Thursday 28.01.21
14:50-15:00 CET
5:50-6:00 PST
Welcome and opening remarks
15:00-16:00 CET
6:00-7:00 PST
Invited speaker: Nicoletta Biondo (University of Siena)
Temporal adverbs and their interaction with tense during sentence comprehension: new experimental evidence [abstract]
16:00-16:20 CET
7:00-7:20 PST
Break
16:20-17:00 CET
7:20-8:00 PST
Gregory Scontras, Zeinab Kachakeche, Autin Nguyen, Cesar Rosales, Suttera Samonte, Einat Shetreet, Yuxin Shi, Elli Tourtouri and Nitzan Trainin
Cross-linguistic evidence for subjectivity-based adjective ordering preferences [abstract]
17:00-17:40 CET
8:00-8:40 PST
Roberto Zamparelli, Nicola Sartorato, Eleonora Gualdoni and Greta Gandolfi
Adjective Ordering: a Compositional Distributional Semantics Approach [abstract]
17:40-18:00 CET
8:40-9:00 PST
Break
18:00-18:40 CET
9:00-9:40 PST
Stephanie Solt and E. Cameron Wilson
M-modifiers and varieties of degree modification [abstract]
18:40-19:40 CET
9:40-10:40 PST
Break
19:40-20:20 CET
10:40-11:20 PST
Alicia Katharina Börner, Jutta Pieper and Tibor Kiss
The syntactic behaviour of event-external adverbial PPs in German [abstract]
20:20-21:00 CET
11:20-12:00 PST
Benjamin Bruening and Amanda Payne
Prosodic Constraints on Adverb Placement [abstract]
Friday 29.01.21
15:00-15:40 CET
6:00-6:40 PST
Fabian Bross and Katherine Fraser
Contrastive focus reduplication and the modification puzzle [abstract]
15:40-16:20 CET
6:40-7:20 PST
E. Cameron Wilson
Gradable adjectives and direct modification [abstract]
16:20-16:40 CET
7:20-7:40 PST
Break
16:40-17:20 CET
7:40-8:20 PST
Richard Futrell, William Dyer and Gregory Scontras
Comparing efficiency-based theories of adjective order in dependency treebanks [abstract]
17:20-18:00 CET
8:20-9:00PST
Cas Coopmans and Gert-Jan Schoenmakers
Argument and adjunct attachment in head-final constructions of Dutch [abstract]
18:00-18:20 CET
9:00-9:20 PST
Break
18:20-19:20 CET
9:20-10:20 PST
Invited speaker: Sebastian Bücking (University of Siegen)
On the composition of modifying locative clauses [abstract]
19:20-20:00 CET
10:20-11:00 PST
Break
20:00 -21:00 CET
11:00-12:00 PST
Virtual Meet & Greet
Saturday 30.01.21
16:00-17:00 CET
7:00-8:00 PST
Invited speaker: Michael Hahn (Stanford University)
An information-theoretic explanation of adjective ordering preferences [abstract]
17:00-17:20 CET
8:00-8:20 PST
Break
17:20-18:00 CET
8:20-9:00 PST
Vinicius Macuch Silva, Ffion Roberts and Hannah Rohde
Do truth-endorsing adjectives act as cues to non-literality in the processing of modified metaphors? A psycholinguistic investigation of English ‘actual’, ‘literal’, and ‘real’ [abstract]
18:00-18:40 CET
9:00-9:40 PST
Wilhelm Geuder and Curt Anderson
What is manner modification? [abstract]
18:40-19:00 CET
9:40-10:00 PST
Break
19:00-20:00 CET
10:00-11:00 PST
Invited speaker: Claudia Maienborn (University of Tübingen)
Beautiful dancer, just king and trained nurse: A compositional approach to non-intersective readings of adnominal modifiers [abstract]
Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Modification 