Program

The schedule below is tentative and possibly subject to change.

Day 1 / May 12
Room 1 (TBA) Room 2 (TBA) Room 3 (TBA)
8:30-9:00 Walk-in/Registration/Coffee Coffee + Registration, Conference Breakout Room
9:00-9:15 Welcome on 1st day
9:15-10:15 Plenary 1: Justin Royer
10:15-10:30
10:30-12:00 Modality Questions
10:30-11:00 Benjamin Chung and Daphne Wheeler: Fear and Sasquatches: Apprehensional Uses of N̓x̌va in Haíɫzaqvḷa Yangshuying Kate Zhou: A causal core to HOW/WHY alternations: evidence from Changsha Hua osi
11:00-11:30 Jozina Vander Klok, Sarah Zobel, Hiroki Nomoto and David Moeljadi: Topics, which are never focused: Indonesian modal-nya forms Henry Davis and Colin Brown: Wh-questions and focus in predicate-initial languages: evidence from Tsimshianic
11:30-12:00 John Prado, Jacob Sanning and Meredith Landman Futurity as modality: Evidence from Kalmyk Yurika Aonuki: Questions and conditionals with disjunction in Gitksan
12:00-12:30 Shweta Akolkar, Margaret Asperheim, Franco Liu, Hei Vangz and Amy Rose Deal: Optional, obligatory, and forbidden modal subordination: Notes on the typology of futures
12:30-13:45 LUNCH
13:45-14:45 Plenary 2: Reggie Duah
14:45-15:00
15:00-16:00 Degree achievements Conjunction
15:00-15:30 Sander Nederveen: Gradable change of state and variable culmination in Salish Nathaniel Scott, Shen Aguinda, Daniel Altshuler and Scott AnderBois: Distributivity and coherence in clausal conjunction
15:30-16:00 Ryan Walter Smith: Deadjectival and denominal derivation in the composition of scalar change in Persian Ekaterina Vostrikova: Two types of conjunction in Tundra Nenets
16:00-16:15
16:15-17:15 Plenary 3: Ana Laura Arrieta Zamudio
 

Day 2 / May 13
Room 1 (TBA) Room 2 (TBA) Room 3 (TBA)
8:30-9:00 Walk-in/Registration/Coffee Coffee + Registration, Conference Breakout Room
9:00-10:30 Tense/Aspect Attitudes
9:00-9:30 Emily Knick: Narrative tense in Khalkha Mongolian Hafida Iguir: The case for indexical shift in Tachelhit
9:30-10:00 Seaira Lett: The Perfect Time Span and temporal remoteness marking in Chuj Bruce Oliver: That’s too vague! Ambiguity avoidance with indeterminate attitude predicates
10:00-10:30 Emily Knick, Juan Pablo Calvo Huerta, and Roumyana Pancheva: The semantics of already in Paraguayan Guaraní Giovanni Roversi and Jéssica Mendes: Light attitudes, heavy complements: evidence from Äiwoo
10:30-10:45
10:45-12:15 Special Session (details TBA)
12:15-13:30 LUNCH (on site)
13:30-14:30 Plenary 4: Eve Suharwardy
14:30-14:45
14:45-15:45 Discourse Particles Associated Motion
14:45-15:15 Onyinyechukwu Ezeamuzie and Guillaume Thomas: The Meaning and Distribution of the Discourse Particle Kwa in Igbo Claire Robertson and Scott AnderBois: The role of intentionality and enablement in associated motion
15:15-15:45 Marianne Huijsmans: So of course, get a brain!: two discourse particles in ʔayʔaǰuθəm (Comox-Sliammon) Rose Underhill: Deriving deictic directionality and associated motion in Ktunaxa
15:45-16:00
16:00-17:00 Plenary 5: Herman Fillmore
 

Day 3 / May 14
Room 1 (TBA) Room 2 (TBA) Room 3 (TBA)
8:30-9:00 Walk-in/Registration/Coffee Coffee + Registration, Conference Breakout Room
9:00-10:00 Plenary 6: Zahra Mirrazi
10:00-10:15
10:15-12:15 Aspect Nominals and NPIs
10:15-10:45 Ana Arrieta Zamudio and Ryan Bochnak: Actuality entailments and the inchoative perfect in Ktunaxa Katya Morgunova: Long-distance NPI licensing in Kanien’kéha
10:45-11:15 Pilar Chamorro, Seaira Lett and Quesler Camargos: Two faces of inchoativity in Wari’: A study of the aspectual markers wra and pin Reed Steiner: Locative demonstratives in nɬeʔkepmxcín: a vector space semantics
11:15-11:45 John Lyon: Ordering Aspect in Nsyilxcn:  Exclusive vs. Inclusive Ordering Brandon Chaperon: Generic argument-structure head in the Wolof causative-benefactive syncretism
11:45-12:15 Hamida Demirdache, Marta Donazzan, Ana Lucia Muller and Hongyuan Sun: Ordering Aspect & the temporal interpretation of Karitiana subordinate clauses Gregory Antono, Susana Béjar and Daphna Heller: Exophoric demonstratives in Labrador Inuttitut
12:15-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-15:00 Poster Session

  1. Adelaide Banafo: From Existential to Universal to Negative: The Dagbani ‘so’
  2. Yijun Li: Long-distance agreement in Sheshatshiu Innu-aimun
  3. Sumiyo Nishiguchi and Abdirahman Hasan: Weak NPI Gebi Ahaanba in Somali
  4. Quartz Colvin: The semantics of White Hmong (in)definiteness
  5. Matheus Silva, Luciana Sanchez-Mendes and Luiz Fernando Ferreira:

    Wapichana’s tense system: a first formal approach

  6. Trevor Block: New Insights on Universal Quantifiers in Eastern Javanese.
  7. Elodie Schley:

    Deverbal Instruments in Navajo: Argument Structure and Modal Semantics 

  8. Laurestine Bradford: Progressive as Motion on a Scale

  9. Yuhao Dai: Two perfects in Lhasa Tibetan and the lack of cessation inferences of pa.ree
  10. Vera Livingston: Exclusive focus in Telugu
  11. Phoenix Neuscheler: Reduplication and Pluractionality in Javanese
  12. Gérard Avelino and Ariela Ye: Person Restrictions in Tagalog Imperatives
  13. Mary Moroney: Restrictions on distributivity
  14. Ekatarina Vostrikova and Petr Kusliy: The semantics of ky particle in Tundra Nenets
  15. Sylvia Woodrose and Benjamin Hunt:

    The interaction of stativity and posture with aspect and temporality in Akuzipik 
15:00-15:15
15:15-16:45 Plenary 7: Heather Burge
Conference dinner (details TBA)
 

Day 4 / May 15
Room 1 (TBA) Room 2 (TBA) Room 3 (TBA)
8:30-9:00 Walk-in/Registration/Coffee Coffee + Registration, Conference Breakout Room
9:00-10:00 Plenary 8: Terrance Gatchalian
Split tenselessness: tense, aspect, and counterfactuality in Kanien’kéha
10:00-10:15
10:15-12:15 Modality Nominals
10:15-10:45 Nubia Rech, Jayane Oliveira and Luiz Fernando Ferreira: Epistemic and deontic markers in Wapichana Aidan Sharma and Jiayuan Chen: Relating Anti-Uniqueness and Non-honorificity to Definiteness Marking in Magahi
10:45-11:15 Natalia Krasikova, Malte Zimmermann and Peter Sutton: The expression of Strong and Weak Necessity in Igbo: A simplified degree-based approach Willie Myers: Patterns of implicit arguments in Kanien’kéha
11:15-11:45 Keyu Dong: Evidentials do project above negation: Evidence from Shilluk Gérard Avelino: From file cards to file folders: Nested aboutness and Tagalog nominal marking
11:45-12:15 Anujin Munkhbat: Conjectural Modal in Khalkha Mongolian Varvara Tiutiunnikova: Inclusion-based definiteness in Mansi
12:15-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-15:00 Degrees Tense
13:30-14:00 Starr Sandoval and Marcin Morzycki: Spatial, Temporal, and Degree Ranges in Ktunaxa Ella Hannon: Pastness as a presupposition: the nɬeʔkepmxcín clitic ƛ̓əm̓
14:00-14:30 Anne Bertrand: Quantized degrees in Ktunaxa and a crosslinguistic ontology of degrees Adam Chihjen Cheng: Nominal temporal operator Mina in Yami
14:30-15:00 Elizabeth Coppock: Unifying Dependent and independent numeral reduplication in Newar Rodrigo Romero-Mendez: Focus, recent past or anteriority particle in Mixe?
15:00-15:30 Special break (stay tuned!)
15:30-16:30 Plenary 9: Roberta Pires de Oliveira
Rikbaktsa (Macro-Jê):
Notes on the semantics of noun phrases in a bare language
16:30-17:00 Business Meeting TripleA Business Meeting SULA

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