Program #
Friday, April 25th, 2025 #
| 8 am - 8:50 am Coffee and registration | |
| 8:50-9:00 Opening Remarks | |
| Session 1A: 9-10:30am | Session 1B: 9-10:30am |
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Same but Different: Balinese vs. Malagasy Pivots
Passivization, speech act participants, and third-person probes in Jarawara
Non-active syntax and argumental for-phrases in Italian tough-constructions
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A new shared antecedent approach to parasitic gaps: Explaining connectivity and the A-/Ā-distinction
Contrastive fragments in Thai: against the in-situ approach
Preposition Omission and Focus in German Fragments: A Case for a Q-Based Approach
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| 10:30 - 11 Coffee Break | |
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11-12 Keynote 1: Kathryn Davidson
Quantification and depicting predicates in ASL |
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| 12-1:30 pm Lunch Break (on own) | |
| Session 2A: 1:30 - 3:30pm special session on sign language linguistics |
Session 2B: 1:30 - 3:30pm |
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Optimality Theory for Hong Kong Sign Language loan words
Negation in Sadat Tawaher Sign Language: A Formal Approach
Correlation between focus and the clause-final position in Hong Kong Sign Language
Definiteness in Korean Sign Language: The Role of IX and NP-IX
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PP-splits in Greek: Against scattered deletion
Chameleon affixes in Sekani produce strictly layered stratal domains
When the Parametric Comparison meets the CP: a preliminary taxonomy of Italo-Romance varieties
"Non-local A-movement" is predicted to exist, and it does
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| 3:30-4:00 Coffee Break | |
| Session 3A: 4-5:30pm | Session 3B: 4-5:00pm |
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Quirks of progressive clauses in Kasem
On the (in)definiteness of bare nouns in Dholuo
Agree to disagree: on refutational and confirmatory *too*
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Two types of non-structural case: Evidence from ATB movement in Modern Greek
A'-movement restrictions in Igbo reanalyzed
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Saturday, April 26th, 2025 #
| 8:30 am - 9 am Coffee and registration | |
| Session 4A: 9-10:30am | Session 4B: 9-10:30am |
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Specification of D Derives Variation in Relative Clauses
Diagnosing multidominance by focus association of ‘only’
The unaccusative-unergative distinction in Mandarin resultative constructions
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Verb stem alternation and successive cyclic movement in Falam Chin
Principled probability in syntax: A Minimalist approach to variability and cumulativity in phrasal movement
Examining Island Effects with NP-Scrambling out of Four Types of Adjunct Clauses in Japanese
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| 10:30-11 Coffee Break | |
| 11-12:30 Poster session | |
| 12:30-2 pm Lunch Break (on own) | |
| Session 5A: 2-3:30pm | Session 5B: 2-3:30pm |
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Perceptual Adaptation in Spanish: Implications for Vowel-specific Factors in the Learning of Novel Accents
Seenku tone sandhi is compatible with traditional cyclicity
Iconic Vowel Alternations in Korean Ideophones: A Formal Analysis
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Two ways to be non-inertial: frustrativity and event maximality in O’dam
Structure matters: missing implicatures and their consequence for the theory of alternatives
Korean honorification as a window to understanding animacy
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| 3:30-4 pm Coffee Break | |
| 4 - 5 Keynote: Meghan Sumner | |
| 6:30 - 9:30pm Conference Dinner at the Burke Museum | |
Sunday, April 27th, 2025 #
| 8:30 am - 9 am Coffee and registration | |
| Session 7A: 9 - 10:00am | Session 7B: 9 - 10:30am |
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Against Number Harmony for Non-Paradigmatic SE
The bilingual lexicon under Distributed Morphology: An investigation of gender agreement in code-switching
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Adjunct control in Ch'ol comitatives
Feature interaction in the Tira agreement complex
Parameterizing ergative and absolutive agreement: Microvariation in Kurdish
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| 10:30 - 11 am Coffee Break | |
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11- 12 pm Keynote: Henry Davis
Minimal Morphology: Evidence from Clitic Systems |
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| 12 - 1 Closing and Business Meeting | |
List of Posters #
Re: configurational verbs
Ryan Walter Smith
Possessor agreement: Exploring Cross-Linguistic Variation
Dimitris Michelioudakis, Nikos Angelopoulos, Elena Anagnostopoulou
Nandao-Qs: When Suprise Sparks Inquiry
Anshun Zheng
Cyclic Prosodification in Japanese
Yosho Miyata
Differentiating between generic and actualized eventualities in Alashkert Armenian
Mariam Asatryan
"Bleeding" Condition C in Kanien'kéha
Chase Boles
Capturing Modal Base Polarity with Mandarin wh-indefinites
Carlos Cisneros, Anqi Zhang
Do we need self-destructive feeding
Yuxuan Melody Wang
Scrambling through the Looking Glass: Two Types of Movement across Weak Islands
Zhiyu Mia Gong
Deriving (non)agreement in Welsh
Calvin Quick
An argument against non-constituent ellipsis
Dongwoo Park
The morphotactics of the Limbu verb: A postsyntactic analysis of the suffix domain
Doreen Georgi, Andrew Murphy
Illicit LBE in Russian sluicing: rescue by deletion (of linearization statements)
Daniar Kasenov, Ivan Kalyakin
Recursion in NP: pseudopartitive measures require complementation, not specification
Malhaar Shah
Ordering postsyntactic operations within domains
Zhouyi Sun, Peter Grishin
Allocutive agreement and indexicals Shift Together, but not always
Thomas McFadden, Sandhya Sundaresan
Transitive subject relativization restriction in Northern Tujia and beyond
Kang Franco Liu
Chinese gèng, English implicit comparison, and vagueness sharpening
Florence Y.K. Zhang, Linmin Zhang
Superlatives without -est: Japanese Ichiban as an Exclusive Adverbial
Jun Tamura
Context update with Cantonese sentence-final particle me1 and the role of falling tone
Yingyu Su
Diagnosing modal clause structure with focus-sensitive operators in Mandarin Chinese
Haoming Li
Big and small as dimension-less degree modifiers: Evidence from Shantou Teochew
Zhuosi Luo, Alison Biggs
When your associates tag along: Associative plurality in Rural Iberian Spanish names
Elango Kumaran, Luis Miguel Toquero Pérez
Instrument as internal subject: evidence from the verbs baad ‘cut’, maj ‘burn’, and pan ‘tie’ in Thai
Danutham Worapipat
Encoding Domain Restrictions via an Overt Situation Pronoun
Yaqing Hu
‘Irrealis’ particle ji in Gitksan
Yurika Aonuki
The distribution of wide scope indefinite bare duals in Kazym Khanty: a QUD-based approach
Fedor Golosov
Perspective sensitive items (PSIs) affected by Indexical Shift: Indexical PSIs in Turkish
Metehan Oğuz
Indeterminate determiners: a case study of Singlish prenominal relative clauses
Si Kai Lee
The syntactic and semantic introduction of internal arguments
Nikolas Webster
A parametric view on exclusive focus particles
Ka-Fai Yip
Can Adjuncts Be Elided? A Bimodal Approach to Adjunct-Inclusive Interpretation
Yoshiki Fujiwara
(Un)conditionals in Japanese: A Question-based Approach
Kimiko Nakanishi
An argument for Syntactic Reconstruction: Distributivity as Variable Binding
Yiannis Katochoritis