Talks

• Amaechi, Mary (2026) Copular clause typology: Insights from African languages. Invited talk at the Inaugural Young Africanists' Research Network (YARN) workshop. University of Göttingen, March 19-20.
• Heycock, Caroline (2026) Mistaken Identities. Invited talk, Leiden University, March 13. Handout
• Heycock, Caroline (2026) Why aren’t you your (own) cook? What pronominal binding does and doesn’t tell us about nominal predication. Paper presented at the 50th Penn Linguistic Conference. University of Pennsylvania. Feb 28 to Mar 1. Handout
• Lam, Esther (2026) Specificational copular sentences: New evidence from Cantonese. Paper presented at the 50th Penn Linguistic Conference. University of Pennsylvania. Feb 28 to Mar 1.
• Amaechi, Mary & Daniel Otaru (2026) Copular clause typology and pronominal elements: Insights from Osanyin. Invited talk at Workshop 4 on Finding Patterns through fieldwork in African languages at the 48th DGfS, Trier University, February 25-27.
• Zamparelli, Roberto & Caroline Heycock (2026) Predicative relatives. Poster presented at the 51st Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG51), University of Udine, February 12-14. Poster (.pdf)
• Zamparelli, Roberto (2026) On the asymmetry of space and time with verbs of predication. Paper presented at the 51st Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG51), University of Udine, February 12-14. Handout '(.pdf)
• Heycock, Caroline (2025) Argument alternation in (copular) predication. Invited talk at the International Argument Alternation Workshop (IAAW), Kobe University, 16–17 July 2025.
• Hartmann, Jutta M. & Caroline Heycock (2025) PCC Effects in German? New experimental data for ditransitives and identity sentences. Talk presented in the Morpho-Syntax-Semantics Colloquium, Potsdam University, May 13, 2025.
• Hartmann, Jutta M. & Caroline Heycock (2025) Agree, Feature gluttony and Person Hierarchy in Copular Clauses: Evidence from German. Poster presented at GLOW 47, Goethe University Frankfurt (Main), March 27, 2025.
• Isabelle Roy (2025). Predication and Modification: Issues for Adjectives and Nouns. talk given at OASIS4 (Ontology as Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics) conference. York, UK. January 15-17, 2025.
• Caroline Heycock & Jutta Hartmann (2025) "Can I follow her?” On finding and not finding person hierarchy effects. Paper presented at International Paper presented at the 50th Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG50), University of Padova, 20-21 February.
• Jutta Hartmann & Caroline Heycock (2025) Feature gluttony in copular clauses in German? New data from Mistaken Identity Sentences. Paper presented at International Presentation at Leipzig University, Colloquium "Cyclic Optimization", February 5, 2025.
• Heycock, Caroline (2024) “Apposition and the limits of predication”. Paper presented at International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification. Nihon University, Tokyo. 16-17 November.
• Roy, Isabelle (2024) “Issues on adjectives and nouns in predication and modification”. Paper presented at International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification. Nihon University, Tokyo. 16-17 November.
• Acedo-Matellán, V and Roy, I. (2024) “Adjectives in an adjective-deficient language: Wolof”. Paper presented at International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification. Nihon University, Tokyo. 16-17 November.