Conference Program

9:00–9:30
Welcome/opening remarks

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9:30–10:30
Invited speaker: Anamaria Fălăuş (CNRS-LLING)
Making sense of wh-clauses

10:30–11:00
Anna Roussou (U. Patras) & Christos Vlachos (U. Patras)
The morphosyntax of wh-pronouns and its implications for wh-parametrization

11:00–11:30
Veronica Bressan (IUSS Pavia), Adriana Belletti (U. Siena) & Cristiano Chesi (IUSS Pavia)
D-linking and lexical restriction in locality violations

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11:30–12:00
Coffee break

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12:00–12:30
Susana Bejar (U. Toronto) & Milan Rezac (CNRS-IKER)
Person and licensing in Georgian: puzzles for Cyclic Agree

12:30–13:00
Ivona Kucerova (McMaster U.) & Alan Munn (Michigan State U.)
Agree only once! Evidence from phi-agreement

13:00–13:30
Peter Herbeck (U. Wuppertal & U. Vienna) & Natascha Pomino (U. Wuppertal)
Morphological transparency and past-tense selection in Valencian Catalan

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13:30–15:30
Lunch break

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15:30–17:00
Poster session + coffee
Stefano Castiglione (UCL), Right-dislocation as fronting plus deletion: evidence from Italian
Adam Chihjen Cheng (U. Ottawa), The morphosyntax of Yami property concepts
Metodi Efremov (U. Nova Gorica) & Franc Marusic (U. Nova Gorica), Distributive binding
Clarissa Facchin (U.A. Barcelona), Two types of que-less clauses in Spanish: a corpus analysis
Anke Himmelreich (Goethe U. Frankfurt), Johannes Mursell (Goethe U. Frankfurt) & Katharina Hartmann (Goethe U. Frankfurt), When long-distance dependencies are actually short: the case of Mabia languages
Tommaso Mattiuzzi (Goethe U. Frankfurt), Hidden deixis and the grammar of bare nouns: a view from Italian PPs
Wiebke Petersen (Bielefeld U.), Why “why” is not what it seems: new insights on question formation in French
Giacomo Presotto (Goethe U. Frankfurt), How redundancy affects syntax: evidence from Spanish ORCs
Feras Saeed (U. Göttingen), Split agreement on prenominal adjectives

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17:00–17:30
Craig Sailor (Trinity College Dublin) & Gary Thoms (NYU)
From restructuring verbs to exhortative particles: a Scots case study

17:30–18:30
Invited speaker: Shinichiro Ishihara (Lund U.)
On the (lack of) correspondence between syntactic clauses and intonational phrases

9:30–10:30
Invited speaker: Theresa Biberauer (U. Cambridge/U. Stellenbosch/U. of the Western Cape)
Acquisition matters in language variation and change: the perspective from Maximise Minimal Means

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10:30–11:00
Sonia Cyrino (U. Campinas) & M.Teresa Espinal (U.A. Barcelona)
From indefinite expressions to nominal NPIs: polarity dependency in French and Russian

11:00–11:30
Paolo Morosi (U.A. Barcelona)
Italian di+ART nominals in light of choice functions

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11:30–12:00
Coffee break

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12:00–12:30
Anna Gavarró (U.A. Barcelona), Iman El Hadef (U.A. Barcelona) & Io Salmons (U.A. Barcelona)
Impersonal relatives in the acquisition of Moroccan Arabic and their implications

12:30–13:00
Molly Rolf (U. Konstanz)
Mixed realizations of KP are L2-difficult, accelerating language change

13:00–13:30
Elena Benedicto (Purdue U.)
Agents: what sign languages can tell us via their Agent-adding devices in motion predicates

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PLEASE NOTE:
The lunch break will end at 16:00, all following events (except the conference dinner) will start 30mins later than originally announced.

13:30–16:00
Lunch break

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16:00–17:30
Poster session + coffee
Tasneem Ali & Feras Saeed (U. Göttingen), Asymmetry in adjectival agreement
Cristiano Chesi (IUSS Pavia) & Achille Fusco (IUSS Pavia), Locality considerations on clefts: the role of person features
Srabasti Dey (U.A. Barcelona), Finiteness in Bangla equative clauses
Anastasija Gruzdeva (Institute of Linguistics, RAS/Lomonosov MSU), Invariant event semantics of the sociative suffix -lsa in Barguzin Buryat
Silvia Gumiel-Molina (U. Alcalá), Norberto Moreno-Quibén (U. Alcalá) & Isabel Pérez-Jiménez (U. Alcalá), From aspect to evidentiality: the pseudo-copulative verb resultar and its kin
Johannes Mursell (Goethe U. Frankfurt) & Katharina Hartmann (Goethe U. Frankfurt), Subject relative clauses in Dagbani (Mabia) as double-headed structures
Ivan Ortega-Santos (U. Memphis), Microvariation in the null-subject properties of Spanish
Cristina Ruiz Alonso (U.A. Barcelona), The clausal article el-que as a licenser of a [D-linked] operator in referential contexts
Gary Thoms (NYU), The locality of selection and external remerge

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17:30–18:00
Josep Ausensi (U. Rovira i Virgili), Ryan Walter Smith (U. Manchester) & Jianrong Yu (KU Leuven)
The roots of strong and weak resultatives in English and Spanish

18:00–18:30
Gurmeet Kaur (U. Göttingen)
The morphosyntax of honorific nouns

18:30–19:00
Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (KU Leuven/Meertens Inst.) & Kyle Johnson (UMass Amherst)
Sloppy symmetry: a derivational account of symmetric predicates

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20:00–?
Conference dinner
Restaurant Conde de Álava
c/ Cruz Blanca, 8

10:00–10:15
Opening remarks

10:15–11:00
Juan Romero (U. de Extremadura)
There is a residue: reflections on agreement variation

11:00–11:45
Dennis Ott (UPV/EHU & Ikerbasque)
What’s in a sentence?

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11:45–12:00
Coffee break

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12:00–12:45
Kyle Johnson (UMass Amherst)
Kinds of surface anaphors

12:45–13:30
Olga Fernández Soriano (U.A. Madrid) & Francisco Ordóñez (Strony Brook U.)
The nominal nature of complex spatial expressions in Romance

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13:30–15:45
Lunch break

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15:45–16:30
Jason Merchant (U. Chicago)
Nominal ellipsis, n/N heads, and lexical nominalization

16:30–17:15
Jairo Nunes (U. São Paulo)
Taking clitics as input and having object agreement as output

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17:15–17:30
Coffee + closing discussion