Programme

Department of Romance Studies:
Seminarraum ROM 1 (3B-EG-15) & ROM 2 (3B-EG-15) 		Organizers:
Anne-Li Demonie & Pamela Goryczka

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 Tuesday, July 15, 2025

9.00 – 9:10 Welcome
9:10 – 10.10 Jonathan Bobaljik & Pavel Caha
10.10 – 10.40 Coffee Break
10.40 – 11.20 Bronwyn Bjorkman, Elizabeth Cowper, Daniel C. Hall, Louise Koren, Lara Russo, Nadeem Siddiqi
& Sam Turnbull: Asymmetric asymmetries of person and number in pronouns and agreement
11.20 – 12.00 Luke Adamson & Milena Šereikaitė:
Deriving Morphological Gaps: The Neuter Puzzle in Lithuanian
12.00 – 12.40 Matěj Kundrát:
Agreement suffix syncretism in Slavic and “intervening” projections
12.40 – 13.40 Lunch Break
13.40 – 14.20 Ivona Ilić:
Double marking in contextual allomorphy: The view from pronouns
14.20 – 15.00 Mike Putnam, David Natvig & Emmeline Wilson:
Decomposing German umlaut: Contextual allomorphy at the interface with phonology
15.00 – 15.40 Doreen Georgi & Andrew Murphy:
The morphotactics of the Limbu verb: A postsyntactic analysis of the suffix domain
15.40 – 16.10 Coffee Break
16.10 – 16.50 Anna Polomská:
Czech palatalization patterns at morphological boundaries show nominal declension is different
16.50 – 17.30 Luca Molinari:
Nanosyntax of grammaticalization: the case of ‘one’
17.30 – 18.10 Tom Leu & Wenli Tang:
Comparing DM and NS: Mandarin duōshǎo, English how many, and French combien
from 19:30 Workshop Dinner

 

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

9.30 – 10.30 Antonio Fábregas & Natascha Pomino: Theme vowels and perfectives: DM vs. Nano
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break + Poster session
11.00 – 11.40 Shanti Ulfsbjorninn:
Shared aims: A classless, non-morphomic, item-and-arrangement analysis of Italian theme vowels
11.40 – 12.20 Davide Bertocci:
Explaining language change with Nanosyntax: innovative patterns in Latin verbs with nasal affixes
12.20 – 13.30 Lunch Break

Session A (ROM 1) Session B (ROM 2)
13:30 – 14:10 Stanislao Zompí & Zhouyi Sun:
Probing the limits of DM by crossing multiple *ABAs together 		Guido Vanden Wyngaerd:
Paradigm levelling in Spanish as a case of Syncretism
14.10 – 14.50 Peter Herbeck & Eva-Maria Remberger:
From verbal form to discourse marker: A Distributed Morphology approach 		Anastasiia Vyshnevska:
Suppletion in Ukrainian deadjectival verbs
14.50 – 15.30 Yunhuan Wang:
Analysis of Separable VO Compounds in Mandarin Chinese through a DM Approach 		Lars Dalen:
A nanosyntactic analysis of Icelandic verb conjugation

15:30 – 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 – 16.40 Guy Tabachnick:
Conjoined quadruplets in West Slavic
16.40 – 17.20 Peter Svenonius:
Subset vs. Superset
17.20 – 17.30 Closing remarks

Posters