Day 1 (October 17th, Thursday)
8:00 AMRegistration & Breakfast (Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC), 1/F)
9:00 AMInvited talk (LC 102)
The grammar of gender: Insights from Bantu

Vicki Carstens (University of Connecticut)

[handout]
Chair: Veneeta Dayal (Yale University)
10:00 AMBreak
Session 1A (LC 101)
Chair: Paula Fenger (University of Leipzig)
Session 1B (LC 102)
Chair: Maria Kouneli (Rutgers University)
10:30 AMAlternations between second and final position of Caucasian conjunctions and a general theory of second position placement
Philipp Weisser
Reciprocal binding and syntactic ergativity in Adyghe
Suzana Fong
[handout] [slides]
11:00 AMA phonology–morphosyntax interface explanation of the “nasal infix” in (Proto-)Indo-European
Klaus Baki, Anthony D. Yates and Sam Zukoff
Person and aspect in Taushiro split ergativity
Amy Rose Deal and Zachary O’Hagan
[handout]
11:30 AMInflectional morphology in the Turkish verbal domain: Allomorphy, hybridity and change
Eva Neu
[handout]
Marked default via feature overspecification: Oblique themes in Kazym Khanty
Alexandra Belkind
[slides]
12:00 PMLunch (on your own)
1:30 PMInvited talk (LC 102)
Unnatural Language Semantics

Shane Steinert-Threlkeld (University of Washington)

Chair: Simon Charlow (Yale University)
Session 2A (LC 101)
Chair: Athulya Aravind (Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Yale University)
Session 2B (LC 102)
Chair: David Embick (University of Pennsylvania)
2:30 PMMeaningful Agreement Features: Evidence
from indexical binding

Isabelle Charnavel, Tom Meadows and Dominique Sportiche
[handout]
Stative passives are not passives: Evidence from thematic reversals
Lefteris Paparounas
[handout]
3:00 PMLocalizing To-Do Lists
Jonathan Kendrick and Yunhui Bai
[slides]
Stative Passives in Ardalani Kurdish
Alexander Hamo and Saman Meihami
[handout]
3:30 PMBreak
Session 3A (LC 101)
Chair: Yuyang Liu (Yale University)
Session 3B (LC 102)
Chair: Ka-Fai Yip (Yale University)
4:00 PMWhat actually delimits the context for allomorphy?
Maša Bešlin
Long-distance pivot movement measures Phase Unlocking: Malagasy vs. Dinka
Ioannis Katochoritis
[handout]
4:30 PMAn implicational hierarchy on the exponence of heterogeneous plurals
Beccy Lewis
[handout]
Distinct pathways to possessor A’-extraction in Mesoamerican languages
Andrew Hedding and Michelle Yuan
[handout]
5:00 PMBreak (start walking to Omni around 5:50 pm)
6:00 PMPoster Session A (Omni “Mezzanine” level, outside ballroom)
7:00 PMPoster Session B (Omni “Mezzanine” level, ballroom)
8:00 PMDinner (Omni “Mezzanine” level, ballroom)
Day 2 (October 18th, Friday)
8:00 AMBreakfast (Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC), 1/F)
9:00 AMInvited talk (LC 102)
Discontinuous harmony in Guébie: Consequences for cyclic spell out

Hannah Sande (University of California, Berkeley)

Chair: Natalie Weber (Yale University)
10:00 AMBreak
Session 4A (LC 101)
Chair: Kyle Gorman (CUNY Graduate Center)
Session 4B (LC 102)
Chair: Richard Luo (Yale University)
10:30 AMThe three Shilluk right-edge Hs: An argument for both subtonal features and strata
Armel Jolin
Facilitator effects in Mandarin topicalization: Evidence for a crossing-based view of antilocality
Fulang Chen and Ka-Fai Yip
[handout]
11:00 AMEmergent strength strata in Cherokee hiatus resolution
Brian Hsu and Caitlin Smith
A Say Verb or Complementzier: Analyzing
shuo following communicatives and noncommunicatives

Ariela Ye
[handout]
11:30 AMNo categorical gang effects
Elango Kumaran
Mandarin gěi as an argument introducer: Thematic and expletive uses
Enrique Merino
[handout]
12:00 PMLunch & PUMP (food provided for PUMP participants)
Session 5A (LC 101)
Chair: Bob Frank (Yale University)
Session 5B (LC 102)
Chair: Raffaella Zanuttini (Yale University)
1:30 PMEvent containers
Aidan Katson
[handout]
The syntactic representation of ADDRESSEE – Evidence from wh-drop in Berlin German
Andreas Pankau
[handout]
2:00 PMSpeaker beliefs, biased questions and reportative evidentials: A look at Finnish and English
Elsi Kaiser
Polite Pronouns and the PCC
Luke Adamson and Stanislao Zompì
[slides]
2:30 PMPre-nominal modification in Italian as a window into the core meaning of color adjectives
Janek Guerrini
Singular they and the syntax of pronominal imposters
Karlos Arregi and Matthew Hewett
[handout]
3:00 PMBreak
Session 6A (LC 101)
Chair: Matthew Hewett (Georgetown University)
Session 6B (LC 102)
Chair: Squid Tamar-Mattis (Yale University)
3:30 PMSyntactic height impacts prosodic size: An argument for cyclic prosodification
Paula Fenger, Nadja Fiebig, Sören Tebay and Philipp Weisser
Raised heads and subjects in Turkic genitive subject relatives
Travis Major, Gary Thoms and Gulnar Eziz
4:00 PMEnglish irregular verb roots = regular phonology: No allomorphy, no readjustment rules, no delayed phase spell-out required.
Heather Newell
[slides]
Ellipsis ≠ ellipsis: Evidence from exceptional inflection in German RNR
Johannes Hein
4:30 PMBreak
5:00 PMInvited talk (LC 102)
The cycle within a syllable: The role of the vP phase in Dinka morphophonology

Coppe van Urk (Queen Mary University of London)

Chair: Jim Wood (Yale University)
[handout]
6:00 PMClosing
Posters
Poster Session A, Thursday (6:00 PM–7:00 PM), Omni “Mezzanine” level, outside ballroom
Faruk Akkus[1] Locating code-switching in the grammar: Role of postsyntax and morphological
wordhood
[handout] [poster]
Daiki Asami and Benjamin Bruening[2] Subjectless readings of again and the Kratzerian model of argument structure [poster]
Alison Biggs and David Embick[3] English passive participles: Category, argument introduction, and interpretation
Núria Bosch and Theresa Biberauer[4] Not all topics are equal: Syntactic complexity and its effect on the acquisition of left peripheral structures [handout] [poster]
Xiaobei Chen[5] N-to-VP Copying in Hani: A remnant movement approach
Maksymilian Dąbkowski[6] Morphological boundary glottals in A’ingae: A new argument for [δ] [poster] (Alternate Talk)
Jon Gajewski[7] On the pragmatics of propositional anaphora
Kyle Gorman and Daniel Yakubov[8] Acquiring inflectional gaps with indirect negative evidence: Evidence from Russian
Peter Grishin[9] Impersonal impersonals and personal third persons: An argument for binary [±PART] [poster] [references]
Christine Gu[10] “Optional” ergativity in Tibetan as AGREE-based dependent case [poster]
Yuyang Liu[11] Mandarin Chinese ma: Q morpheme, SA intensifier, or PQP? [poster]
Magdalena Lohninger[12] The A’/A signature: systematic patterns in composite A’/A probing [poster]
Gianluca Porta[13] Extraction from adjuncts: The role of Small Clauses
Helene Streffer[14] The nature of clusivity features. Insights from two syncretism case studies
Timea Szarvas[15] PP modifiers do not reconstruct for principle C. Evidence from German wh- and ATB-movement.
Squid Tamar-Mattis[16] Let’s try and figure out why we can’t inflect these verbs [poster]
Anastasia Tsilia[17] (In)direct evidential futures in Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian
Poster Session B, Thursday (7:00 PM–8:00 PM), Omni “Mezzanine” level, inside ballroom
Mariam Asatryan, Faruk Akkus and Rajesh Bhatt[18] Hyperagreement in Alashkert Armenian [poster]
Qiushi Chen[19] N-to-D movement, scrambling, and DP-internal constituent order in Chichewa [poster]
Ksenia Ershova[20] Syntactic ergativity without ‘syntactic ergativity’
Baran Günay and Ümit Atlamaz[21] Single conjunct agreement and resolved agreement in Homshetsi
Akil Ismael and Jessica Göbel[22] The clause-medial vP phase is real: Evidence from Moselle Franconian
Naomi Lee[23] The Nanosyntactic prediction that each language can only have one declension class containing gender doublets is false [poster]
Zarina Levy-Forsythe and Aviya Hacohen[24] Beyond the object-substance distinction in a classifier language: Experimental
evidence from Tashkent Uzbek
[poster]
Richard Luo[25] Two flavors of control in Georgian: Decide and try [poster]
Paul Meisenbichler[26] Interactions of worlds, times, and locations: On the expressive power of index shifting
Willie Myers[27] A syntactic approach to repetitive presuppositions in Kanien’kéha
Ryuta Ono[28] Ellipsis resistance and focus intonation in Japanese [poster]
Satoru Ozaki[29] Conditional wh-questions with VP Ellipsis
Wesley dos Santos[30] Person hierarchy effects from Φ-agreement at the left periphery in Kawahíva [poster]
Oddur Snorrason[31] HAVE-omission in Swedish: Towards a theory of auxiliary omission
Leonel Fongang Tadjo[32] Nominal prefix drop in Aghem: Agree and strictly local Impoverishment
Yvette Yi-Chi Wu[33] Movement and crossover asymmetries in the Seediq pivot