Program

Thursday 30 October 2025, room 6303
09:00 09:30 Registration & coffee
09:30 10:30 Invited speaker: Karen De Clercq (CNRS/LLF/Université Paris Cité) Even high negation is born low
10:30 11:00 Break
11:00 11:30 Nataliya Shvets (Masaryk University) The Present Tense of Ukrainian verbs
11:30 12:00 Lukáš Žoha (Masaryk University) A Cross-Slavic Study of Number and Case: Containment in Pseudo-Partitive and Counting Phrases
12:00 12:30 Luca Molinari (University of Wrocław) The grammaticalization of ‘one’ through the lens of Nanosyntax: a first try
12:30 14:00 Lunch
14:00 14:30 Tommaso Mattiuzzi (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main) & Francesco Pinzin (Università degli Studi di Padova) Word-order information in the lexicon
14:30 15:00 Ömer Tabak (Boğaziçi University) & Ömer Demirok (Boğaziçi University) Growing Prefixes: Evidence from Sauzini
15:00 15:30 Bartosz Wiland (Adam Mickiewicz University) ‘Pre’ and ‘post’ marking in Nanosyntax: the case of a prepositional dative in a dialectal Polish
15:30 16:00 Break
16:00 16:30 Aleksandr Sergienko (Université Paris Cité & Masaryk University) A NaNo perspective on negative allomorphy in Shughni
16:30 17:00 Paolo Cassina (École Normale Supérieure) & Karen De Clercq (CNRS/LLF/Université Paris Cité) A Nanosyntactic Account of three strategies for Sentence Negation in Palestinian Arabic
19:00 Conference dinner
Friday 31 October 2025, room 6303
09:00 09:30 Coffee
09:30 10:30 Invited speaker: Fenna Bersgma (Fryske Akademy) Case competition in headless relatives
10:30 11:00 Break
11:00 11:30 Marcin Wągiel (Masaryk University) Combining numbers, classifier semantics and ϕ-features in Czech complex numerical expressions
11:30 12:00 Anne-Li Demonie (Masaryk University) & Pamela Goryczka (University of Vienna) Unmarked feminine, marked masculine: Gender twists in Germanic languages
12:00 12:30 Thayse Ferreira (Federal University of Paraná) & Julio Barbosa (State University of Paraná) “If you go, you move somewhere”: on the distribution of spatial prepositions and the constraints on directed motion events in Brazilian Portuguese
12:30 14:00 Lunch
14:00 14:30 Ömer Tabak (Boğaziçi University) & Pavel Caha (Masaryk University) Decomposing Deadjectival Verbs in Turkish
14:30 15:00 Carmen-Florina Savu (UiT The Arctic University of Norway) The gauntlet of hooks: a nanosyntactic analysis of Hindi/Urdu split ergativity
15:00 16:00 Poster session

  1. Meg Smith (Fryske Akademy & Universiteit van Amsterdam)
  2. Bomi Shin (Sogang University) & Inkie Chung (Sogang University)
  3. Molly Rolf (Universität Konstanz)
  4. Alberto Valiera (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
 

  1. Preposition or Prefix: to- in Old West Frisian
  2. The locus of the [humble] feature in first-person pronouns in Korean
  3. Evidence from diachronic corpus data of the KP functional sequence
  4. A Nanosyntactic Account for Negative Spread in Colloquial French
16:00 16:30 Michal Starke (Masaryk University) & Edoardo Cavirani (Masaryk University) Closing Remarks: The day Nanosyntax ate phases