36.858, Confs: 43rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (USA)

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Date: 12-Mar-2025
From: Barbara Citko [bcitko at uw.edu]
Subject: 43rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics


43rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
Short Title: WCCFL 43

Date: 25-Apr-2025 - 27-Apr-2025
Location: University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Contact: WCCFL 43 Organizing Committee
Contact Email: wccfl43 at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Conference registration is now open (early registration deadline March
25; https://wccfl43.github.io/registration/)
WCCFL 43 Conference Program
(please check the conference website (https://wccfl43.github.io/) for
updates/locations and announcements)
Friday, April 25th, 2025
8-8:50 am Coffee and registration
8:50-9:00 Opening Remarks
SESSION 1A: 9-10:30am
Same but Different: Balinese vs. Malagasy Pivots
Yiannis Katochoritis, Magdalena Lohninger
Passivization, speech act participants, and third-person probes in
Jarawara
Yiannis Katochoritis, Magdalena Lohninger
Non-active syntax and argumental for-phrases in Italian
tough-constructions
Leonardo Russo Cardona
SESSION 1B: 9-10:30am
A new shared antecedent approach to parasitic gaps: Explaining
connectivity and the A-/Ā-distinction
Matthew Hewett
Contrastive fragments in Thai: against the in-situ approach
Woraprat Manowang
Preposition Omission and Focus in German Fragments: A Case for a
Q-Based Approach
Miriam L. Schiele
10:30 - 11am Coffee Break
11-12pm Keynote 1: Kathryn Davidson
12-1:30pm Lunch Break (lunch on one’s own)
SESSION 2A: 1:30-3:30pm
Special Session on Sign Language Linguistics
Optimality Theory for Hong Kong Sign Language loan words
Emily Koenders
Negation in Sadat Tawaher Sign Language: A Formal Approach
Seyyed Hatam Tamimi Sad, Ronnie Wilbur, Roland Pfau
Correlation between focus and the clause-final position in Hong Kong
Sign Language
Linghui Eva Gan
Definiteness in Korean Sign Language: The Role of IX and NP-IX
Arum Kang, Youngju Choi
SESSION 2B:1:30-3pm
PP-splits in Greek: Against scattered deletion
Nikos Angelopoulos
Chameleon affixes in Sekani produce strictly layered stratal domains
Katie McCann
When the Parametric Comparison meets the CP:  a preliminary taxonomy
of Italo-Romance varieties
Elena Isolani
3:30-4:00pm Coffee Break
SESSION 3A: 4:00-5:30pm
Quirks of progressive clauses in Kasem
Daniel Aremu
On the (in)definiteness of bare nouns in Dholuo
Joshua Dees
Agree to disagree: on refutational and confirmatory too
Maria Esipova
SESSION 3B: 4:00-5:30pm
Examining Island Effects with NP-Scrambling out of Four Types of
Adjunct Clauses in Japanese
Shin Fukuda, Hajime Ono
A′-movement restrictions in Igbo reanalyzed
Jasper Jian, Martina Martinovic
"Non-local A-movement" is predicted to exist, and it does
Giovanni Roversi
Saturday, April 26th, 2025
8:30 am - 9am Coffee and registration
SESSION 4A: 9-10:30am
Specification of D Derives Variation in Relative Clauses
Zhiyu Mia Gong, Eszter Ótott-Kovács
Diagnosing multidominance by focus association of ‘only’
Ka-Fai Yip, Squid Tamar-Mattis
The unaccusative-unergative distinction in Mandarin resultative
constructions
Fulang Chen
SESSION 4B:9-10:30am
Verb stem alternation and successive cyclic movement in Falam Chin
Emily Hanink
Principled probability in syntax: A Minimalist approach to variability
and cumulativity in phrasal movement
Brian Hsu
Two types of non-structural case: Evidence from ATB movement in Modern
Greek
Doreen Georgi, Lefteris Paparounas, Martin Salzmann
10:30-11am Coffee Break
11-12:30pm Poster session (see below for list of posters)
12:30-2pm Lunch Break (on one’s own)
SESSION 5A:  2-3:30pm
Perceptual Adaptation in Spanish: Implications for Vowel-specific
Factors in the Learning of Novel Accents
Nikolai Andrés Schwarz-Acosta
Seenku tone sandhi is compatible with traditional cyclicity
Daniel Gleim, Armel Jolin
Iconic Vowel Alternations in Korean Ideophones: A Formal Analysis
Natalie Paige Côté
SESSION 5B: 2-3:30pm
Two ways to be non-inertial: frustrativity and event maximality in
O’dam
Prerna Nadathur, Michael Everdell
Structure matters: missing implicatures and their consequence for the
theory of alternatives
Zachary Feldcamp, Ido Benbaji-Elhadad
Korean honorification as a window to understanding animacy
Aidan Katson
3:30-4pm Coffee Break
4-5pm:  Keynote: Meghan Sumner
Conference Dinner 6:30-9:30pm (Burke Museum)
Sunday, April 27th, 2025
8:30 am – 9 am Coffee and registration
SESSION 7A 9 – 10:30am
Against Number Harmony for Non-Paradigmatic SE
Angel Gallego
The bilingual lexicon under Distributed Morphology: An investigation
of gender agreement in code-switching
Mandy Cartner, Aya Meltzer-Asscher, Julia Horvath
SESSION 7B: 9 – 10:30am
Adjunct control in Ch'ol comitatives
Carol Rose Little
Feature interaction in the Tira agreement complex
Peter Jenks
Parameterizing ergative and absolutive agreement: Microvariation in
Kurdish
Sahar Taghipour
10:30 - 11am Coffee Break
11- 12pm Keynote: Henry Davis
12 – 1pm CLOSING AND BUSINESS MEETING
LIST OF POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Re: configurational verbs
Ryan Walter Smith
Possessor agreement: Exploring Cross-Linguistic Variation
Dimitris Michelioudakis, Nikos Angelopoulos, Elena Anagnostopoulou
Nandao-Qs: When Suprise Sparks Inquiry
Anshun Zheng
Cyclic Prosodification in Japanese
Yosho Miyata
Differentiating between generic and actualized eventualities in
Alashkert Armenian
Mariam Asatryan
"Bleeding" Condition C in Kanien'kéha
Chase Boles
Capturing Modal Base Polarity with Mandarin wh-indefinites
Carlos Cisneros, Anqi Zhang
A transparent reanalysis of self-destructive feeding
Yuxuan Melody Wang
Scrambling through the Looking Glass: Two Types of Movement across
Weak Islands
Zhiyu Mia Gong
Deriving (non)agreement in Welsh
Calvin Quick
An argument against non-constituent ellipsis
Dongwoo Park
The morphotactics of the Limbu verb: A postsyntactic analysis of the
suffix domain
Doreen Georgi, Andrew Murphy
Illicit LBE in Russian sluicing: rescue by deletion (of linearization
statements)
Daniar Kasenov, Ivan Kalyakin
Recursion in NP: pseudopartitive measures require complementation, not
specification
Malhaar Shah
Ordering postsyntactic operations within domains
Zhouyi Sun, Peter Grishin
Allocutive agreement and indexicals Shift Together, but not always
Thomas McFadden, Sandhya Sundaresan
Transitive subject relativization restriction in Northern Tujia and
beyond
Kang Franco Liu
Chinese gèng, English implicit comparison, and vagueness sharpening
Florence Y.K. Zhang, Linmin Zhang
Superlatives without -est: Japanese Ichiban as an Exclusive Adverbial
Jun Tamura
Context update with Cantonese sentence-final particle me1 and the role
of falling tone
Yingyu Su
Diagnosing modal clause structure with focus-sensitive operators in
Mandarin Chinese
Haoming Li
Big and small as dimension-less degree modifiers: Evidence from
Shantou Teochew
Zhuosi Luo, Alison Biggs
When your associates tag along: Associative plurality in Rural Iberian
Spanish names
Elango Kumaran, Luis Miguel Toquero Pérez
Instrument as internal subject: evidence from the verbs baad ‘cut’,
maj ‘burn’, and pan ‘tie’ in Thai
Danutham Worapipat
Encoding Domain Restrictions via an Overt Situation Pronoun
Yaqing Hu
‘Irrealis’ particle ji in Gitksan
Yurika Aonuki
The distribution of wide scope indefinite bare duals in Kazym Khanty:
a QUD-based approach
Fedor Golosov
Perspective sensitive items (PSIs) affected by Indexical Shift:
Indexical PSIs in Turkish
Metehan Oğuz
Indeterminate determiners: a case study of Singlish prenominal
relative clauses
Si Kai Lee
The syntactic and semantic introduction of internal arguments
Nikolas Webster
A parametric view on exclusive focus particles
Ka-Fai Yip
Can Adjuncts Be Elided? A Bimodal Approach to Adjunct-Inclusive
Interpretation
Yoshiki Fujiwara
(Un)conditionals in Japanese: A Question-based Approach
Kimiko Nakanishi
Optimality Theory for Hong Kong Sign Language loan words
Emily Koenders



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