2nd International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification • Program

Monday, 1 September 2025

13:00‒13:45
Registration

13:45‒14:00
Welcome & opening remarks

14:00‒14:40
Cecilia Fernández Altonaga (University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) & Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (UPPA))
Modification is not (always) predication: Evidence from Basque

14:40‒15:20
Syed Shahrier Rahman (University of Dhaka) & Mithun Banerjee (University of Helsinki)
Clause structure and NP modification in Bangla: Syntax‒semantics interface

15:20‒16:00
Mónika Varga (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics)
From minimizing to modification: Diachronic evolution, variation, and change of alig, aligha ‘hardly, probably (not)’

BREAK

16:30‒17:30
Keynote address: Andrea Szávó (University of Debrecen)
On the synchrony and diachrony of grammaticalized result phrases in Hungarian

Tuesday, 2 September 2025

10:00‒10:40
Ivona Kučerová (McMaster University) & Edgar Onea (University of Graz)
What you are presented with is not what you predicate over

10:40‒11:20
Henry Chang (Academia Sinica) & Marie M. Yeh (National Tsing Hua University)
Interrogative hows as syntactic predicates: Evidence from Tsou and Saisiyat

11:20‒12:00
Lieke Hendriks (University of Göttingen)
Disambiguating Dutch pseudopartitives

LUNCH

14:00‒14:40
Yangyu Sun & Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca)
The hypothesis of topic-relativization

14:40‒15:20
Viktor Köhlich (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Japanese te-no clauses as non-finite noun-modifying clauses

BREAK

16:00‒17:00
Keynote address: Hideki Kishimoto (Kobe University)
On the geometry of clause structure and extended predicate formation: Arguments from Japanese

17:00‒17:10
Closing remarks