This page contains the abstracts of the papers to be presetned at the HPSG 2020 conference. We uploaded the videos for those authors who decided for a prerecorded session + Q&A.

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) Gabriel Aguila-Multner & Berthold Crysmann (U Paris & CNRS – LLF (UMR 7110) – U Paris): Clitic climbing in French complex predicates: A periphrasis account
  • Slides