Schedule & Abstracts

9:00-9:20 Registration 

9:20-9:30 Opening Remarks

9:30-10:30 Keynote Speaker: Prof. Pilar Barbosa (University of Minho): "On the shared properties between null objects and epithets: an argument in favor of the null nP proform analysis"

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-11:40 Anna Cardinaletti & Alice Suozzi: "Syntactic optionality of instruments in Italian: an instance of omitted arguments" 

11:40-12:20 Carlos Martínez-García: "Comparing Indefinite Readings of Referential Null Subjects and Referential Null Objects"

LUNCH BREAK at 12:20-14:30 h.

14:30-15:10 Shanmugasundaram Rajamathangi: "Null Objects in Tamil"

15:10-15:50 Anke Himmelreich, Johannes Mursell & Katharina Hartmann: "Conditions on object drop in Mabia languages"

15:50-17:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session

• Michael Barrie: "Null Subjects and Objects in Eastern Tamang"

• Nelli Kerezova: "Indefinite null objects in European Portuguese"

• Prudence de Pontbriand: "Null objects in medieval Romance languages: a diachronic study"

• Daniel Weingärtner: "Connecting heritage languages and diachronic change: the interpretation of null objects by heritage speakers and monolingual speakers of European Portuguese"

17:00-18:00 Keynote Speaker: Prof. Sonia Cyrino (State University of Campinas): "Null objects from a diachronic perspective"

WORKSHOP DINNER (Apfelwein Wagner) at 18:30 h.

9:00-10:00 Keynote Speaker: Prof. Idan Landau (Tel Aviv University): "Argument Ellipsis: findings and puzzles"

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-11:10  Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Melania S. Masià, Iban Mañas-Navarrete & Iria Bello-Viruega: "Bilingualism and monolingualism: a window to test direct object expressions"

11:10-11:50 Alexandra Fiéis, Ana Madeira & Joana Teixeira: "Input effects in the acquisition of null objects in L2 European Portuguese"

11:50-12:30 Charlotte Galves: "Null objects in Brazilian and European Portuguese: a diachronic approach" (CANCELLED)

LUNCH BREAK at 12:00-14:30 h.

14:30-15:10 Irina Burukina & Maria Polinsky: "On the status of implicit objects in antipassives"

15:10-15:50 Svetlana Berikashvili: "The existence of an implicit object in Georgian unergatives"

15:50-16:30 Raffaella Folli & Heidi Harley: "Teleological capability in English object "drop" constructions"

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-18:00 Keynote Speaker: Prof. Maria Lobo (Linguistics Research Centre of NOVA University Lisbon): "Object omission in language development"

18:00 Closing Words

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