Tuesday, March 27 — workshops 1 and 2

Workshop 1 The timing of grammar: experimental and theoretical considerations Room S13 08:50–09:00 Welcome and announcements 09:00–10:00 Keynote speaker Patrick Sturt (University of Edinburgh) The timing of dependency formation: state of the art and future challenges. 10:00–10:30 Coffee break 10:30–11:00 Arnout Koornneef & Eric Reuland Grammar and processing economy 11:00–11:30 Dave Kush On-line use of relational structural information in processing anaphora: evidence from English and Hindi 11:30–12:00 Kaili Clackson, Vera Heyer & Harald Clahsen Online application of binding principles A and B: evidence from eye movements during listening. 12:00–13:00 Lunch break 13:00–14:00 Poster session (in foyer) Sofiana Chiriacescu: Focusing on indefinite noun phrases in German and English: consequences of reference form on subsequent discourse. Charles Lin: Typological perspectives on relative clause processing: thematic mapping, case markedness, filler-gap integrations, and their relative timing. Sophia Manika, Sergey Avrutin & Eric Reuland: The bits of dependencies. Bart Hollebrandse, Petra Hendriks & Jacolien van Rij: Eye gaze patterns reveal subtle discourse effects on object pronoun resolution. Laura Kertz: Referential processing influences the resolution of verbal anaphors. Megan Sutton, Michael Fetters & Jeffrey Lidz: Parsing for Principle C at 30 months. Jana Häussler & Markus Bader: When Maria is considered to be he: gender mismatch effects during pronoun resolution. 14:00–14:30 Umesh Patil, Shravan Vasishth & Richard Lewis Early effect of retrieval interference on reflexive binding. 14:30–15:00 Ian Cunnings & Patrick Sturt The time-course of reference resolution in picture noun phrases: evidence from eye movements during reading 15:00–15:30 Clare Patterson & Claudia Felser Syntactic constraints on the processing of pronouns 15:30–16:00 Coffee break 16:00–16:30 Shevaun Lewis & Wing Yee Chow Structural constraints on pronoun resolution: distinguishing early and late sensitivity to illicit antecedents. 16:30–17:00 Daniel Parker & Sol Lago Retrieval interference in the resolution of anaphoric PRO 17:00–17:30 Leticia Pablos, Bobby Ruijgrok, Jenny Doetjes & Lisa Cheng Processing cataphoric pronouns in Dutch: an ERP study 17:30–18:00 Tea break 18:00–18:30 Matthew Wagers, Manuel Borja & Sandra Chung Wh- agreement and the timing of unbounded dependency formation: a Chamorro perspective on incrementality and accuracy in language comprehension. 18:30–19:00 Bruno Nicenboim Processing Complex NP islands in Hebrew.

Workshop 2 Production and perception of prosodically-encoded information structure Room S14 09:00–09:15 Welcome and announcements 09:15–10:00 Stefan Baumann Types of secondary prominence and their relation to Information Structure. [abstract] [handout] 10:00–10:30 Coffee break 10:30–11:15 Jason Bishop Information Structure, prosodic prominence, and individual differences: evidence from online processing. [abstract] [slides] 11:15–12:00 Peng Zhou, Stephen Crain & Likan Zhan Children's pragmatic use of prosody in sentence processing. [abstract] [slides] 12:00–13:00 Lunch break 13:00–14:00 Poster session (in foyer) 14:00–14:45 Alexandre Delfino, Maria Luiza Cunha Lima & Pablo Arantes Prosodic marking of referential status in Brazilian Portuguese. [abstract] [slides] 14:45–15:30 Tania Leal Méndez & Christine Shea L1 and L2 Mexican Spanish and Information Structure: P-movement or in-situ prosody? [abstract] 15:30–16:00 Coffee break 16:00–16:45 Summary and discussion [slides]

Wednesday, March 28 — main colloquium, day 1 Auditorium H03

08:00–09:00	Registration (foyer)
09:00–09:15	Welcome and announcements (Manfred Bierwisch)
	Session 1 Chair: Gisbert Fanselow
09:15–10:15	Uli Sauerland (ZAS) & Jonathan Bobaljik (UConn) Syncretism distribution modeling and person paradigms.
10:15–11:15	Iain Giblin (MIT) Long distance anaphora in Mandarin, the PCC, and Cyclic Agree.
11:15–11:30	Coffee break
11:30–12:30	Poster session (foyer) Mohamed Lahrouchi (CNRS/Paris 8): Phasal spell out and the glide: high vowel alternation in Berber. Peter Svenonius (Tromsø/CASTL): North Sámi pronouns. Jacopo Torregrossa (Verona): Encoding contrast at PF. Bethany Lochbihler (McGill): Final and non-final phase status. Kristine Bentzen & Merete Anderssen (Tromsø/CASTL): Discourse effects on the availability of Object Shift. Laura Kalin (UCLA) & Coppe van Urk (MIT): A novel aspect split in Senaya. Ad Neeleman & Hans van de Koot (UCL): The linguistic expression of causation.
12:30–13:30	Lunch break
	Session 2 Chair: Frank Kügler
13:30–14:30	Antje Lahne (Konstanz) Locality in agreement: a new approach.
14:30–15:30	Yanyan Sui (UPenn) Metrical structure prominence vs. perceived prominence in Standard Chinese
15:30–15:45	Coffee break
	Session 3 Chair: Sabine Zerbian
15:45–16:45	Ewan Dunbar (Maryland), Brian Dillon (UMass) & William Idsardi (Maryland) Learning phonetic categories by learning allophony and vice versa.
16:45–17:45	Roberta D'Alessandro & Marc van Oostendorp (Leiden) Cyclic syntax mirrors cyclic phonology: Southern Italian vocatives in context

Thursday, March 29 — main colloquium, day 2 Auditorium H03

	Session 4 Chair: Marta Wierzba
09:00–10:00	Anke Assmann, Doreen Georgi, Fabian Heck, Gereon Müller & Philipp Weisser (Leipzig) Ergatives move too early.
10:00–11:00	Ivona Kucerova (McMaster) Case independence and split ergativity: towards a unified account of Case assignment.
11:00–11:15	Coffee break
11:15–12:15	Poster session (foyer) Marta Abrusan (Göttingen) & Kriszta Szendrői (UCL): Experimenting with the King of France: topics, verifiability, and definite descriptions. Timothy Leffel (NYU) Non-restrictive adjectives and the theory of scalar implicature. Michael Freedman (Yale): Contextual disambiguation of "have"-sentences. Stavroula Alexandropoulou & Bert Le Bruyn (Utrecht): Inalienable possession: a semantic/pragmatic take. Francesca Foppolo, Marco Marelli (Milano-Bicocca), Luisa Meroni, & Andrea Gualmini (Utrecht): Parsing semantic ambiguity: strategies and commitments. Lucas Champollion (Tübingen): Temporal dependencies: anaphora vs. movement. Rebekah Baglini (Chicago): Reduced clausal structure in comparatives: evidence from Wolof.
12:15–13:15	Lunch break
	Session 5 Chair: Luis Vicente
13:15–14:15	Claire Halpert (MIT) Structural Case and the nature of vP in Zulu.
14:15–15:15	Masaya Yoshida (Northwestern), Chizuru Nakao (Daito Bunka) & Iván Ortega-Santos (Memphis) On ellipsis structures involving a wh-remnant and a non-wh-remnant simultaneously.
15:15–15:30	Coffee break
	Session 6 Chair: Craig Thiersch
15:30–16:30	Andreas Blümel (Frankfurt) Successive-cyclic movement as intermediate labelling indeterminacies.
16:30–17:30	Hadas Kotek (MIT) Wh- fronting in a two-probe system.
17:30–18:30	Business meeting
19:00–03:00	Dinner and party at "Die Fabrik"

Friday, March 30 — main colloquium, day 3 Auditorium H03

	Session 7 Chair: Anja Kleemann-Krämer
09:00–10:00	Stephen Wechsler's talk has been cancelled.
10:00–11:00	Artemis Alexiadou (Stuttgart) & Elena Anagnostopoulou (Crete) Verb meaning, local context, and the syntax of roots in alternations.
11:00–12:00	Kriszta Szendrői (UCL) Blocking quantifier raising by passives.
12:00–13:15	Lunch break
	Session 8 Chair: Mira Grubic
13:15–14:15	Valentina Bianchi (Siena) & Mara Frascarelli (Roma III) How to be rooted in a context.
14:15–15:15	Bronwyn M. Bjorkman (Northwestern) & Claire Halpert (MIT) In search of (im)perfection: the illusion of counterfactual aspect.
15:15–15:45	Coffee break
	Session 9 Chair: Malte Zimmermann
15:45–16:45	Luisa Meroni & Andrea Gualmini (Utrecht) Do you know all SI? I know some. Context-dependence of children's computation of SIs.
16:45–17:45	Ezra Keshet (Michigan) Scopal effects of embedded coherence relations
17:45–18:00	Thanks and goodbye

Saturday, March 31 — workshops 3 and 4

Workshop 3 Empty categories: are there any? Room S13 08:50–09:00 Welcome and announcements 09:00–10:00 Keynote speaker Ad Neeleman & Klaus Abels (UCL) "e" 10:00–11:00 Tim Hunter & Robert Frank Eliminating rightward movement: extraposition as flexible linearization of adjuncts 11:00–11:15 Coffee break 11:15–12:15 Anke Assmann & Fabian Heck Opaque intervention in German scrambling 12:15–13:45 Lunch break 13:45–14:15 Artemis Alexiadou & Florian Schäfer Naturally reflexive verbs revisited 14:45–15:45 Rita Manzini & Anna Roussou Empty categories: empty operators and variables at the LF interface 15:45–16:00 Coffee break 16:00–17:00 Terje Lohndal & Bridget Samuels On how null elements and unpronounced copies are different 17:00–18:00 Hsu-Te Cheng Ellipsis: its correlates with phase and movements 18:00 End of the workshop Alternates Chris Laterza: Gaps with silence. Coppe van Urk: On the nature of control.

Workshop 4 Association with focus Room S14 09:00–09:15 Welcome & opening remarks 09:15–10:15 Keynote speaker David Beaver (U. Texas, Austin) IT Constructions 10:15–11:00 Elizabeth Coppock & David Beaver NPI licensing by exceptives: just scope could ever explain it. 11:00–11:15 Coffee break 11:15–12:00 Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine Association with traces and the copy theory of movement. 12:00–13:30 Lunch break 13:30–14:15 Satoshi Tomioka Focus matters in Neo-Hamblin semantics. 14:15–15:00 Daniel Gutzmann & Katharina Hartmann Dissociating verum from focus. 15:00–15:45 Noah Constant Topic abstraction as the source for nested alternatives: a conservative semantics for contrastive topic. 15:45–16:00 Coffee break 16:00–16:45 Luka Crnic Scalar particles and competition. 16:45–17:30 Yael Greenberg & Keren Khrizman Bixlal: a general strengthening operator in Hebrew. 17:30–18:15 Barbara Tomaszewicz A family of exclusives in Polish. 18:15–19:00 Closing remarks 19:00 End of the workshop