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SyNCC Programme

SyNCC 2026 Conference, 23-24 September 2026

You can download a .pdf version of the programme here.

Wednesday, 23 September 2026

9:00–9:20
Registration

9:20–9:30
Opening

9:30–10:10
Sebastian Zawada (Polish Academy of Sciences) & Adam Przepiórkowski (University of Warsaw & Polish Academy of Sciences)
Non-canonical agreement in predicational copular clauses: Evidence from Polish

10:10–10:50
Stanislao Zompì (Universität Potsdam)
Case as a feature-gluttony repair in Italian assumed/mistaken-identity copular clauses

10:50–11:15
Coffee break

11:15–11:55
Luke James Adamson (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft)
Nominal predicates and gender

11:55–12:55
Susana Bejar (University of Toronto)
Invited talk: TBA

12:55–14:00
Lunch break

14:00–15:00
Poster session (see below)

15:00–15:40
Masashi Harada (Williams College)
Context-Dependent Interpretations and Case in Copular Sentences

15:40–16:20
Paul Roger Bassong & Edmond Ossoko (University of Yaounde 1)
Focus movement and criterial freezing in copular clauses in Bantu

16:20–16:40
Coffee break

16:40–17:20
Esther Lam (University of Edinburgh)
Specificational sentences are identity sentences: New evidence from Muong

17:20–18:00
Isabelle Roy (Nantes Université), Ekadish Bal (University of Mumbai), Marina Chumakina (Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey), Aritz Irurtzun (IKER, CNRS) & Daniel Shevchenko (USC)
Predicational vs. Specificational Copular Sentences: Evidence from Tsova-Tush

19:00–
Dinner: Nichtschwimmer, Arndtstrasse 6-8, 33602 Bielefeld

Thursday, 24 September 2026

9:30–10:10
Denis Creissels (Université Lumiére (Lyon II))
Typologically unusual properties of nominal copular clauses in Mande languages

10:10–10:50
Piyapath T Spencer (Universität Konstanz)
Why the Copula Appears: Predicate Type and Copula Selection in Thai

10:50–11:15
Coffee break

11:15–11:55
Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh) & Sten Vikner (Aarhus University)
Danish reflexives and the limits of connectivity in copular clauses

11:55–12:55
Isabelle Charnavel (University of Geneva)
Invited talk: Indexical binding and agreement in French: what do they reveal about copular clauses?

12:55–14:00
Lunch break

14:00–14:40
Faruk Akkus (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Ouras Aljani (Nantes Université), Maris Camilleri (University of Essex), Lina Choueiri (American University of Beirut), Isabelle Roy (Nantes Université) & Ur Shlonsky (University of Geneva)
Specificational copular clauses in Semitic: Pron, word order and focus

14:40–15:20
Sebastian Zawada (Polish Academy of Sciences)
The fine structure of Slavic pronominal copula construction: Empirical investigations in Polish

15:20–15:45
Coffee break

15:45–16:25
Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh) & Roberto Zamparelli (University of Trento)
Predicative Relatives as Manner Relatives

16:25–17:30
Discussion

17:30–17:40
Closing

Posters