Program

 

FRIDAY (March 31st)

Levin Building, SAIL Room 111

425 S University Ave

SATURDAY (April 1st)

3401 Walnut St, Room 401B

(Wing A entrance, on the side of Starbucks)

8:45

Introduction

9:00

Probe-specific locality

Amy Rose Deal

A large-scale test of “d-linking” as a diagnostic of the strong/weak island distinction in English.

Jon Sprouse (zoom)

10:00

Locality considerations in clefts: the role of person features

Cristiano Chesi and Achille Fusco

D-linking vs. lexical restriction: what matters for locality

Cristiano Chesi, Veronica Bressan and Adriana Belletti

10:30

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10:50

Cross-linguistic differences in definiteness effects 

Zheng Shen and Nick Huang (zoom)

Long distance movement in Turkana

Leonie Barabas-Weil

11:20

Effects of uniqueness on extraction from NP objects

Rebecca Tollan, Bahareh Doroudiani and Daphna Heller

Processing dative topics within wh-islands

Juliana Novo Gomes, Pilar Barbosa, Cristina Flores, Maria do Carmo Lourenço-Gomes and Sílvia Araújo (zoom)

11:50

Copular sentences as a window into locality

Davide Mocci, Matteo Greco and Andrea Moro

Individual variation in locality effects: experimental evidence from Spanish wh-islands

Bradley Hoot and Shane Ebert

12:20

LUNCH

LUNCH

1:30

How to succeed at syntactic island acquisition without really trying: Learning about local structure

Lisa Pearl (zoom)

Escape clause: lessons from Zulu on how to get out

Claire Halpert

2:30

Absence of Clausal Islands in Shupamem

Hagay Schurr and Jason Kandybowicz

English hyperraising it seems is mediated by the θ-criterion

Daniel Greeson

3:00

Locality at the interface

Giacomo Presotto

Not all features matter for intervention: Evidence from child Mandarin passives

Minqi Liu, Victoria Mateu and Nina Hyams

3:30

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3:50


Reducing (CP) phasality to minimality effects

Hedde Zeijlstra (zoom)

Panel Discussion

Norbert Hornstein

John Trueswell

Charles Yang

4:20

A theory of structure building in speaking

Shota Momma

5:20

Talks end for the day

Workshop concludes: Thank you!

5:30

Reception and Poster Session

Irvine Auditorium, Cafe 58

3401 Spruce St


Posters:

Whether verbs are placeheld or placeholded in Georgian: An acceptability study

Nino Amiridze and Steven Foley


Epithets in child Italian: locality and anti-logophoricity

Valentina Brunetto


Phasal locality in case assignment: Evidence from Korean nominative object constructions

Juyeon Cho and Rebecca Tollan


Locality effects without locality restrictions

Carolin Tyrchan