LAGB 2023: THE LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND ANNUAL CONFERENCE
PROGRAM

Days: Tuesday, August 29th Wednesday, August 30th Thursday, August 31st Friday, September 1st

Tuesday, August 29th

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09:30-10:00 Session 1: Summer School: Welcome and Registration
Location: LAB 005
10:00-11:00 Session 2: Talk 1: Sounds and meaning in constructed languages, Dr Bettina Beinhoff (ARU)
Location: LAB 005
11:00-11:30 Break
Location: LAB 006
11:30-12:30 Session 3: Workshop 1: Academic publishing: One bottle, many necks? Dr. Yuni Kim
Location: LAB 005
12:30-13:00 Session 4: JoULAB presentation: Núria Bosch Masip
Location: LAB 005
13:00-14:00 Lunch
Location: LAB 006
14:00-15:00 Session 5: Deficit, difficulty, difference: alternative perspectives into autistic people's pragmatic skills, Prof Napoleon Katsos (Cambridge)
Location: LAB 005
15:00-15:15 Break
15:15-16:15 Session 6: Workshop 2: Formulating and Testing Hypotheses in Historical Syntax, Dr Krishnan J. Ram-Prasad (Oxford)
Location: LAB 005
16:15-16:45 Break
Location: LAB 006
16:45-17:45 Session 7: Talk 3: Prof Elena Anagnostopoulou (Crete)
Location: LAB 005
17:45-18:30 Informal social gathering
Location: LAB 005
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
Thursday, August 31st

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09:00-11:00 Session 10A
Chair:
Beth Cole (Newcastle University, UK)
Location: LAB 002
09:00
Setayesh Dashti (University of Oxford, UK)
Historical linguistics and discovery procedure: on the distribution of relativization patterns in Old Avestan
09:30
Liliane Haegeman (Ghent University, DiaLing, Belgium)
Grammar lost in translation: a garden path in Christie’s Murder is Easy
10:00
Gemma McCarley (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Accounting for Orality in the Diachronic Study of Null Subject Use across Latin American Spanish
09:00-11:00 Session 10B
Chair:
Tom Williamson (University of the West of England and Southmead Hospital, UK)
Location: LAB 003
09:00
Yiwei Si (University of Oxford, UK)
Doch as a Hidden Hurdle to Finiteness Realization in German L1 Acquisition
09:30
Nadya Izzaamiouine (Bonn Universität, Germany)
Learning and acquiring intercultural communicative competence and its relationship with English as a foreign language
10:00
Núria Bosch (University of Cambridge, UK)
Acquiring (illocutionary) complementisers: preliminary insights from child Catalan and Spanish, and beyond
10:30
Johannes Heim (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Acquisitional trajectories of North American vs British English tags
09:00-11:00 Session 10C
Chair:
Gianluca Porta (Ulster University, Ireland)
Location: LAB 109
09:00
Yi Liu (Aston University, UK)
Kook-Hee Gil (Univesity of Sheffield, UK)
George Tsoulas (University of York, UK)
Mandarin Chinese plurals: an experimental investigation
09:30
Victoria Noble (University of York, UK)
Flavours of Plurality and Division
10:00
Aya Zarka (McMaster University & Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Aviya Hacohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Counting on individuation: The effect of noun-type on Differential Object Marking in Levantine Arabic
11:00-11:30 Break
Location: LAB 006
11:30-13:00 Language Tutorial (2/2): Modern Uyghur by Yasu Sudo, Pietro Baggio and Tom Meadows
Chair:
Jenny Amos (University of Suffolk, UK)
Location: LAB 109
13:00-14:00 Lunch
Location: LAB 006
14:00-16:00 Session 11A
Chair:
Robert Truswell (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Location: LAB 002
14:00
Setayesh Dashti (University of Oxford, UK)
Daniel Altshuler (University of Oxford, UK)
The Interruption Puzzle with the Persian Imperfective
14:30
Norman Yeo (University of York, UK)
Colliding grammars: Experiential aspect in Colloquial Singapore English
15:00
Glyn Hicks (University of Southampton, UK)
Laura Dominguez (University of Southampton, UK)
E Jamieson (University of Southampton, UK)
Monika Schmid (University of York, UK)
L1 grammatical attrition in late Spanish/English bilinguals in the UK: Aspect in Spanish
15:30
Yi Liu (Aston University, UK)
Thomas Hammond (University of Sheffield, UK)
Epicene pronouns in L2 writing: antecedent individuation and L1 transfer
14:00-16:00 Session 11B: Sociolinguistic Typology: Advances and Challenges
Location: LAB 003
14:00
George Walkden (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Sociolinguistic typology beyond morphology
14:30
John Hutchinson (University of Surrey, UK)
When More Morphology Means Less Complexity (for Sociolinguistic Typology: Advances and Challenges)
15:00
Raquel Montero Estebaranz (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Internal and External Causes of Change: A Diachronic Corpus Study of Mood Variation
15:30
Adam Schembri (University of Birmingham, UK)
Felicia Bisnath (University of Michigan, United States)
Neil Fox (University of Birmingham, UK)
Marah Jaraisy (University of Birmingham, UK)
Hannah Lutzenberger (University of Birmingham, UK)
Katie Mudd (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Heidi Proctor (University of Birmingham, UK)
Arjun Shrestha (University of Birmingham, UK)
Rose Stamp (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Sociolinguistic typology and signed languages: the SignMorph Project
16:00-16:30 Break
Location: LAB 006
16:30-18:00 Session 12A: Education Committee Session
Location: LAB 002
16:30
Itamar Kastner (University of Edinburgh, UK)
A collaborative, ungraded course in morphology
17:00
Zara Fahim (University of Cambridge, UK)
Bridging the gap between community languages and modern foreign languages attitudes and uptake amongst underrepresented students in schools: Linguistics as a tool for change?
16:30-18:00 Session 12B
Chair:
Gianluca Porta (Ulster University, Ireland)
Location: LAB 003
16:30
Shiyang Fu (University of York, UK)
Rethinking Parallelism in Across-The-Board Extractions
17:00
Danny Bate (The University of Edinburgh, UK)
The (Surprisingly) Simple Syntax of the Old Irish Clause
17:30
Lulu Guo (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Asymmetrical ellipses of the complex A-not-A constructions in Mandarin Chinese
18:00-20:00 Conference Dinner
Friday, September 1st

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09:00-11:00 Session 13A
Chair:
Robert Truswell (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Location: LAB 002
09:00
Alison Biggs (McMaster University, Canada)
David Embick (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
On the interpretation and structure of English stative passives
09:30
Vean Al-Saka (Newcastle University, UK)
Differential Object Marking: A case study of Baritle Neo-Aramaic
10:00
Itamar Kastner (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Fabienne Martin (Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
Florian Schäfer (Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
The lexical pragmatics of French anticausative and reflexive se
10:30
Avelino Corral Esteban (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
Light verb constructions in Scottish Gaelic
09:00-11:00 Session 13B
Chair:
Gemma Harvey (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)
Location: LAB 003
09:00
Martin Everaert (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Anne-France Pinget (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Language and Identity: Dutch spoken by Eurasians in Indonesia
09:30
Yunzhu Chen (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Hazel Pearson (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
“Children can take their father's surname or their mother's surname”- a linguistic investigation of a controversial legal case in China
10:00
Edward Göbbel (University of Wuppertal, Germany)
Heavy NP shift in English: Phonological solutions
10:30
Elisabeth Norcliffe (University of Oxford, UK)
Asifa Majid (University of Oxford, UK)
Cross-linguistic regularities in perception verb lexicons
11:00-11:30 Break
Location: LAB 006
11:30-13:30 Annual General Meeting (AGM)
Location: LAB 109
13:30-14:30 Lunch
Location: LAB 006
14:30-16:30 Session 14A
Chair:
Andrew Nevins (University College London, UK)
Location: LAB 002
14:30
Qiuhao Charles Yan (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Tom Meadows (Quuen Mary University of London, UK)
Decomposing Resultative De in Mandarin Verb Doubling Construction
15:00
Wenkai Tay (University College London, UK)
Compound vs phrasal resultatives: the view from Mandarin Chinese
15:30
Youngjin Kim (University College London, UK)
The subject of a stative object experiencer verb is intensional
16:00
Ryan Walter Smith (The University of Manchester, UK)
Josep Ausensi (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain)
Jianrong Yu (KU Leuven, Belgium)
A process semantics for non-selected subject resultatives in English
14:30-16:30 Session 14B
Chair:
Jonathan Kasstan (University of Westminster, UK)
Location: LAB 003
14:30
Baraah Alduneibat (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
The development of superheavy syllables in Jordanian child speech: acoustic and computational analyses
15:00
Hans-Martin Gaertner (NYTK Budapest & IAWDS, Hungary)
Beáta Gyuris (NYTK Budapest & ELTE, Hungary)
Cecília Molnár (NYTK Budapest, Hungary)
Whence and Whither (Inter)Subjectivity? The Case of Hungarian 'Ugye'
15:30
Bettina Spreng (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Functional domains in a polysynthetic language
16:00
Giuliano Castagna (Beijing Normal University Zhuhai, China)
Suhail Al-Amri (Sadh, Dhofar, Oman, Oman)
Obsolescent Morphological Classes in Jibbali/Shehret: a Comparative Overview
14:30-16:30 Session 14C: Race and Social Justice Committee Meeting (Open Session)

All are welcome to attend. 

Location: LAB 109
16:30-17:00 Break
Location: LAB 006
17:00-18:30 Linguistics Association Lecture by Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete)

Title: Gender markedness and coordination resolution: Capturing variation across three-gendered language (joint work with Luke Adamson, Leibniz ZAS Berlin )

Location: LAB 002