Program

Thursday 12 December 2024, room 7118 (talks) & across from room 6212 (registration & coffee)
9:30 10:00 Registration & coffee
10:00 11:00 Invited speaker: Luke Adamson (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft) Gender, nominalizing heads, and locality
11:00 11:20 Coffee break
11:20 11:50 Melle Groen (University of Tübingen) ‘Pseudo-nominalization’ in Distributed Morphology and Nanosyntax
11:50 12:20
Yanjie Hu (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
“Fuzzy” roots in syntax and a fully contextual account to coordination
12:20 12:50 Núria Bosch (University of Cambridge) and Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge, University of Stellenbosch, University of Western Cape, CRISSP/KU Leuven) Categorial Acquisition by Differentiation: the acquisition of the left periphery and implications for categorisation
12:50 14:20 Lunch
14:20 14:50 Alison Biggs (McMaster University) and David Embick (University of Pennsylvania) Category in participles: English stative and eventive passives
14:50 15:20 Predrag Kovačević (University of Novi Sad) and Marko Simonovic (University of Graz) Severing affixes from categories and borrowed derivations
15:20 15:40 Coffee break
15:40 16:10 Heidi Klockmann (Agder University) Category gradience in a feature-based generative approach: English pseudopartitives
16:10 16:40 Antonio Fábregas (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and Rafael Marín (CNRS/Université de Lille)  Telicity does not match countability, but dynamicity does
19:00 Conference dinner
Friday 13 December 2024, room 7118 (talks) & across from room 6212 (coffee breaks)
9:30 10:00 Coffee
10:00 11:00
Invited speaker: Laura Grestenberger (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Categorizing morphology: the view from diachrony
11:00 11:20 Coffee break
11:20 11:50 Marko Simonovic, Stefan Milosavljević and Boban Arsenijević (University of Graz) There is no such thing as a verbal derivational affix
11:50 12:20 Andreas Blümel (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin/University of Göttingen) and Hedde Zeijlstra (University of Göttingen) On the absence of agglutinative root categorizers
12:20 12:50 Petra Sleeman (University of Amsterdam) Exocentric compounds in French: an analysis without null categorizers
12:50 14:20 Lunch
14:20 14:50 Sjef Barbiers (Leiden University) and Irina Morozova (Leiden University) On the Category and Morphosyntax of Numerals
14:50 15:20 Joanna Wall (University College Roosevelt/Utrecht University) Ousting lexical categories from both the lexicon and syntax: A label-less approach to English plurals and present tense
15:20 15:50 Antonio Fábregas (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Towards a predictive theory of concord across categories
15:50 16:10 Coffee break
16:10 17:10
Invited speaker: Bartosz Wiland (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Polish verb roots and their affixes: an insight from inflection allomorphy