SelectionFest 2017

Berlin, 10-11.11.2017

Friday, November 10

The workshop will take place at the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, room 308 (Trajekteraum), Schützenstr. 18, 10117 Berlin.

9:15 - 9:30

Welcome
9:30 - 10:30

Invited talk: Barbara Stiebels

"The role of polysemy in clausal complement selection"
10:30 - 11:10

Beata Trawinski, Anne Mucha, Jutta Hartmann and Angelika Wöllstein

"Anti-(Subject-)Control and the Selectional Preferences of Clause-embedding Verbs"

11:10 - 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 - 12:10

Ryan Bochnak and Emily Hanink

"Selection and complement clause size in Washo"
12:10 - 12:50

Sampson Korsah and Andrew Murphy

"Against CP Selection: Evidence from DP shells in Kwa"

12:50 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:00

Poster session:
- Toru Ishii: "Complementizer Stacking and "Dual Selections" in CP Peripheries"
- Kajsa Djärv: "Definite CPs: revisiting the selectional restrictions of attitude predicates"
- Spencer Kaplan and Kajsa Djärv: "Embedded V2 is Anti-licensed by Discourse Familiarity"
- Philipp Weisser: "A Purely Morphological Account to Pseudo-Noun Incorporation in Tamil and beyond"
- Marwan Jarrah: "Clausal complements of factive verbs as DPs in Jordanian Arabic"
- Floris Roelofsen and Wataru Uegaki: "Responsive modal particles: the case of Japanese "darou""
- Rachel Nye: "Rethinking the distribution of finite complement clauses: evidence from complementiser-how clauses"

15:00 - 15:20

Coffee break

15:20 -16:00

Eman Al Khalaf and Benjamin Bruening

"Selection in coordination"
16:00 -16:40

Hedde Zeijlstra

"Labelling: reinstalling ‘projection by selection’"

16:40 - 17:00

Coffee break

17:00 - 18:00

Invited talk: Jane Grimshaw

"Force compatibility explains “selection” patterns exhibited by say-verbs"

18:30 - late

Dinner + drinks

Saturday, November 11

9:30 - 10:30

Invited talk: Kerstin Schwabe

"Unwanted guest? – On so-called unselected embedded German ob-clauses"
10:30 - 11:10

Noa Bassel and Si Berrebi

"Selectional split across speech verbs: non bridge islands revisited"

11:10 - 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 - 12:10

Wataru Uegaki and Yasutada Sudo

"The anti-rogativity of non-veridical preferential predicates"
12:10 - 12:50

Emily Hanink

"Encoding equation through two types of selection"

12:50 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:00

Invited talk: Keir Moulton

"Nouny Propositions"

15:00 - 15:20

Coffee break

15:20 - 16:00

Sandhya Sundaresan

"Modelling selectional variation for indexical shift"
16:00 - 16:40

Nick Huang, Chia-Hsuan Liao, Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz

"Selection properties of Mandarin attitude verbs and consequences for syntactic bootstrapping"

16:40 - 17:00

Coffee break

17:00 - 18:00

Invited talk: Aaron Steven White

"Computational approaches to clause selection"