This page contains the abstracts of the papers to be presented at the HPSG 2020 conference. We uploaded the videos for those authors who decided for a prerecorded session + Q&A. The final papers can be found in the online proceedings.

The talks are listed consistently with the order in which they will be presented. The actual times of the talks and QA sessions can be found in the calendar-based schedule (which you can download and adjust to your time zone automatically, but which does not allow inserting video links!).

Invited Speakers

• Gert Webelhuth (Goethe University Frankfurt): On C-command Constraints in German: a Corpus-Based Investigation (live presentation)
  • Slides
• Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen): Enhanced Universal Dependencies and its relationship to HPSG (prerecorded)
  • Video and slides
• Laura Michaelis (University of Colorado Boulder): Null Instantiation in Sign-Based Construction Grammar (Rui Chaves, Paul Kay & Laura Michaelis; prerecorded)
  • Video

Regular conference talks

Day 1 August 17

• Stefan Müller (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin): Introduction
• Liesbeth Augustinus (University of Leuven): A head-supplement analysis of Dutch quotative van
  • Video
  • Slides
• Frank Richter (Goethe University Frankfurt): Recursive adjectival modification in CLLRS
  • Video
  • Slides
• (live) Robert Borsley (University of Essex & Bangor University) On a family of Welsh constructions
  • Slides
• Petter Haugereid (Western Norway Univ. of Applied Sciences): An incremental approach to verb clusters in German
  • Video
  • Slides
• Olga Zamaraeva & Guy Emerson (University of Washington & University of Cambridge): Multiple Question Fronting without Relational Constraints: An analysis of Russian as a basis for cross-linguistic modeling
  • Video
  • Slides

Day 2 August 18

• Shuichi Yatabe (University of Tokyo): The internal readings of symmetrical adjectives and adverbials
  • Video
• (live) Manfred Sailer & Annika Dörner (Goethe University Frankfurt & University of Erfurt): A smurf-based analysis of placeholder expressions
  • Slides
• (live) Frank Van Eynde & Jong-Bok Kim (University of Leuven & Kyung Hee University): Pseudo-partitives in English
  • Slides

Day 3 August 19

• David Gyorfi (University of Surrey): Challenges in Kazakh Auxiliary selection
  • Video
  • Slides
• (live) Jean-Pierre Koenig & Karin Michelson (University at Buffalo): What does being a noun or verb mean?
  • Slides
• (live) Gabrielle Aguila-Multner & Berthold Crysmann (U Paris & CNRS – LLF (UMR 7110) – U Paris): Clitic climbing in French complex predicates: A periphrasis account
  • Slides