Program

9:15-9:30 Welcoming

9:30-10 O. Borik & I.I. Teomiro Datives at the syntax-pragmatics interface

10-10:30 V.N. di Caro, A. Massaro, L. Molinari Non mi va a cadere? Interpretability and stackability of Italian mirative markers

10:30-11:30 M. Krifka The structure and interpretation of declarative clauses: Assertions, declarations, exclamations, miratives, wishes, promises, commands, and questions 

11:30-12 coffee break

12-12:30 M.T. Espinal & S. Cyrino Experiencers as speakers and judges. The case of the jo ‘I’ construction

12:30-13 J. Ausensi & S. Buchczyk Exploring rhetorical imperatives

13-14 lunch time

14-14:30 C. Cavirani-Pots, E. Cavirani, G. Vanden Wyngaerd Two ways to be expressive. The case of the Italian expressives cazzo and merda

14:30-15 X. Villalba Mirative markers in the Speech Act Layer of exclamative sentences

15-15:30 coffee break

15:30-16 A. Kocher Complementizers, commitment and modification in Ibero-Romance

9:30-10 S. Buchczyk How mood determines the nature of updates

10-10:30 L. Baunaz, A.-L. Demonie &  E. Lander Modal particles, their negators and expletive negation

10:30-11:30 A. Mari Expressivity and semantic composition : evidence from mica exclamative questions

11:30-12 coffee break

12-12:30 P. Morosi On the non-expletiveness of the Italian “expletive” definite article

12:30-13 D. Seres & L. Molinari NP marking in Slavic: bare vs non-bare subjects

13-14 lunch time

14-14:30 S. Rossi, C. Chesi & M. Greco The syntax of expletive negation in (social-media) English: the case of not-me sentences

14:30-15 S. Cyrino On (low, emphatic) verbal negation in Brazilian Portuguese

15-15:30 coffee break

15:30-16:30 E. Tsiakmakis Studying Greek expletives across domains: the expletiveness - expressivity link...but stronger

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20:30 Dinner

9-9:30 F. Osawa More attention to a hearer! The meaning of functional category DP emergence

9:30-10 V. Colasanti & M. Wiltschko I am here and this is new. You are there and that is old. The role of speaker and addressee in the interpretation of demonstratives

10-11 J. A. Mendia A grammatical recipe for kind construction

11-11:30 coffee break

11:30-12 C. Facchin On the deictic status of complementizerless clauses: a comparison between Spanish and Italian

12-12:30 N. Munaro Non-integrated conditionals as speech-event modifiers: evidence from Romance

12:30-13 N. Bosch The case of Rita: expressives and negative indefinites in Catalan and Spanish

13-14 lunch time

14-14:30 G. Barberà, P. Cabredo Hofherr & R. Veiga Busto Layers of meaning in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) indefinites

14:30-15:30 M. Steinbach & C. Ebert Demonstrations in spoken and sign languages - iconic strengthening and dimensions of iconic meaning

15:30-16 Closing remarks