Thursday, May 3


  • 13.30-14.00 Registration and Introduction
  • 14.00-15.00 Cecilia Poletto, invited speaker (University of Frankfurt/Main)
    Interaction among clitics: subject, object and negation
  • 15.00-15.30 Tea Break
  • 15.30-16.15 Susann Fischer (University of Hamburg) & Esther Rinke (University of Frankfurt/Main)
    Diachronic Perspective of Romance Clitic Doubling
  • 16.15-17.00 Héctor Fernández-Alcalde (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/CCHS-CSIC)
    Clitic Doubling and Argument Structure in Spanish
  • 17.00-17.30 Tea Break
  • 17.30-18.15 Hasan Basri (Tadulako University) & Daniel Finer (Stony Brook University)
    Absolutive Clitics in South Sulawesi: Position, Host, and Spellout
  • 18.15-19.00 Joost Kremers (University of Göttingen)
    Clitics in a Parallel Architecture
  • 20:00 Dinner (Thien Kim)




Friday, May 4


  • 9.30-10.30 Željko Bošković, invited speaker (University of Connecticut)
    tba
  • 10.30-11.15 Jelena Runic (University of Connecticut)
    Cliticization Phenomena in Non-Standard Serbian and Slovenian Dialects
  • 11.15-11.45 Coffee Break
  • 11.45-12.30 Krzysztof Migdalski (University of Wroclaw)
    Diachronic Interactions between the Syntax of Clitics and the Availability of TP in Slavic
  • 12.30-13.15 Alexandr Rosen & Jirka Hana (University of Prague)
    Haplology of Reflexive Clitics in Czech
  • 13.15-14.45 Lunch
  • 14.45-15.30 Roumyana Slabakova, Tania leal Mendez (University of Iowa) & Jason Rothman (University of Florida)
    Clitic-doubled Dislocations in Heritage Spanish Competence
  • 15.30-16.15 Ana R. Luís (University of Coimbra) & Ryo Otoguro (Waseda University)
    Non-isomorphism and Microvariation: A Comparative Analysis of Pronominal Clitics in European and Brazilian Portuguese
  • 16.15-16.45 Tea Break
  • 16.45-17.30 Diego Pescarini (University of Padua)
    Clitic Sequences in (Italo)Romance: Split vs. Cluster Configurations
  • 17.30-18.30 Martin Haspelmath, invited speaker (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
    tba
  • 20:00 Conference Dinner (Bullerjahn)



Saturday, May 5


  • 9.30-10.30 David Erschler (MPI for Developmental Biology & University of Tübingen)
    Person Case Constraints beyond the Dative and Accusative: Evidence from Digor Ossetic
  • 10.30-11.15 Martin Walkow (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
    Locating Variation in Person Restrictions
  • 11.15-11.45 Coffee Break
  • 11.45-12.30 Markus Bader, Sascha Dümig & Friederike Koops (University of Frankfurt/Main)
    The Position of Object Pronouns in the German Middlefield: On the Interplay of Performance and Grammatical Factors
  • 12.30-13.15 Marta Tryzna (Gulf University for Science and Technology, Mishref/Kuwait)
    Acquisition of Object Clitics in Child Polish: Evidence for Discurse Linking
  • 13.15-14.45 Lunch
  • 14.45-15.30 Linda Escobar & Vincent Torrens (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia)
    The Acquisition of Aspectual ‘se’ in Spanish Clitics
  • 15.30-16.30 Natascha Müller (invited speaker, University of Wuppertal)
    tba