Wednesday 19 February 2025
Workshop – Resilient syntax in contact: assessing minority languages
Aula Magna – Complesso Beato Pellegrino (via E. Vendramini 13)
8.30
Registration
9.00
Greetings
9.15
Keynote Speaker
Jan Casalicchio (University of Siena) – Resilience and change in the Dolomites
10.15
Sabrina Bertollo & Romano Madaro (University of Verona) – Resilience is relative but how resilient are relatives? Some insights from Germanic-Romance contact
10.45
Diego Pescarini (CNRS Nice – Université Côte d’Azur) – Doubly-Filled CPs and labeling
11.15
Coffee Break
11.45
Paolo Lorusso (University of Udine) – Aspectual marked gerunds in Apulian varieties
12.15
Leonardo Russo Cardona (University of Cambridge) – Clause size affects Voice alternations: evidence from Romance tough-constructions
12.45
Sebastià Salvà i Puig (Universitat de les Illes Balears) – Unaccusativity and auxiliary selection revisited: insights from Majorcan Catalan
13.15
Lunch
14.15
Keynote Speaker
Francesco Costantini (University of Udine) – Adaptability and resilience: on the clause structure in Saurian
15.15
Giuseppe Longobardi (University of York), Cristina Guardiano (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Gaia Sorge (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Andrea Sgarro (University of Trieste) & Claudiu Creanga (University of Bucharest) – Generative syntax and historical taxonomy
15.45
Elena Isolani (University of Cambridge) – When the Parametric Comparison meets the CP: a preliminary taxonomy of Italo-Romance varieties
17.00
Guided Tour to Palazzo Bo
Thursday 20 February 2025
Main Session
Salone Maldura – Complesso Maldura (piazzetta Folena 1)
8.50
Greetings – Head of the Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari (DiSLL)
9.00
Keynote Speaker
Guglielmo Cinque (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) – Four types of Internal Merge (and the place of Linearization)
10.00
Maria Ferin (University of Konstanz), Valentina Bianchi (University of Siena), Giuliano Bocci (University of Siena) & Silvio Cruschina (University of Helsinki) – Exploring the prosody of wh-questions in Italian: the role of D- linking, lexical restriction, and prosodic heaviness
10.30
Sandra Villata (Kore University of Enna) & Jon Sprouse (New York University Abu Dhabi) – Wh-island effects in Italian: an experimental investigation
11.00
Coffee Break
11.30
Chiara Dal Farra (University of Milan-Bicocca), Aurore Gonzalez (University of Milan-Bicocca), Johannes Hein (University of Potsdam), Silvia Silleresi (University of Milan-Bicocca), Kazuko Yatsushiro (ZAS Berlin) & Uli Sauerland (ZAS Berlin) – Long-distance wh-questions in Italian: a view from acquisition
12.00
Ekaterina Georgieva (HUN REN Budapest), Franc Marušič (University of Nova Gorica), Petra Mišmaš (University of Nova Gorica) & Rok Žaucer (University of Nova Gorica) – Clause Mates matter
12.30
Veronica Bressan (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Adriana Belletti (University of Siena) & Cristiano Chesi (IUSS-NETS Pavia) – Specificity vs. lexical restriction in Italian wh-questions: understanding D-linking in island extraction
13.00
Lunch
14.00
Francesco Pinzin & Tommaso Mattiuzzi (Goethe University Frankfurt) – Word-order information in the lexicon
14.30
Paola Crisma (University of Trieste) – Who needs articles
15.00
Maria Rita Manzini (University of Florence) – A phase-based analysis of Italian adjectives
15.30
Feras Saeed (Georg August University of Göttingen) – The adjectival genitive structure in Semitic
16.00
Coffee break + Poster Session 1
17.00
Keynote Speaker
Andrea Moro (IUSS Pavia) – The sound of silence: on Inner Speech and the architecture of the language faculty
18.00
Business Meeting + Fondazione Marica de Vincenzi Award
Friday 21 February 2025
Main Session
Aula Magna – Complesso Beato Pellegrino (via E. Vendramini 13)
9.00
Keynote Speaker
Valentina Bianchi (University of Siena) – Question-sensitive attitudes at the syntax-semantics interface
10.00
Zahra Mirrazi (University of Göttingen) – What is mood about?
10.30
Coffee Break
11.00
Lefteris Paparounas (University of Québec Montréal) & Martin Salzmann (University of Potsdam) – Bare cliticization in a clitic doubling language: evidence for a non-uniform treatment of clitics
11.30
Ishizuka Tomoko (Aoyama Gakuin University) & Hilda Koopman (UCLA) – On the (non-accidental) homophony of -rare in passives and (‘psv’-)potentials: insights from Japanese pseudopassives
12.00
Éva Dékány & Ekaterina Georgieva (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics in Budapest) – Where passives and PPs meet: the case of Udmurt
12.30
Niina Ning Zhang (National Chung-Cheng University) – Three syntactic puzzles of free relatives
13.00
Lunch
14.00
Marcel den Dikken (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics in Budapest / CLUL Lisbon) – I think of there as being an interesting story here, and hope you think so, too
14.30
Ora Matushansky (CNRS, Paris) – Russian declension as a morpho-phonological construct
15.00
Giorgia Miotti (University of Bordeaux Montaigne),Carlo Geraci (CNRS, Paris), Aritz Irurtzun (IKER) and Ricardo Etxepare (IKER).– A Sign
Language phonological approach to Gravettian stencils
15.30
Achille Fusco & Tommaso Sgrizzi (IUSS, Pavia) – Structural size and the belief / intention alternation in Italian convincere
16.00
Coffee break + Poster Session 2
17.00
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (CNRS, Paris) & Ion Giurgea (Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy) – What Romanian tells us about kind-nouns
17.30
Anna Cardinaletti & Giuliana Giusti (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) – Pseudo-partitive constructions in Italian: a cartographic approach
18.00
Keynote Speaker
Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh) – “Can I follow her?” On finding and not finding person hierarchy effects
Poster Session 1:
Martina Abbondanza (University of Milano-Bicocca) & Anne Abeillé (LLF, Université Paris Cité) – Closest Conjunct Agreement in Italian: an experimental approach.
Judy B. Bernstein (William Paterson University), Francisco Ordóñez (Stony Brook University) & Francesc Roca (University of Girona) – Up and Down Demonstratives.
Irina Burukina (University of Florida), Marcel den Dikken (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics in Budapest) & Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland) – Transitivity properties and the structure of the verb phrase.
Silvia Curti & Desiré Carioti (University of Milano-Bicocca) – On (non)culmination. Assessing Italian native-speaker adults’ interpretation of telic-perfective sentences.
Doreen Georgi (University of Potsdam), Lefteris Paparounas (University of Québec Montréal) & Martin Salzmann (University of Potsdam) – Two Types of non-structural case: evidence from ATB movement in Modern Greek.
Valeria Gradimondo, Lucia M. Tovena & Timothée Bernard (University of Paris Cité) – Appena: between events and time.
Ekaterina Kozlova (HSE University) – Completely Different: Degree Modifiers in Northern Khanty.
Franc Marušič & Rok Žaucer (University of Nova Gorica) – On some differences between clitic climbing and clitic fronting.
Paolo Morosi & M.Teresa Espinal (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) – The syntax and semantics of Italian Numberless Indefinite Definites.
Reinis Pauluks (CNRS, ENS, Paris) & Carlo Geraci (CNRS, Paris) – Main clause infinitives & dative subjects? Insights from Latvian.
Federico Schirato, Ludovico Franco & Greta Mazzaggio (University of Firenze) – Exploring the Molti-tude of Uses: ‘Tanto’ and ‘Molto’ in Italian.
Tommaso Sgrizzi (IUSS, Pavia) – Infinitives that are not under control: the developmental advantage of restructuring verbs and the growing tree hypothesis.
Silvia Silleresi (University of Milano-Bicocca), Itai Bassi (ZAS, Berlin), Abigail Bimpeh (ZAS, Berlin), Imke Driemel (University of York), Anastasia Nuworsu (Ho Technical University), Johnson F. Ilori (University of Lagos) & Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca) – Understanding pronouns in Ewe and Yoruba: an experimental study.
Petra Sleeman (University of Amsterdam) – The form of existential and generic plural subjects in European Romance languages: An analysis based on translations of Germanic bare nouns.
Tomislav Socanac (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) – South-Slavic infinitive loss in light of grammaticalization theory: Formal and diachronic analysis.
Yangyu Sun & Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca) – Topic-relativization: the “First” and “Last Resort”.
Madhusmitha Venkatesan (Delhi University) – Deriving Adjectives in Heritage Tamil: Stability and Change.
Zhongyang Yu & Victor Junnan Pan (University of Hong Kong) – Deriving Sogdian pronominal cliticization.
Roberto Zamparelli (University of Trento) – Adjective ordering restrictions restructured.
Poster Session 2:
Veronica Bressan (IUSS Pavia, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Matilde Barbini (IUSS Pavia), Achille Fusco (IUSS Pavia, University of Florence), Sofia Neri (IUSS Pavia), Letizia Piccini Bianchessi (IUSS Pavia), Sarah Rossi (IUSS Pavia), Cristiano Chesi (IUSS Pavia) – BLiMP-IT: An Italian Linguistic Benchmark for Large Language Models.
Carlo Cecchetto (University of Milano – Bicocca; CNRS, Paris), Caterina Donati (CNRS, Paris), Francesca Foppolo (University of Milano – Bicocca) & Lion Oks (Université Paris Cité) – Are resumptive like gaps? Evidence from processing.
Guido Formichi (IUSS, Pavia) – Italian CLRD: a prosodic experiment.
Mara Frascarelli & Tania Stortini (Roma Tre University) – Focus Fronting in Italian, Spanish, and English. Optionality under the lens of Argument Structure.
Shenai Hu (Xiamen University), Yangyu Sun (University of Milano – Bicocca), Lucy Xia Zhao (University of Cambridge) – The dynamics between simplicity and transparency: The case of wh-question production in Mandarin-speaking adults.
Aritz Irurtzun (CNRS) & Giorgia Miotti (University of Bordeaux Montaigne) – The Expression of Focus in Sign Languages: Insights from LSF.
Ruoxun Li & Caterina Donati (CNRS, Paris) – A cartography of (covert) wh-movement across languages: some experimental evidence.
Woraprat Manowang (University College London) – Contrastive fragments in Thai: against the in-situ approach.
Reinis Pauluks (CNRS, ENS, Paris) – Explaining Time and Location Adverbial Fronting in (French) Sign Language and more.
Anna Teresa Porrini (IUSS, Pavia), Veronica D’Alesio (IUSS, Pavia) & Matteo Paolo Greco (IUSS, Pavia) – How is Expletive Negation processed? An eye-tracking study on Italian.
Giacomo Presotto, Irene Caloi & Jacopo Torregrossa (Goethe University Frankfurt) – I don’t want no trouble with negative concord: an analysis of non-standard British English.
Letizia Raminelli (University of Milano – Bicocca), Elizabeth Heredia-Murillo (Nantes University) & Desiré Carioti (University of Milano – Bicocca) – The acquisition of scalar and additive inferences in child Italian: experimental evidence from persino ‘even’ and neppure ‘not even’.
Hinterholzl Roland (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice) – V2, Privileged Access and the that-Trace-effect.
Lawrence Sandow (University of Szeged) – Weakening of /k/ in Kusaal: An element-based approach. Ati Shahbazi (Georg August University of Göttingen) – Copular Constructions: Evidence from Negation in Baxtiari.
Philip Shushurin (New York University) – Word-external allomorphy is not concord: evidence from Ingush.
Jin Yan, Anna Gavarró & Elena Pagliarini (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) – Acquisition of Negative Concord and Double Negation in L2 Spanish and Mandarin.