Program GLOW 47

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 Italian

Ruoxuan 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