NELS 56 at NYU

Poster session

NB: All events take place at the NYU Silver Center (31 Washington Place).
Session 1: Friday, October 17, 4:15–5:45pm, Hemmerdinger
Split ergativity isn’t always epiphenomenal [abstract]
Rodrigo Ranero, Justin Royer
Restricting ignorance [abstract]
Matthew Ganquan Shi
Escape hatches are phase edges, but not all phase edges are escape hatches [abstract]
Gautam Ottur, Lieke Hendriks
Resumptive pronouns are grammatical in English [abstract]
Yourdanis Sedarous and Savithry Namboodiripad
Reanalysis by analogy: The case of extraction from German wenn-clauses [abstract]
Fabian Zöfelt
Fake indexicals in relative clauses: licensing by phase [abstract]
Susi Wurmbrand, Filipe Hisao Kobayashi, Caroline Gardner, Franziska Keller, Anita Riedl
Where passives and PPs meet: the case of Udmurt [abstract]
Éva Dékány & Ekaterina Georgieva
Separating Existence Presupposition from Definite Articles [abstract]
Yaqing Hu
Accounting for opacity effects at the form interface without the PIC [abstract]
Maša Bešlin
Revisiting the syntax-semantics mapping of modals: Evidence from Marathi [abstract]
Shweta Akolkar
Rethinking Greenberg’s Universal 5 and the (im)possibility of certain head orders [abstract]
Dimitris Michelioudakis, Nikos Angelopoulos, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Elena Anagnostopoulou
Agentless Presuppositions of again: Meet Obligatory Control [abstract]
Ryan Walter Smith, Mark Baker
Compounding composite size morphemes [abstract]
Tarcisio Dias
Copulas as non-verbal aspect [abstract]
Boram Kim
The Optional Infinitive Stage in Japanese [abstract]
Shigeru Miyagawa, Nozomi Moritake, Ken Wexler
Prefixation and the locality of allosemy in German nominalizations [abstract]
Johanna Benz
Session 2: Saturday, October 18, 5:30–7:00pm, Hemmerdinger
Head Movement: What might we could learn from double modals? [abstract]
Brittany Zykoski
Light-‘give’ constructions in Malayalam and Tamil [abstract]
Rishabh Suresh, Gautam Ottur
What to do about what to do? Root wh infinitives as deliberative non-canonical questions [abstract]
Colin Brown, Starr Sandoval
Nuosu Yi Reduplicated Polar Questions: A Polarity Phrase Analysis [abstract]
Manxin Lan
Intra-sentential code switching at the syntax-prosody interface [abstract]
Mandy Cartner and Julia Horvath
Gaps in Modern Greek verbalization [abstract]
Christos Christopoulos
Nominal licensing can be optional: Finite vs. non-finite clauses [abstract]
Irina Burukina
The semantics of demonstrative spreading in Kipsigis [abstract]
Dorothy Ahn and Maria Kouneli
PP-Complexes and Shell Structure [abstract]
Malhaar Shah and Tonia Bleam
Non-de dicto belief: Revision vs replacement [abstract]
Ido Benbaji-Elhadad
Kind Denoting Disjunction [abstract]
Giulio Ciferri Muramatsu and Pravaal Yadav
Exclusive focus in Akan and type flexibility [abstract]
Ka-Fai Yip, Comfort Ahenkorah
Subject islands do not reduce to construction-specific discourse function [abstract]
Nikolas Webster, Mandy Cartner, Matthew Kogan, Matt Wagers, Ivy Sichel
An Agree–based Account of PCC in English Double Object Constructions [abstract]
Emma Slater-Smith
From truth to felicity: children’s acquisition of the pragmatics of Mandarin dou [abstract]
Ting Xu, Li-Chen Chuang, Mingming Liu, Stella Christie
Mixed subject probes trigger possessor raising: evidence from Nukuoro [abstract]
Margaret Asperheim, Johnny Rudolph
Functional indefinites as conventional implicatures [abstract]
Daiki Matsuoka, Daisuke Bekki, Hitomi Yanaka
Absolute neutralization in Modern Hebrew? An experimental study [abstract]
Si Berrebi