{"id":10,"date":"2025-07-22T11:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sulatriplea\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:17:33","slug":"program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sulatriplea\/program\/","title":{"rendered":"Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

The conference will be held in the UBC Life Building (map)<\/a>, conveniently located near the main bus loop.<\/p>\n

The schedule below is\u00a0tentative\u00a0<\/strong>and possibly subject to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Day 1 \/ May 12<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
<\/td>\nRoom 1: LIFE 2302<\/span><\/td>\nRoom 2: LIFE 2202<\/span><\/td>\nRoom: LIFE 2212<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8:30-9:00<\/span><\/td>\nWalk-in\/Registration\/Coffee<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nCoffee + Registration, Conference Breakout Room<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00-9:15<\/span><\/td>\nWelcome on 1st day<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:15-10:15<\/td>\nPlenary 1: Justin Royer<\/strong>
\nWh-predicates, question formation, and epistemic modality: A Chuj perspective<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:15-10:30<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:30-12:00<\/span><\/td>\nModality
\n(chair: Hotze Rullmann)<\/span><\/td>\n		Questions\/Conjunction
\n(chair: Virginia Dawson)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:30-11:00<\/td>\nBenjamin Chung and Daphne Wheeler: Fear and Sasquatches: Apprehensional Uses of N\u0313x\u030cva in Hai\u0301\u026bzaqv\u1e37a<\/a><\/td>\nYangshuying Kate Zhou: A causal core to HOW\/WHY alternations: evidence from Changsha Hua osi<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:00-11:30<\/td>\nNatalia Krasikova, Malte Zimmermann and Peter Sutton: The expression of Strong and Weak Necessity in Igbo: A simplified degree-based approach<\/a><\/td>\nHenry Davis and Colin Brown: Wh-questions and focus in predicate-initial languages: evidence from Tsimshianic<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:30-12:00<\/td>\nJohn Prado, Jacob Sanning and Meredith Landman Futurity as modality: Evidence from Kalmyk<\/a><\/td>\nYurika Aonuki: Questions and conditionals with disjunction in Gitksan<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:00-12:30<\/td>\nShweta Akolkar, Margaret Asperheim, Franco Liu, Hei Vangz and Amy Rose Deal: Optional, obligatory, and forbidden modal subordination: Notes on the typology of futures<\/a><\/td>\nNathaniel Scott, Shen Aguinda, Daniel Altshuler and Scott AnderBois: Distributivity and coherence in clausal conjunction<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:30-13:45<\/span><\/td>\nLUNCH (on your own)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13:45-14:45<\/td>\nPlenary 2: Reggie Duah<\/strong><\/a>
\nOne, but not the same: Clausal determiners in Akan<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:45-15:00<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:00-16:00<\/span><\/td>\nDegree achievements
\n(chair: Ryan Bochnak)<\/span><\/td>\n		Negation\/NPIs
\n(chair: Scott AnderBois)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:00-15:30<\/td>\nSander Nederveen: Gradable change of state and variable culmination in Salish<\/a><\/td>\nKeyu Dong: Evidentials do project above negation: Evidence from Shilluk<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:30-16:00<\/td>\nRyan Walter Smith: Deadjectival and denominal derivation in the composition of scalar change in Persian<\/a><\/td>\nKatya Morgunova: Long-distance NPI licensing in Kanien’k\u00e9ha<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:00-16:15<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:15-17:15<\/td>\nPlenary 3: Ana Laura Arrieta Zamudio
\n<\/strong>Tense, aspect, and epistemic modality: Evidence from San Pablo Gu\u0308ila\u0301 Zapotec<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Day 2 \/ May 13<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/td>\nRoom 1: LIFE 2302<\/span><\/td>\nRoom 2: LIFE 2202<\/strong><\/td>\nRoom: LIFE 2212<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8:30-9:00<\/span><\/td>\nWalk-in\/Registration\/Coffee<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nCoffee + Registration, Conference Breakout Room<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00-10:30<\/span><\/td>\nTense\/Aspect
\n(chair: Pilar Chamorro)<\/span><\/td>\n		Attitudes
\n(chair: Ryan Walter Smith)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00-9:30<\/td>\nEmily Knick: Narrative tense in Khalkha Mongolian <\/span><\/a><\/td>\nHafida Iguir: The case for indexical shift in Tachelhit<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:30-10:00<\/td>\nSeaira Lett: The Perfect Time Span and temporal remoteness marking in Chuj<\/a><\/td>\nBruce Oliver: That’s too vague! Ambiguity avoidance with indeterminate attitude predicates<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:00-10:30<\/td>\nEmily Knick, Juan Pablo Calvo Huerta, and Roumyana Pancheva: The semantics of already in Paraguayan Guaran\u00ed<\/a><\/td>\nGiovanni Roversi and J\u00e9ssica Mendes: Light attitudes, heavy complements: evidence from \u00c4iwoo<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:30-10:45<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:45-12:15<\/td>\nPanel: Indigenous Perspectives on Linguistics Research and Language Revitalization<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:15-13:30<\/span><\/td>\nLUNCH (provided on site)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13:30-14:30<\/td>\nPlenary 4: Eve Suharwardy<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe semantic typology of comparative standards, revisited<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:30-14:45<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:45-15:45<\/span><\/td>\nDiscourse Particles
\n(chair: Josiah Nii Ashie Neequaye)<\/span><\/td>\n		Associated Motion
\n(chair: Marcin Morzycki)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:45-15:15<\/td>\nOnyinyechukwu Ezeamuzie and Guillaume Thomas: The Meaning and Distribution of the Discourse Particle Kwa in Igbo<\/a><\/td>\nClaire Robertson and Scott AnderBois: The role of intentionality and enablement in associated motion<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:15-15:45<\/td>\nMarianne Huijsmans: So of course, get a brain!: two discourse particles in \u0294ay\u0294aj\u030cu\u03b8\u0259m (Comox-Sliammon)<\/a><\/td>\nRose Underhill: Deriving deictic directionality and associated motion in Ktunaxa<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:45-16:00<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:00-17:00<\/td>\nPlenary 5: Herman Fillmore
\n<\/strong>How the W\u00e1\u2219\u0161iw Tribe of Nevada and California has partnered with Linguists to change the way we talk about our language<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Day 3 \/ May 14<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/td>\nRoom 1: LIFE 2302<\/span><\/td>\nRoom 2: LIFE 2202<\/span><\/td>\nRoom: LIFE 2212<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00-9:30<\/span><\/td>\nWalk-in\/Registration\/Coffee<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nCoffee + Registration, Conference Breakout Room<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:30-10:30<\/td>\nPlenary 6: Zahra Mirrazi<\/strong><\/a>
\nAboutness presupposition: The role of tense and mood in context anchoring<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:30-10:45<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:45-12:45<\/span><\/td>\nAspect
\n(chair: Terrance Gatchalian)<\/span><\/td>\n		Nominals
\n(chair: Marianne Huijsmans)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:45-11:15<\/td>\nAna Arrieta Zamudio and Ryan Bochnak: Actuality entailments and the inchoative perfect in Ktunaxa<\/a><\/td>\nReed Steiner: Locative demonstratives in n\u026ce\u0294kepmxci\u0301n: a vector space semantics<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:15-11:45<\/td>\nPilar Chamorro, Seaira Lett and Quesler Camargos: Two faces of inchoativity in Wari’: A study of the aspectual markers wra and pin<\/a><\/td>\nBrandon Chaperon: Generic argument-structure head in the Wolof causative-benefactive syncretism<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:45-12:15<\/td>\nJohn Lyon: Ordering Aspect in Nsyilxcn:\u00a0\u00a0Exclusive vs. Inclusive Ordering<\/a><\/td>\nGregory Antono, Susana B\u00e9jar and Daphna Heller: Exophoric demonstratives in Labrador Inuttitut<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:15-12:45<\/td>\nHamida Demirdache, Marta Donazzan, Ana Lucia Muller and Hongyuan Sun: Ordering Aspect & the temporal interpretation of Karitiana subordinate clauses<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:45-14:00<\/span><\/td>\nLUNCH (on your own)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:00-15:30<\/td>\n<\/td>\nPoster Session
\nRoom: LIFE 2212<\/strong><\/p>\n
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  1. Adelaide Banafo: From Existential to Universal to Negative: The Dagbani ‘so’<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Yijun Li: Long-distance agreement in Sheshatshiu Innu-aimun<\/a>\n
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  3. Sumiyo Nishiguchi and Abdirahman Hasan: Weak NPI Gebi Ahaanba<\/em> in Somali<\/a>\n
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  4. Quartz Colvin: The semantics of White Hmong (in)definiteness<\/a>\n
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  5. Matheus Silva, Luciana Sanchez-Mendes and Luiz Fernando Ferreira:<\/a>\n
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    Wapichana\u2019s tense system: a first formal approach<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

  6. Trevor Block: New Insights on Universal Quantifiers in Eastern Javanese.<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Elodie Schley:<\/a>\n
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    Deverbal Instruments in Navajo: Argument Structure and Modal Semantics\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n

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  9. Yuhao Dai: Two perfects in Lhasa Tibetan and the lack of cessation inferences of pa.ree.w<\/a>\n
    <\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  10. Vera Livingston: Exclusive focus in Telugu<\/a>\n
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  11. Phoenix Neuscheler: Reduplication and Pluractionality in Javanese<\/a>\n
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  12. G\u00e9rard Avelino and Ariela Ye: Person Restrictions in Tagalog Imperatives<\/a>\n
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  13. Mary Moroney: Restrictions on distributivity<\/a>\n
    <\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  14. Ekaterina Vostrikova: Two types of conjunction in Tundra Nenets<\/a>\n
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  15. Ekatarina Vostrikova and Petr Kusliy: The semantics of ky particle in Tundra Nenets<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:30-15:45<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:45-16:45<\/td>\nPlenary 7: Heather Burge
\n<\/strong>Weaving Lingi\u0301t language: Relationship building, reciprocity and morpho-semantics<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/td>\nConference dinner
\nTime: 18:00
\nLocation: Totem Field Studios<\/a>
\n(Catering by Sula Restaurant)<\/span><\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/p>\n

Day 4 \/ May 15<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/td>\nRoom 1: LIFE 2302<\/span><\/td>\nRoom 2: LIFE 2202<\/span><\/td>\nRoom: LIFE 2212<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00-9:30<\/span><\/td>\nWalk-in\/Registration\/Coffee<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\nCoffee + Registration, Conference Breakout Room<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:30-10:30<\/td>\nPlenary 8: Terrance Gatchalian<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Split tenselessness: tense, aspect, and counterfactuality in Kanien\u2019k\u00e9ha
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:30-10:45<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:45-12:15<\/span><\/td>\nModality
\n(chair: John Lyon)<\/span><\/td>\n		Nominals
\n(chair: Lisa Matthewson)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:45-11:15<\/td>\nNubia Rech, Jayane Oliveira and Luiz Fernando Ferreira: Epistemic and deontic markers in Wapichana<\/a><\/td>\nAidan Sharma and Jiayuan Chen: Relating Anti-Uniqueness and Non-honorificity to Definiteness Marking in Magahi<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:15-11:45<\/td>\nJozina Vander Klok, Sarah Zobel, Hiroki Nomoto and David Moeljadi: Topics, which are never focused: Indonesian modal-nya forms<\/a><\/td>\nG\u00e9rard Avelino: From file cards to file folders: Nested aboutness and Tagalog nominal marking<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:45-12:15<\/td>\nAnujin Munkhbat: Conjectural Modal in Khalkha Mongolian<\/a><\/td>\nVarvara Tiutiunnikova: Inclusion-based definiteness in Mansi<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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12:15-13:30<\/span><\/td>\nLUNCH (on your own)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13:30-15:00<\/span><\/td>\nDegrees
\n(chair: Henry Davis)<\/span><\/td>\n		Tense
\n(chair: Jozina Vander Klok)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13:30-14:00<\/td>\nStarr Sandoval and Marcin Morzycki: Spatial, Temporal, and Degree Ranges in Ktunaxa<\/a><\/td>\nElla Hannon: Pastness as a presupposition: the n\u026ce\u0294kepmxci\u0301n clitic \u019b\u0313\u0259m\u0313<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:00-14:30<\/td>\nAnne Bertrand: Quantized degrees in Ktunaxa and a crosslinguistic ontology of degrees<\/a><\/td>\nAdam Chihjen Cheng: Nominal temporal operator Mina in Yami<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:30-15:00<\/td>\nElizabeth Coppock: Unifying Dependent and independent numeral reduplication in Newar<\/a><\/td>\nRodrigo Romero-Mendez: Focus, recent past or anteriority particle in Mixe?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:00-15:30<\/span><\/td>\nBreak<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:30-16:30<\/td>\nPlenary 9: Roberta Pires de Oliveira<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Rikbaktsa (Macro-J\u00ea):
\nNotes on the semantics of noun phrases in a bare language
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16:30-17:00<\/span><\/td>\nBusiness Meeting TripleA<\/span><\/td>\nBusiness Meeting SULA<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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