• Links for virtual participation will be sent to registered participants by email shortly before the conference. Further information is available here.

• An online space for virtual posters and socializing will be available via a GatherTown platform, which will remain open Dec 15-17.

• Lunch (sandwiches/salads) will be provided on the three days of the conference for registered participants.

• Coffee/tea will be provided during the coffee breaks and will also be available for purchase at Longhorn Coffee in the WCP building next door (closed on Saturday)

Plenary Speakers

Stephanie Evers (Winner of the Greenberg Award)

Cross-Linguistic Correlations Between Existing Morphosyntax and the Emergence of Definite Articles

Christian Döhler (Winner of the Georg von der Gabelentz Award)

Every Language Matters: The Types of Knowledge That Come From Individual Descriptions [VIRTUAL]

Book of Abstracts

POSTERS

• Maduabuchi Agbo, A Typology of Avertive and Frustrative Constructions in Igbò [VIRTUAL]

• Omri Amiraz, A processing-based explanation for left-right agreement asymmetries [VIRTUAL]

• Kurt Gagne (Gallaudet University), Danilo Alberto Morales Blanco (Equipo Sordo) and Ivonne Lorena Morales Ruíz (Centro de Education Especial Melania Morales), Juntos: A researcher-community partnership to study sign language in Nicaragua

• Qi Huang, General classifiers as “Forerunners” in the grammaticalization of numeral classifiers in southern Sinitic Languages [VIRTUAL]

• Qandeel Hussain, Place and laryngeal typology of stop consonants in Iranian [VIRTUAL]

• Tom Koss, (Non-)present-time reference from a typological perspective

• Ellison Luk, Between complex predicates and clause linkage: A typology of northern Australian languages

• Jayden L. Macklin-Cordes, One-Soon Her and Marc Allassonnière-Tang, Correlated evolution of numeral base and classifier word orders in Tibeto-Burman languages

• Ian Maddieson and Karl Benedict, Environmental impacts on phonological typology; methodological issue and results

• Marvin Martiny, Origins of future grams with focus on directionality

• Stephen Matthews and Virginia Yip, Language diversity and bilingual first language acquisition

• Natsuko Nakagawa and Masataka Ogawa, Nominal marking and word order in varieties of the Japonic family [VIRTUAL]

• Naomi Peck, Are all serial verb constructions realised in a single intonation unit?

• Seongha Rhee, Frustratives in Korean

• Natalia Serdobolskaya and Anastasia Egorova, Agreement with clausal arguments in Moksha-Mordvin: Factivity or lexical constraints [VIRTUAL]

• Thomas Stolz, Nataliya Levkovych and Julia Nintemann, The morphosyntax of toponyms in typological perspective