Friday, January 26 [download pdf]
| 8:00 | Breakfast & Registration The Vest Student Street (outside 32-123/141) |
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| 9:00 | That-trace effects: insights from Igbo Doreen Georgi [slides] (32-123) |
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| 10:00 | Break | |
| Session 1 (32-141) chair: Hani Na'eem |
Session 2 (32-155) chair: Vincent Rouillard |
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| 10:30 | The Learnability of Syntax Islands Annika Heuser, Hector Vazquez Martinez & Charles Yang |
Covert reciprocals Jad Wehbe [handout] |
| 11:00 | Size matters: clause structure and selective opacity in Swahili relatives Tom Meadows [handout] |
What makes a plurality sentient?: grouphood as the structure of number in Ktunaxa Rose Underhill |
| 11:30 | Syntactic ergativity without inversion in Kalaallisut Amy Rose Deal, Line Mikkelsen & Ellen Thrane [handout] |
Higher order quantification outside questions: the case of free relatives Luis Alonso-Ovalle [slides] |
| 12:00 | Lunch (on your own!) | |
| 1:30 | What agrees, why and how? Austronesian-type voice and its variation beyond Austronesian Victoria Chen [handout] (32-123) |
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| Special Session: Austronesian Languages (32-141) chair: Giovanni Roversi |
Session 3 (32-155) chair: Bergül Soykan |
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| 2:30 | The Malayic verbal phase and Cyclic Linearization Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine & Carly J. Sommerlot [handout] |
On the monotonicity of attitudes: NPIs and clausal embedding Tanya Bondarenko & Patrick Elliott [handout] |
| 3:00 | Adverb order with still Aviv Schoenfeld, Moshe E. Bar-Lev & Roni Katzir [slides] |
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| 3:30 | Break | |
| 4:00 | Recalling adjective-noun order in Tagalog is sensitive to phonological markedness constraints Jed Sam Pizarro-Guevara, Alessa Farinella, John Michael De Pano & Patricia Asuncion |
Before and after decomposing first and last Johanna Alstott [slides] |
| 4:30 | How to be a word in Atara Imere Adam Chong & Coppe van Urk |
Fake mass nouns and associative plurality Yağmur Sağ |
| 5:00 | Break (and walk to MIT museum) | |
| 6:00-7:00 | Poster Session A | bar + hors d'œuvres MIT Museum |
| 7:00-8:00 | Poster Session B | |
