Program

The 44th GLOW Colloquium will be held fully online and free for all. Please register to receive meeting information, including Zoom links for each session. Join our Discord server where the conversation continues, with separate channels for all talks and debates!


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Day 1: Thursday, April 15

2021-04-15 13:45Welcoming remarks
2021-04-15 14:00Targeted Collaborative Debate 1:
Chair: Martina Wiltschko (Barcelona)
Thomas McFadden (A), Sandhya Sundaresan (A), and Hedde Zeijlstra (B)
“On certain crosslinguistic variations: Universal​ fseq vs Gricean reasoning”
abstract YouTube slides handout
2021-04-15 15:00break
Day 1 Main Session: (see list below)
2021-04-15 15:15Flash talks
2021-04-15 15:45Discussion in breakout rooms
  • Karlos Arregi and Andrew Murphy. “Antilocality and argument-internal parasitic gaps”
    abstract slides
  • Éva Dékány. “Classifiers for nouns, classifiers for numerals”
    abstract slides
  • Laura Kalin. “Infixes really are (underlyingly) prefixes/suffixes: Evidence from allomorphy on the fine timing of infixation”
    abstract slides handout
  • Dean McHugh. “‘Because’ lexicalizes a focus-sensitive exh operator that violates Economy”
    abstract slides handout
  • Deniz Satik. “A reanalysis of the de re blocking effect”
    abstract slides
  • Tamisha L. Tan. “‘Having’ and ‘Being’ ma-: Athematic Licensing and the Balinese Middle Voice”
    abstract handout
  • Silvia Terenghi. “A person-rooted spatial analysis of demonstratives”
    abstract poster slides
2021-04-15 16:45break
2021-04-15 17:00Targeted Collaborative Debate 2:
Chair: Artemis Alexiadou (Berlin)
Cora Cavirani-Pots (B), Marijke De Belder (B), and Heidi Klockmann (A)
“Semi-lexicality: syntax or lexicon?”
abstract YouTube handout
2021-04-15 18:00end of Day 1 / social hour

Day 2: Friday, April 16

2021-04-16 14:00Targeted Collaborative Debate 3:
Nicola Lampitelli (A) and Francesc Torres-Tamarit (B)
Chair: Claudia Pons Moll (Barcelona)
“Stress in Romance verbs”
abstract YouTube slides
2021-04-16 15:00break
Day 2 Main Session: (see list below)
2021-04-16 15:15Flash talks
2021-04-16 15:45Discussion in breakout rooms
  • Irene Amato. “Auxiliary selection by Nested Agree”
    abstract slides
  • Lena Borise and Ekaterina Georgieva. “Acoustic correlates of stress in Udmurt verbs: variation and theoretical implications”
    abstract slides
  • Imke Driemel and Maria Kouneli. “C-Agree is local subject-verb agreement in Kipsigis”
    abstract slides handout
  • Julie Goncharov and Lavi Wolf. “Polarity and granularity properties of ‘some’ polarity items and minimizers”
    abstract slides
  • James Griffiths, Güliz Güneş, Anikó Lipták and Jason Merchant. “P-stranding out of Place: The bleeding effect of ellipsis on Dutch P-stranding”
    abstract handout
  • Teodora Mihoc. “Aspectual operators and polarity sensitivity”
    abstract slides
  • Marcin Wągiel. “Quantifying over hidden (parts of) events”
    abstract slides
2021-04-16 16:45break
2021-04-16 17:00Targeted Collaborative Debate 4:
Chair: Andrew Weir (Trondheim)
Arto Anttila (B) and Michael Wagner (A)
“What is deaccentuation?”
abstract YouTube slides
2021-04-16 18:00end of Day 2 / social hour

Day 3: Saturday, April 17

2021-04-17 14:00Targeted Collaborative Debate 5:
Chair: Kriszta Szendroi (London)
Kenyon Branan (B) and Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (A)
“Is there focus-marking in the syntax?”
abstract YouTube handout slides
2021-04-17 15:00break
Day 3 Main Session: (see list below)
2021-04-17 15:15Flash talks
2021-04-17 15:45Discussion in breakout rooms
  • Neil Banerjee. “Indivisible portmanteaux and the timing of ellipsis”
    abstract slides
  • Aurore Gonzalez. “Two types of presuppositions in polar questions”
    abstract
  • Jens Hopperdietzel. “Talmy’s typology in serializing languages: Variations on a vP”
    abstract slides
  • Si Kai Lee. “No agreement: Singlish subjects are Topics”
    abstract poster slides
  • Ezra Keshet and Steven Abney. “Multithreading Semantics: A static plural semantics”
    abstract slides
  • Rita Manzini and Diego Pescarini. “Clitics: Head-movement vs linearization” (debate alternate)
    abstract slides
  • Lefteris Paparounas and Martin Salzmann. “First conjunct clitic doubling in Modern Greek – Implications for the theory of clitic doubling, the PCC, and the syntax of first conjunct agreement”
    abstract slides
2021-04-17 16:45break
2021-04-17 17:00Targeted Collaborative Debate 6:
Chair: Tanja Temmerman (Leuven)
James Griffiths (A) and Volker Struckmeier (B)
“What does a plausible ‘in-situ’ theory of ellipsis look like?”
abstract YouTube slides
2021-04-17 18:00end of Day 3 / social hour