Program
- Wednesday / January 5 (syntax)
- Thursday / January 6 (phonology, morphology, and syntax)
- Friday / January 7 (syntax and biolinguistics)
- Saturday / January 8 (semantics and syntax)
- Alternate speakers
Wednesday / January 5 (Weberfoyer/Theaterzaal)
12:00 - 13:00 Registration
13:00 - 13:15 Opening
Syntax
13:15 - 14:15 Invited speaker
Jan-Wouter Zwart (University of Groningen)
Recursion as derivation layering
14:15 - 14:55
Dennis Ott (Harvard University)
Split Topicalization as symmetry-breaking predicate fronting
14:55 - 15:35
Julio Villa-Garcia (University of Connecticut)
On recomplementation, the architecture of the left periphery, and Comp-t effects in Spanish
15:35 - 15:55 Coffee break
15:55 - 16:35
Andreas Blümel (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt)
Was-für-split revisited
16:35 - 17:15
Ilona Spector (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
It's Hebrew clefts that this talk is about
17:15 - 17:55
Aysa Arylova (University of Groningen)
Argument structure of the Russian be-possessive
18:00 - 19:00 Reception (Academiegebouw)
This reception is offered to you by the University of Groningen, the Municipality of Groningen and the Province of Groningen.
Thursday / January 6 (Weberfoyer/Theaterzaal)
08:30 - 9:00 Registration and coffee
Phonology and morphology
09:00 - 10:00 Invited speaker
Bruce Morén (University of Tromsø)
Is linguistics an empirical science?
10:00 - 10:40
Johann-Mattis List (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
Multiple sequence alignments in historical linguistics
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40
Constantijn Kaland, Emiel Krahmer, and Marc Swerts (Tilburg University)
Prosody of privileged information
11:40 - 12:20
Violeta Martínez-Paricio (University of Tromsø)
Coercive weight and diphthongs in Spanish
12:20 - 13:00
Eva Zimmermann (University of Leipzig)
-umcimma vs. -umcimcimma: affix-copying in Kiranti
13:00 - 14:20 Lunch
Morphology and syntax
14:20 - 15:00
Yiying Ann Chang (National Chi Nan University)
Pronominal ordering in Plngawan Atayal
15:00 - 15:40
Doreen Georgi (University of Leipzig)
Chameleon probes in Mordvin
15:40 - 16:20
Daniela Henze and Eva Zimmermann (University of Leipzig)
Collateral feature discharge
16:20 - 16:40 Coffee break
16:40 - 17:20
Karen De Clercq (University of Gent)
Negative PP-adjuncts, scope and tense
17:20 - 18:00
Emilienne Ngangoum (Utrecht University)
Rethinking Jespersen cycle from a Bantu perspective
Friday / 7 January (Weberfoyer/Theaterzaal)
08:30 - 09:00 Registration and coffee
Syntax
09:00 - 09:40
Anke Assmann, Doreen Georgi, and Philipp Weisser (University of Leipzig)
A derivational account of possessor advancement
09:40 - 10:20
Annika Deichsel (University of Stuttgart)
Demonstratives reloaded
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee break
10:40 - 11:20
Songül Gündoğdu (Boğaziçi University)
Ergativity in Kurmanji
11:20 - 12:00
Anke Assmann (University of Leipzig)
A new solution to the island paradox with parasitic gaps
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
Biolinguistics workshop
12:00 - 13:00 Registration
13:00 - 13:10 Opening
13:10 - 13:50
Thomas Graf (University of California)
Lost in translation: A formal model of merge-over-move and its implications for the language faculty
13:50 - 14:30
Jeff Hanna (University of Cambridge)
Indices of morphosyntactic processing in bilinguals: evidence against an L2 critical period
14:30 - 15:10
Luke McCrohon (University of Tokyo)
Biological evolution, multilingualism and the lexicon
15:10 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 16:10
Marília Costa (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Theory of mind and other cognitive modules: a dynamic interaction
16:10 - 16:50
Lluís Barceló-Coblijn (University of the Balearic Islands)
Alleged morpheme-based alarm calls in the light of biolinguistics: The role of duality of patterning
16:50 - 17:50 Invited speaker
Simon Kirby (University of Edinburgh)
Language as a culturally evolving system: from computer simulation to the experiment lab
17:50 - 18:00 Concluding Remarks
Saturday / January 8 (De Holm)
08:30 - 9:00 Registration and coffee
Semantics
09:00 - 10:00 Invited speaker
Hotze Rullmann (University of British Columbia)
The semantics of person and number in bound-variable pronouns
10:00 - 10:40
Mailin Antomo (University of Göttingen)
On the presupposition of temporal clauses
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40
Daniel Lassiter (New York University)
Alternative-sensitivity of likely and probable: Linguistic and psychological implications
11:40 - 12:20
Sophia Döring (Humboldt University Berlin)
The focus sensitivity of sentence adverbs
12:20 - 13:00
Lavi Wolf (Ben-Gurion University)
Epistemic ambiguity
13:00 - 14:20 Lunch
Semantics and syntax
14:20 - 15:00
Stefan Keine (University of Leipzig)
Deconstructing switch reference
15:00 - 15:40
Marta Ruda (Jagiellonian University of Krakow)
On coordinate subject-verb agreement in Polish
15:40 - 16:20
Will Harwood (University of Gent)
There were several positions available: English intermediate subject positions
16:20 - 16:40 Coffee break
16:40 - 17:20
Eefje Boef (Meertens Institute)
Doubling in Dutch restrictive relative clauses: rethinking the head external analysis
17:20 - 18:00
Oliver Boxell (University of Essex)
Discourse-linking and long-distance wh-dependency formation
Alternate speakers
All of the alternate speakers have already replaced those who couldn't make it to the conference.
