Program
- Talks marked * will be presented on Zoom.
- All linked files are PDFs.
| Day 0 • July 21 |
Humanities Center Conference Room D Room 202 • Rush Rhees Library |
| Time | Event |
| 09:00–14:00 |
ParGram MeetingCoffee 9:00–9:15 · Miriam Butt 9:15–10:00 · Mark-Matthias Zymla 10:00–10:45 · Tafseer Ahmed 10:45 – 11:00 · Coffee 11:00–11:45 · Alexandra Fiotaki 11:45–12:30 · Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha Lunch The ParGram meeting will be held in a hybrid format. Feel free to join via the Zoom link below. Join the ParGram Meeting remotely Meeting ID: 996 4261 3471 |
| 15:00–17:00+ |
Pre-Conference OutingWe will meet at the George Eastman Museum at 15:00. George Eastman was the founder of Kodak and an important American inventor, business person, and philanthropist. He was also one of the main founders of the University of Rochester. Tickets can be purchased in advance or on-site. Tickets are $20 for adult nonmembers. The conference will pay for students on-site. We can take in the collection and the grounds for a couple of hours. Then there are nearby bars and restaurants for a sociable evening. The Eastman Museum is about a one hour walk from the library. I will walk there with anyone who wishes to stretch their legs. We will meet on the main library steps at 13:45 and depart just before 14:00. If you don’t wish to walk, I recommend using a car share. It’s about a fifteen minute drive from the campus area, including the two conference hotels. |
| Day 1 • July 22 | Fantone Lecture Hall • Room 109 • Goergen Hall |
| Time | Event |
| 09:00–09:45 | Registration & Coffee |
| 09:45–10:00 | Welcome/opening remarks |
| Session 1 Chair: Aaron Broadwell |
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| 10:00–11:00 | Invited Talk William Foley Case and person in the direct-inverse agreement system of Yimas Verbal agreement systems for the person/number of core arguments, what I will call, following Haspelmath, indexing, are often divided into types, two of which are systems in which indexing is case governed (Hindi/Urdu; Butt and Sadler 2003) versus those in which it is person governed (Blackfoot; Frantz 2000). But in languages of the Lower Sepik family in New Guinea like Yimas, constraints of both types of systems are present, interacting in complex ways depending on relative constraint rankings of person and case. Yimas is a polysynthetic strictly head marking language in which all core arguments, subject, object and objectθ are signaled only by verbal indexing. These are indicated by an elaborate system of pronominal affixes aligned essentially according to a split ergative pattern. Local persons, first and second, are in a three way split, erg-nom-acc, and the non-local third person in a different three way split, erg-nom-dat. However, the realization of these cases is not straightforwardly linked to the core grammatical relations, for example, objectθ can be realized by an acc, dat or nom case marked index depending on person combinations for the core arguments, the expression of a person-based direct-inverse system layered on top of the case marking system. The paper will present a formal OT based analysis of Yimas verb indexing based on the relative ranking of case and person based constraints. |
| 11:00–11:45 | Adam Przepiórkowski, Agnieszka Patejuk Filling gaps with Glue* abstract slides |
| 11:45–12:30 | Miriam Butt, Tafseer Ahmed Khan, Lucrezia Carnesale Experiencers vs. Agents in Urdu/Hindi nominalized verbs of perception abstract slides |
| 12:30–14:30 | Lunch |
| Session 2 Chair: Miriam Butt |
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| 14:30–15:15 | Tibor Laczkó An alternative approach to Environmental Copula Constructions in Hungarian* abstract slides |
| 15:15–16:00 | Chen Xie Gradience at the syntax-phonology interface: Evidence from Mandarin and Wenzhounese abstract slides |
| 16:00–16:45 | Joan Bresnan Cooccurrence probabilities predict English pronoun encliticization* abstract |
| 19:00–21:00 | Conference Dinner
The conference dinner will be held at Lento Restaurant in the Neighborhood of the Arts. We will order from an à la carte menu, which includes good vegetarian and vegan options. The dinner will be subsidized by the conference. More information about the conference dinner will be emailed out to in-person attendees. |
| Day 2 • July 23 | Fantone Lecture Hall • Room 109 • Goergen Hall |
| Time | Event |
| 10:00–10:30 | Coffee |
| Session 3 Chair: Alex Alsina |
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| 10:30–11:15 | Toby Lowther Symmetric object languages and the analysis of objects in LFG* abstract slides |
| 11:15–12:00 | Setayesh Dashti, Ash Asudeh Modal syntax cuts short the claim that modern Persian lacks apocopated infinitives abstract handout |
| 12:00–14:00 | Lunch |
| Session 4 Chair: Bill Foley |
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| 14:00–15:00 | Invited Talk George Aaron Broadwell The trees and the roots: The role of syntacticians in language documentation Many linguists who have been trained primarily in syntax eventually find themselves as part of a larger language documentation team, where a much wider range of linguistic (and non-linguistic) skills are needed. This talk discusses the bigger ecology of language work and suggests the kinds of teamwork that will lead to more robust, long-lasting, and useful scholarship. |
| 15:00–17:00 | Lobby outside conference venue Poster Session Coffee Ash Asudeh, Siavash Rafiee Rad Veronica Burrage Frances Dowle Helge Lødrup Songfolo Lacina Silué Chihiro Taguchi Posters remain up until day 3, 17:00 |
| 17:00–18:00 | ILFGA Business Meeting |
| Day 3 • July 24 | Fantone Lecture Hall • Room 109 • Goergen Hall |
| Time | Event |
| 09:30–10:00 | Coffee |
| Workshop: Revisiting Lexical Integrity Chair: Dan Siddiqi |
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| 10:00–10:45 | Alex Alsina F-to-c-structure mapping: accounting for inflectional morphology and periphrasis abstract slides |
| 10:45–11:30 | Oleg Belyaev Ossetic verb morphology in LRFG* abstract slides |
| 11:30–12:15 | Jamie Findlay Lexical integrity is the norm: or, “violating lexical integrity in a specific and limited way” abstract slides |
| 12:15–14:30 | Lunch |
| Final Conference Session Chair: Ash Asudeh |
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| 14:30–15:15 | Tibor Laczkó Control verbs require a modified analysis of verbal modifiers in Hungarian* abstract slides |
| 15:15–16:00 | Chit-Fung Lam Complement control at syntax-semantics-discourse interfaces: An investigation of Mandarin Chinese* abstract slides |
| 16:00–16:45 | Chair: Jamie Findlay Ash Asudeh, Tina Bögel, Daniel Siddiqi Modelling exponents abstract handout |
| 16:45 | Closing remarks/farewell |
| 17:00 | Posters come down |