Day 1 (October 17th, Thursday)
8:00 AM | Registration & Breakfast (Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC), 1/F) | |||||
9:00 AM | Invited talk (LC 102) The grammar of gender: Insights from Bantu Vicki Carstens (University of Connecticut) [handout] Chair: Veneeta Dayal (Yale University) | |||||
10:00 AM | Break | |||||
Session 1A (LC 101) Chair: Paula Fenger (University of Leipzig) | Session 1B (LC 102) Chair: Maria Kouneli (Rutgers University) | |||||
10:30 AM | Alternations 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 AM | A 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 AM | Inflectional 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 PM | Lunch (on your own) | |||||
1:30 PM | Invited 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 PM | Meaningful 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 PM | Localizing To-Do Lists Jonathan Kendrick and Yunhui Bai [slides] | Stative Passives in Ardalani Kurdish Alexander Hamo and Saman Meihami [handout] | ||||
3:30 PM | Break | |||||
Session 3A (LC 101) Chair: Yuyang Liu (Yale University) | Session 3B (LC 102) Chair: Ka-Fai Yip (Yale University) | |||||
4:00 PM | What actually delimits the context for allomorphy? Maša Bešlin | Long-distance pivot movement measures Phase Unlocking: Malagasy vs. Dinka Ioannis Katochoritis [handout] | ||||
4:30 PM | An 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 PM | Break (start walking to Omni around 5:50 pm) | |||||
6:00 PM | Poster Session A (Omni “Mezzanine” level, outside ballroom) | |||||
7:00 PM | Poster Session B (Omni “Mezzanine” level, ballroom) | |||||
8:00 PM | Dinner (Omni “Mezzanine” level, ballroom) |
Day 2 (October 18th, Friday)
Posters