The 34th Colloquium on Generative Grammar
Short Title: CGG34

Date: 07-May-2025 - 09-May-2025
Location: Madrid, Spain
Contact: Olga Borik
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/cgg34

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

The Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG) is an annual conference held in the Iberian peninsula since 1991. It provides a platform for linguists working in Generative grammar all over the world to come together and discuss current trends and topics in syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology and their interfaces. The 34th Colloquium on Generative Grammar (CGG34) will be organized by the National University of Distance Education (UNED) and will take place as an in-person meeting from May 7 to May 9, 2025 in Madrid, Spain.

CGG34 Programme

MAY 7 (WEDNESDAY)

8:30 REGISTRATION OPENS

9:00–9:30 OPENING SESSION
9:30–10:10 The interplay of v and Voice: Evidence from transitivity variation
Irina Burukina (University of Florida), Marcel den Dikken (Centre of Linguistics, University of Lisbon/Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics) & Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland)
10:10–10:50 Definite headless RCs in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese
Carla Bombi (University of Potsdam) & Giuseppe Varaschin (Humboldt University)

10:50–11:10 COFFEE BREAK

11:10–12:10 INVITED SPEAKER: Martina Wiltschko (ICREA/UPF)
The acquisition of interactional language and what it tells us about the architecture of grammar
12:10–12:50 Extragrammatical agreement
Juan Romero (Universidad de Extremadura) & Javier Ormazabal
12:50–13:30 Against Input Generalisation
Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge)

13:30–15:00 LUNCH

15:00–15:40 Acquiring Negative Concord and Double Negation in L2: a Study on Learners of Mandarin and Spanish
Jin Yan, Anna Gavarró & Elena Pagliarini (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
15:40–16:20 Parsing of Subject-Verb Agreement by German Infants
Alejandra Keidel Fernández & Anna Gavarró Algueró (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

16:20–17:20 COFFEE BREAK & POSTERS

WORKSHOP
17:20–18:00 Fundamental frequency as a cue to Syntax-Phonology interface in Spanish
Mario Casado-Mancebo (UNED)
18:00–18:40 Italian Clitic Right Dislocation: A prosodic experiment
Guido Formichi (IUSS, Pavia)
18:40–19:20 Reconsidering the model of grammar: PF after LF
Jan-Wouter Zwart (University of Groningen)

MAY 8 (THURSDAY)

WORKSHOP
9:00–10:00 INVITED SPEAKER: María del Mar Vanrell Bosch (UIB)
The realization of focus in German-dominant heritage speakers of European Spanish
10:00–10:40 Intra-sentential code switching at the syntax-prosody interface
Mandy Cartner & Julia Horvath (Tel Aviv University)
10:40–11:20 Complex wh-phrases in Italian wh-questions: the role of focus, D-linking, lexical restriction and prosodic heaviness
Maria Francesca Ferin (University of Siena), Valentina Bianchi (University of Siena), Giuliano Bocci (University of Siena), Silvio Cruschina (University of Helsinki)

11:20–11:40 COFFEE BREAK

WORKSHOP
11:40–12:20 Focus Fronting in Italian, Spanish, and English. An Experimental Study on Information and Corrective Focus from an Interface Perspective
Tania Stortini (University of Urbino)
12:20–13:00 The Grammar of Phonological Phrasing in Catalan
Nick Kalivoda & Francesc Torres-Tamarit (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
13:00–13:40 The Focus Gap: Edge coordination, Correction, and Constituent Negation in Irish and Italian
Nicola D'Antuono (University of Padua)

13:40–15:00 LUNCH

15:00–15:40 Animacy effects in the interactions between SEarb and accusative clitics
Monica Irimia (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) & Anna Pineda (University of Barcelona)
15:40–16:20 BE and the domain of matching in ellipsis
Richard Stockwell (Ulster University)
16:20–17:00 Hyperraising and subject positions in Tamil, English, and Romance
Daniel Greeson & Sandhya Sundaresan (Stony Brook University)

17:00–17:30 COFFEE BREAK

17:30–18:10 Chinese Nominal Structure: on Plural Marker and Pronouns
Chenghao Hu & Victor Junnan Pan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
18:10–18:50 Nominal Copular sentences: an experimental investigation in three reading paradigms
Matteo Greco, Anna Teresa Porrini, Veronica D'Alesio, Andrea Moro (IUSS Pavia)

18:50–19:15 Business meeting

MAY 9 (FRIDAY)

9:30–10:10 Negation and the adjectival domain: The interaction of 'no' with '-ble' adjectives in Spanish
Raquel González Rodríguez & Laura Ros García (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
10:10–10:50 Long wh-questions in French: Negation doesn’t intervene where?
Lena Baunaz (Université Côte d’Azur/BCL, UMR 7320), Giuliano Bocci (University of Siena), Ur Shlonsky (Université de Genève)
10:50–11:30 A collective/singulative analysis of the iterative/semelfactive distinction in Slavic
Marcin Wągiel (ZAS/Masaryk University/University of Wrocław) & Natalia Shlikhutka (University of Wrocław)

11:30-12:30 COFFEE BREAK & POSTERS

12:30-13:30 INVITED SPEAKER: Klaus Abels (UCL)
The difficulty of moving right - from Heavy NP Shift to Universal 20
13:30–14:10 Split INFL and Feature Inheritance: Focus Fronting and Parametric Variation
Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández & Jiahui Yang (University of Sevilla)
14:10-14:50 A case for the Clause-Mate Condition
Ekaterina Georgieva, Franc Marušič, Petra Mišmaš & Rok Žaucer (University of Nova Gorica)
14:50–15:30 Refining the Borer-Chomsky Conjecture: Redundancy and Deficiency
Dalina Kallulli (University of Vienna) & Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge)

15:30-15:45 CLOSING

POSTER SESSION DAY 1:

Quasi-names in Akan -- New semantic fieldwork on definite bare nouns
Carla Bombi (University of Potsdam), Dina Adom Mac-Arthur (University of Göttingen)

On the origin of the vowel system of loanwords in Central Catalan
Teresa Cabré (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Korean VNP-Preposing and English VP-Fronting: A Verum Focus-Based Analysis
Gui-Sun Moon (Hansung University)

Negation and finiteness in Mandarin Chinese
Waltraud Paul (Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l’Asie orientale), Gillian Ramchand (Oxford University), Shanshan Yan (Peking University)

Habituality through event iteration
Jon Ander Mendia (Ikerbasque UPV/EHU)

VSO order in Romance: a Labeling theory approach
Lorena Castillo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), M. Pilar Colomina (UNIR)

Cross-linguistic asymmetries in the acquisition of Principle B: evidence from German
Nevena Klobucar (Ulster University), Esther Rinke (Goethe University)

Nominal licensing is optional: Finite vs. non-finite clauses
Irina Burukina (University of Florida)

Root Infinitives in Child Language: A Split-Feature Inheritance Approach
Tommaso Sgrizzi (IUSS Pavia)

POSTER SESSION DAY 3:

Adverbial agreement in Spanish: the case of demasiado and poco
Elisabeth González Ortega; Isabel Pérez Jiménez (UAH)

Contrast over Animacy? Overt Personal Pronoun Subject Anaphora in Adult Romanian
Adina Camelia Bleotu, Ekaterina Levina

Negation and participant deverbal nominalizations in Spanish
Laura Ros García (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

To D or not to D? Overt and covert nominal marking in Slavic
Luca Molinari (University of Wrocław) & Daria Seres (University of Graz)

Structural account for the argument alternation: the case of Terek Kumyk nominalizations
Paramonova Daria

Low applicatives in Catalan: the case of veure-hi
Cristina Real Puigdollers (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

The syntax and semantics of D&D coordination
Norberto Moreno-Quibén; Isabel Pérez-Jiménez; Ana Romero-Núñez (UAH)

-oj, let's derive the form and meaning of complex numerical expressions in Polish
Marcin Wągiel (ZAS/Masaryk University/University of Wrocław)