Wednesday, 10th of September
2025-09-10 09:30 | Registration |
2025-09-10 10:00 | Welcome |
2025-09-10 10:10 | Invited Talk Upsorn Tawilapakul (Thammasat University) |
2025-09-10 11:10 | Break |
2025-09-10 11:30 | Madeline Ladore (Georg-August Universität Göttingen): From class to category: The development of the mass-count distinction in Asante Twi |
2025-09-10 12:00 | Margaret Asperheim, Johnny Rudolph (University of California, Berkeley): Mass nouns and number agreement in Nukuoro |
2025-09-10 12:30 | Lunch |
2025-09-10 13:30 | Virginia Dawson (Western Washington University): Group kin terms in Tiwa: Non-symmetric reciprocal plurals |
2025-09-10 14:10 | J. Cooper Roberts, Yizhen Jiang, Haoming Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): How to talk about groups in a language without group nouns: The case of Passamaquoddy |
2025-09-10 14:50 | Break |
2025-09-10 15:10 | Carla Bombi (Universität Potsdam), Dinah Adom Mac-Arthur (Georg-August Univeristät Göttingen): Quasi-names in Akan: New semantic fieldwork on definite bare nouns |
2025-09-10 15:50 | Ariela Ye, Aidan Sharma, Jiayuan Chen (Rutgers University): Definiteness and familiarity in Yemba |
2025-09-10 16:30 | Break |
2025-09-10 16:50 | Aidan Sharma (Rutgers University): Magahi determiner spreading |
2025-09-10 17:30 | Ka-Fai Yip, Comfort Ahenkorah (Yale University): Exclusive focus in Akan and type flexibility |
2025-09-10 18:10 | End of Day 1 |
Thursday, 11th of September
2025-09-11 10:00 | Invited Talk John Gluckman (University of Kansas): Manner deixis and complementizers |
2025-09-11 11:00 | Break |
2025-09-11 11:20 | Rong He (Tsinghua University): Mandarin he: Conjunction as scalar implicature |
2025-09-11 11:50 | Sukchan Lee (Seoul National University): Korean -lato as additive free choice |
2025-09-11 12:20 | Lunch |
2025-09-11 13:30 | Minghui Qiu, Xuping Li (Zhejiang University): Approximation via comparison: Mandarin duō in numerical expressions |
2025-09-11 14:10 | Kang Franco Liu (University of California, Berkeley), Huawu Xiang (Shanghai Normal University): Standard-topic comparatives in Northern Tujia |
2025-09-11 14:50 | Break |
2025-09-11 15:10 | Maryam Mohammadi (Bielefeld University), Todor Koev (Ben Gurion University): Association with contrastive topic: Farsi ke and the need for a topic shift |
2025-09-11 15:50 | Rong He, Mingming Liu (Tsinghua University): Fragment questions as contrastive topics over QUD |
2025-09-11 16:30 | Break |
2025-09-11 16:50 | Luis Alonso Ovalle, Martina Martinović, Junko Shimoyama (McGill University): Event relatives in Wolof |
2025-09-11 17:30 | Ryan Walter Smith (Rutgers University): Decomposing memory reports: A Kurdish perspective |
2025-09-11 18:10 | End of Day 2 |
Friday, 12th of September
2025-09-12 10:00 | Invited Talk Norikazu Kogura (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies): Evidentiality and information structure in Sibe (Xibe) |
2025-09-12 11:00 | Break |
2025-09-12 11:20 | Tim Jantarungsee (University College London), Christopher Davis (University of the Ryukyus), Yasutada Sudo (University College London): Selectional restriction in Mlabri ingestion verbs |
2025-09-12 11:50 | Anna Kulikova, Daria Sidorkina (HSE University): Past time reference in a language with not-so-optional tense: The case of Forest Nenets |
2025-09-12 12:20 | Lunch |
2025-09-12 13:30 | Gune Kim, Michael Barrie (Sogang University): The semantics of past tense in Eastern Tamang |
2025-09-12 14:10 | Sihwei Chen, Gan-ling Tan (Academia Sinica): A language with multiple tenses: Evidence from Vernacular Atayalic Japanese |
2025-09-12 14:50 | Break |
2025-09-12 15:100 | Junri Shimada (Meiji Gakuin University), Abdul-Razak Sulemana (University of Ghana): Embedded tenses in Bùlì |
2025-09-12 15:50 | Daria Sidorkina (HSE University): Deriving epistemic modality from inverted negation in Forest Nenets |
2025-09-12 16:30 | Break |
2025-09-12 16:50 | Shweta Akolkar, Uttam Singha (University of California, Berkeley): Asymmetries in the expression of modality in Bishnupriya Manipuri |
2025-09-12 17:30 | Ates Ismail Calisir, Tekla Gabunia (Georg-August Univeristät Göttingen): Performative modality without imperative morphology: The case of Georgian ver |
2025-09-12 18:10 | Business Meeting |