Program

Registration and coffee/tea 

Conference opening 

Invited talk: Imperatives in Retrospect [slides]

Hadil Karawani (University of Konstanz) 

Break 10:15 - 10:45

The Long and Short of Exceed-Comparatives: Comparing Jula (Manding; Burkina-Faso) and Ndebele (Bantu; Zimbabwe) [slides]

Anna Struck (University of Potsdam) and Siena Weingartz (University of Manchester)

The Typology of Comparison Standards: Evidence from Malay 

Eve Suharwardy (University of Manchester)

An experimental approach to define embedded questions in Akan [slides]

Jeanne Lecavelier (University of Potsdam), Mike O. Antwi (University of Ghana), Doris Jovovic (University of Potsdam), Hafiz Laryea (University of Ghana) 

Lunch 12:45 - 14:00

Breaking the mass: Experimental evidence for a lexicalized count-mass distinction in Tashkent Uzbek 

Zarina Levy-Forsythe (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) and Aviya Hacohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

Understanding the semantics of Akan’s plural morphology: An experimental investigation  [slides]

Madeline Ladore (University of Göttingen)

Break 15:20 - 15:40

Invited talk: Untangling the Tagalog second-position clitic adverbs [handout]

Henrison Hsieh (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Break 10:15 - 10:45

Exceptive constructions in Tundra Nenets [slides]

Ekaterina Vostrikova (University of Göttingen)

Free relatives free from silent operators: evidence from Old Avestan 

Setayesh Dashti (University of Oxford)

Lunch 12:45 - 14:00

Instrument nominals as predicates of states in Persian [handout]

Ryan Walter Smith (University of Manchester) and Shahriar Hormozi (University of Arizona)

Break 15:20 - 15:50

Australian apprehensives as bi-propositional conditionals [slides]

Patrick Caudal (CNRS & Université Paris-Cité) and Rachel Nordlinger (University of Melbourne)

Severing the internal argument from its verb: The case of Mam  [handout]

Noah Elkins (Haverford College), Justin Royer (Université de Montréal) and Tessa Scott (UC Berkeley)

Break 17:10 - 17:30

Dinner

Break 10:15 - 10:45

Disjointness and obligatory binding: The view from Atchan pronouns 

Rebecca Jarvis (UC Berkeley)

Relative tense & Sequence of tense in Main clauses in (Moroccan) Arabic 

Hafida Iguir (Nantes Université), Hongyuan Sun (Université de Picardie Jules Verne) and Hamida Demirdache (Nantes Université)

Lunch 12:45 - 14:00

The syntax and semantics of modality: Evidence from Passamaquoddy-Wolastoqey  [handout]

Peter Grishin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Mirativity and Evidentiality in Amdo Tibetan 

William Gore (Columbia University) and Meredith Landman (Columbia University)

Break 15:20 - 15:40

‘He recently arrives’: temporal and aspectual interactions on Gu-jingaliya cyclic tense system (Maningrida, Australia) [slides]

David Felipe Guerrero-Beltran (University of Melbourne & Universite Paris-Cité)

Scalar Implicatures, Local Redundancy and Inclusion: with a reference to hyponym/ bare plural hyperonym conjunction in Arabic  [slides]

Abdel-Rahman Abu Helal (Yarmouk University)

Business meeting 17:00 - 18:00

Break 10:15 - 10:45

Does iconicity affect comprehension of before and after? Answers from child Greek 

Petra Schulz (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Christos Makrodimitris (Goethe University Frankfurt)

ABC without AB : temporal clauses without connectors in Karitiana.

Marta Donazzan (Nantes Université) and Ana Lucia Müller (Universidade de São Paulo)

Temporal adverbials and the de Re/de Dicto mismatch: Evidence from Romance languages 

Giuliano Armenante (University of Potsdam)

Lunch 12:45 - 14:00

Stative predicates and inchoative marking in before-clauses: Case study in Mandarin Chinese 

Ruoying Zhao (UCL)

Organizing committee: Hamida Demirdache, Marta Donazzan, Aurore Gonzalez, Walid Hafsi, Oana Lungu, Jérémy Pasquereau, Isabelle Roy

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