[HPSG-L] The HPSG 2025 conference: Main conference program

[Shuichi Yatabe]

The 32nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
will be held in a hybrid format on 2 September - 4 September 2025 at Centro
de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
The conference addresses linguistic, foundational, or computational issues
relating to or in the spirit of the framework of Head-Driven Phrase
Structure Grammar.
The conference will consist of a two-day main conference (2 September - 3
September) and a one-day (4 September) workshop, entitled "Minor sentence
types–––their form and its impact on grammar," whose program will be
announced separately.

Conference Website: https://dkaramasov.github.io/hpsg2025/


Program:

**Schedule for the Main Conference**
(The program is subject to last-minute changes, please consult
https://dkaramasov.github.io/hpsg2025/)

Venue:
Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras,
Biblioteca sala B112.C.

September 2nd
9:15–9:30 Welcome and Opening
9:30–10:30 Plenary talk: Stefan Müller (HU Berlin) Virtual lexical items
and the Danish impersonal passive
10:30–11:00 Coffee break
11:00–11:40 Frank Van Eynde (KU Leuven) The absolute PP-construction
11:40–12:20 Antonio Machicao Y Priemer, Pauline Reiß and Giuseppe Varaschin
(Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
   Genitive vs. PP Arguments in German NPs: Grammatical and Usage
Conditions <online presentation>
12:20–13:00 Mona Sinha Mahapatra (The English and Foreign Languages
University, Hyderabad)
   Bangla N-V conjunct verbs: Case, Compositionality and Phrasal category
13:00–14:30 Lunchbreak
14:30–15:10 Jimin Kim and Eun-jung Yoo (Seoul National University)
   A Direct Interpretation Approach to English Multiple Sluicing
Constructions
15:10–15:50 Edgar David Martinez (University of Nicosia)
   Having at least an iota of talent: a Gradable HPSG Analysis of the
Syntactic Distribution and Semantics of the minimizer an iota
15:50–16:30 Joanna Ut-Seong Sio and Francis Bond (Palacký University
Olomouc)
   Inner and outer aspect in Cantonese
16:30–17:00 Coffee break
17:00–18:00 Business meeting

September 3rd
9:30–10:30 Plenary talk: Ana Luís (Universidade de Coimbra) and Berthold
Crysmann (LLF, Université Paris Cité) tba
10:30–11:00 Coffee break
11:00–11:40 Berthold Crysmann (LLF, Université Paris Cité) and Ana Luís
(Universidade de Coimbra)
   Mixed clitics in Udi: the lexical verb as interface
11:40–12:20 Bruno Estigarribia (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
   An SBCG analysis of ‘middle’ je- in Paraguayan Guarani
12:20–13:00 Jieun Oh (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
   A typological analysis of the Korean verb ha- with verbal nouns and
psych verbs
13:00–14:30 Lunchbreak
14:30–15:10 Felix Bildhauer (IDS Mannheim) An HPSG approach to the German
am-progressive
15:10–15:50 Frank Van Eynde (KU Leuven) On the Head-Complement combination
15:50–16:30 Mona Sinha Mahapatra (The English and Foreign Languages
University, Hyderabad)
   Reverse Constructions of Bangla Compound verbs: Light verb fronting
phenomenon
16:30–17:00 Coffee break
17:00–17:40 Hyeonjoon Park (Seoul National University)
   English NPN Constructions: A ConstraintBased Analysis
17:40–18:20 Manfred Sailer (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Universität
Frankfurt)
   A phrasal construction for an ‘ex quolibet falsum’ inference
20:00–22:30 Conference Dinner:
   The Food Temple (registration required) https://www.thefoodtemple.com/

**Registration**
https://dkaramasov.github.io/hpsg2025/
Conference fee: 80€ (faculty)/50€ (student)
Registration Deadline: 20th August
Virtual attendance is free, but please register so we have an idea of
numbers.
In order to register for the conference dinner and social activities
(coastal hike on 5th September, guided city tour on 6th September), please
contact Jakob (hpsg2025 at easychair.org).

**Contact information**
hpsg2025 at easychair.org
Local Organizing Committee Chair:
Jakob Maché (University of Lisbon)