PROGRAM
Days: Wednesday, September 3rd Thursday, September 4th Friday, September 5th
Wednesday, September 3rd
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09:00-09:30 Session 1
Registration
09:30-11:00 Session 2: AGM
LAGB Annual General Meeting 2025
11:00-13:00 Session 3A
| 11:00 | Animacy and null objects in English (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Subjectless sentences in English: the left edge condition from ELEC to SHLEC (abstract) |
| 12:00 | The irregular complementation of prepositions in English: The case of far from (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Anaphoric and Uniqueness Definites with Bare Singular Count Nouns in English (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 3B
| 11:00 | Object-oriented adverbs and their exo-skeletal derivation (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Decomposing sentence-final particle ma in Mandarin (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Polar particles in English, Mandarin and Yixing (abstract) |
| 12:30 | On-ta-logy: An Analysis of the Non-referential Use of ta in Mandarin Chinese (abstract) |
11:00-13:00 Session 3C: Rhythms of Expression: Intersections of Music and Language across Genres - 1
Special Interest Panel
| 11:00 | Textsetting problems between metrical and musical constraints: The treatment of vowel clusters in sixteenth-century Italian madrigals (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Cruella De Vil, Cruella De Vil. A cross-domain prominence mapping of right-headed constituents in Italian pop songs (abstract) PRESENTER: Davide Di Prete |
| 12:00 | Headless ternary feet. A case of catalexis on the left in Italian pop songs. (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Round Table Discussion - Intersections of Music and Language: Rhythm |
13:00-14:00Lunch Break
14:00-16:00 Session 4A
Literary Linguistics Themed Session
| 14:00 | Irish English in theatre and natural speech: The productive use of salient features in playscripts for grammatical investigations [Themed Session: Literary Linguistics] (abstract) |
| 14:30 | An investigation of Irish accent representation in Rudyard Kipling’s “Three Musketeers” stories General Session (abstract) |
| 15:00 | An Alternative to Suppression: How Mainstream Media Diverts Narratives through Agenda-Setting and Framing (abstract) |
14:00-16:00 Session 4B
| 14:00 | Possibly the structure and interpretation of subclausal modal modifiers (abstract) |
| 14:30 | Ousting labels from the grammar: An analysis of nominals in the novel Label-Less Grammar Model (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Ditransitive Constructions in Baritle Neo-Aramaic (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Syntax of Complex Wh-phrases in The Left Periphery in Bani Malik Asir Arabic (abstract) |
14:00-16:00 Session 4C: Rhythms of Expression: Intersections of Music and Language across Genres - 2
Special Interest Panel, pt2
| 14:00 | A Tonal(ity) Analysis of Zulu (abstract) |
| 14:30 | Reversing Operations in Language Games and Musical Structures (abstract) PRESENTER: Sara Mackenzie |
| 15:00 | Developmental trajectories of music and language acquisition (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Round Table Discussion - Intersections of Music and Language: Pitch |
16:00-16:30Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Session 5: Henry Sweet Lecture - Miriam Butt
Henry Sweet Lecture – Miriam Butt
Thursday, September 4th
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09:00-09:30 Session 6
Registration
09:30-11:00 Session 7A: Pedagogical talks followed by group discussion
| 09:30 | ‘Syntax is the “Boogeyman” of Ling courses’: Student experiences of syntax pedagogy (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Skills-based grading in undergraduate syntax: pedagogy and paperwork (abstract) |
09:30-11:00 Session 7B
| 09:30 | Tracking L2 syntactic and phonological processing among L1 Mandarin speakers during a residence abroad in the UK (abstract) |
| 10:00 | The Impact of Pre-Reading Morphological Instruction on the Acquisition of Syntactically Complex Words (abstract) |
| 10:30 | Source PP-DP alternation: A case for head movement in narrow syntax (abstract) |
11:00-11:30Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Session 8: Language Tutorial 1 - Nina Radkevich
Language Tutorial, pt1
13:00-14:00Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 Session 9A
| 14:00 | Policy vs. Practice: Language of Instruction and Educational Outcomes in Nigerian Primary Schools (abstract) |
| 14:30 | From Policy to Practice: Navigating Inequalities for Minoritised Language Groups under India’s National Education Policy 2020 (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Tone as a Cue for Language Classification (abstract) |
14:00-15:30 Session 9B
| 14:00 | Multimodal Influences on Speaker Perception: Trustworthiness, Comprehensibility, and Accentedness in Raciolinguistic Contexts (abstract) |
| 14:30 | Variation and change in British English dialect syntax: Prepositional wh-questions (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Variation in Present-Day Swahili: Emerging Dialect Areas (abstract) |
14:00-15:30 Session 9C: Gesture Session - 1
Themed Session on Gesture - 1
| 14:00 | Fundamentals of a Formal Theory of Gesture (abstract) |
| 14:30 | On the 'Gesture School' within sign language linguistics: Moving away from the gesture/sign binary (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Some Formal Properties of Gestural Polar Response Markers (abstract) |
15:30-16:00Coffee Break
16:00-18:00 Session 10A: Education Committee Session
LAGB Education Committee Session
| 16:00 | ‘Linguistic issues in the British Sign Language GCSE curriculum’ (abstract) |
| 16:30 | The DfE's Curriculum and Assessment review - delivering a united response (abstract) |
| 17:00 | The National Linguistics Day - Time to think, talk, and learn about the science of language (abstract) |
16:00-18:00 Session 10B: Gesture Session - 2
Themed session on Gesture - 2
| 16:00 | Parasitic licensing in the visual-gestural modality (abstract) |
| 16:30 | A Formal Pragmatics for Co-Speech Interactive Gestures (abstract) |
| 17:00 | What experimental evidence can tell us about homesign creation (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Articulatory properties of emblems in Italo-Romance and signs in Italian Sign Language (abstract) |
Friday, September 5th
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09:30-10:00 Session 11
Registration
10:00-11:30 Session 12: Linguistics Association Lecture - Enoch Aboh
Linguistics Association Lecture - Enoch Aboh
11:30-12:00Coffee Break
12:00-13:00 Session 13: Language Tutorial 2 - Nina Radkevich
Language Tutorial - pt2
13:00-14:00Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 Session 14A
| 14:00 | Eye-Tracking Evidence on the Cognitive Representation of Heritage Language in Bilingual Children (abstract) |
| 14:30 | A Test of the Relation between Wh-Acceptability and Syntactic Surprisals in Recurrent Neural Networks (abstract) |
14:00-15:30 Session 14B
| 14:00 | What’s in a verb class? Towards an evaluation of Manner/Result diagnostics (abstract) |
| 14:30 | The Cycle Continues: Reprising the vP Phase. (abstract) |
14:00-15:30 Session 14C
| 14:00 | Minimally Required Domains: evidence from causative verbs in Portuguese (abstract) |
| 14:30 | Optional Causee in the Argument Structure (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Apparent Syntactic Complexity in Korean Elderly Speech: Reassessing Predicate Ratios through Null Form Reconstruction (abstract) |