Program

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Friday talk sessions will be held at the Radisson Blu SAGA Hotel, in rooms Katla I and Katla II. The poster session will be at the University of Iceland’s Háskólatorg building.
All Saturday and Sunday sessions will be held at the University of Iceland’s Háskólatorg building. The talks will be given in rooms 102 and 103.
The Saturday reception will be in the building Veröld and the party following that in the Student Cellar bar (Icelandic: Stúdentakjallarinn).
Here is an annotated Google map of the important locations.

Friday, October 27

8:30-9:00	Registration
9:00-9:15	Opening remarks
9:15-10:15	Invited talk: Angelika Kratzer Deconstructing Information Structure (joint work with Lisa Selkirk) (Slides) Room: Katla II Introduction by Matthew Whelpton
10:15-10:45	Break
	Session A1 Room: Katla II Chair: Dianne Jonas	Session B1 Room: Katla I Chair: Eva Zimmermann
10:45-11:15	Boris Harizanov and Line Mikkelsen Resumption and Cyclic Chain Reduction in Danish VP Left Dislocation (Handout)	Ezer Rasin, Iddo Berger, Nur Lan and Roni Katzir Rule-based learning of phonological optionality and opacity (Slides)
11:15-11:45	Barbara Citko and Martina Gračanin-Yuksek Structural Syncretism and the Binarity Constraint on Merge	Ludger Paschen Anti-cyclic mutation in Stratal Containment (Slides)
11:45-13:15	Poster session and lunch (sandwiches provided) Location: Blue wall at lowest floor of the Háskólatorg building (next to the circular slope from the 2nd floor). Artemis Alexiadou and Terje Lohndal The typology of V2: Evidence from heritage languages and urban vernaculars Michael Barrie and Moonhyun Sung Dissecting Inchoatives and Causatives Gasper Begus A Maximum Entropy Model of Phonological Typology Bronwyn M. Bjorkman and Sali A. Tagliamonte What CAN can and can’t do Yi-Hsun Chen Toward a unified account of superlative modifiers Elizabeth Cowper and Daniel Currie Hall Contrastive hierarchies and the formal representation of person (Handout) Imke Driemel Person Mismatch Agreement (Poster) Ksenia Ershova High Absolutive in West Circassian: Evidence from Parasitic Gaps Ángel J. Gallego and Maria Bañeras Case Assignment and Incorporation in Spanish Impersonal Passives (Poster)	Daniel Goodhue A minimal theory of verum focus and context dependent bias in questions. Yael Greenberg and Lavi Wolf Gradable assertion speech acts Laura Grestenberger “Low passives” and the inchoative-to-passive reanalysis in Greek and Sanskrit Tamás Halm The Semantics of Weak Imperatives Revisited: Evidence from Free-Choice Item Licensing (Handout – Poster) Martina Martinović Pseudoclefts are a source of sluicing and fragments in Wolof Eric Potsdam Exceptives and ellipsis (Poster) Ezer Rasin and Roni Katzir Learning abstract URs from distributional evidence Michelle Sheehan and Sonia Cyrino Why do some ECM verbs resist passivisation? A phase-based explanation
	Session A2: Special session: The typology of case Room: Katla II Chair: Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson	Session B2 Room: Katla I Chair: Mingming Liu
13:15-13:45	Coppe van Urk Object licensing in Fijian and the role of adjacency	E Jamieson “Negation” and CHECK moves in the Shetland dialect of Scots (Slides)
13:45-14:15	Rebecca Tollan The role of the absolutive object in agreement and displacement (Slides)	Jon Ander Mendia Emphatic Relatives as Answered Questions
14:15-14:45	Livia Camargo Souza and Rafael Nonato Switch-reference as a new diagnostic for morphological person-based split ergativity	Bernhard Schwarz On the locus of question exhaustification (Handout)
14:45-15:15	Break
	Session A3: Special session: The typology of case Room: Katla II Chair: Ingunn Hreinberg Indriðadóttir	Session B3 Room: Katla I Chair: Virginia Dawson
15:15-15:45	Omer Preminger No case for agreement (as a causer of case) (Slides)	Stephanie Solt Approximators as a case study of attenuating polarity items (Handout)
15:45-16:15	Elena Anagnostopoulou and Christina Sevdali From Lexical to Dependent: the Case of the Greek Dative (Slides)	Diti Bhadra, Haoze Li and Jess Law Questioning speech acts
16:15-16:45	Tingchun Chen Successive-cyclic case assignment in Amis: evidence from case-stacking (Handout)	Aaron Steven White and Kyle Rawlins The role of veridicality and factivity in clause selection
16:45-17:15	Break
	Session A4: Special session: The typology of case Room: Katla II Chair: Richard Compton	Session B4 Room: Katla I Chair: Dorothy Ahn
17:15-17:45	Cherlon Ussery Inversion as Rightward-Dative Shift in Icelandic Ditransitives (Handout)	WooJin Chung Obligation as Counterfactual Reasoning: A Solution to Zvolenszky’s Puzzle
17:45-18:15	Jim Wood and Matthew Barros Case (mis)matching in fragment answers (Handout)	Nadine Theiler The Precondition Particle: A Unified Analysis of German ‘denn’ (Slides)

Saturday, October 28

8:30-9:00	Registration
	Session A5 Room: HT-102 Chair: Einar Freyr Sigurðsson	Session B5 Room: HT-103 Chair: Kristján Árnason
9:00-9:30	Julie Anne Legate and Faruk Akkuş Turkish Passive Impersonals (Slides)	Gasper Begus and Aleksei Nazarov Gradient Trends against Phonetic Naturalness: The Case of Tarma Quechua (Slides)
9:30-10:00	Marcel Pitteroff and Florian Schäfer Implicit control and impersonal passives (Handout)	Shin-Ichiro Sano Minimal Pairs and Hyperarticulation of Singleton and Geminate Consonants as Enhancement of Lexical/Pragmatic Contrasts (Slides)
10:00-10:30	Break
10:30-11:30	Invited talk: Nicole Dehé The prosody of rhetorical questions Room: HT-102 Introduction by Gunnar Ólafur Hansson
11:30-13:00	Poster session and lunch (sandwiches provided) Location: Blue wall at lowest floor of the Háskólatorg building (next to the circular slope from the 2nd floor). Athulya Aravind and Kristen Syrett Investigating Context Sensitivity and Vagueness in Nominals in Child and Adult Language (Poster) Diti Bhadra Evidentials come in two shapes Richard Compton Agree on C: case and agreement at the left-periphery in Inuktitut Věra Dvořák A Syntactic Approach to Indefinite Null Objects (Handout – Poster) Masha Esipova and Lucas Champollion Focus on adjuncts: a uniform event-based semantics of ‘only’ (Poster) Johannes Hein Deriving the typology of predicate fronting Helen Jeoung Disentangling pronouns and reflexives with shared morphology in Madurese	Itamar Kastner and Tal Linzen A morphosyntactic inductive bias in artificial language learning (Poster) Mingming Liu Short answers to questions in Mandarin wh -conditionals Prerna Nadathur and Daniel Lassiter An experimental look at the negative implications of exceptives Emma Nguyen and Gabriel Martinez Vera A surprising comparison: a unified account of degree surprisingly with bare adjectives and comparatives (Poster) Roberto Petrosino The left periphery fragmented: Evidence from Italian (Poster) Alexander Podobryaev On preposition stranding in alternative questions Eszter Ronai Quantifier scope in heritage bilinguals: a comparative experimental study (Poster) Bartosz Wiland Peeling and anti-freezing (Poster) Tomohiro Yokoyama Incremental Valuation and the Person Case Constraint: Five Attested Patterns
	Session A6 Room: HT-102 Chair: Terje Lohndal	Session B6: Special session: Locality relations in phonology Room: HT-103 Chair: Gunnar Ólafur Hansson
13:00-13:30	Heidi Klockmann Restructuring in the nominal domain: Evidence from English kind-words	Adam McCollum, Eric Baković, Anna Mai and Eric Meinhardt Conditional blocking in Tutrugbu requires non-determinism: implications for the subregular hypothesis (Handout)
13:30-14:00	Byron Ahn and Laura Kalin What’s in a (English) Reflexive?	Thomas Graf Locality Domains and Phonological C-Command Over Strings
14:00-14:30	Steven Foley and Matthew Wagers The Subject Gap Preference in a split-ergative language: Reading time evidence from Georgian	Wei Wei and Rachel Walker The Lookahead Effect in the Reduplication-Phonology Interaction (Handout)
14:30-14:45	Break
	Session A7 Room: HT-102 Chair: Cherlon Ussery	Session B7: Special session: Locality relations in phonology Room: HT-103 Chair: Ludger Paschen
14:45-15:15	Stefan Keine and Bhamati Dash Agreement reversals and the cyclicity of Agree	Hannah Sande and Peter Jenks Cophonologies by phase (Handout)
15:15-15:45	Justin Colley Object movement derives object preference	Daniel Currie Hall Locality, neutrality, and contrast: A new resolution to the Votic paradox (Handout)
15:45-16:15	Louise Raynaud French vs Italian datives: participle agreement, reflexives and the PCC (Handout)	James White, René Kager, Tal Linzen, Giorgos Markopoulos, Alexander Martin, Andrew Nevins, Sharon Peperkamp, Krisztina Polgárdi, Nina Topintzi and Ruben van de Vijver Preference for locality is affected by the prefix/suffix asymmetry: Evidence from artificial language learning
16:15-16:30	Break
	Session A8 Room: HT-102 Chair: Joe Jalbert	Session B8 Room: HT-103 Chair: Gísli Rúnar Harðarson
16:30-17:00	Nick Huang The bound possessor effect: a new argument for the phasehood of definite DPs (Handout)	Pavel Caha Exploring linear contiguity: the overlapping decomposition (Slides)
17:00-17:30	Anastasiia Ionova The interaction of ellipsis and clitic movement in Serbo-Croatian	Martina Martinović and Marie-Luise Schwarzer Locatives and biclausal progressives in Wolof (Handout – Slides)
17:30-17:45	Break
17:45-18:45	Invited talk: Höskuldur Thráinsson Icelandic long distance reflexives revisited. Learning about them and from them since 1975 (Slides) Room: HT-102 Introduction by Jim Wood
18:45-	Reception

Sunday, October 29

8:30-9:00	Registration
	Session A9 Room: HT-102 Chair: Iris Edda Nowenstein	Session B9 Room: HT-103 Chair: Hannah Sande
9:00-9:30	Carolyn Spadine Tigrinya attitude reports: arguments for syntactic perspective	Eva Zimmermann Gradient Symbolic Representations in the Output: A typology of lexical exceptions (Slides)
9:30-10:00	Marcel Pitteroff and Michelle Sheehan The case for fake partial control in French and German (Handout)	Nicholas Rolle Transparadigmatic Output-Output Correspondence (Slides)
10:00-10:30	Break
	Session A10 Room: HT-102 Chair: Bronwyn Bjorkman	Session B10 Room: HT-103 Chair: Þórhallur Eyþórsson
10:30-11:00	Stefan Keine and Ethan Poole Reconstruction two ways: Evidence from Hindi-Urdu	Lena Borise and Maria Polinsky Focus without movement: syntax-prosody interface in Georgian (Handout)
11:00-11:30	Itai Bassi and Nicholas Longenbaugh Features on bound pronouns: an argument for a semantic approach (Handout)	Matthew Tyler Simplifying MATCH WORD: Evidence from English function words (Handout)
11:30-12:00	Ömer Demirok A Modal Approach to Dative Subjects in Laz	Jason Kandybowicz The Anti-contiguity of Wh- and C: New Evidence from Nupe
12:00-13:30	Poster session and lunch (sandwiches provided) Location: Blue wall at lowest floor of the Háskólatorg building (next to the circular slope from the 2nd floor). Dorothy Ahn and Kathryn Davidson Where pointing matters: English and Korean demonstratives Karlos Arregi and Emily Hanink Switch reference in Washo as multiple subject agreement (Handout – Poster) Justin Bledin and Kyle Rawlins What Ifs Virginia Dawson Implicating ignorance: Epistemic indefinites in Tiwa (Poster – Handout) Miloje Despić and Michael David Hamilton Syntactic & post-syntactic aspects of Algonquian theme signs Laura Kalin and Philipp Weisser Asymmetric case in coordination: An argument against movement-based approaches to DOM	Petr Kusliy Simultaneous under Past: New facts about embedded Present tense in English (Poster – Handout) Hongchen Wu, Richard Larson, Yaobin Liu, Lei Liu and Gary Mar Rethinking quantifier scope in Mandarin (Poster) Erika Mayer, Jon Sprouse and Susanne Wurmbrand An experimental investigation of NPI licensing under DE flip-flop Agata Renans, Jacopo Romoli, Maria-Margarita Makri, Lyn Tieu, Hanna de Vries, Raffaella Folli and George Tsoulas The plural inferences of count and mass nouns are implicatures: Evidence from Greek Gary Thoms and Craig Sailor When silence gets in the way: asymmetric extraction from ellipsis in British dialects Andrew Weir Restitutive again without lexical decomposition: a Function Composition approach Jim Wood Everything out! Evacuating the Icelandic vP Michelle Yuan M-merger and copy spell-out in Inuktitut noun incorporation Hedde Zeijlstra Two varieties of Korean, or the ban against rightward head movement (Poster)
13:30-14:30	Invited talk: Charles Yang Doing more with less UG Room: HT-102 Introduction by Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir
14:30-15:00	Business meeting

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