Venue: NUS UTown Stephen Riady Centre Global Learning Room (Level 1)
March 1, 2018 (Thursday)
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Workshop Registration + Coffee |
| 9:00 – 9:20 | Welcome Remarks by Yosuke Sato |
| 9:20 – 10:20
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Plenary Talk #1: Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge) “Beyond word order – and syntax: what we can learn from FOFC” |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 – 11:20 | Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (mitcho) (National University of Singapore) “A syntactic universal in a contact language: The story of Singlish already” |
| 11:20 – 12:00 | Michael Barrie (Sogang University) “The Northern Iroquoian Nominal Phrase and Linguistic Variation” |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Plenary Talk #2: Edith Aldridge (University of Washington) “The extraction restriction across Austronesian languages” |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Poster Session #1 |
| 15:30 – 16:10 | Matthew Reeve (Zhejiang University) “Agreement and extraction from DP/NP” |
| 16:10 – 17:10 | Plenary Talk #3: Željko Bošković (University of Connecticut) “On the Uniformity of the Locality System: Extraction out of Conjuncts, Intervention Effects, and Split IP” |
March 2, 2018 (Friday)
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Workshop Registration + Coffee |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Plenary Talk #4: Jessica Coon (McGill University) “Feature Gluttony and Hierarchy Effects” (joint work with Stefan Keine) |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Coffee Break |
| 10:20 – 11:00 | Theodore Levin (National University of Singapore) “LF determines (non-)interveners: Two case studies in Kaqchikel (Mayan)” |
| 11:00 – 11:40 | Martina Martinović (University of Florida) “On the cross-linguistic variation in sluicing-like constructions: the case of Wolof” |
| 11:40 – 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Plenary Talk #5: Andrew Simpson (University of Southern California) “Phases vs. Cyclic Linearization Spell-Out Domains: two perspectives on cyclicity” |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Poster Session #2 |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Plenary Talk #6: Mark Baker (Rutgers University) “On Rare Linguistic Features and Universal Grammar: Special CP Operator Constructions” |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Roundtable Session: “Current Issues in Comparative Syntax” Chair: Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine and Yosuke Sato |
| 18:00 | Conference Dinner (Satay by the Bay) |