| Day 1 / May 06, 2026 | ||
| 8:00-08:45 | Registration & Coffee, Vestíbulo IIA | |
| 08:45-09:00 | Opening remarks Auditorio Jaime Litvak King |
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| 09:00–10:00 | Keynote 1 Fortis-lenis means nothing: deconstructing the “taxonomic artifacts” Adela Covarrubias Acosta (INAH) Auditorio Jaime Litvak King Chair: Karla Sandoval Handout |
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| 10:00-10:25 | Coffee break, Vestíbulo IIA | |
| Parallel Sessions Handouts |
Salón Alfredo López Austin Chair: Squid Tamar-Mattis |
Salón de Usos Múltiples Chair: Maziar Toosarvandani |
| 10:30–11:00 | Not all subjects are islands: Interacting factors in subject extractions in Spanish Laura Stigliano, Marisol Murujosa, Matias Verdecchia |
“Denominal” Verbs without n: Evidence from Tonal Verbalizer in Nantou Hua Yingyu Su |
| National Earthquake Drill | ||
| 11:30–12:00 | Defaults and Gaps: The Mystery of the Neuter in Lithuanian Luke Adamson, Milena Šereikaitė |
Suppletion as inflection: insights from two endangered languages Adam Singerman, Andrew Nevins, Susana Bejar, Maka Tetradze |
| 12:00–12:30 | Negation with a pseudo-cleft structure in Kaqchikel Sadira Lewis |
An Evolutionary Account of Vowel Syncope in Yine Héctor González Álvarez |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch, Jardín IIA | |
| Parallel Sessions Handouts |
Salón Alfredo López Austin Chair: Grant Goodall |
Salón de Usos Múltiples Chair: Claudia Maienborn |
| 13:30–14:00 | Pied-piping with inversion involves inversion Colin Brown |
Japanese Free Choice Items at the Syntax–Semantics–Phonology Interface Ken Hiraiwa, Kimiko Nakanishi |
| 14:00–14:30 | Escape from Khalkha Mongolian adjuncts Zhiyu Mia Gong,Maziar Toosarvandani |
On the composition of epistemic wh-indefinites: Chuj -xomlaj Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Justin Royer |
| 14:30–15:00 | If you can A-move, you must A-move: ordering of operations in [A/A’] probes Magdalena Lohninger |
A Typological Divide of Wh-in-Situ: Existential Disclosure and Beyond Hong-Yi Wang, Tzong-Hong Jonah Lin |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee break, Vestíbulo IIA | |
| Parallel Sessions Handouts |
Salón Alfredo López Austin Chair: Justin Royer |
Salón de Usos Múltiples Chair: Blake Lehman |
| 15:30–16:00 | Arguments for a biclausal analysis of the Martinican Creole progressive construction Stéphane Térosier |
The Features of a Bishop: A New Approach to Gender in BCS Maša Bešlin, Ruth Kramer |
| 16:00–16:30 | Case co-occurrence constraints are both syntactic and morphological: evidence from Tamang Elise Kim |
Allomorphy and allosemy in Lithuanian P-prefixed zero-nominals Veronika Gvozdovaitė |
| 16:30–17:00 | ¡Minimality sí, phases no! Evidence from COMP-trace and D-linking effects Grant Godall |
Reduplication Targets Stored Representations, Not Surface Forms: Evidence from Tone Cassandra Caragine |
| 17:15–18:45 | Poster session 1, Vestíbulo IIA Handouts |
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| When demonstratives act like definites: The role of focus in Mandarin
Nianpo Su; Helena Aparicio |
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| A Unified Account of Japanese Mo: EVEN Across (Un)conditionals and Beyond
Kimiko Nakanishi |
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| Deep and Morphological Tenselessness: Evidence from Kanien’kéha Conditionals
Terrance Gatchalian; Katya Morgunova |
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| From existential to universal to negative- the Dagbani so
Adelaide Appiah Banafo |
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| Monopolar questions, bipolar questions, and unconmitted assertions
Yitong Luo; Yuyang Liu |
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| Approximating number pairs (ANPs) and what they tell us about numeral Phrases
Xuehuai He |
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| A Single Source Analysis of Comparatives and Superlatives in Japanese
Jun Tamura |
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| Deriving the two-ATOMS reading in Spanish Defective Adjectival Conjuncts (SDAC)
Mariana Itzel Calderón Corona |
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| When absolutive agreement fails: insights from Mam
Noah Elkins |
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| Classifier selection in the Cantonese-English bilingual variety and the role of little n
Pui Yee Yuen |
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| A-movement of non-nominals: Investigating Mandarin VP-fronting
Siming Liu; Zhuosi Luo |
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| An Agreement by Proxy approach to ergative displacement in Basque
Squid Tamar-Mattis |
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| Koasati verbs: subtractive morphology or overt event singularity?
Christine Gu |
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| Two English DON’Ts: Converging Evidence from Historical Syntax and Language Acquisition
Rachel Mangold; William Snyder |
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| A new type of foot: moraic-syllable trochees in Kanien’kéha
Simon LiVolsi |
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| Day 2 / May 07, 2026 | ||
| 09:00–10:00 | Keynote 2 Universal Quantifiers in Chicahuaxtla Triqui Fidel Hernández Mendoza (ENAH) Auditorio Jaime Litvak King Chair: Rafael Herrera Handout |
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| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee break, Vestíbulo IIA | |
| Parallel Sessions Handouts |
Salón Alfredo López Austin Chair: Norvin Richards |
Salón de Usos Múltiples Chair: Ana Laura Arrieta |
| 10:30–11:00 | Reconsidering Animacy Hierarchy Effects in Mayan: Experimental Evidence from Ch’ol Jessica Coon; Stefan Keine; Juan Jesús Vázquez Álvarez; Michael Wagner |
What if and its kin Michela Ippolito; Anastasia Tsilia |
| 11:00–11:30 | Movement and Intervention in the Spanish DP: Double Possessors as DP-internal Clitic Doubling Aarón P. Sánchez |
Exclamatives - a discourse perspective Dag Haug and Daniel Altshuler |
| 11:30–12:00 | An inflectional analysis for optional plural marking Carol Rose Little |
Openness requirements and conditional ‘iffiness’: evidence from Bangla jodi-conditionals Auromita Mitra |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch, Jardín IIA | |
| 13:30–14:30 | Keynote 3 Internally-Headed Relative Clauses in Nuntajɨɨyi: Structure, Interpretation, and Restrictions Wendy Liz Arbey López Márquez (UC Berkeley) Auditorio Jaime Litvak King Chair: Ana Aguilar Handout |
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| 14:30-15:00 | Coffee break, Vestíbulo IIA | |
| Parallel Sessions Handouts |
Salón Alfredo López Austin Chair: Jessica Coon |
Salón de Usos Múltiples Chair: Amy Rose Deal |
| 15:00–15:30 | Limited Nominal Coordination in Igbo: Evidence for NumP Coordination Erin Tirpak |
Deriving possessor ergative: An argument for Agree-based dependent case Chase Boles |
| 15:30–16:00 | What we talk about when we talk about Transfer Roberta D’Alessandro; Joeri Vinke |
At-Issueness Asymmetry and the Boundary between Linguistic and World Knowledge: Evidence from German Discourse Particles
Claudia Maienborn |
| 16:00–16:30 | Long-distance agreement by proxy in Passamaquoddy Norvin Richards |
Which ‘hope’ is a Neg-raiser? Zahra Mirrazi; Ziling Zhu; Luisa Kalvelage; Hedde Zeijlstra |
| 16:45–18:15 | Poster session 2, Vestíbulo IIA Handouts |
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| A causal core to how/why alternations: evidence from Changsha Hua osi
Kate Yangshuying Zhou |
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| Understanding Kazakh Men: Comitatives Revisited
Nofar Rimon |
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| Quantized degrees and the syntax of inner aspect in Ktunaxa
Anne Bertrand |
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| Fake nouns: definite descriptions as minimal variables
Dorothy Ahn |
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| Beyond `three’: The internal syntax and semantics of complex numerical
expressions in Polish
Marcin Wągiel |
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| Interrogative Flip revisited: evidential tense and speaker bias in Korean Long
Negation Polar Questions
Hee Joong Choi |
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| Not on the same page: case of bərə in Marathi
Shaunak Phadnis |
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| The semantics of ky particle in Tundra Nenets
Ekaterina Vostrikova; Petr Kusliy |
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| Sequential probing in conjunct Agreement
Sonal Sinha; Gurujegan Murugesan |
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| High and low negation in Spanish stripping
Laura Stigliano; Carlos Muñoz Perez |
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| Wh-in-situ and scope positions: the case of wh-islands and D-linking in Cantonese
Hugo Pau; Grant Goodall |
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| Prominence, intervention, and attraction in Georgian agreement
Steven Foley; Jérémy Pasquereau; Léa Nash |
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| Northern Vietnamese Negative Particle Questions: A Head-Movement Analysis
Quynh-Giang Dang |
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| Two-*(cl) structures for the price of one-(cl) in spoken Persian
Yasaman Sanei; Gautam Ottur |
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| Adjectival agreement is interpretable: Evidence from summative agreement in
Mexican Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese
Anna Carolina Almeida; Raimundo Cox-Casals; Michael Wagner |
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| Prosodic inversion in Nuntajɨɨyi relative clauses
Wendy L. A. López Márquez; Peter S. E. Jenks |
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| Day 3 / May 08, 2026 | ||
| 09:00–10:00 | Keynote 4 Can I get a witness? A multidimensional account of else in English Jesse Harris (UCLA) Auditorio Jaime Litvak King Chair: Renato García Handout |
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| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee break, Vestíbulo IIA | |
| Parallel Sessions Handouts |
Salón Alfredo López Austin Chair: Raiane Oliveira Salles |
Salón de Usos Múltiples Chair: Mariana Calderón |
| 10:30–11:00 | PCC without weakness: ditransitives in Atchan and beyond Amy Rose Deal; Rebecca Jarvis |
On the (non-) vacuity of the Russian participial present Sam Alxatib; Alexander Podobryaev |
| 11:00–11:30 | Reflexive and impersonal voice in Spanish: A smuggling approach John David Storment; Francisco Ordóñez |
‘When’ equates topic times and never accesses event times Dmitry Privoznov |
| 11:30–12:00 | Sisterhood as a licensing configuration Zeljko Boskovic |
The discourse-sensitive meaning of English ‘already’ and its Paraguayan Guaraní counterpart Emily Knick; Juan Pablo Calvo Huerta; Roumyana Pancheva |
| 12:15–13:45 | Poster session 3, Vestíbulo IIA Handouts |
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| Bare nouns in Magahi: quasi-names or anti-uniqueness?
Aidan Sharma; Jiayuan Chen |
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| A new type of conjectural question: Será in Brazilian Portuguese and
Mexican Spanish
Ana Laura Arrieta Zamudio; Lisa Matthewson; Raiane Oliveira Salles |
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| A syntactic treatment of (non) SOT respecting the form meaning correspondence
Yoshie Awaihara Kigawa; Rosa Junia García-Barragán Córdova |
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| Shifting Identity: the Interaction of phi-features, Honorification and Indexical shift
Tamari Berulava |
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| Reflexive Binding in Mandarin Fragment Answers
Ying Zhang; Shannon Bryant |
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| Tone sandhi as allomorphy with floating tones in Avatime
Blake Lehman |
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