Program

Note of room changes: All "Session A" talks Saturday and Sunday will take place in Kaufmann Auditorium (Goldwin-Smith Hall G-64). All Plenary talks Saturday and Sunday will take place in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium (GSH 132). All "Session B" talks on Saturday and Sunday will remain in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium (GSH 132) as scheduled.

The complete program is available as a PDF download here.

Co-sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and co-sponsored by the Society for the Humanities.

Friday

Note: All events during the day on Friday will take place at Robert Purcell Community Center (RPCC), except the last talk of the day by our invited speaker, which will take place at Klarman Hall, less than 15 minutes away.

Time Session A (RPCC Auditorium 205) Session B (RPCC Multi-Purpose Room 218)
8:00 am - 8:45 am Registration, Complimentary Breakfast (2nd Floor Foyer, RPCC)
8:45 am - 9:00 am Opening Remarks
Cornell University President Martha Pollack
(RPCC Auditorium 205)
9:00 am On the nature of ATB-movement: Insights from reflexes of movement
Doreen Georgi 		When is derived [i] transparent? A subtractive approach to Uyghur vowel harmony
Daniel Currie Hall and Avery Ozburn
9:30 am A movement theory of adjunct control
Jeffrey J. Green 		Modeling super-gang effects on MaxEnt Grammar: A case study on the nasal super-gang effect in Japanese Rendaku
Seoyoung Kim
10:00 - 10:15 am Break
10:15 am Lexical case an an Anaphor Agreement Effect: The view from Inuktitut
Michelle Yuan 		Computing implicatures under QUDs
Eszter Ronai and Ming Xiang
10:45 am The syntax of noun phrase-internal lexical possessors in Tundra Nenets
András Bárány and Irina Nikolaeva 		The typology of veridicality inferences
Aaron Steven White and Kyle Rawlins
11:15 am - 12:30 pm Poster Session (RPCC Multi-Purpose Room)
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm Lunch on your own
1:45 pm Even and Only: Arguing for parallels in scalarity and in constructing focus alternatives
Yael Greenberg 		Detecting Contiguity-prominence
Norvin Richards
2:15 pm Focus size in morphologically focus-marking languages
Muriel Assmann, Daniel Büring, Izabela Jordanoska and Max Prüller 		Size matters: auxiliary formation in the morpho-syntax and morpho-phonology
Paula Fenger
2:45 pm The prosody of presupposition projection: A production experiment
Elena Vaikšnoraitė, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe and Judith Tonhauser 		Phase-based prosody: evidence from pitch-accent distribution in the Japanese verbal domain
Akitaka Yamada
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 pm Pronominal cliticization, multiple wh-movement, and Probe Generosity
Steven Foley and Maziar Toosarvandani 		Two strategies for forming unconditionals: Evidence from disjunction
Karoliina Lohiniva
4:00 pm Agree without Agreement: Switch-reference in two Panoan languages
Mark Baker and Livia Camargo Souza 		Future-Orientation on an Event-Relative Semantics for Modals
Daniel Skibra
4:30 pm Cyclic expansion in Agree: Maximal projections as probes
Emily Clem 		Wide-scope distributivity
Keny Chatain
Walk to Klarman Hall
5:30 pm Invited Speaker: Benjamin Bruening. Binding, Coreference, and Presuppositions in the Binding Theory
Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall (KG70) Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium (GSH 132)

Saturday

Time Session A (Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall (KG70) Kaufmann Auditorum, Goldwin-Smith Hall Session B (Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium (GSH 132))
8:00 am - 8:45 am Registration, Complimentary Breakfast (Groos Family Atrium, Klarman Hall)
9:00 am On the syntactic determination of thematic roles: evidence from transitive motion clauses
Alison Biggs 		Everyone left the room, except the logophor: *ABA patterns in pronominal morphology
Jane Middleton
9:30 am The expression of proper locations and beyond: the motion-to and state-in Italian spatial prepositions
Ludovico Franco and Paolo Lorusso 		*ABA Generalizes to Monotonicity: An Argument from Verb Stem Syncretism
Sedigheh Moradi
10:00 am - 10:15 am Break
10:15 am What can if-stripping tell us about ellipsis?
Ethan Myers and Masaya Yoshida 		Classifiers and the definite article in Indonesian
Ekarina Winarto and Carol-Rose Little
10:45 am The structure of silence: A look at children's comprehension of sluicing
Victoria Mateu and Nina Hyams 		Number inflection, Spanish Bare Interrogatives, and Higher-Order Quantification
Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Vincent Rouillard
11:15 am - 12:30 pm Poster Session II (Groos Family Atrium, Klarman Hall)
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm Bag Lunch and COSWL Pop-Up Mentoring Event (Goldwin Smith Hall G24)
1:45 pm Possessor Extraction in English
Colin Davis 		An agreement analysis of body-anchored verb constructions
Marloes Oomen and Vadim Kimmelman
2:15 pm On Matrix Clause Intervention in English AcI Constructions
Ad Neeleman and Amanda Payne 		Answering negative questions in American Sign Language
Aurore Gonzalez, Kate Henninger and Kathryn Davidson
2:45 pm When A and Ā-movements work together: Classical Greek proleptic extraction
Richard Faure 		Inverse-scope and Semi-PPIs: Evidence from Hebrew
Omri Mayraz
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 pm P-D-drop and pseudo-incorporation in London English
David Hall 		Morphosyntactic structure reveals stress universals in Nanti
Ezer Rasin
4:00 pm The largesse of diminutives: suppressing the projection of roots
Laura Grestenberger and Dalina Kallulli 		The Intervocalic Palatal Glide in Cognitive Phonetics
Veno Volenec and Charles Reiss
4:30 pm Non-Active Verbs in Hebrew and the Input to Nominalization
Odelia Ahdout and Itamar Kastner 		The phonetics and phonology of non-moraic schwas: New evidence from Piuma Paiwan
Shu-hao Shih
5:00 pm - 5:15 pm Break
5:15 pm Invited Speaker: Maria Gouskova. Learning nonlocal phonology from local morphophonological cues (Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall KG70) (Hollis E. Cornell)
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Reception (Groos Family Atrium, Klarman Hall)

Sunday

Time Session A (Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall) Kaufmann Auditorium Session B (Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium (GSH 132))
8:00 am - 8:45 am Registration, Complimentary Breakfast
9:00 am On the (non)incorporation of PHave
Marijke De Belder 		Paradigmatic tonal polarity in Kipsigis nominal modifiers
Maria Kouneli and Yining Nie
9:30 am Imperatives under even
Naomi Francis 		Feet are parametric - even in languages with stress
Guilherme D. Garcia and Heather Goad
10:00 am - 10:15 am Break
10:15 am Bound pronouns are not 'minimal pronouns'
Itai Bassi 		Lexical reciprocity vs. grammatical reciprocity: the case of Italian
Giada Palmieri, Manuela Pinto, Yoad Winter and Joost Zwarts
10:45 am Causal networks in discourse: A case of Mandarin negative conditionals
Muyi Yang 		What's at issue when Principle C is not-at-issue: Information status and backwards anaphora
Vera Gor and Kristen Syrett
11:15 am Preposed negation questions with strong NPIs
Sunwoo Jeong 		Parasitic gaps diagnose concealed pied-piping in Russian
Tanya Bondarenko and Colin Davis
11:45 am - 1:15 pm Poster Session III and Bag Lunch (Groos Family Atrium, Klarman Hall)
1:30 pm Invited Speaker: Magdalena Kaufmann. Topics in Conditional Conjunctions [slides] (Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall KG70) (Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Business Meeting

Poster Session I [Friday, October 5]

Location: Groos Family Atrium

Abstract no. Title & Author
3 Radically Truncated Clauses: Revisiting the Structure of VP in Hungarian and Beyond.
Tamas Halm.
15 Spec-CP as an A-position: an argument from hyperraising in Mongolian.
Suzana Fong.
62 The Reversible Core of ObjExp, Location, and Govern-Type Verbs.
Michael Wilson.
63 A copy-based approach to either in either... or... sentences.
Danfeng Wu.
106 In situ wh-hell: The view from Hungarian.
Mai Ha Vu and Karoliina Lohiniva.
108 Malay tough movement and voice matching.
Nagarajan Selvenathan.
135 An ambiguity account of Degree Achievements: evidence from additive operators.
Giorgos Spathas.
148 Locative Inversion with inversion.
Schuyler Laparle.
163 Length as strength: a new account of Raddoppiamento Fonosintattico.
Irene Amato.
201 A Reverse Wackernagel Clitic: Negation in Udmurt and Mari Verb Clusters - An argument for the ordering of post-syntactic movement operations.
Ekaterina Georgieva, Martin Salzmann and Philipp Weisser.
246 On Parallel Copying: Evidence from Cantonese
Jackie Y.-K. Lai.
251 Control-Forming Domains are Not Only Phases: Evidence for Probe Horizons.
Jurij Bozic.
272 Domain restriction and noun classifiers in Chuj (Mayan).
Justin Royer.
275 Updates & discourse anaphora: a dynamic approach to otherwise.
Josh Phillips and Hadas Kotek.
277 Syntactic identity in clausal ellipsis: evidence from P-stranding effects in Spanish.
Laura Stigliano.
147 Besides Exceptives.
Ekaterina Vostrikova.
348 What indexical shift sounds like: Uyghur intonation and interpreting speech reports.
Travis Major and Connor Mayer.
363 Nominal predication and the semantics of roots.
Sylvia L. R. Schreiner.

Poster Session II [Saturday, October 6]

Location: Groos Family Atrium

Abstract no. Title & Author
51 Why mid vowels are not always mid vowels.
Marie-Luise Popp.
99 Reconstruction in German wh-movement - an experimental investigation.
Doreen Georgi, Martin Salzmann and Marta Wierzba.
118 Features, Identity, and 'Yourself'.
Byron Ahn.
140 Free inversion with blocking of Agree by low Foc0: Evidence from Bolognese.
Edward Rubin
284 Phase Sensitive Morphology and Dependent Case.
Kimberly Johnson.
161 Anti-clitic host requirement on second position clitic in SJA-Mam.
Tessa Scott.
180 Universal wh's in Mandarin.
Mingming Liu.
208 VP Nominalization and the Final-over-Final Condition.
Johannes Hein and Andrew Murphy.
212 Free relative clauses and timing of case assignment in Moksha.
Mariia Privizentseva.
215 Neural Underpinnings of Phonotactic Rule Learning.
Enes Avcu, Ryan Rhodes, Chao Han and Arild Hestvik.
224 Reflexive/Anticausative verbal marker & Aspectual light verb interactions in Telugu.
Rahul Balusu.
227 Focus over a Speech Act Operator: A Revised Semantics for 'Our Even'.
Micky Daniels.
228 Wanting, Acquiescing, and Neg-Raising.
Frank Staniszewski.
235 A-movement cannot use escape hatches: evidence from causatives.
Michelle Sheehan.
247 Two positions of RED in Chinese adjectival compound formation.
Yenan Sun and Jackie Y.-K. Lai.
278 Lithuanian Evidentials and Passives of Evidentials.
Julie Legate and Milena Šereikaitė.
279 Monotonicity in distributivity with binominal each.
Jess H.-K. Law.
310 Configurational Case Assignment is Needed to Explain Promotion to Subject in Uzbek Passives.
Lars Stromdahl and Shakhlo Nematova.
321 On the derivation and interpretation of doubly-headed relative clauses.
Hitomi Minamida.
344 (Anti)reconstruction as layering.
Gary Thoms.
351 Toward a unified account of Japanese evidential youda: a Causal Bayesian approach.
Teruyuki Mizuno and Muyi Yang.
362 Successive-Cyclic Wh-Movement Feeds Dependent Case Competition.
Rafael Abramovitz.

Poster Session III [Sunday, October 7]

Location: Groos Family Atrium

Abstract no. Title & Author
25 Differential Object Marking by A'-status.
Matthew Tyler.
87 Do-support as spellout of split head chains.
Karlos Arregi and Asia Pietraszko.
115 Addressee Agreement as the Locus of Imperative Syntax.
Gurmeet Kaur.
137 Does at-issueness predict projection? It's complicated!.
Taylor Mahler.
146 Existential Belief & Embedded Epistemic Modals.
Maša Močnik
176 Intensified response particles to assertions and polar questions: The case of Hebrew le-gamrey.
Yael Greenberg and Lavi Wolf.
237 Possessed bare superlatives make reference to individual concepts.
Michael Tabatowski.
243 On Default Realization and Gender in Lithuanian.
Luke Adamson and Milean Šereikaité.
244 Don't give me that attitude! Anti-De Se and Feature Matching of German D-Pronouns.
Alexander Göbel.
258 On pronominalization and ellipsis in clausal idioms.
Nick Huang and Gesoel Mendes.
271 A secondary crossover effect in Hindi and the typology of movement.
Rajesh Bhatt and Stefan Keine.
285 Morphological and Semantic Agreement beyond Hybrid Nouns.
Zheng Shen and Peter Smith.
301 Complementizers in Laz are attitude sensitive.
Omer Demirok, Deniz Ozyildiz and Balkiz Ozturk.
318 Licensing Pseudo-Noun Incorporation in Turkish.
Jinwoo Jo and Bilge Palaz.
334 Focus Movement and association with only in Russian Chinese.
Ksenia Zanon and Yu-Yin Hsu.
337 Control in illocutionary adjuncts as a diagnostic for discourse arguments.
Carolyn Spadine.
338 A new type of backward relation: Indonesian Crossed Control.
Mike Berger.
347 Adjunction to movement paths: Floating quantifiers as the little brother of parasitic gaps.
Thomas Graf.
370 Romanian loves Me: Clitic Clusters, Ethics & Cyclic AGREE.
Rudmila-Rodica Ivan.