Conference Program
| Tuesday 25th July, Venue: Brigantinus, Konstanz | ||
| 08.45 – 09.15 | Registration | |
| 09.15 – 09.30: | Regine Eckardt Head, Department of Linguistics |
Welcome |
| 09.30 Р10.30: Invited Talk | Peter Sells | C-Structure heads and the limits of head mobility (Presentation Slides) |
| 10.30 – 11.15: Talk 1 |
Agnieszka Patejuk & Adam Przepiórkowski | Filling the gap |
| 11.15 – 11.45 | Break | |
| 11.45 – 12.30: Talk 2 |
Miriam Butt, Tina Bögel & Farhat Jabeen | Polar kya and the Prosody-Syntax-Pragmatics Interface (Presentation Slides) |
| 12.30 – 13.15: Talk 3 |
Joseph Lovestrand & John Lowe | Rethinking Projection in Phrase Structure (Presentation Slides) |
| 13.15 – 14.30 | Lunch (and late registration) | |
| 14.30 – 15.15: Talk 4 |
Alex Alsina & Eugenio M. Vigo | Agreement: interactions with case and raising (Presentation Slides) |
| 15.15 – 16.00: Talk 5 |
Paloma Carretero García | Agreement In Asturian |
| 16.00 – 16.30 | Break | |
| 16.30 – 17.15: Talk 6 |
Maris Camilleri and Louisa Sadler | Negative Sensitive Indefinites in Maltese |
| 17.15 – 18.00: Talk 7 |
Tibor Laczkó | Modelling (in)definiteness, external possessors and (typological) variation in Hungarian possessive DPs (Presentation Slides) |
| 19.00: | BBQ Get-Together | |
| Wednesday 26th July, Venue: Brigantinus, Konstanz | ||
| 09.00 – 10.00: Invited Talk | Geoff Pullum | The syntactic theory we all really want: some desiderata |
| 10.00 – 10.45: Talk 8 |
Adam Przepiórkowski | Hierarchical lexicon and the argument/adjunct distinction |
| 10.45 – 11.15 | Break | |
| 11.15 – 12.00: Talk 9 | Agnieszka Patejuk | A gapping analysis of lexicalised comparative constructions |
| 12.00 – 12.45: Talk 10 | Mary Dalrymple, Dag Haug & John Lowe | Integrating LFG’s binding theory with PCDRT¬†(Presentation Slides) |
| 12.45 – 15.00 | Lunch | |
| 12.45 – 15.00 | Poster Session | |
| Poster 1: | Oleg Belyaev, Anastasia Kozhemyakina & Natalia Serdobolskaya | In defense of COMP: Complementation in Moksha Mordvin |
| Poster 2: | Maris Camilleri & Louisa Sadler | Posture Verbs and Aspect: A View from Vernacular Arabic |
| Poster 3: | Matthew Gotham | Glue Semantics and locality |
| Poster 4: | Stephen Jones | Developing a computational model of language processing using LFG |
| Poster 5: | John Payne & Siavash Rafiee Rad | A conceptual structure approach to Persian complex predicates |
| Poster 6: | Mateusz Tworzewski | Arbitrary control in Polish to być-copular constructions |
| Poster 7: | Jessica Zipf & Stefano Quaglia | “Bare” wh-items vs why in Italian |
| 15.00 – 15.45: Talk 11 |
Helge L√∏drup | Norwegian pseudocoordinations with the verb drive ‘carry on’: Control, raising, grammaticalization |
| 15.45 – 16.30: Talk 12 |
Hannah Booth, Kersti Börjars, Miriam Butt & Christin Schätzle | Dative Subjects and the Rise of Positional Licensing in Icelandic |
| 16.30 – 17.00 | Break | |
| 17.00 – 18.30 | ILFGA Business Meeting | |
| 19.00 | Conference Dinner | Konzil Restaurant, Konstanz |
| Thursday 27th July, Venue: Brigantinus, Konstanz | ||
| 09.30 – 10.15: Talk 13 |
Michael Putnam & Lara Schwarz | Shared Syntax: Bilingual Blends and Mixes in LFG-GSC, (Presentation Slides) |
| 10.15 – 11.00: Talk 14 | Jamie Y. Findlay | Multiword expressions and lexicalism |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Break | |
| 11.30 – 12.15: Talk 15 | Mark-Matthias Zymla & Sebastian Sulger | Cross-Linguistically Viable Treatment of Tense & Aspect in Parallel Grammar Development |
| 12.15 – 13.00: Talk 16 | Ash Asudeh & Ida Toivonen | A Modular Approach to Evidentiality |
| 13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 – 18.00 | Workshop on Prominence-Based Agreement | |
| Workshop Program: | ||
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Welcome | |
| 14:15 – 15:00 | R. Nordlinger (U. Melbourne) and F. Meakins (U. Queensland) | Possessor agreement in the Ngumpin languages of northern Australia |
| 15:00 – 15:45 | A. Zaenen (Stanford U.), E. Engdahl (U. Gothenburg), and J. Maling (Brandeis U.) | Subject properties in presentational sentences in SVO languages (Presentation Slides) |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | Coffee break | |
| 16:15 – 17:00 | O. Belyaev (Lononosow Moscow State U.) | Information structure conditions on the agreement controller in Dargwa |
| 17:00 Р17:45 | B. Arsenijević (U. Niš) and M. Gračanin-Yuksek (Middle East Technical U.) | The agreeable hospitality of conjoined subjects |
| 17:45 – 18:00 | Discussion of the afternoon papers | |
| 19.00 | ParGram Meeting and Dinner | |
| 19.00 | Department of Linguistics BBQ | |
| Friday 28th July, Venue: University of Konstanz | ||
| 09.00 – 12.00 | Workshop on Prominence-Based Agreement, Room K503 | |
| Workshop Program: | ||
| 9:00 Р9:45 | K. Haude (CNRS) | Direct-inverse and the “subject” in Movima (isolate, South-West Amazon) |
| 9:45 – 10:30 | A. Alsina and E. M. Vigo (Pompeu Fabra U.) | Fixing LFG to account for direct-inverse agreement: The case of Plains Cree |
| 10:30 – 11:30 | Discussion of the morning papers and general discussion | |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Lunch | |
| 11.30 – 17.00 | XLE Tutorial, Room G209 Lunch and Coffee Break included (Miriam Butt, Tracy Holloway King, Sebastian Sulger) |
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Note:
Venue for the Conference and Workshop from 25.7 to 27.7: Brigantinus
Venue for the Workshop and the XLE Tutorial on the 28.7: The University of Konstanz
Workshop, Friday 28.7.: Room K503, University of Konstanz
XLE Tutorial, Friday 28.7: Room G209, University of Konstanz