Main Colloquium
Venue: Goethe University Frankfurt, Campus Westend, Hörsaalzentrum HZ 5
Program March 25, 2025 (click to show/hide)
09:00 – 09:30
Local Organizers and GLOW Board
Introduction
09:30 – 10:30
Satoru Ozaki (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
Conditional wh-questions with VP Ellipsis
10:30 – 12:00
Poster session 1
Lightning Talks (10:30 – 11:00)
Posters + Coffee break (11:00 – 12:00)
12:00 – 12:35
Jens Hopperdietzel (University of Cologne) & Jianrong Yu (independent researcher)
High applicatives in Mandarin: Licensing constraints on non-canonical arguments
12:35 – 13:10
Woraprat Manowang (University College London)
Contrastive fragments in Thai: against the in-situ approach
13:10 – 14:30
Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:05
Veronica Bressan (IUSS Pavia, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Adriana Belletti (University of Siena) & Cristiano Chesi (IUSS Pavia)
Specificity vs. lexical restriction: inspecting D-linking in wh-islands
15:05 – 15:40
Katie McCann (Leipzig University)
An illusory violation of the affix ordering generalisation in Tigrinya
15:40 – 17:10
Poster session 2
Lightning Talks (15:40 – 16:10)
Posters + Coffee break (16:10 – 17:10)
17:10 – 18:10
Nikolas Webster (University of California, Santa Cruz), Mandy Cartner (Tel Aviv University), Matthew Kogan (University of California, Santa Cruz), Matthew Wagers (University of California, Santa Cruz), Ivy Sichel (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Information structure alone cannot account for subject islandhood: an experimental study
18:30 – 20:00
GLOW 47 Reception at the Eisenhower Rotunde
Program March 26, 2025 (click to show/hide)
09:30 – 10:30
Daniel Gleim (Leipzig University)
Outward-sensitive Phrasal Allomorphy in Kimatuumbi
10:30 – 12:00
Poster session 3
Lightning Talks (10:30 – 11:00)
Posters + Coffee break (11:00 – 12:00)
12:00 – 12:35
Daniel Aremu (Goethe University Frankfurt), Ka-Fai Yip (Yale University) & Bode Adedeji (Yale University)
Backward association of exclusive particles and scope freezing
12:35 – 13:10
Tom Meadows (University of Geneva) & Qiuhao Charles Yan (Queen Mary, University of London)
Height Matters: VP-Movement in Mandarin Chinese and the Williams Cycle
13:10 – 14:30
PUMP@GLOW +
Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:05
Anna Laoide-Kemp (University of Edinburgh)
Preverbal d’ and its interactions with the initial consonant mutation system in Irish
15:05 – 15:40
Doreen Georgi (University of Potsdam), Anna Struck (University of Potsdam) & Malte Zimmermann (University of Potsdam)
How many underlying objects in object-sharing serial verb constructions (SVCs)? New evidence from suspended pro-drop
15:40 – 17:10
Poster session 4
Lightning Talks (15:40 – 16:10)
Posters + Coffee break (16:10 – 17:10)
17:10 – 18:10
Qiushi Chen (University of Connecticut)
A tale of two zeros: Lessons from person indexation in Japhug
19:00 – 23:00
GLOW 47 Conference Dinner at Zur Stalburg
(you are welcome to join the group that is walking to the restaurant)
Program March 27, 2025 (click to show/hide)
09:30 – 10:30
Isabelle Charnavel (University of Geneva) & Dominique Sportiche (University of California, Los Angeles)
On Semantic Agreement
10:30 – 12:00
Poster session 5
Lightning Talks (10:30 – 11:00)
Posters + Coffee break (11:00 – 12:00)
12:00 – 12:35
Shoichi Takahashi (Aoyama Gakuin University)
What Prepositional Object Gaps Tell Us about Merge and Linearization
12:35 – 13:10
Elena E. Benedicto (Purdue University)
Head movement and the interpretation of Agents in Motion Predicates in ASL
13:10 – 14:30
Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:05
Lukas Rieser (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
‘Doch’ is concessive after all!
15:05 – 15:40
Jens Hopperdietzel (University of Cologne)
Anti-locality in Samoan nominalizations
15:40 – 17:10
Poster session 6
Lightning Talks (15:40 – 16:10)
Posters + Coffee break (16:10 – 17:10)
17:10 – 18:10
Doreen Georgi (University of Potsdam), Lefteris Paparounas (University of Quebec at Montreal) & Martin Salzmann (University of Potsdam)
Two types of non-structural case: Evidence from ATB movement in Modern Greek
18:10 – 19:10
GLOW Business Meeting + Student Presentation Awards
Poster Sessions (click to show/hide)
Poster session 1 (March 25, 10:30 – 12:00)
Marcin Wągiel (University of Wrocław, Masaryk University, Leibniz-ZAS)
So many things to count! Deriving complex numerical expressions in Czech
Ka-Fai Yip (Yale University)
Right dislocation as multidominance, and beyond
Gianluca Porta (University of Ulster) & Elise Newman (MIT)
Ne-cliticization and the DP/PP distinction: A case for Q
Carolin Reinert (Goethe University Frankfurt) & Carla Spellerberg (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
On nominal event arguments: experimental evidence for a meaning-based perspective
Daniel Gleim (Leipzig University) & Armel Jolin (Leipzig University)
Seenku tone sandhi is compatible with traditional cyclicity
Carla Bombi (University of Potsdam) & Jeanne Lecavelier des Etangs-Levallois (University of Potsdam)
Embedded questions in Romance: Nominal, not clausal
Yaqing Cao (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Scope Reconstruction in Head Movements as Featural Valuations
Yixuan Yan (University of Connecticut) & Yitong Luo (Yale University)
Interpretations of two disjunctive morphemes in child Mandarin and their theoretical consequences
Francesco Costantini (University of Udine)
Non-canonical subjunctive and future questions in Italian
Poster session 2 (March 25, 15:40 – 17:10)
Isabelle Charnavel (University of Geneva), Tom Meadows (University of Geneva), Dominique Sportiche (University of California, Los Angeles)
Interpreted Agreement in Indexical Binding
Hangyeol Park (Wellesley College), Yoolim Kim (Wellesley College) & Carolyn Jane Anderson (Wellesley College)
Perspective Shift with Korean Motion Verbs
Yuxuan Melody Wang (Harvard University)
Underspecification and contextual faithfulness in analysing opacity with OT and rule-based serialism
Madhusmitha Venkatesan (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)
Deriving Adjectives in Heritage Tamil: Stability and Change
Ekaterina Medvedeva (Leipzig University)
Gradient Representations in Russian Noun Declension: A Phonological Approach to Stress Alternations
Pietro Baggio (Queen Mary, University of London)
Masculine is Not a Gender – Evidence from ItalianRuoxuan Li (Université Paris Cité) & Caterina Donati (Université Paris Diderot)
Towards a cartography of wh-in situ across languages
Leonardo Russo Cardona (University of Cambridge)
Voice alternations in Romance clausal complements: evidence from tough-constructions
Achille Fusco (IUSS Pavia) & Tommaso Sgrizzi (IUSS Pavia)
Belief or Action? Semantic Ambiguity in Italian Non-finite Domain
Gautam Ottur (University of Göttingen)
A timing approach to escape hatch dependencies
Poster session 3 (March 26, 10:30 – 12:00)
Florence Zhang-Yukun (Yale University) & Dingfan Lin (University of Macau)
Degree Reduplication in Mandarin
Joseph Lin (Taiwan Hsinchu County American School) & Kuo-Chiao Lin (Kang Chiao International School)
Serial Directional Evaluation of Generalized Trochee in Wergaia
Young-Hoon Kim (Cornell University)
Semantic Selection of Interrogatives as Syntactic Dependencies
Biswanath Dash (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)
Santali Zero Nominals: Evidence for Verbal Properties in Nominalization
Gianluca Porta (University of Ulster)
Extraction from adjuncts: the role of Small Clauses
Veronica Bressan (IUSS Pavia, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Matilde Barbini (IUSS Pavia), Achille Fusco (IUSS Pavia), Sofia Neri (IUSS Pavia), Maria Letizia Piccini Bianchessi (IUSS Pavia), Sarah Rossi (IUSS Pavia) & Cristiano Chesi (IUSS Pavia)
Large Language Models Assessment through Linguistically Motivated Contrasts: a benchmark for Italian (BLiMP-IT)
Núria Bosch (University of Cambridge) & Theresa Biberauer (University of the Western Cape, University of Stellenbosch, University of Cambridge)
V2 all the way down: Germanic innovations in the embedded CP of German-Italian bilinguals
Manasvi Chaturvedi (Yale University)
Sub-Type Readings in Hindi Numerical Reduplication
Yiannis Katochoritis (MIT)
If Distributivity is Variable Binding, Scope Reconstruction must be Syntactic
Oddur Snorrason (Queen Mary, University of London)
Subtractive Pattern of Auxiliaries
Poster session 4 (March 26, 15:40 – 17:10)
Mingjiang Chen (University of Connecticut)
One Transition Point Hypothesis
Yuyang Liu (Yale University) & Yitong Luo (Yale University)
Dissecting the illocutionary force phrase: New evidence from SFP embeddability
Leonel Fongang Tadjo (Leipzig University) & Mariia Privizentseva (University of Potsdam)
Selective class drop in Isu: A case for cyclic morphology
Hong-Yi Wang (National Tsing Hua University) & Tzong-Hong Jonah Lin (National Tsing Hua University)
When a Wh-in-Situ Behaves Like a Parasitic Gap
Hunter Johnson (University of California, Los Angeles)
More evidence for flexible search conditions on probes: probe relaxation
Joshua Dees (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) & Katie VanDyne (Truman State University)
Spanning, Portmanteau, and Spell-Out: The CΔG and pseudo-ABA patterns
Nelli Marutyan (University of Southern California) & Ariela Ye (Rutgers University)
The multifunctionality of the Armenian complementizer ‘te’
Lulu Guo (Queen Mary, University of London)
Right-node Raising and Chinese A-not-A questions
Giuliano Armenante (University of Potsdam)
Compositional paths to temporal de Se
Pavel Caha (Masaryk University)
A Nanosyntactic Analysis of Spatial Cases in Tsez
Poster session 5 (March 27, 10:30 – 12:00)
Magdalena Lohninger (University of Vienna)
There is no composite A’/A movement
Lena Borise (CNRS), Katalin Gugán (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics) & Balázs Surányi (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics)
When grammar-internal factors hinder an OV-to-VO shift: the case of Surgut Khanty
Noa Bassel (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
Unifying English PPs
Silvia Silleresi (University of Milan – Bicocca), Itai Bassi (Leibniz-ZAS), Abigail Anne Bimpeh (Humboldt University of Berlin), Imke Driemel (University of York), Johnson Folorunso Ilori (University of Lagos) & Anastasia Nuworsu (Ho Technical University of Ghana)
Pronoun preferences unmasked: an experimental study on Ewe and Yoruba
James Griffiths (University of Tübingen)
An experimental syntax approach to British English do-ellipsis
Luke James Adamson (Leibniz-ZAS), Artemis Alexiadou (Leibniz-ZAS) & Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete)
Neuter kinship and ellipsis in Greek: on gender, number, and ellipsis licensing
Andreea Nicolae (Leibniz-ZAS) & Stephanie Solt (Leibniz-ZAS)
The polarity sensitivity of bleached degree modifiers
Ekaterina Georgieva (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics), Franc Marušič (University of Nova Gorica), Petra Mišmaš (University of Nova Gorica) & Rok Žaucer (University of Nova Gorica)
Clause Mates Matter
Yuto Hirayama (Kansai Gaidai University)
Indirect evidentiality deriving from temporal uncertainty: the case of Japanese goro
Poster session 6 (March 27, 15:40 – 17:10)
Jutta Hartmann (Bielefeld University) & Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh)
Agree, Feature gluttony and Person Hierarchy in Copular Clauses: Evidence from German
Irina Burukina (University of Florida)
Inflected infinitives and subject clitics in Mari
Zahra Mirrazi (University of Göttingen)
What is Mood about?
Colin Davis (Nord University)
Punctuated movement facilitates (multi-)clausal pied-piping in Albanian
Danfeng Wu (University of Oxford)
Two paths to correction
Monica Alexandrina Irimia (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) & Anna Pineda (University of Barcelona)
Arbitrary SE and accusative clitics: resolving (mis)matches in the syntax
Dimitris Michelioudakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Nikos Angelopoulos (CNRS) & Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete)
Possessor agreement: Exploring Cross-Linguistic Variation
Markus Pöchtrager (University of Vienna)
Neutralisation as integration: The case of Korean
Zorica Puškar-Gallien (Leibniz-ZAS)
The representation of gender on local person pronouns
Workshop I: (Universal) Paradigmatic Gaps
Venue: University of Göttingen, Alte Mensa, 0.102, Emmy-Noether-Saal
Program Workshop I (click to show/hide)
09:00 – 09:05
Organizers
Opening remarks
09:05 – 10:05
Maribel Romero (University of Konstanz)
Title tba
10:05 – 10:40
Mora Maldonado (CNRS), Benjamin Spector (CNRS), Ruizhe Zhou (Ecole Normale Supérieure – PSL), Marie-Léa Le Clainche (Université de Nantes)
An experimental assessment of the NALL lexical gap
10:40 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:35
Zahra Mirrazi (University of Göttingen), Ethan Poole (University of California, Los Angeles)
Syntactic variables and crossover
11:35 – 12:10
Predrag Kovacevic (University of Novi Sad), Berit Gehrke (Humboldt University Berlin), Marko Simonović (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz)
The importance of having a degree: Missing short and long form adjectives in BCMS
12:10 – 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:05
Adina Camelia Bleotu (University of Vienna, University of Bucharest), Gabriela Bîlbîie (University of Bucharest), Anton Benz (Leibniz-ZAS), Lyn Tieu (University of Toronto)
Agreement with singular disjuncts in adult and child language: A grammatical lacuna or a meaning-driven process
14:05 – 14:40
Martin Lemaître (Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS), Tobias Scheer (Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS), Anna Poĺomská (Masaryk University), Lucie Braunerová (Masaryk University)
Gaps in initial RT clusters are accidental: evidence from dichotic listening
14:40 – 15:00
Coffee Break
15:00 – 15:35
Péter Rebrus (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics), Péter Szigetvári (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest), Miklós Törkenczy (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest)
Inter-paradigm conservatism and minimality motivate paradigm gaps in Hungarian
15:35 – 16:10
Sandhya Sundaresan (Stony Brook University)
Explaining a curious 3/4 paradigmatic gap in shifty pronouns
16:10 – 17:40
Poster Session + Snacks
Oddur Snorrason (Queen Mary, University of London), Squid Tamar-Mattis (Yale University)
Paradigmatic gaps in (Quasi-)Serial Verb Constructions
Giorgos Markopoulos (Aegean University), Vassilios Spyropoulos (University of Athens)
Filling in the gaps of Greek nominalizations
Luis Miguel Toquero Pérez (California State University, Fullerton)
Doublets and gaps as probes into nominal architecture: the case of object mass nouns
Workshop II: Negation
Venue: Goethe University Frankfurt, Campus Westend, Casino Cas 1.812
Program Workshop II (click to show/hide)
08:50 – 09:00
Organizers
Opening
09:00 – 10:00
Hedde Zeijlstra (University of Göttingen)
The strength of strengthening
10:00 – 10:35
Lena Baunaz (Université Côte d’Azur / BCL, UMR 7320, CNRS) &
Anne-Li Demonie (Masaryk University)
Expletive negation and complex left branches: A typological approach
10:35 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:35
Karen De Clercq (CNRS/ Université Paris Cité)
Voice-conditioned perfective allomorphy and negative neutralisation in Bambara: a nanosyntactic account
11:35 – 12:10
Anissa Zaitsu (Stanford University)
Double Negation, Negative Concord, and Focus Intervention Effects in African American English
12:10 – 12:45
Cory Bill (Leibniz-ZAS), Imke Driemel (University of York), Andreea Nicolae (Leibniz-ZAS), Kazuko Yatsushiro (Leibniz-ZAS), Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge) & Uli Sauerland (Leibniz-ZAS)
Not all children find no subjects hard: A cross-linguistic investigation of children’s negative indefinite production
12:45 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:35
Merle Weicker (Goethe Universität Frankfurt) & Petra Schulz (Goethe Universität Frankfurt)
Does position of negation mediate the difficulty of interpreting negatives? Evidence from child German
14:35 – 15:10
Anastasiia Voznesenskaia (Stony Brook University)
Backward Negative Concord in Russian
15:10 – 15:40
Coffee Break
15:40 – 16:15
Ricardo Etxepare (CNRS) & Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria (University of the Basque Country)
Three syntactic derivations for Constituent Negation
16:15 – 16:50
Núria Bosch (University of Cambridge)
Expressive negation with proper nouns? Syntactic variation in the distribution of Rita in Catalan
Alternates
Sophie Moracchini (Université de Nantes), Oana Lungu (Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes, CNRS), Hamida Demirdache (Nantes University)
Children’s Acquisition of Negation and Adjective Scales