Day 1 Schedule (Thursday, May 6)
All events were held on Zoom. All times are listed in CDT (Chicago time).
Left column/Plenaries: Zoom Room A
10:00 AM
10:00-11:00

11:15-11:45

Right column: Zoom Room B

opening remarks
Invited Presenter: Sandhya Sundaresan (University of Göttingen)
A theory of null subjects and its implications for the selective opacity of adjuncts
Special Session
General Session
Syntax of South Asian Languages
General I
Troy Messick & Sreekar Raghotham Jun Lyu (University of Southern Califor(Rutgers University): Morphosyntax values
itselfnia), Yaning Yan (Renmin University ofChina) & Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California): Disentangling locality and recency in the processing of Chinese reflexives
Sean Foley (UNC-Chapel Hill): The acoustics of apical vowels in two endangered Ngwi
languages

11:45 AM12:15 PMIshani Guha (University of Delhi), Swar-

12:15-12:45

Samir Alam & Elango Kumaran:

Andrija Petrovic (Stony Brook Univer-(University of Southern California): Focusand multiple agreement in Maithilisity): Vowel fronting in Serbian noun inflection

nendu Moitra (Jadavpur University) &Paul Marty (University College London):Inverse Scope in scrambling languages: thecase of Bangla

12:45-1:30

1:30-2:00

2:00-2:30

2:30-3:00

3:00-3:15
3:15-4:15
4:15-4:30

4:30-4:40

4:40-4:50

4:50-5:00

lunchGeneral Session
Semantics I
Alexander Wimmer (Eberhard Karls

General Session
Syntax I
Fulang Chen (MIT): Three anti long-Universität Tübingen) & Toshiko Oda(Tokyo Keizai University): Regretful concessions: on Japanese ‘noni’Elizabeth Sola-Llonch (UCLA): A firstlook at conditionals and counterfactual conditionals in Lachirioag Zapotec
Alexander Wimmer (Eberhard Karls
Universität Tübingen): Keeping ‘only’ exclusive in conditional antecedents

distance dependency effects in Mandarin BEIconstruction

Robin Jenkins (University of Connecticut): Scrambling and Successive Cyclic Movement In Turkish and Uyghur
Aaron Doliana (University of Maryland):Why must wh-quantifiers in German strand
with complex wh-phrases?

15-minute break
Invited Presenter: Kelly E. Wright (University of Michigan)
Race & Language: Considering Black Linguistic Experiences
15-minute break
Poster Session I
Poster Session IIGeneral
Syntax & Semantics
Eszter Ótott-Kovács (Cornell Univer- Alexandros Kalomoiros (University ofsity): Assistive: A New Type of Argument
Introducing Head
Eleanor Glewwe (Grinnell College): The
Phonological Determinants of Tone in English
Loanwords in Mandarin
Kaili Vesik (University of BritishColumbia): Vowel quantity contrasts inEstonian choral music

1Pennsylvania): Bare singulars and PseudoIncorporation in Western Armenian
Teruyuki Mizuno (University of Connecticut): Argument ellipsis, topicality, anda theory of null anaphora
Ruyue Agnes Bi (MIT): Evaluativity triggered by scalar particles: a pragmatic approach5:00-5:10

Sreekar Raghotham (Rutgers University): Privativity and Number Features: Theview from Telugu

5:10-6:00

Aviv Schoenfeld (Tel Aviv University):
Possessive relations and maximality

poster mingle in breakout rooms

2Day 2 Schedule (Friday, May 7)
Left column/Plenaries: Zoom Room A
10:00-11:00
AM

11:15-11:45

Invited Presenter: Ruth Kramer (Georgetown University)
Determining the Impact of Phonological Factors in Grammatical Gender Assignment:
Case Studies and Theoretical Implications
General Session
General Session
Syntax II
Semantics II
Jason Smith (Michigan State University): Julie Goncharov (Georg-August UniverCase and Word Order in Mende

11:45 AM 12:15 PMRight column: Zoom Room B

Lefteris Paparounas & Martin Salzmann (University of Pennsylvania): Firstconjunct clitic doubling in Modern Greek - Implications for the theory of clitic doubling, thePCC, and the syntax of first conjunct agreement

12:15-12:45

sity of Goettingen) & Lavi Wolf (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Granularity inthe polarity system
Joshua Martin (Harvard University):
Emergent privativity and constrained modulation in adjective semantics

Hary Chow & Marcin Morzycki (University of British Columbia): Zero, Measurement, Nominal Semantics, and the Ontologyof Pluralities in Cantonese

12:45-1:30

1:30-1:40

lunch
Poster Session III
Poster Session IV
generalSign Linguistics
Pamela Goryczka (University of Vienna): Kathleen Currie Hall, Oksana
Tutto è bene quel che finisce bene: Revisit- Tkachman & Yurika Aonuki (Uniing the function of the -isc- augment in ItaloRomance varieties

1:40-1:50

Martı́n Fuchs (Utrecht University): The
Diachrony of the Present Progressive and theSimple Present in Spanish

1:50-2:00

2:00-2:10

2:10-3:00
3:00-3:15
3:15-4:15
4:15-4:30

versity of British Columbia):
Perceived
Magnitudes of Movement in American Sign
Language
Hande Sevgi (Harvard University): Syntax
on its own is not enough: Sign language classifiers
Elena Koulidobrova (Central Connecticut State University), Gabriel Martinez
Vera (Goethe Universität), Kim Kurz
(Rochester Institute of Technology) &Christopher Kurz (Rochester Institute ofTechnology): Revisiting gradability in ASL
Yuko Asada (Showa Women’s University):
Weak hand holds of number signs in Japanese
Sign Language

poster mingle in breakout rooms
15-minute break
Invited Presenter: Kirby Conrod (University of Washington)
Queering the Narrow Syntax
15-minute breakSpecial Session
General Session
Phonology-Syntax Interface
Semantics III34:30-5:00

5:00-5:30

5:30-6:00

Lara Mantovan (Ca’ Foscari University

Marcin Wagiel & Pavel Caha (MasarykVenice): On phrase-final lengthening in Italian Sign Language (LIS), a gradient phenomenon at interface
Shengyun Gu (University of Connecticut):
On weak hand spread in Shanghai Sign Language: Positive and negative evidence
Ksenia Bogomolets (University of Auckland): Syntactic influences on stress: Noun
Incorporation and Denominal Verbs in Choguita Rarámuri

University in Brno): The architecture of basic
cardinal numerals

4Jens

Hopperdietzel (University ofManchester): “Verb”-framed resultatives in a
serializing language: Evidence from Samoan

Day 3 Schedule (Saturday, May 8)
Left column/Plenaries: Zoom Room A
10:00-11:00
AM

11:15-11:45

11:45 AM 12:15 PM
12:15-12:45

Invited Presenter: Vadim Kimmelman (University of Bergen)
Lexical variation in sign languages: lessons from Russian Sign Language
General Session
General Session
Semantics & Pragmatics
Sociolinguistics
Devin Tankersley (University of New Gabriella Licata (UC Berkeley): Sorry,
Mexico): Asking and Questioning: a look at
the distribution of interrogative non-manual
markers in American Sign Language
William Thomas (The Ohio State University): Taking stock of theories of the imperative: Evidence from the behavior of “just”

Peter Grishin (MIT): Assertions without
belief: the semantics of partially deniable evidentials

12:45-1:30

1:30-2:00

2:00-2:30

3:05-3:35

ofSaskatchewan): The importance of natural
speech corpora in identifying pathways oflanguage change

Evripidis Tsiakmakis & M. Teresa
Espinal(UniversitatAutonoma
de

4:45

Rebecca Lee (University of Colorado Boulder): “Nothing racist in that comment”: Spatial metaphor, syntactic variation, and sociopolysemySuzie Telep (University of Paris): Performing whiteness through language and body: theconstruction of a “dominant black woman”
ethos at the intersection of race, gender andclassGeneral Session
Syntax IIIDennis Ott & Gabriel DeRooy (University of Ottawa): The Syntactic Structuresof Free Relative Clauses: New Evidence from
Reconstruction
Thomas McFadden (Leibniz-Zentrum
Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft): Tamil allocutive agreement, the representation of theSpeech Act, and the theory of phi-agreement

5-minute pee break
Tory Sampson & Rachel Mayberry Ksenia Ershova (Stanford University):(University of California, San Diego): A Copular SELF: The Copula Cycle in American
Sign Language

Configurationality in Polysynthesis:
Crossover in West CircassianNatália Brambatti Guzzo & Avery
Franken (McGill University): Examining

Suzana Fong (MIT): Distinguishing be-contact effects in a written corpus: Subjects
in Brazilian Veneto

3:35-3:45
3:45-4:45

not Sorry: An Intersectional Analysis of Congressman Ted Yoho’s Infelicitous Apology

lunchSpecial Session
Language Change
Martin Kohlberger (UniversityBarcelona): Modern Greek min revisited:
Distribution, Meaning and the Grammaticalization Path

2:30-2:35
2:35-3:05

Right column: Zoom Room B

tween accounts of the A/A’-distinction: theview from Argentinian Spanish Clitic Doubling

10-minute break
Invited Presenter: Tulio Bermúdez (University of Chicago)
Speech play as praxis for a cognitive map of the future
closing remarks

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