Day 1 Schedule (Thursday, April 26)
All events held in Ida Noyes Hall (1212 E. 59th St.).
Invited talks, Registration& Poster Session: Theater, 3rd floor
Left column: West Lounge, 2nd floor
8:15-8:50
8:50-9:00
9:00-10:00

10:15-10:45

Right column: East Lounge, 2nd floor

registration
opening remarks
Invited Speaker: Susi Wurmbrand (University of Connecticut & Universität Wien.)
Cross-clausal A-dependencies
General Session
Special Session
SyntaxPsycholinguistic approaches...
Luke Adamson & Milena Šereikaitė Jesse Harris (UCLA) & Natasha Ko(University of Pennsylvania): The Neuter
Agreement Constraint in Lithuanian

10:45-11:15

Abdul-Razak Sulemana (Massachusetts
Institute of Technology): PRO as a Partial
Copy: A movement based account of Control

11:15-11:30
11:30-12:00

12:00-12:30

rotkova (Konstanz, Tübingen): Preferencefor single events guides perception in Russian:
A phoneme restoration study
Michael Wilson (University of Massachusetts Amherst): The Dative Illusion as
an Argument for Lexicalist Argument Structure

breakToru Ishii (Meiji University): On Multiple Ana Besserman & Elsi Kaiser (UniRight-dislocation in Japaneseversity of Southern California): The discourse
status of existential implicit arguments: Investigating referent accessibility through sluicing

AndreasAniello De Santo, Jonathan Rawski,
Amanda M. Yazdani & John E.
Drury (Stony Brook University): Quantified

Pankau (Free University ofBerlin): Pseudo wh-copying as wh-slifting

Sentences as a Window into Prediction andPriming: An ERP Study

12:30-1:30

1:30-2:00

2:00-2:30
2:30-3:30
3:30-4:00

4:00-4:30
4:30-4:45
4:45-5:45
6:45

lunch
General Session
Morphology
Einar Freyr SigurDsson (University ofSpecial Session...to semantics/pragmatics
Morgan Moyer & Kristen Syrett (Rut-Iceland) & Milena Šereikaitė (University ofPennsylvania): The dual face of dependent
case: On Lithuanian genitive of negation
Gianina Iordachioaia (University ofStuttgart): English deverbal compounds withand without argumentsgers): Contextual, lexical, and structural factors licensing Mention-Some embedded questions
Thomas Roberts (UC Santa Cruz): Uncovering bias in Estonian negative polar questions: An experimental study

poster session (with co↵ee)Ileana Paul (Western University) & Lisa Vera Gor & Kristen Syrett (Rutgers):Travis (McGill University): Pronoun-noun
constructions in Malagasy across time andspace
Ana Alonso (University of Pennsylvania):
Ergative Absolutive Case Markers in Bitterroot Salish

Beyond Principle C: (Not)-at-issueness andplausibility influence acceptability of coconstrual
Andreas Trotzke (University of Konstanz): Approaching the pragmatics of exclamations experimentally

break
Invited Speaker: Hannah Rohde (The University of Edinburgh)
Why are you telling me this? Relevance and informativity in language processing
graduate student mixer1

Day 2 Schedule (Friday, April 27)
All events held in Ida Noyes Hall (1212 E. 59th St.).
Invited talks, Registration & Poster Session: Theater, 3rd floor
Left column: West Lounge, 2nd floor
8:30-9:00
9:00-10:00

10:15-10:45
10:45-11:15
11:15-11:30
11:30-12:00

12:00-12:30

Right column: East Lounge, 2nd floor

registration
Invited Speaker: Richard Larson (Stony Brook University)
Ezafe, PP and the Nature of Nominalization
General Session
General Session
Kelly E. Wright (University of Michigan): Thomas Grano (Indiana
Covert Segregation: Dialect Discrimination inthe Housing Market
Hiroaki Saito (University of Connecticut):
Grammaticalization and the Root & Category
TheoryMelaniebreak
Danfeng Wu (Massachusetts Institute ofHobich(Goethe UniversityFrankfurt): The für in was für: historic
evidence against was für as wh-modification

Jane Chandlee (Haverford College) &Adam Jardine (Rutgers): Computational
Locality and Autosegmental Processes

12:30-1:30

1:30-2:00

2:00-2:30

Real Time Status of Semantic Exceptions tothe Adjunct Island Constraint

Past in Japanese counterfactualsJe↵rey Green, Michael McCourt,
Ellen Lau & Alexander Williams (Uni-SaúlFernández
González
Jonathan Pesetsky (UniversityTill

Poppels&AndrewKehler(UC San Diego): Asymmetries in voicemismatched VP-ellipsis

4:30-4:45
4:45-5:45&ofAmsterdam, ILLC): Suppose EpistemicContradictions Might Not Be Contradictions

poster session (with co↵ee)
Marju Kaps (UCLA): Licensing SOV in Es- Hana Möller Kalpak (University of Amstonian: A naturalness rating study

4:00-4:30

Technology): Evidence from ellipsis suggests
the low origination site of expletives “there”
and “it”
Yuta Tatsumi (University of Connecticut):
Excorporation and V-V compound ellipsis inJapaneselunch
General Session:General Session
Experimental Linguistics
Semantics & Pragmatics
Annika Kohrt, Trey Sorensen & Teruyuki Mizuno & Stefan KaufDustin Chacón (University of Minnesota): mann (University of Connecticut): Past-as-versity of Maryland): Processing adjunct control: Rapid use of structural information inreference resolution

2:30-3:30
3:30-4:00

UniversityBloomington): Belief, Intention, and theGrammar of Persuasion
Ang Li (Rutgers): Counting on a verbal dimension: verbal classifiers in Mandarin Chinese

terdam, ILLC): Sortal versus relational nouns
in concealed questions: A pragmatic solution
Alexander Wimmer (University ofTübingen): Paradoxical desires. On counterfactual displacement of German ‘wünschen’

break
Invited Speaker: Valentine Hacquard (University of Maryland)
What to learn in learning modal and attitude meanings

2Day 3 Schedule (Saturday, April 28)
All events held in Ida Noyes Hall (1212 E. 59th St.)
Invited talks & Registration: Theater, 3rd floor
Banquet: Cloister Club, 1st floor (Bring ID!)
Left column: West Lounge, 2nd floor
8:30-9:00
9:00-10:00

10:15-10:45

Right column: East Lounge, 2nd floor

registration
Invited Speaker: Klaus Abels (University College London)
The swamp construction
Special Session
Special Session
Ellipsis
Modification
Rafael Abramovitz (Massachusetts In- Sherry Yong Chen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Verb-Stranding Verb
Phrase Ellipsis in Russian: Evidence from Unpronounced Subjects

10:45-11:15

Ryan Walter Smith, Rana Nabors,
Roya Kabiri, Simin Karimi & Heidi
Harley (The University of Arizona): The

stitute of Technology): From zero to bigger
things: numerality, intensification, and NPI
licensing
Yi-Hsun Chen (Rutgers): On the morphosemantic puzzle of superlative modifiers(un)availability of idiomatic readings in Persian light verb-stranding ellipses

11:15-11:30
11:30-12:00
12:00-12:30

breakEric Potsdam (University of Florida): Ex- Rebekah Baglini (Stanford University):
ceptives: An Under-Appreciated Ellipsis Construction
Anissa Zaitsu (UC Santa Cruz): The Syntax of (Non-) reduced Why-Interrogatives

Expressive modifiers of manner and degree

Maria Kouneli (New York University):
Determiner spreading and modification inKipsigis

12:30-1:30
1:30-2:00

lunch
Borui Zhang (University of Minnesota): Vesela Simeonova (University of Ottawa):

2:00-2:30

Sluicing in Kathmandu Newari: Evidence
from the E↵ect of Island Repairing
Usama Soltan (Middlebury College): On
sluicing and its kin: Evidence from Egyptian
Arabic

2:30-2:45

2:45-3:15

Bilge Palaz (University of Delaware): To-Rong Yin & Jeremy Hartman (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Perspectives
under Ellipsis

3:45-4:00
4:00-5:00
6:30

PeterAlrenga (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Emphatic vs. Exclusive
Modification by ‘Single’: A Unified Approach

breakwards a Unified Account of Clausal Ellipsis inTurkish: A Non-Movement Analysis

3:15-3:45

Flavors of predicate modification

General Session
Phonetics & Phonology
Anne Pycha (University of WisconsinMilwaukee) & Georgia Zellou (UC Davis):
Listener responses to co-articulation: Solving
the “Use it or Lose it” problem
Anisia Popescu (Paris Diderot University- Paris 7): Syllable count judgments: relating
gestural composition and syllable weight

break
Invited Speaker: Marcin Morzycki (Michigan State University)
Semantic Viruses and Multiple Superlatives
banquet & karaoke (bring ID!)3

List of posters
Poster sessions will take place on Days 1-2, on the 3rd floor of Ida Noyes Hall (1212 E. 59th St.) They
are only 1h long, so we recommend browsing the below list in advance, and getting there on time.
Day 1 (April 26), 2:30-3:30• Emily Clem (UC Berkeley): Exceed-comparative languages and the degree abstraction parameter• Je↵rey Green (University of Maryland): Non-subject control of temporal adjuncts• Austin Kraft, Jonathon Coltz & Dustin Chacón (University of Minnesota): Testing the real-timestatus of covert movement of wh-operators and QPs in English• Naomi Kurtz & Jason Riggle (The University of Chicago): Defying Definition: Evidence of aCo-Grammar of Interjections• Qiongpeng Luo (Nanjing University) & Yuzhen Cao (Southeast University): Equatives Are Not
All Equal: A Correlative Analysis of Scalar Equatives in Mandarin• Rachel Rudolph (UC Berkeley): Appearance Reports and the Acquaintance Inference
Day 2 (April 27), 2:30-3:30• Abel Cruz Flores (Georgetown University): The Gender Features in Spanish-English CodeSwitching Contexts• Mingya Liu (Osnabrück University): Graded Biconditionality and Reasoning• Lucia Tovena & Mara Panaitescu (Paris Diderot University - Paris 7): Ratios as distributive
relations over matching events• Gabriel Martinez Vera (University of Connecticut): Bringing creation predicates and degree
achievements together: Evidence from Aymara• Anqi Zhang (The University of Chicago): Transitive-Intransitive Alternations in Japanese4