Program

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Please note!
Registration is free of charge. Breakfast, lunch and light snacks at coffee breaks will be provided by the organizing departments.

Poster presenters, you will have a lot of time and a lot of space. We have a long lunch break and lunch will be served at the workshop venue.

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Day 1 — Saturday, November 21

09:30
Breakfast and registration

09:55
Opening remarks

10:00
Information structure and word order in Romeyka of Çaykara (Turkey)
Nicolaos Neocleous (University of Cambridge)

10:30
The syllable contact law in Kyrgyz
Hanzhi Zhu (MIT)

11:00
Break

11:15
Reinterpreting height-conditioned trigger strength in Kazakh labial harmony
Adam McCollum (UC San Diego)

11:45
Similarities and differences between N-complement and Relative Clause constructions in two Turkic languages
Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse)

12:45
Lunch and poster session

Posters
Illusions of grammaticality on NPI licensing in Turkish: Does the parser ignore the grammar?
Aydoğan Yanılmaz (Stony Brook)

Reduplicative adverbs: Redefining words

Betül Erbaşı (University of Southern California)

Recursive morphology

Filiz Mutlu (Boğaziçi University)

Aspect and evidentiality in Azeri

Gita Zareikar Andres P. Salanova (University of Ottawa)

Feature domains and lexically conditioned transparency in Turkish

Jennifer Bellik (UC Santa Cruz)

An ultrasound study of the articulatory correlates of vowel anteriority in three Turkic languages

Jonathan Washington (Indiana University)

Two types of locality in indexical shift

Matthew Tyler (Yale University)

Linguistic divergence with respect to relativization strategies in East Anatolia

Ophélie Gandon (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3)

Small pro as a defective binder: Anaphor binding in possessive structures

Selçuk İşsever (Ankara University)

Turkish scrambling within single clause wh-questions 

Tamarae Hildebrandt (University of Michigan)

Subject marking and scrambling effects in Balkar nominalizations

Tatiana Bondarenko (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

A bidimensional semantics for questions

Ümit Atlamaz (Rutgers)

14:45
What conditionals teach us about mI
Sabine Laszakovits (UConn)

15:15
Representing non-culminating accomplishments in Turkic
Sergei Tatevosov (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

15:45
Break

16:00
What motivates auxiliaries? Comparing Turkic and Japanese
Colin Davis (MIT)

Day 2 — Sunday, November 22

10:00
Turkish complex disjunction
İsa Kerem Bayırlı (MIT)

10:30
Complex predicate formation via adjunction to a head category: Evidence from light verb constructions
Yağmur Sağ (Rutgers)

11:00
Break

11:15
Reanalyzing Indo-Iranian “stems”: A case study of Adıyaman Kurmanji
Laura Kalin & Ümit Atlamaz (UConn, Rutgers)

11:45
On conditionals, like the other Sabine
Sabine Iatridou (MIT)