September 16th, 2026: 18:15 - 21:00 Warm-up at L'Osteria Potsdam (Otto-Braun-Platz 1, 14467 Potsdam)
09:00 — 09:20
Registration
09:20 — 09:30
Welcome
09:30 — 10:30
Imke Driemel (keynote)
Double definiteness with referential modifiers in Swedish
10:30 — 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 — 11:35
11:35 — 12:10
12:10 — 12:45
Florian Schäfer & Giorgos Spathas
Binding in Passives: By-Phrases, Adjuncts, and a Semantic Constraint on Principle A
Aleksandra Belkind
Non-inflectional constructions in German: Hiding structure
Mica Granchelli
Icelandic has verb clusters, too
12:45 — 13:45
Lunch (on your own)
13:45 — 14:20
14:20 — 14:55
Marijke De Belder & Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
The past participle as a relational adjective: Evidence from Genemuiden Dutch
Nele Arnold
Past tense in German compared to English and Dutch: The role of conjugation classes
14:55 — 15:55
Coffee break + Poster Session (see below for the full list of posters)
15:55 — 16:30
16:30 — 17:05
19:00 Conference dinner (for presenters) at Tomasa Potsdam (Kurfürstenstraße 52, 14469 Potsdam)
09:30 — 10:30
Gert-Jan Schoenmakers (keynote)
Something in the grammar: Adjunct island and parasitic gap constructions in Dutch
10:30 — 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 — 11:35
11:35 — 12:10
12:10 — 12:45
Roos Weijers & Esther Ruigendijk
The interpretation and processing of wh-questions in German and Dutch speaking children: The role of case marking
Johannes Hein, Aurore Gonzalez, Chiara Dal Farra, Silvia Silleresi, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Artemis Alexiadou, Maria Teresa Guasti & Uli Sauerland
Extraction from embedded V2-clauses in German: Insights from acquisition
Jana-Elina Jordan, Fenja Plate-Güneş, Sascha Bargmann, Markus Bader, Gert Webelhuth
Inverse scope of negation in German: An experimental investigation
12:45 — 13:45
Lunch (on your own)
13:45 — 14:20
14:20 — 14:55
Jeroen van Craenenbroeck & Marjo van Koppen
Pronominal doubling is lexicalization
Peter Svenonius
Icelandic noun phrases: A case study in features and categories
14:55 — 15:25
Coffee break
15:25 — 16:00
16:00 — 16:35
Theresa Biberauer & Engela de Villiers
V-to-C in the presence of interrogative of 'if': New insights into the Afrikaans polarity system
Klaus Abels
German does not have heterofunctional coordination
16:35 — 16:45
Closing
Luke James Adamson & Tonjes Veenstra
The Grammatical Underpinnings of Polite Dutch U
Lutz Gunkel & Jutta M. Hartmann
Patterns of long-distance extraction from prepositional object clauses in West Germanic
Erin Pretorius & Cora Cavirani-Pots
From pronoun to complementiser: Kaaps wat as a branching vocabulary item