We are pleased to announce the 50th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG) to be held at the University of Padova (Italy), on February 19-21, 2025.
The Incontro di Grammatica Generativa brings together contributions on theoretical aspects of syntax, semantics, morphology, and phonology within the framework of generative grammar.
IGG50 will be preceded by a pre-conference workshop on February 19, 2025:
Resilient syntax in contact: assessing minority languages
The invited speakers of IGG50 are: Valentina Bianchi (University of Siena), Guglielmo Cinque (University of Venice, Ca’ Foscari), Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh), Andrea Moro (IUSS Pavia / Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa).
The invited speakers of the Pre-conference Workshop are: Jan Casalicchio (University of Siena), Francesco Costantini (University of Udine).
The official language, of both the main conference and the pre-conference workshop, is English and all communications will be in person.
Conference location: University of Padova, Italy
Conference date: February 19-21, 2025
Contact information: igg50unipd@gmail.com
Linda Badan
Tommaso Balsemin
Davide Bertocci
Ivano Ciardelli
Guglielmo Cinque
Jacopo Garzonio
Judit Gervain
Cecilia Poletto
Emanuela Sanfelici
Beatrice Santorini
Francesco Vespignani
Linda Badan
Tommaso Balsemin
Davide Bertocci
Enrico Castro
Nicola D’Antuono
Jacopo Garzonio
Ye Hu
Sabine Ruth Maerlaender
Elena Marcati
Jessica Messina
Greta Mozzato
Emanuela Sanfelici
Georgios Vardakis
For the main conference, we invite abstract submissions on theoretical aspects of syntax, semantics, morphology, and phonology investigated within the framework of generative grammar. Studies adopting computational and experimental methodologies fit the scope of the main conference, as long as they push the theory of generative grammar forward in the domains of syntax, semantics, morphology, and phonology.
For the pre-conference workshop, we invite abstract submissions on topics related to syntactic variation and stability in language-contact situations. The main question of the workshop aims at answering how resilient syntactic phenomena are in a context in which the regional languages are under the pressure not only of standard Italian, but also of other, more prestigious regional languages. The final objective is to determine which areas of syntax are more easily lost in the transmission process, due to the influence of the more prestigious languages. This will help determine whether some areas of syntax can be used more in general as ‘markers’ for the degree of structural vitality of a minority language.
Abstracts for the main conference and the workshop should be submitted via https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/submit/IGG50/
When submitting an abstract, the author(s) should indicate whether they wish to be considered for an oral presentation, a poster, or both. The author(s) should specify whether the abstract is intended to be submitted to the main IGG conference or to the pre-conference workshop. Instructions for submission
● Abstracts should feature unpublished original research;
● Abstracts should be in PDF format;
● Abstracts should have a clear title and should not identify the author(s);
● Abstracts should be no longer than 2 pages of letter-sized or A4 paper, including
references and examples, with 1″ or 2.5 cm margins, font Times New Roman, size 12, single-spaced.
References can be given in a shortened form (e.g., “Chomsky 1986 Barriers” instead of “Chomsky, Noam. 1986. Barriers. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press”) — provided this does not hinder the identification of the source — and set in a smaller font (no less than 10 points)
● Submissions are limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint abstract per
author, or two joint abstracts per author.
● All communications will be in person.
● Each oral presentation will be 20 minutes, followed by a 10 minute discussion.
● The official language of both the main conference and the pre-conference workshop is English.
Submissions open: Oct. 1, 2024 – Nov. 15, 2024
Abstract review period: Nov. 16, 2024 – Dec. 15, 2024
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
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 / Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa) – The sound of silence: on Inner Speech and the architecture of the language faculty
18.00
Business Meeting + Fondazione Marica de Vincenzi Award
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 / Università di Firenze) – 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
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.
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.
In this year’s edition of IGG, the Fondazione ONLUS Marica De Vincenzi offers one award of € 500 for the best paper accepted and presented at IGG50 by an Italian researcher without a tenure-track position.
The award winner will be announced during the IGG50 concluding remarks (on 21 February 2025 at 6:30 pm).
Eligible candidates are those who meet the following three requirements:
1. First author of an abstract accepted and presented (as a poster or oral presentation) at the main conference of IGG50;
2. Non-tenure position (e.g., Master’s student, Ph.D. student, post-doctoral research fellow, etc.);
3. Italian citizenship.
This year’s candidates were directly notified of their eligibility by the IGG50 Organizing Committee.
The award is assigned by a selection board composed of the following three members:
▪ Two members of the Marica De Vincenzi foundation: Proff. Maria Teresa Guasti and Luigi Rizzi;
▪ One member of the IGG50 Organizing Committee: Emanuela Sanfelici.
All communications will be in person.
The following information pertains to the MAIN CONFERENCE and the PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP presenters.
Your poster should be A0 in size (84,1 cm x 118,9 cm or equivalently 33” x 47”), portrait orientation.
We will be providing clips for you to fix your poster on the poster board.
Unfortunately, we cannot provide printing services. If you need to print your poster locally, there are various options close to the conference venue, e.g., https://www.copisterialacornucopia.it
Your oral presentation should be 20 minutes, followed by a 10 minute discussion.
If you are using slides, you can use either our or your own computer. In the latter case, we suggest you bring your adapter.
If you are using handouts, please make at least 80 copies.
Unfortunately, we cannot provide printing services. If you need to print your handout locally, there are various options close to the conference venue, e.g., https://www.copisterialacornucopia.it
The conference will take place in:
Aula Magna, Complesso Beato Pellegrino, Via E. Vendramini 13 – Padova
(on FEBRUARY 19 and 21)
Salone Maldura, Piazzetta Folena 1 – Padova
(on FEBRUARY 20)
Suggested accommodation near the venue of the conference
Casa al Carmine
Via E. Vendramini, 1 – Padova (PD)
https://www.casaalcarmine.it
Patavium
Via Beato Pellegrino, 106 – Padova (PD)
https://www.hotelpatavium.it
Europa
Largo Europa, 9/10 – Padova (PD)
https://hoteleuropapadua.com-hotel.com
Verdi
Via Dondi dall’Orologio, 7 – Padova (PD)
https://www.albergoverdipadova.it
For information on how to get to Padova, please follow the link below.
https://www.unipd.it/en/coming-padua