All events take place in the Language Science Center (Room 2114/2118 H.J. Patterson Hall) unless otherwise specified.
The abstracts for these presentations are available on the Abstracts page.
9a Registration opens
Breakfast
9:20a Opening Remarks: William Idsardi, Chair of the Department of Linguistics
9:30a Željko Bošković
On subject positions, the EPP, and contextuality of syntax
[handout]
10:30a Ewa Willim
A dedicated null human impersonal pronoun in Polish and the Null Subject Parameter
[handout]
11:30a Break
Coffee and snacks
12p Robert Freidin
The cycle in syntax: rereading the past to understand the future
[handout]
1p Lunch (free time)
Our favorite College Park restaurants
2:45p Poster Session & Rants
RANTS:
Terje Lohndal: Structured historical approaches to structure
Zach Stone: Adorning Bare Grammars
Atakan Ince: Syntactic islands and LLMs
Keiko Murasugi: Parameterization in Labeling: Evidence from Language Acquisition - [handout]
Kyle Johnson: Constituency and the cycle - [handout]
Jason Merchant: How Howard showed that ellipsis is central to syntax
POSTERS:
Adolfo Ausín: The (lack of) structure of Phrasal Compounds
Tomohiro Fujii: Choosing among auxiliary fronting transformations
Gesoel Mendes: Sluicing and focus related particles in Brazilian Portuguese and Nupe
Dongwoo Park: Korean specificational pseudoclefts and argument ellipsis
4:15p Discussion
Coffee and snacks
5:00p Open Mic
Testomonials and Memories
9a Breakfast
9:30a Mamoru Saito
In defense of covert wh-movement (after 40 years)
[handout]
10:30a Lydia Grebenyova
Puzzles in Ukrainian syntax: implications for language structure
[handout]
11:30a Lunch (free time)
Our favorite College Park restaurants
1p Noam Chomsky
Displacement
2:30p Break
Coffee and snacks
3:00p Round Table: The Role of Structure
Hamida Demirdache [handout], William Idsardi, Robert May, Maria Polinsky, and Luigi Rizzi
Moderator: Norbert Hornstein
5p Concluding Remarks
Howard Lasnik
6p Celebration at The Hall CP
4656 Hotel Dr, College Park, MD 20742