Program #

Friday, April 25th, 2025 #

8 am - 8:50 am Registration: HUB 145 Coffee: HUB 332
8:50-9:00 Opening Remarks HUB 332
Session 1A: 9-10:30am HUB 332 Chair: Sandhya Sundaresan	Session 1B: 9-10:30am HUB 145 Chair: Andrew Hedding
Preposition Omission and Focus in German Fragments: A Case for a Q-Based Approach Miriam L. Schiele Passivization, speech act participants, and third-person probes in Jarawara Luke James Adamson, Ruth Kramer Non-active syntax and argumental for-phrases in Italian tough-constructions Leonardo Russo Cardona	A new shared antecedent approach to parasitic gaps: Explaining connectivity and the A-/Ā-distinction Matthew Hewett Contrastive fragments in Thai: against the in-situ approach Woraprat Manowang Same but Different: Balinese vs. Malagasy Pivots Yiannis Katochoritis, Magdalena Lohninger
10:30 - 11 Coffee Break
11-12 Keynote 1: Kathryn Davidson Quantification and depicting predicates in ASL HUB 332 Chair: Shane Steinert-Threlkeld
12-1:30 pm Lunch Break (on own)
Session 2A: 1:30 - 3:00pm special session on sign language linguistics HUB 332 Chair: Qi Cheng	Session 2B: 1:30 - 3:00pm HUB 145 Chair: Maziar Toosarvandani
Negation in Sadat Tawaher Sign Language: A Formal Approach Seyyed Hatam Tamimi Sad, Ronnie Wilbur, Roland Pfau Correlation between focus and the clause-final position in Hong Kong Sign Language Linghui Eva Gan Definiteness in Korean Sign Language: The Role of IX and NP-IX Arum Kang, Youngju Choi	PP-splits in Greek: Against scattered deletion Nikos Angelopoulos Chameleon affixes in Sekani produce strictly layered stratal domains Katie McCann "Non-local A-movement" is predicted to exist, and it does Giovanni Roversi
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
Session 3A: 3:30-5:00pm HUB 332 Chair: Carol Rose Little	Session 3B: 3:30-5:00pm HUB 145 Chair: Toshiyuki Ogihara
Quirks of progressive clauses in Kasem Daniel Aremu On the (in)definiteness of bare nouns in Dholuo Joshua Dees Agree to disagree: on refutational and confirmatory too Maria Esipova	When the Parametric Comparison meets the CP: a preliminary taxonomy of Italo-Romance varieties Elena Isolani Two types of non-structural case: Evidence from ATB movement in Modern Greek Doreen Georgi, Lefteris Paparounas, Martin Salzmann A'-movement restrictions in Igbo reanalyzed Jasper Jian, Martina Martinovic

Saturday, April 26th, 2025 #

8:30 am - 9 am Coffee and registration MGH Commons (135)
Session 4A: 9-10:30am MGH 231 Chair: Barbara Citko	Session 4B: 9-10:30am MGH 241 Chair: Andrew Murphy
Specification of D Derives Variation in Relative Clauses Zhiyu Mia Gong, Eszter Ótott-Kovács Diagnosing multidominance by focus association of 'only' Ka-Fai Yip, Squid Tamar-Mattis The unaccusative-unergative distinction in Mandarin resultative constructions Fulang Chen	Verb stem alternation and successive cyclic movement in Falam Chin Emily Hanink Principled probability in syntax: A Minimalist approach to variability and cumulativity in phrasal movement Brian Hsu Examining Island Effects with NP-Scrambling out of Four Types of Adjunct Clauses in Japanese Shin Fukuda, Hajime Ono
10:30-11 Coffee Break
11-12:30 Poster session MGH Commons (135)
12:30-2 pm Lunch Break (on own)
Session 5A: 2-3:30pm MGH 231 Chair: Sharon Hargus	Session 5B: 2-3:30pm MGH 241 Chair: Shane Steinert-Threlkeld
Perceptual Adaptation in Spanish: Implications for Vowel-specific Factors in the Learning of Novel Accents Nikolai Andrés Schwarz-Acosta Seenku tone sandhi is compatible with traditional cyclicity Daniel Gleim, Armel Jolin Iconic Vowel Alternations in Korean Ideophones: A Formal Analysis Natalie Paige Côté	Two ways to be non-inertial: frustrativity and event maximality in O’dam Prerna Nadathur, Michael Everdell Structure matters: missing implicatures and their consequence for the theory of alternatives Zachary Feldcamp, Ido Benbaji-Elhadad Korean honorification as a window to understanding animacy Aidan Katson
3:30-4 pm Coffee Break
4 - 5pm Keynote: Meghan Sumner Fortunately, phonetic variation MGH 389 Chair: Richard Wright
6:30 - 9:30pm Conference Dinner at the Burke Museum

Sunday, April 27th, 2025 #

8:30 am - 9 am Coffee and registration MGH Commons (135)
Session 6A: 9 - 10:00am MGH 231 Chair: Trent Ukasick	Session 6B: 9 - 10:30am MGH 241 Chair: Barbara Citko
Against Number Harmony for Non-Paradigmatic SE Angel Gallego The bilingual lexicon under Distributed Morphology: An investigation of gender agreement in code-switching Mandy Cartner, Aya Meltzer-Asscher, Julia Horvath	Adjunct control in Ch'ol comitatives Carol Rose Little Feature interaction in the Tira agreement complex Himidan Hassen and Peter Jenks Parameterizing ergative and absolutive agreement: Microvariation in Kurdish Sahar Taghipour
10:30 - 11 am Coffee Break
11- 12 pm Keynote: Henry Davis Minimal Morphology: Evidence from Clitic Systems MGH 389 Chair: Andrew Hedding
12 - 1 Closing and Business Meeting

List of Posters #

'Irrealis' particle ji in Gitksan
Yurika Aonuki
Differentiating between generic and actualized eventualities in Alashkert Armenian
Mariam Asatryan
"Bleeding" Condition C in Kanien'kéha
Chase Boles
Transitive subject relativization restriction in Northern Tujia and beyond
Kang Franco Liu
Can Adjuncts Be Elided? A Bimodal Approach to Adjunct-Inclusive Interpretation
Yoshiki Fujiwara
The morphotactics of the Limbu verb: A postsyntactic analysis of the suffix domain
Doreen Georgi, Andrew Murphy
The distribution of wide scope indefinite bare duals in Kazym Khanty: a QUD-based approach
Fedor Golosov
An argument for Syntactic Reconstruction: Distributivity as Variable Binding
Yiannis Katochoritis
Encoding Domain Restrictions via an Overt Situation Pronoun
Yaqing Hu
Indeterminate determiners: a case study of Singlish prenominal relative clauses
Si Kai Lee
Illicit LBE in Russian sluicing: rescue by deletion (of linearization statements)
Daniar Kasenov, Ivan Kalyakin
When your associates tag along: Associative plurality in Rural Iberian Spanish names
Elango Kumaran, Luis Miguel Toquero Pérez
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
Allocutive agreement and indexicals Shift Together, but not always
Thomas McFadden, Sandhya Sundaresan
Do we need self-destructive feeding?
Yuxuan Melody Wang
Scrambling through the Looking Glass: Two Types of Movement across Weak Islands
Zhiyu Mia Gong
Possessor agreement: Exploring Cross-Linguistic Variation
Dimitris Michelioudakis, Nikos Angelopoulos, Elena Anagnostopoulou
Cyclic Prosodification in Japanese
Yosho Miyata
(Un)conditionals in Japanese: A Question-based Approach
Kimiko Nakanishi
Perspective sensitive items (PSIs) affected by Indexical Shift: Indexical PSIs in Turkish
Metehan Oğuz
An argument against non-constituent ellipsis
Dongwoo Park
Deriving (non)agreement in Welsh
Calvin Quick
Recursion in NP: pseudopartitive measures require complementation, not specification
Malhaar Shah
Context update with Cantonese sentence-final particle me1 and the role of falling tone
Yingyu Su
Ordering postsyntactic operations within domains
Zhouyi Sun, Peter Grishin
Re: configurational verbs
Ryan Walter Smith
The syntactic and semantic introduction of internal arguments
Nikolas Webster
Instrument as internal subject: evidence from the verbs baad 'cut', maj 'burn', and pan 'tie' in Thai
Danutham Worapipat
A parametric view on exclusive focus particles
Ka-Fai Yip
Capturing Modal Base Polarity with Mandarin wh-indefinites
Angqi Zhang, Carlos Cisneros
Chinese gèng, English implicit comparison, and vagueness sharpening
Florence Y.K. Zhang, Linmin Zhang
Nandao-Qs: When Suprise Sparks Inquiry
Anshun Zheng