Program

Talks marked * will be presented on Zoom.
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Day 0 • July 21	Humanities Center Conference Room D Room 202 • Rush Rhees Library
Time	Event
09:00–14:00	ParGram Meeting Coffee 9:00–9:15 · Miriam Butt Intro and updates on XLE 9:15–10:00 · Mark-Matthias Zymla XLE and Glue Semantics, new developments 10:00–10:45 · Tafseer Ahmed UD to LFG conversion 10:45 – 11:00 · Coffee 11:00–11:45 · Alexandra Fiotaki Greek grammar 11:45–12:30 · Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha Irish grammar 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 Contact lfg23@rochester.edu for the passcode.
15:00–17:00+	Pre-Conference Outing We 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
10:00–11:00	Invited Talk William Foley Case and person in the direct-inverse agreement system of Yimas slides 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 object_θ 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, object_θ 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
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
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
14:00–15:00	Invited Talk George Aaron Broadwell The trees and the roots: The role of syntacticians in language documentation slides 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 Persian perception verbs abstract poster handout Veronica Burrage Compositionality of serial verbs in LFG abstract poster Frances Dowle Lexical sharing and syntactic change: A case study of complementizer-verb interactions in Welsh abstract poster Helge Lødrup Pseudopassives as complex predicates: A Scandinavian perspective abstract poster handout Songfolo Lacina Silué An LFG-account of the grammar of reported speech in Kafire (Senufo, Côte d’Ivoire) abstract poster Chihiro Taguchi Japanese gapless relativization: The syntax-prosody interface to semantics abstract poster 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
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 L_RFG* 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
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*