Program
The conference took place the weekend of May 13-15, 2022 on PDT.
A repository of materials from WCCFL 40 talks is available on the conference OSF site.
Some highlights of WCCFL 40
Friday May 13, 2022
8:00am - 8:30am |
Opening remarks |
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Syntax |
Semantics |
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8:30am - 9:00am |
Negative concord, fragments and (Downward) Agree |
The superlative clause hypothesis |
9:00am - 9:30am |
The composite probe hierarchy: Towards a scale of prolepsis and hyperraising |
Honorifics without [HON]: A presuppositional account |
9:30am - 10:00am |
Implicit control, impersonal construals, and the role of PIMPs |
Obligatory de se logophors in Ewe, Yoruba and Igbo: Variation and competition |
10:00am - 10:30am |
Break |
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Plenary |
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10:30am - 11:45am |
Switch reference, discourse coherence and centering |
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11:45am - 12:45pm |
Mid-day social |
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12:45pm - 1:00pm |
Break |
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Syntax |
Special Session: Prosody, focus, and ellipsis |
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1:00pm - 1:30pm |
A'-satisfaction with φ-interaction in Tira |
Pre-DP only is a propositional operator at LF: A new argument from ellipsis |
1:30pm - 2:00pm |
'Again' skipping in Mandarin Chinese: A syntactic approach |
Demonic negation: On the relation between left-peripheral negation, focus, and responsive ellipsis in Modern Irish |
2:00pm - 2:30pm |
Scoping out of relative clauses in Mandarin |
Syntactic alternative projection |
2:30pm - 3:00pm |
Break |
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Syntax |
Ellipsis |
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3:00pm - 3:30pm |
Right node raising and Flexible Cyclic Linearization |
Let alone ellipsis and the case for enduring default focus: A pupillometry study |
3:30pm - 4:00pm |
[-Person] and [+Person] resumption in Igala |
In defense of referential theories of VP-ellipsis |
4:00pm - 4:30pm |
The significance of parasitic gap licensing by pronominal cliticization in Spanish |
British English do-ellipsis is phasal ellipsis |
4:30pm - 5:00pm |
Evening social |
Saturday, May 14
Syntax |
Phonology |
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8:30am - 9:00am | Ari Goertzel (University of Connecticut) |
Typological asymmetries in underapplication opacity: A gestural account Charlie O'Hara (University of Michigan), Caitlin Smith (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) |
9:00am - 9:30am | Michelle Yuan (University of California, San Diego) |
In search of phonetic evidence for prosodically-motivated aspiration McKinley Sprinkle, Anya Hogoboom (William & Mary) |
9:30am - 10:00am |
A result nominalization analysis of the Kaqchikel periphrastic perfect Irina Burukina (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics/Eötvös Loránd University) |
The size of morphemes in Mandarin: Perspectives from tonal UR learning Boer Fu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
10:00am - 10:30am |
Break |
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WCCFL 1 to 40 |
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10:30am - 11:45am | From WCCFL 1 to WCCFL 40 and beyond: Reflections on linguistics and linguists — A conversation between Sandra Chung (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Paul Kiparsky (Stanford University), moderated by Deniz Rudin (University of Southern California) | |
11:45am - 12:45pm |
Mid-day social for students and postdocs |
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12:45pm - 1:00pm |
Break |
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Plenary |
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1:00pm - 2:15pm | Juliet Stanton (New York University) | |
2:15pm - 2:30pm |
Break |
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Syntax |
Semantics |
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2:30pm - 3:00pm | Željko Bošković (University of Connecticut) | Zhuo Chen (Harvard University) |
3:00pm - 3:30pm |
How good are leading theories of bridge verbs? An experimental evaluation Nick Huang (National University of Singapore), Diogo Almeida (New York University Abu Dhabi), Jon Sprouse (New York University Abu Dhabi) |
Floating quantifiers in English and their semantic composition Hideharu Tanaka (Mie University) |
3:30pm - 4:00pm | Zheng Shen, Meghan Lim (National University of Singapore) |
Pre-exhaustification creates multifunctionality: Evidence from Tuvan -daa Ian Kirby (Harvard University) |
4:00pm - 4:30pm |
Evening social |
Sunday, May 15
Morphology |
Semantics |
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8:30am - 9:00am | Johannes Hein, Fabienne Martin, Yining Nie, Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt University of Berlin) |
Modeling progress: Causal models, event types, and the imperfective paradox Prerna Nadathur (University of Konstanz), Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
9:00am - 9:30am | Maria Kouneli (Leipzig University), Paula Fenger (Leipzig University), Jonathan Bobaljik (Harvard University) | Kimberly Johnson (University of Massachusetts Amherst) |
9:30am - 10:00am |
The Role of animacy in gender resolution for three-gendered languages: A feature-geometric approach Luke Adamson (Harvard University), Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete) |
Ranges: Composite measure phrases, cardinality, and modified numerals Adam Gobeski (independent scholar), Marcin Morzycki (University of British Columbia) |
10:00am - 10:30am |
Break |
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Plenary |
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10:30am - 11:45pm | Line Mikkelsen (University of California, Berkeley); joint work with Dan Hardt (Copenhagen Business School) | |
11:45am - 12:00pm |
Break |
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Syntax/Nominals |
Syntax/Movement |
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12:00pm - 12:30pm | Jens Hopperdietzel (University of Manchester), Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt University/Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics) | Álvaro Cortés Rodríguez (University of Tübingen/University of Kassel), James Griffiths (University of Tübingen) |
12:30pm - 1:00pm | Andreas Blümel (University of Göttingen) | Emily Drummond (University of California, Berkeley) |
1:00pm - 1:30pm | Yuriy Kushnir (Leipzig University), Milena Šereikaitė (Yale University) |
Licensing VP movement and ellipsis in Mandarin and Cantonese Tommy Tsz-Ming Lee (University of Southern California), Victor Junnan Pan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Business meeting |
Alternate Speakers
Mismatched number marking in Murrinhpatha as agreement with a subset of features | Elango Kumaran (University of Southern California) |
Again-modification facts favor small clause approaches to the English particle verb construction | Bill Haddican (Queens College, City University of New York) |
Possession without possessives (but with verbs): The view from Äiwoo | Giovanni Roversi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
A compositional semantics for spatial perspective-shifting adjuncts | Karl Mulligan, Kyle Rawlins (Johns Hopkins University) |
Towards a unifying account of tone lowering in Copala Triqui: A case study of possessive constructions | Jamillah Rodriguez (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
On the prosody of contrastive topic and contrastive focus in Mandarin Chinese | Hailin Hao (University of Southern California), Jeannette Schaeffer (University of Amsterdam), Marijn Van'T Veer (University of Amsterdam) |