Programme

Friday evening, 20-02-2026

Chair: Oliver Bott

• 17:00–18:00 — Marcin Wągiel: Arithmetic vs. part-whole: Complex numerals, spatial modifiers and the internal structure of linguistic representations of numbers

• 18:00–19:30 — Dinner

Chair: Katja Jasinskaja

• 19:30–20:00 — Berit Gehrke & Fabienne Martin: Against inchoative/inceptive states

• 20:00–20:30 — Jarmila Černá & Mojmír Dočekal: Czech Scalar Particles in Conditionals: A Conditional Inference Tree Analysis

• 20:30–21:00 — Valeria Gradimondo & Dorota Klimek-Jankowska: On Expletive Negation in Polish until- and before-clauses

Saturday, 21-02-2026

Chair: David Beaver

• 9:00–9:30 — Rhiana Horovská: Czech sebe-modifiers: Natural support for pragmatic theories of NPI licensing?

• 9:30–10:00 — Scott Grimm: On the Underappreciated Strengths of Weak Definites

• 10:00–10:30 — Ruoying Zhao, Luca Molinari, Marcin Wągiel, Abdullah Almuhaysh, Victoria Noble: Hasawi Arabic singulative -at: novel observations and analysis

Sporting break

Chair: Henk Zeevat

• 17:00–18:00 — David Beaver: Conditional Acts

• 18:00–19:00 — Discussion

• 19:00 — Conference Dinner

Sunday, 22-02-2026

Chair: Marcin Wągiel

• 9:00–10:00 — Oliver Bott: Processing different types of aspectual coercion - the case of subtractive vs. additive coercion

• 10:00–10:30 — Timo Buchholz, Jet Hoek & Klaus von Heusinger: Telling a story about when propositions get bundled

Sporting break

Chair: Berit Gehrke

• 17:00–17:30 — Peter R. Sutton & Robin Cooper: Nominal that-complementisers: Eventualities, Situations and Polysemy

• 17:30–18:00 — Cecília Sarolta Molnár & László Fejes: Reason and purpose: how to distinguish them?

• 18:00–19:30 — Dinner

Chair: Scott Grimm

• 19:30–20:00 — Henk Zeevat: Bayesian Interpretation explains Presupposition Projection

• 20:00–20:30 — Katja Jasinskaja: Referential choice in direct speech: Replicating an experiment with an LLM