Day 1 Schedule (Thursday, May 16)
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: Karen Emmorey (San Diego State University)
Lexical Iconicity in American Sign Language
Special Session
General Session
Quantification
Experimental & Psycholinguistics
Yagmur Sag (Rutgers University): The Cu- Shannon Bryant & Isabelle Charrious Case of Measure Semantics
navel (Harvard University): Effects of creator role on binding into Picture Noun Phrases

10:45-11:15

M.Teresa Espinal (Universitat Autònomade Barcelona), Urtzi Etxeberria (CNRSIKER) & Susagna Tubau (UAB): The Limits between Negative Polarity and Negative
Concord. A Reference to Basque11:15-11:30
11:30-12:00

12:00-12:30

2:00-2:30

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

4:00-4:30

4:30-4:45
4:45-5:45

Semantic Effects on Processing Filler-Gap Dependencies into Adjuncts and Conjuncts

breakPaulina Lȩska (Adam Mickiewicz Univer- Ana Besserman & Elsi Kaiser (University in Poznań): Scope Changing Mechanisms& the Availability of Scrambling in Polish Ditransitives
Laura Vela-Plo (UPV/EHU): Subcomparatives: Across-the-board Binding of Two Degree Variables by a Single Quantifier

12:30-1:30

1:30-2:00

Annika Kohrt, Peter O’Neill &Dustin Chacón (University of Minnesota):

sity of Southern California): The Discourse
Status of Implicit Objects: Evidence fromLanguage Production
Jun Lyu (Stony Brook University):
Pronominal Binding in Weak Crossover: AnEye-Tracking Studylunch
Special Session
Endangered Languages
Faruk Akkus (University of Pennsylvania):
A-movement feeds licensing: Evidence fromIndirect Causatives in Sason Arabic
Rafael Abramovitz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Successive-Cyclic WhMovement Feeds Dependent Case Competition

Special Session
Sign Language Linguistics
Serpil Karabuklu & Ronnie B.
Wilbur (Purdue University): Seeing Possible Worlds

Daisuke Hara & Makoto Miwa (Toyota Technological Institute):
The Wellformedness and the Ill-formedness of the JSL
Type-III Syllable

poster session (with coffee)
General Session
Historical Linguistics
Daniel Hieber (University of California, Elena Benedicto (Purdue University): SiSanta Barbara): Optional subject marking inChitimacha

multaneity vs Sequentiality. Serial Verb Constructions at the intersection. Agents in Motion Predicates

Taegyeong Lee (University of New Mex-Burcu

ico): Grammaticalization of verb ‘take’ in Twi
and aspectual construalization: functional implications(Boğaziçi University): Three Signs, One Common Trait: ‘All’ A study on universal quantifiers in Turkish Sign Language

Saral & Meltem

Kelepir

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Invited Speaker: Wendy Sandler (University of Haifa)
The Grammar of the Body: Insights about Language from Sign Language
1Day 2 Schedule (Friday, May 17)
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

registration
Invited Speaker: Ianthi Maria Tsimpli (University of Cambridge)
Linguistic Complexity in Bilingual Children's Grammars
General Session
Special Session
Syntax & Morphology
Language Acquisition
Yuta Sakamoto (Meiji University): Ellip- Minqi Liu (UCLA): Delayed Subject Adtic Do So in Japanese
Toru Ishii (Meiji University) & Brian Agbayani (California State University, Fresno):
On Multiple Cleft Constructions in Japanesevantages in Mandarin Sluicing Acquisition
Sun Jae Lee & Jordan Kodner (University of Pennsylvania): Acquiring the Korean
Causatives

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Tanya Bondarenko & Colin Davis HandeSevgi&KadirGökgöz(Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Linearization Asymmetries in Russian SubExtraction(Boğaziçi University): (Non)Effects of Ageof Acquisition in Turkish Sign Language
Morpho-syntax: Evidence from Classifiersand Argument Expression

Philip Shushurin (New York University):

Natália Brambatti Guzzo, Heather
Goad & Megan Deegan (McGill):

External Possessors are Introduced in ApplP:
Evidence from Russian

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

Right column: East Lounge, 2nd floor

Phonological Systems in Conflict: The Acquisition of Stress in Bilingual French-English

lunch
Vahideh Rasekhi (University of Califor- Brandon Prickett, Kaden Hollania, Los Angeles): Negative Stripping and day, Shay Hucklebridge, Max Nelson, Rajesh Bhatt, Gaja Jarosz,
Pseudo-stripping in Persian
Kyle Johnson (UMass Amherst), Aleksei
Nazarov (University of Toronto) & Joe Pater (UMass Amherst): Learning Syntactic Parameters Gradually and Without Triggers

2:00-2:30

Matthew Tyler (Yale University): Some
Evidence for Structural Ergative Case

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

4:30-4:45
4:45-5:45
8:00

John Hale (University of Georgia): Diathesis Alternations and Selectional Restrictionsin Sentence Processing: A fMRI Study

poster session (with coffee)
Asia Pietraszko (University of Connecti- Luke Fleming & Kevin Tuite (Univercut): Multiple Probing in A-over-A Configurations

4:00-4:30

Special Session
Neuro- & Evolutionary Linguistics
Shohini Bhattasali (Cornell University) &Colin Davis (Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology): Plural Suppletion in Barguzin
Buryat: Case Containment versus *ABA

sity of Montreal): The Global Distribution ofComplexly Articulated Consonants supports aMonoplanar Substrate for Modern Languages
Phillip Rogers (University of California
Santa Barbara) & Rhea Kapur (The PingrySchool): Exploring the Dynamics of Linguistic
Typological Features in Time and Space using
Computer Simulations

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Invited Speaker: Michael Arbib (University of Southern California)
The Aboutness of Language: A Critique of Berwick and Chomsky
graduate student mixer (Ida Noyes Basement Pub)
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Day 3 Schedule (Saturday, May 18)
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

registration
Invited Speaker: Yaroslav Gorbachov (The University of Chicago)Once Again on the Origin of the Old Russian l-less PerfectGeneral Session
General Session
Semantics & Pragmatics
Phonetics & Phonology
Josep Ausensi (Universitat Pompeu David Durian (Bloomburg University ofFabra): The Implications of Manner and
Result for (In)direct Causation

10:45-11:15

Filipe Hisao Kobayashi & Sherry
Yong Chen (Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology): Ways of Decomposing Events:
Structural Differences between Adnominal
and Adverbial Distributive Numerals

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

Ryan Walter Smith (University of Arizona): The Semantics and Pragmatics of Persian m-Reduplication

12:00-12:30

Right column: East Lounge, 2nd floor

Sarah Hye-Yeon Lee (University ofSouthern California): The Interpretation ofthe Comparison Class in Superlative andComparative Predication

Pennsylvania) & Richard Cameron (University of Illinois at Chicago): A New Perspective on the Development of the Northern
Cities Shift in Chicago
E-Ching Ng (University of Chicago):
Singlish Pragmatic Particles: Tone or Intonation?

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University): Revisiting Phonotactic Repairsin Cantonese Loanword Phonology: Its All
about sC
SebastianBredemann(GoetheUniversity Frankfurt): Phonological Agreement as Phonological Correspondence

12:30-1:30

lunch

1:30-2:00

General Session
SyntaxEszter Ronai & Laura Stigliano (The2:00-2:30

2:30-2:45
2:45-3:15

3:15-3:45

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

Akari Ohba & James Collins (University of Hawaii, Manoa): The Perspectivesensitive Argument Structure of Japanese
Giving Verbs
Jonathan Pesetsky (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): If Yes, If So, and Hypothetical Commitments

Teruyuki

Mizuno(UniversityofConnecticut): The Structure of ’might’Counterfactuals: A View from Japanese
Lingzi Zhuang (Cornell University):
Pseudo-incorporated Bare NPs may be
Definite: the Effect of Event-level SingularAtomicity

University of Chicago): Sluicing and Pseudosluicing in Hungarian

Yoshiki Fujiwara (University of Connecticut): Argument Ellipsis Involves Movement

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Deniz Satik (Harvard University) : Logophoric Pronouns are not Inherently Logophoric
Akitaka Yamada (Georgetown University): Do/be-support as Defective Movements

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Invited Speaker: Abbas Benmamoun (Duke University)
The Structure of Copular Constructions: Perspectives from Language Variation and Changebanquet & 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 (May 16), 2:30-3:30• Jianrong Yu (University of Arizona): Mandarin GIVE-marked Benefactives and the Syntax andSemantics of Double Object Constructions• Rahul Balusu (EFLU): A question denotation for the Dravidian correlative• Wataru Okubo (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies): Contrastive Topic and directionality: A
comparative analysis of CT markers in Persian• Yingtong Liu (Harvard University), Rachel Ryskin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),
Richard Futrell (University of California, Irvine), & Edward Gibson (Massachusetts Instituteof Technology): Factive and manner-of-speaking islands are an artifact of nonlinearity in theacceptability judgment task
• Sarah Hye-Yeon Lee & Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California): Semantic Decompositionof Verbs and the Processing and Production of Result States• Andrew Mcinnerney (University of Michigan): The Distribution of Parentheticals is not (Purely)
Syntactic!
• Elena Koulidobrova and Elena Zidani-Eroglu (Central Connecticut State University): What you
see is what you get: A few arguments for isomorphic sluicing in ASL• Keely New (National University of Singapore): Predicate-fronting and animacy in Burmese• Michael Donovan (University of Delaware): Goal Oriented Location Commands
Day 2 (May 17), 2:30-3:30• Peter Guekguezian (University of Rochester): Add up all the phases: Cyclic inputs to parallelphonology are cumulative• Mikael Vinka (Umea University): Third Person Pronouns, Logophoricity and Point of View inSouth Saami• Hideharu Tanaka (Mie University): Japanese mo ’also’: Anti-negative scope and inclusive entailment• Hyosik Kim (Northwestern University) & Suyoung Bae (University of Maryland): Ambiguous
Answer Particles and the Syntax of Negation• Myung Hye Yoo (University of Delaware): Two types of deadjectival inchoatives in Korean• Aniello De Santo and John E. Drury (Stony Brook University): Encoding and Verification Effectsof Generalized Quantifiers on Working Memory• Matteo Greco, Paolo Canal, Valentina Bambini & Andrea Moro (IUSS, Pavia): Modulating
Surprise with Syntax: a case study on Negative sentences• Sudheer Kolachina (MIT): Stress and Vowel Harmony in Telugu
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