36.1713, Confs: 2nd International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification (Hungary)

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Subject: 36.1713, Confs: 2nd International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification (Hungary)

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Date: 31-May-2025
From: Éva Dékány [dekany.eva at nytud.hu]
Subject: 2nd International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification


2nd International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and
Modification

Date: 01-Sep-2025 - 02-Sep-2025
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Contact: Marcel den Dikken and Éva Dékány
Contact Email: iwspm2025 at nytud.hun-ren.hu
Meeting URL:
https://nytud.hun-ren.hu/en/event/2nd-international-workshop-on-the-syntax-of-predication-and-modification-2

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Semantics; Syntax

As a sequel to the successful International Workshop on the Syntax of
Predication and Modification 2024, the HUN-REN Hungarian Research
Centre for Linguistics will host the 2nd International Workshop on the
Syntax of Predication and Modification (IWSPM2025) in Budapest,
Hungary, on 1–2 September 2025. IWSPM2025 will be an in-person-only
event. Like its predecessor, this workshop seeks to foster fruitful
dialogue between researchers through syntactic analyses of
construction types involving predication and modification, from a wide
range of languages and analytical perspectives.
Programme:
Monday, 1 September 2025
13:00‒13:45
Registration
13:45‒14:00
Welcome & opening remarks
14:00‒14:40
Cecilia Fernández Altonaga (University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
& Université de Pau  et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA))
Modification is not (always) predication: Evidence from Basque
14:40‒15:20
Syed Shahrier Rahman (University of Dhaka) & Mithun Banerjee
(University of Helsinki)
Clause structure and NP modification in Bangla: Syntax‒semantics
interface
15:20‒16:00
Mónika Varga (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics)
>From minimizing to modification: Diachronic evolution, variation, and
change of alig, aligha ‘hardly, probably (not)’
BREAK
16:30‒17:30
Keynote address: Andrea Szávó (University of Debrecen)
title TBA
Tuesday, 2 September 2025
10:00‒10:40
Ivona Kučerová (McMaster University) & Edgar Onea (University of Graz)
What you are presented with is not what you predicate over
10:40‒11:20
Henry Chang (Academia Sinica) & Marie M. Yeh (National Tsing Hua
University)
Interrogative hows as syntactic predicates: Evidence from Tsou and
Saisiyat
11:20‒12:00
Lieke Hendriks (University of Göttingen)
Disambiguating Dutch pseudopartitives
LUNCH
14:00‒14:40
Yangyu Sun & Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca)
The hypothesis of topic-relativization
14:40‒15:20
Viktor Köhlich (University of Frankfurt)
Japanese te-no clauses as non-finite noun-modifying clauses
BREAK
16:00‒17:00
Keynote address: Hideki Kishimoto (Kobe University)
title TBA
17:00‒17:10
Closing remarks
Workshop website:
https://nytud.hun-ren.hu/en/event/2nd-international-workshop-on-the-syntax-of-predication-and-modification-2
Contact
For inquiries about the workshop, please contact one of the workshop
conveners (Marcel den Dikken and Éva Dékány) via the workshop E-mail
address (iwspm2025 at nytud.hun-ren.hu).



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