LAGB 2023: THE LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND ANNUAL CONFERENCE
PROGRAM FOR WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30TH
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09:00-09:30 LAGB 2023: Registration
Location: LAB Foyer
09:30-10:00 Welcome and opening ceremony
Location: LAB 002
10:00-11:30 Session 8A
Chair:
George Tsoulas (University of York, UK)
Location: LAB 002
10:00
Liliane Haegeman (Ghent University, Belgium)
Rebecca Woods (Newcastle University, UK)
Interrogative clauses that don’t interrogate: the interpretation and the syntax of the West Flemish discourse particle 'kwestje'
10:30
Harper McCarley (University of York, UK)
A cross-linguistic investigation into the syntax of unmarked tense
11:00
Seiki Ayano (Mie University, Japan)
Size and finiteness of controlled koto-clauses in Japanese (TALK CANCELLED)
10:00-11:30 Session 8B
Chair:
Muhja Al-Hadi (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)
Location: LAB 003
10:00
Silvia Terenghi (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Demonstratives in space and discourse: A unified account
10:30
Lu Jin (University of York, UK)
Syntax-Semantics Mismatch: A hidden Meaning in Chinese Aggregate Classifiers (Best Student Abstract Winner)
11:00
Martin Everaert (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Idioms (in syntax and morphology) and the status of the Encyclopaedia
11:30-12:00 Break
Location: LAB 006
12:00-13:30 Language Tutorial (1/2): Modern Uyghur by Yasu Sudo, Pietro Baggio and Tom Meadows
Chair:
Yuni Kim (University of Surrey, UK)
Location: LAB 109
13:30-14:30 Lunch
Location: LAB 006
14:30-16:00 Session 9A
Chair:
Andrew Nevins (University College London, UK)
Location: LAB 002
14:30
Nathan Hill (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Marieke Meelen (University of Cambridge, UK)
From co-reference to evidentiality: how syntax, semantics and information structure interact to create a new grammatical feature
15:00
Scott Anderbois (Brown University, United States)
Daniel Altshuler (University of Oxford, UK)
A coherence-based theory of switch reference
14:30-16:00 Session 9B
Chair:
Nevena Klobucar (Ulster University, Ireland)
Location: LAB 003
14:30
Julia Bacskai-Atkari (University of Amsterdam / University of Potsdam, Germany)
Irish English resumptive pronouns and Celtic contact: Implications on agreement and movement in relative clauses
15:00
Frances Dowle (University of Oxford, UK)
Lessons from an LFG Model of Welsh Agreement
15:30
Anna Paradís (University of Oxford, UK)
Marc Olivier (University of Oxford, UK)
The many faces of particles: exploring clause size in Romance
14:30-16:00 Session 9C: Contrastive Focalisation: Challenges and Solutions
Location: LAB 109
14:30
Vieri Samek-Lodovici (University College London, UK)
Corrective Focus in Italian Interrogative Clauses
15:00
Krishnan Ram-Prasad (University of Oxford, UK)
Contrasts, Conditions and Correlatives in Hittite
15:30
Fangning Ren (University of Cambridge, UK)
Mirativity and embeddability: the case of Mandarin Chinese
16:00-16:30 Break
Location: LAB 006
16:30-18:00 Henry Sweet Lecture by Shelome Gooden (University of Pittsburgh)
Chair:
George Tsoulas (University of York, UK)
Location: LAB 002
18:00-19:00 Canapés and drinks reception (supported by Cambridge University Press)
Location: LAB 006