Program
Monday, April 19, 2021
9:30am-10:30am: Session 1 (A-bar movement)
• Anda Neagu, (York University): Interrogatives in Camuno: wh-doubling and optionality
• Jing Ji, (McGill University): A Hybrid Analysis of Chinese Right Dislocation
11am-12pm: Session 2 (Structure of nominals)
• Aya Zarka, (McMaster University/Ben Gurion University): DOM in Levantine Arabic: The case of collective nouns
• Christina Duong, (University of Toronto): Cantonese ge: The bleached classifier
1-2pm: Session 3 (Structure of events)
• William Johnston, (McGill University): Verb Serialization as Event-Building: Evidence from Hmong
• Justin Leung, (University of Toronto): The structure of directional motion events in Cantonese
2:30-3:30pm: Session 4 (A-Syntax)
• Alish Kocz, (McMaster University): Reverse antipassivization in Turkish
• Frederico Prado, (McMaster University): Deriving the Double Subject construction in Portuguese through antilocality
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
9:30-10:30am: Session 5 (Event alternations)
• Jonathan Palucci, (McGill University): Unifying English causative and experiencer have: the affected argument
• Virgilio Partida-Peñalva, (University of Toronto): Reanalyzing the stative-inchoative alternation in Mazahua
11am-12pm: Session 6
• Crystal Hai Ying Chen, (University of Toronto): To truck drive or to not truck drive: an analysis of English verbal compounds
1-2:15: Poster Session (lightning talks and breakout rooms)
• Fareeha Rana, John F. Connolly & Elisabet Service, (McMaster University): Re-evaluating the syntactic P600
• Riham Hafez Mohamed, (Western University): Negation in Classical Arabic and Egyptian Arabic
• Lara Russo, (Carleton University): Arguments, Adjuncts & Instruments in English and Turkish
• Johnnatan Nascimento, (Université du Québec à Montréal): Grammaticalization and unidirectionality: the evolution of Latin inchoative -sc- suffix