Historical linguistics (H)

• Thomas Rainsford (U Stuttgart): Project H1: Lexical change in motion: Motion verbs and motion lexicalization from medieval to modern Romance
• Achim Stein (U Stuttgart): Project H2: Change and acquisition of verbal structures
• Carola Trips (U Mannheim): Project H3: Changing the structure of the input in contact: verbal prefixes and verb particle combinations
• George Walkden (U Konstanz): Project H4: Modelling lexical diffusion in syntax: non-finite complementation in Modern English

Psycholinguistics (P)

• Shanley Allen (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau): Project P1: Cross-linguistic influence in structures at the syntax-discourse interface as a window into grammatical change
• Helen Engemann (U Mannheim): Project P2: Priming in contact-setting bilinguals and monolinguals as a driver of language change
• Holger Hopp (TU Braunschweig): Project P3: Bilingual syntactic adaptation and the mechanisms of contact-induced language change
• Gunnar Jacob (U Mannheim): Project P4: Structural priming and language change in experiments, historical corpora, and translation: Towards a psycholinguistically informed approach to historical corpus analysis

Mathematical modelling (M)

• Charles Yang (U Pennsylvania): Area M: Mechanisms of Language Acquisition and Change