Program – North East Linguistics Society 52

NELS 52 was held online on October 29 to 31, 2021. The conference schedule for each day may be found below.

8:45 AM – 9:00 AM	Welcome and Opening Remarks by current Rutgers Linguistics Chair, Bruce Tesar
SESSION 1	Session 1A SYNTAX (CLAUSES)	Session 1B PHONOLOGY, MORPHOLOGY
9:00 AM	Nominalization of clauses: the clausal prolepsis strategy Nikos Angelopoulos (KU Leuven)	The Limits of Root-Controlled Allomorphy Niels Torben Kuehlert (Harvard University)
9:30 AM	On a silent P licensing dative subjects and agreement in infinitival clauses Irina Burukina (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, ELKH; Eötvös Loránd University)	The interaction of tone, weight, and stress in Latvian Martin Krämer (University of Tromso)
10:00 AM	The fine structure of the left periphery of infinitives Deniz Satik (Harvard University)	Voicing as a diagnostic of foot structure Trevor Driscoll (MIT)
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM	Break (30 min)
INVITED TALK 1	Invited Talk 1 (1 hour)
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM	Enoch Aboh (Universiteit van Amsterdam) The Multilingual Gaze: Implications for Formal Syntax
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM	Break (30 min)
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM	Lunch / NELS Business Meeting (1 hour)
POSTER SESSION 1	Poster Session 1 (1 hour and 30 min)
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM	Posters
SESSION 2	Session 2A SYNTAX (ELLIPSIS)	Session 2B SYNTAX
3:00 PM	Elided antecedents and exceptive sluices Rebecca Jarvis (UC Berkeley)	Locating animacy in the grammar Maziar Toosarvandani (UC Santa Cruz)
3:30 PM	Verb-echo answers in Polish as V-stranding VoiceP/vP ellipsis Marta Ruda (Jagiellonian University in Krakow)	On split partitivity, external possession, and the phasehood of Mandarin DP Fulang Chen (MIT)
4:00 PM	Syntax of negation in corrective “but” sentences Danfeng Wu (MIT)
4:30 PM – 4:45 PM	Break (15 min)
SESSION 3	Session 3A SYNTAX (ELLIPSIS)	Session 3B SYNTAX
4:45 PM	On a correlation between focus and island sensitivity in Japanese elliptical constructions Yuya Noguchi (University of Connecticut)	Transitive anticausatives Florian Schäfer (Humboldt University of Berlin)
5:15 PM	High negation and ellipsis in English No-answers Anissa Zaitsu (Stanford University)	Deriving ‘late merge’ with External Remerge Gary Thoms (New York University), Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh)
5:45 PM	A new argument against Verb-Stranding VP-Ellipsis: The case from focus particles in polar questions Ido Benbaji (MIT)	C and T are distinct probes Faruk Akkus (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
6:15 PM – 6:30 PM	Break (15 min)
INVITED TALK 2	Invited Talk 2 (1 hour)
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM	Jane Chandlee (Haverford College) Modulating between input and output locality: a case study on phonological opacity
7:30 PM	NELS@NELS Faculty Q&A Panel

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM	Breakfast Social
INVITED TALK 3	Invited Talk 3 (1 hour)
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM	Hazel Pearson (Queen Mary University of London) Predicates of personal taste, genericity, and the individual-level/stage-level distinction
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM	Break (15 min)
SESSION 4	Session 4A SYNTAX (ADJUNCTS)	Session 4B MORPHOSYNTAX
10:15 AM	Islandhood of English PPs is not conditioned by the Argument/Adjunct Distinction Andrew McInnerney (University of Michigan)	Converging syntactic and phonological domains Gísli Rúnar Harðarson (University of Iceland)
10:45 AM	A Spell Out theory of adjunct islands Dmitry Privoznov (MIT)	Failed clitic doubling of plural indirect objects in Greek Maria Kouneli, Yuriy Kushnir (Universität Leipzig)
11:15 AM	Extraction from clausal adjuncts in Czech: A rating study Radek Šimík (Charles University) Petr Biskup (University of Leipzig), Kateřina Bartasová (Charles University), Markéta Dančová (Palacký University), Eliška Dostálková (Charles University), Kateřina Hrdinková (Charles University), Gabriela Kosková (Charles University), Jaromír Kozák (Charles University), Klára Lupoměská (Charles University), Albert Maršík (Charles University), Edita Schejbalová (Charles University), Illia Yekimov (Charles University)	Abstract Case without morphological case Emily Drummond (UC Berkeley)
11:45 AM	How to Generate Adjuncts by MERGE Takanori Nakashima (Tohoku University)	Decomposing have: Evidence from Possessive Predication in Mashi Aron Finholt (University of Kansas)
12:15 PM – 1:30 PM	NELS@NELS Breakout Sessions
INVITED TALK 4	Invited Talk 4 (1 hour)
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM	Diane Lillo-Martin (University of Connecticut) The acquisition of pointing signs and pronominal systems in sign languages
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM	Break (15 min)
SESSION 5(SPECIAL)	Session 5A SPECIAL SESSION – ANAPHORA	Session 5B SPECIAL SESSION – LONG-DISTANCE DEPENDENCIES
2:45 PM	Experimental evidence for the Condition C argument-adjunct asymmetry in English questions Richard Stockwell (Christ Church, University of Oxford), Aya Meltzer-Asscher (Tel Aviv University), Dominique Sportiche (UC Los Angeles)	Computation of unbounded processes with a suprabinary scale requires non-determinism Nate Koser, Adam McCollum (Rutgers University)
3:15 PM	Challenges of investigating Condition C reconstruction experimentally Doreen Georgi (University of Potsdam), Martin Salzmann (University of Pennsylvania), Marta Wierzba (University of Potsdam)	The variable acquisition of optional long-distance dependencies Jeffrey Lamontagne (Indiana University)
3:45 PM	Coconstrual is mediated by both Principle C and the grammatical position of the c-commanding pronoun Vera Gor, Kristen Syrett (Rutgers University)	True progressive harmony exists Paulina Lyskawa (Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø), Rodrigo Ranero (UC Los Angeles)
4:15 PM	Syntactic prominence and the blocking effect in Mandarin Chinese Jun Lyu, Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California)	A Deterministic, Local Hypothesis for Tonal Processes Tajudeen Mamadou, Adam Jardine (Rutgers University)
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM	Break (15 min)
SESSION 6	Session 6A SPECIAL SESSION – ANAPHORA	Session 6B SYNTAX (MOVEMENT)
5:00 PM	Logophoric Mandarin ziji and taziji Yingtong Liu (Harvard University)	A Q-based theory of pied-piping in relative clauses Patrick Elliott (MIT)
5:30 PM	Accounting for the Null/Overt Contrast with Minimize Restrictors! Daniel Greeson (Stony Brook University)	Relative Clause Extraposition in Russian is created by syntactic movement Pasha Koval, Jon Sprouse (University of Connecticut)
6:00 PM		Possible and Impossible Movements within the Mixtec DP Andrew Hedding (UC Santa Cruz)
6:30 PM – 7:00 PM	Break (30 min)
7:00 PM	Evening Social

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM	NELS@NELS Morning Session
INVITED TALK 5	Invited Talk 5 (1 hour)
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM	Lisa Cheng (Universiteit Leiden) All about “hit”
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM	Break (15 min)
SESSION 7	Session 7A SEMANTICS (PROJECTION)	Session 7B MORPHOSYNTAX
10:15 AM	Subeventive modal projection: the case of Spanish subjunctive relative clauses Luis Alonso-Ovalle (McGill University), Paula Menendez-Benito (University of Tuebingen), Aynat Rubinstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)	The Morpho-Syntactic Significance of the Unextractability of English Possessive Pronouns Colin Davis (University of Konstanz)
10:45 AM	Asymmetry in Presupposition Projection in If-Conditionals: Evidence from Acquisition Sherry Yong Chen, Cindy Torma and Athulya Aravind (MIT)	On the (non-)transparency of infixes at a morpheme juncture: Bottoms up! Laura Kalin (Princeton University)
11:15 AM	Deriving the (a-)symmetries of presupposition projection Alexandros Kalomoiros (University of Pennsylvania)	Dinka plural morphology is concatenative and regular Coppe Van Urk, Zhouyi Sun (Queen Mary University of London)
POSTER SESSION 2	Poster Session 2 (1 hour and 30 min)	Lunch (1 hour and 30 min)
11:45 AM – 1:15 PM	Posters	Lunch (1 hour and 30 min)
1:15 PM – 1:30 PM	Break (15 min)
SESSION 8	Session 8A SEMANTICS (QUESTIONS)	Session 8B SYNTAX (CLASSIFIERS AND MODIFICATION)
1:30 PM	Reconciling maximality with cumulativity in questions Aron Hirsch (ZAS Berlin), Bernhard Schwarz (McGill University)	Direct numeral modification in a classifier language Virginia Dawson (Western Washington University)
2:00 PM	Doubt, highlighting and exhaustification Wataru Uegaki (University of Edinburgh)	Classifiers: licensing and constituency in the NP Éva Dékány (RIL HAS)
2:30 PM	Pair-list Readings of Questions: New Evidence from Specificational Pseudoclefts Jing Ji (McGill University)	Phase extension and distinctness effects in Mandarin Chinese classifier co-occurrence: implications for cartography Brian Hsu, Yiwen Peng (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
3:00 PM		Evidence for predicativism in restrictive apposition and the proprial article Samuel Jambrović (University of Toronto)
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM	Break (15 min)
SESSION 9	Session 9A SEMANTICS (CATEGORIES AND PREDICATES)	Session 9B SYNTAX
3:45 PM	Distributivity in Seri verbs and nouns as cross-categorial pluractionality Jeremy Pasquereau (University of Surrey / Université de Poitiers), Matthew Baerman (University of Surrey), Carolyn O’Meara (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)	Reverse Weak PCC in Washo Karlos Arregi (University of Chicago), Emily Hanink (University of Manchester)
4:15 PM	A Spanning account of Talmy’s typology Víctor Acedo-Matellán (University of Oxford, Leverhulme Trust, Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Arkadiusz Kwapiszewski (University of Oxford)	Accounting for parallels between inverse marking and the PCC Emily Clem (UC San Diego)
4:45 PM	Evidence for early lexical integration of speech and gestures Marion Bonnet, Caterina Donati (CNRS)	Nominal licensing via dependent case: the view from Pseudo Noun Incorporation in Wolof Suzana Fong (Queen Mary University of London)
5:15 PM	Possession in categorization across language and category Emily Hanink, Andrew Koontz-Garboden (University of Manchester)	One paradigm, two hierarchies: Distinct effects of relativized probes on Voice and Infl Will Oxford (University of Manitoba)