van linden and J.-C. Verstraete. The changing distribution of complementation patterns with adjectives (and verbs) of volition. Paper presented at 26th ICAME and the 6th AAACL Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 12-15 May 2005.

6. (2004) with H. De Smet. The spread of for-to infinitives in Late Modern English. Paper presented at the 2nd Late Modern English Conference, Vigo, 25-27 November 2004.

5. (2004) with H. De Smet. Entrenchment and the distribution of complement types. Paper presented at CSDL-2004 (Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language), 8-10 October 2004.

4. (2004) Competing variants: A diachronic perspective on the variation between gerunds and infinitives as verbal complements. Paper presented at ICHL13 (13th International Conference of the History of English), Wenen, 23-28 August 2004.

3. (2004) with H. De Smet. Diachronic aspects of complementation. Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Studies in the History of the English Language, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 6-7 2004.

2. (2004) with H. De Smet. A diachronic perspective on the variation between gerunds and infinitives as verbal complements. Paper presented at the twenty-fifth conference of the International computer archive of Modern and Medieval English, Verona, May 19-23 2004.

1. (2001) with J.-C. Verstraete. Subjectification in the English conjunctive discourse marker BUT. Paper presented at 7th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, July 2001. Also presented at SLE Conference, University of Leuven, August 2001.

Invited talks

2. (2007) PhD course on Historical Linguistics, LOT summer school, Leuven, June 2006.