Output related to the Tolerance and Sufficiency Principles

The papers listed here applied the Tolerance and Sufficiency Principles (TSP). See the poster linked here for an overview.

Publications

• H2 Stein, A., & Troberg, M. (2026). Dative verbs in French: a corpus-based study of change. Journal of French Language Studies, 36, e2. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269525100215

• H1 H3 Trips, C., & Rainsford, T. (2022). Tolerating subject-experiencers? Journal of Historical Syntax, 6(12), 1–43. https://doi.org/10.18148/HS/2022.V6I12.118

Talks

• H2 Cassarà, A. (2025). L’évolution des verbes anticausatifs en français : une perspective acquisitionnelle. Talk presented at the conference CILFR 2025 (Congresso internazionale di linguistica e filologia romanza), Università del Salento, Lecce, 5 July 2025.

• H4 Meisezahl, M., & Walkden, W. (2025) . The emergence of English ‑ing‑complements as result of broader syntactic changes. Talk presented at the 8th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 1–4 September 2025.

• H4 Meisezahl, M. (2025). The acquisition of ‑ing‑complements in British and American children. Talk presented at the 8th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 1–4 September 2025.

• H1 Piccione, M. (2026). Why Verb–Particle Constructions Survive or Disappear: A Learnability Perspective from Italian and French. Invited talk at the Spatial Asimmetries Across Languages: A Typological Approach (SALTA) Closing Workshop at INALCO, Paris, March 13, 2026.

• H3 Struik, T. (2026). Supported by French: a TSP perspective on the grammaticalization of the English (long) passive. Talk (to be) presented at DiGS (Diachronic Generative Syntax) 27, University of Padova, June 16–19 2026.

• H1 H3 Trips, C., & Rainsford, T. (2023). How to use Yang’s Principles to model acquisition in diachrony The case of psych verbs. Talk presented at the workshop W13: New methods for old languages: The comparability of data at ICHL26 Heidelberg.

• H1 H3 Trips, C., Rainsford, T., & Kodner, J. (2025). Diachronic l(earn)ability: Modelling acquisition of labile verbs in Middle English. Talk presented at DiGS (Diachronic Generative Syntax) 26, Oxford, 24 June 2025.

• H3 Yang, C., & Trips, C. (2025). Productivity and Syntactic Change: Verb-Subject Inversion in the History of English and the Influence of French. Talk presented at DiGS (Diachronic Generative Syntax) 26, Oxford, 25 June 2025.

• H4 Walkden, G., & Meisezahl, M. (2025, June 25). The emergence of English -ing-complements. Talk presented at DiGS (Diachronic Generative Syntax) 26, Oxford, 25 June 2025. http://walkden.space/Meisezahl_Walkden_2025_DiGS26.pdf

Posters

• H3 Trips, C., & Yang, C. (2023). Grammaticalization as distributional learning: English modals in history. Poster presented at the 24th International Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference, Paris, July 2023.

• H3 Trips, C., & Yang, C. (2023). Grammaticalization as distributional learning: English modals in history. Poster presented at SLE Athens.