Program & Abstracts

Day 1 (Wednesday, 5 February)

9:00–9:15: Registration
9:15–9:30: Introduction and welcome: Seid Tvica
9:30–10:30: Invited Talk: Ad Neeleman — Type A Coordination as Adjunction
10:30–11:15: Johannes Hein — (A)symmetries in Asante Twi object extraction
11:15–11:35: Coffee break
11:35–12:20: Hedde Zeijlstra — Two varieties of Korean
12:20–14:00: Lunch
14:00–15:00: Invited Talk: Klaus Abels — Word order and learning biases in the cross-linguistic lab
15:00–15:45: Felicia Bisnath — Wh-questions in the Trinidad and Tobago signing community
15:45–16:15: Coffee break
16:15–17:00: Chiara Branchini — Case marking in sign language: the role of modality and parsing
17:00–18:00: Invited Talk: Michelle Sheehan — Deriving an asymmetrical syntax from symmetrical merge
19:00: Conference dinner at L‘Osteria, Göttingen

Day 2 (Thursday, 6 February)

9:30–10:30: Invited Talk: Roland Pfau — What’s shakin’? – On the spreading domain of the negative headshake
10:30–11:15: Evgeniia Khristoforova — HEAD-raising analysis of relative clauses in Russian Sign Language
11:15–11:35: Coffee break
11:35–12:20: Sascha Alexeyenko and Hedde Zeijlstra — (Dis)obeying the Head Final Filter
12:20–14:00: Lunch
14:00–15:00: Invited Talk: Theresa Biberauer — TO BE ADDED
15:00–15:45: Seid Tvica — VSO-VOS alternations in Kaqchikel
15:45–16:45: POSTER SESSION
Neha Kulshreshtha — Wh-questions in Indian Sign Language: Exploring new possibilities
Sina Proske — The Impact of Verb Type on Word Order in DGS
16:45–17:00: Coffee break
17:00–18:00: Invited Talk: Carlo Cecchetto — Co-articulation of independent linguistic units in sign languages