Events – LeibnizDream

Upcoming

October 10, 2025: Letizia Raminelli, Desiré Carioti, Jakob Wuensch, and Maria Teresa Guasti will present “Assessing scalar meaning: a first exploratory study on some Italian scalar-additive focus particles” at MEDAL Conference, University of Tartu. More info on the MEDAL website.
October 10, 2025: Silvia Curti, Desiré Carioti, and Maria Teresa Guasti will present “Do children have different verb representations than adults? Investigating event culmination in typically developing monolingual Italian children” at MEDAL Conference, University of Tartu. More info on the MEDAL website.
November 6-7, 2025: Anastasia Parini, Beatrice Giustolisi, and Maria Teresa Guasti will present the poster “LIS comprehension in deaf L1 and hearing L2 signers: methodological issues” at the Workshop Sign Language Grammars, Parsing Models, & the Brain at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences. More info on the Workshop website.
November 8, 2025: Letizia Raminelli, Elizabeth Mirtha Heredia Murillo, Desiré Carioti, and Maria Teresa Guasti will present the poster “The acquisition of the scalar and additive presuppositions of persino (‘even’) and neppure (‘not even’) in child Italian” at BUCLD 50, Boston University. More info on the Boston University website.
November 8, 2025: Chiara Saponaro, Desiré Carioti, and Maria Teresa Guasti will present the poster “Understanding distributive quantifiers: Evidence from Italian children’s comprehension and production” at BUCLD 50, Boston University. More info on the Boston University website.
November 9, 2025: Yangyu Sun, Chiara Dal Farra, Aurore Gonzalez, Johannes Hein, Johnson F. Ilori, Tamar Makharoblidze, Chiara Saponaro, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Uli Sauerland, and Maria Teresa Guasti will present the poster “A comparison of children’s relative clause production in Georgian, Italian and Yoruba” at BUCLD 50, Boston University. More info on the Boston University website.
December 3-5, 2025: Yangyu Sun, Chiara Dal Farra, Chiara Saponaro, Aurore Gonzalez, Johannes Hein, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Uli Sauerland, and Maria Teresa Guasti will present the poster “Non-subject relative clauses are even more annoying than we thought! Production of four types of RC from Italian-speaking adults and children” at Going Romance 2025, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. More info on the University of Venice website.

Past

2025

September 13, 2025: Chiara Saponaro & Desiré Carioti presented “Distributive or collective interpretations of definite plural subjects: Which one is more basic?” at GALA 17, University of Tours. More info on the GALA website.
September 13, 2025: Anastasia Parini & Beatrice Giustolisi presented “Italian Sign Language (LIS) comprehension in school-aged Deaf LIS L1 Signers and Hearing LIS L2 Learners” at GALA 17, University of Tours. More info on the GALA website.
September 12, 2025: Johannes Hein presented the poster “Inflection and NP-ellipsis in the acquisition of German: Some insights from a corpus study” at GALA 17, University of Tours. More info on the GALA website.
September 12, 2025: Maria Teresa Guasti, Yangyu Sun, Lucy Zhao, Shenai Hu, and Xiao Jie presented the poster “The acquisition of wh-ex-situ and in-situ questions in Mandarin” at GALA 17, University of Tours. More info on the GALA website.
September 12, 2025: Cory Bill, Imke Driemel, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Napoleon Katsos, and Uli Sauerland presented the poster “A cross-linguistic investigation of children’s negative indefinite production” at GALA 17, University of Tours. More info on the GALA website.
September 11, 2025: Letizia Raminelli, Elizabeth Heredia Murillo & Desiré Carioti presented “On the acquisition of scalar and additive presuppositions: evidence from Italian persino ‘even’ and neppure ‘not even'” at GALA 17, University of Tours. More info on the GALA website.
September 11, 2025: Elaine Grolla, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Andreea Nicolae, Artemis Alexiadou, and Uli Sauerland presented “Resumption in Matrix Wh-Questions” at GALA 17, University of Tours. More info on the GALA website.
September 8, 2025. Chiara Saponaro, Desiré Carioti, and Maria Teresa Guasti presented “Ambiguous paths to meaning: A developmental gap in production” at Child Language Symposium (CLS2025), University of Reading. More info on the CLS easy chair site.
September 8, 2025. Silvia Curti, Desiré Carioti, and Maria Teresa Guasti presented “Do children have different verb representations than adults? Investigating event culmination in typically developing monolingual Italian children” at Child Language Symposium (CLS2025), University of Reading. More info on the CLS easy chair site.
September 2, 2025: Yangyu Sun & Maria Teresa Guasti presented “The hypothesis of topic-relativization” at the 2nd International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification, The Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics. More info on the website of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
July 19, 2025: Letizia Raminelli, Elizabeth Heredia Murillo, Desiré Carioti & Maria Teresa Guasti presented “On the acquisition of scalar and additive presuppositions: evidence from Italian persino ‘even’ and neppure ‘not even'” at XPRAG Fest 2025, ZAS Berlin. More info on the XPRAG Google Site.
July 13, 2025: Uli Sauerland and Kazuko Yatsushiro presented “Perspective Dependence: An Exception to Kuroda’s Generalization” at the Japanese Society For Language Sciences 26th Annual International Conference, Ehime University, Matsuyama. More info on the JSLS website.
July 12, 2025: Kazuko Yatsushiro, Elaine Grolla, Andreea Nicolae, Artemis Alexiadou, Maria Teresa Guasti, and Uli Sauerland presented “Resumption in Matrix Wh-Questions” at the Japanese Society For Language Sciences 26th Annual International Conference, Ehime University, Matsuyama. More info on the JSLS website.
June 13, 2025: M.T. Guasti, S. Hu, X. Jie, L. Zhao, and Y. Sun presented “Wh-Questions in in situ languages” at the Workshop of the Fondazione Marica De Vincenzi, University of Rome 3, Rome.
June 5, 2025: Artemis Alexiadou was invited to present “The syntax of nominalization revisited” at Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (Olinco) at Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. More info on the Olinco website.
May 24, 2025: Artemis Alexiadou was invited to present “Nominalization and argument strucutre: inheritance or reduction?” at Innovations in Linguistics, Beijing.
May 23, 2025: Silvia Curti, Desiré Carioti, and Maria Teresa Guasti presented “Cross-linguistic Lexical Task (CLT): uno strumento di valutazione del lessico espressivo e ricettivo” at Communication & Language Acquisition Studies in Typical & Atypical populations (CLASTA), University of Bologna. More info on the CLASTA website.
May 3, 2025: Anna Kampanarou and Artemis Alexiadou presented “Inflectional and Prepositional Genitives in Standard Modern Greek” at 45th Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. More info on the AUTh website.
May 3, 2025: Artemis Alexiadou was invited to present “Covert desideratives in Greek: the role of indefinite clitic doubling” at 45th Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. More info on the AUTh website.
April 25, 2025: Mariya Burbelko, Oksana Popkova, and Uli Sauerland presented “Investigating the Grammar of Ukrainian Preschool Children Living in Berlin: Preliminary Results” at Lexico-Grammatical Innovations in Modern Slavic Languages, 12th International Conference, Dnipro NU.
April 14, 2025: Maria Teresa Guasti was invited to present “What children’s encoding of thoughts may reveal” at Instituto Universitario di Studi Superiori, Pavia.
March 28, 2025: Cory Bill, Imke Driemel, Andreea Nicolae, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Napoleon Katsos, and Uli Sauerland presented “Not all children find no subjects hard: A cross-linguistic investigation of children’s negative indefinite production” at GLOW 47, Goethe University Frankfurt. More info on the GLOW website.
March 27, 2025: Silvia Silleresi, Itai Bassi, Abigail Bimpeh, Imke Driemel, Anastasia Nuworsu, and Johnson F. Ilori presented the poster “Pronoun preferences unmasked: an experimental study on Ewe and Yoruba” at GLOW 47, Goethe University Frankfurt. More info on the GLOW website.
February 21, 2025: Letizia Raminelli, Elizabeth Heredia-Murillo, and Desiré Carioti presented the poster “The acquisition of scalar and additive inferences in child Italian: experimental evidence from persino ‘even’ and neppure ‘not even’” at IGG 50, University of Padova. More info on the website of University of Padova.
February 20, 2025: Artemis Alexiadou was invited to present “Nominalization: the view from syntactic approaches to word formation” at LUCL Colloquium, Leiden University. More info on the website of Leiden University.
February 20, 2025: Chiara Dal Farra, Aurore Gonzalez, Johannes Hein, Silvia Silleresi, Kazuko Yatsushiro, and Uli Sauerland presented “Long-distance wh-questions in Italian: a view from acquisition” at IGG 50, University of Padova. More info on the website of University of Padova.
February 20, 2025: Silvia Curti and Desiré Carioti presented the poster “On (non)culmination. Assessing Italian native-speaker adults’ interpretation of telic-perfective sentences” at IGG 50, University of Padova. More info on the website of University of Padova.
February 20, 2025: Silvia Silleresi, Itai Bassi, Abigail Bimpeh, Imke Driemel, Anastasia Nuworsu, Johnson F. Ilori, and Maria Teresa Guasti presented the poster “Understanding pronouns in Ewe and Yoruba: an experimental study” at IGG 50, University of Padova. More info on the website of University of Padova.
February 20, 2025: Yangyu Sun and Maria Teresa Guasti presented the poster “Topic-relativization: the ‘First’ and ‘Last Resort'” at IGG 50, University of Padova. More info on the website of University of Padova.
January 27, 2025: Artemis Alexiadou was invited to present “Superfluous do in child English”, joint work with Fabienne Martin and Ivona Ilic at the lecture series Linguistik an der Philologischen Fakultät, Universität Leipzig. More info on the website of Universität Leipzig.

2024

December 20, 2024: Silvia Silleresi, Itai Bassi, Abigail Bimpeh, Imke Driemel, Anastasia Nuworsu, and Maria Teresa Guasti presented “The interpretation of logophoric and ordinary pronouns in Ewe: an experimental study” at Amsterdam Colloquium 2024. More info on the Amsterdam Colloquium website.
December 19, 2024: Paloma Jeretic, Aurore Gonzalez, Itai Bassi, Kazuko Yatsushiro, and Uli Sauerland presented “DUAL as a core concept and the pronounceability of alternatives” at Amsterdam Colloquium 2024. More info on the Amsterdam Colloquium website.
December 5, 2024: Silvia Curti, Desiré Carioti, and Maria Teresa Guasti presented “Event culmination in typically developing monolingual Italian children: an exploratory study” at Going Romance 38, Universidade do Minho, Braga. More info on the Going Romance website.
December 4, 2024: Chiara Saponaro, Desiré Carioti, and Maria Teresa Guasti presented the poster “Thinking about Distributivity: What do Italian Children Have to Say?” at Going Romance 38, Universidade do Minho, Braga. More info on the Going Romance website.
November 29, 2024: Artemis Alexiadou was invited to present “Covert desideratives: the view from (dialects of) Greek” at 8^th Croatian Syntax Days, Voice in Croatian and other languages, Osijek.
October 24, 2024: Silvia Curti, Desiré Carioti, and Maria Teresa Guasti presented “Event culmination in typically developing monolingual Italian children: an exploratory study” at the 15^th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics (Ex-Ling), Université Paris Cité, Paris. More info on the Ex-Ling website.
September 14, 2024: Irene Amato and Artemis Alexiadou presented the poster “Overt path in motion events: child language as a magnifier for event structure” at Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA) 16 at NOVA University of Lisbon. More info on the GALA website.
September 13, 2024: Letizia Raminelli and Desiré Carioti gave a talk on “‘Two is better than one, isn’t it?’ Exploring the role of overt negation in the acquisition of Italian ‘nessuno”’ at Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA) 16 at NOVA University of Lisbon. More info on the GALA website.
September 12, 2024: Johannes Hein, Imke Driemel, Fabienne Martin, and
Yining Nie gave a talk on “Overt PAST on irregular verbs in child
English due to secondary feature negligence.” at Generative Approaches
to Language Acquisition (GALA) 16 at NOVA University of Lisbon. More info on the GALA website.
September 12, 2024: Chiara Dal Farra, Silvia Silleresi, Fabienne Martin, Yining Nie, Artemis Alexiadou, and Maria Teresa Guasti gave a talk on “Does occluding the agent’s body affect Italian children’s production of argument structure?” at Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA) 16 at NOVA University of Lisbon. More info on the GALA website.
September 7, 2024: Silvia Curti, Desiré Carioti, and Maria Teresa Guasti presented the poster “Assessing Italian monolingual adults’ interpretation of telic-perfective sentences: an exploratory study” at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), University of Edinburgh. More info on the AMLaP website.
September 5, 2024: Chiara Saponaro, Desiré Carioti, and Maria Teresa Guasti presented the poster “When Formal Semantics Meets Cognitive Development: A Glimpse into Distributivity” at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), University of Edinburgh. More info on the AMLaP website.
July 13-26,2024: Artemis Alexiadou taught the course “Polydefiniteness (Week 1)” at CreteLing Summer School of Linguistics, University of Crete, Greece. More info on the CreteLing website.
July 13, 2024: Paloma Jeretic, Itai Bassi, Aurore Gonzalez, Marie-Christine Meyer, Kazuko Yatsushiro, and Uli Sauerland presented “A dual key concept, phonologically realized or not” at the Japanese Society for Language Sciences 25th Annual International Conference (JSLS 2024), Shizuoka. More info on the JSLS website.
July 6, 2024: Aurore Gonzalez, Cory Bill, and Imke Driemel presented “Same but different: Conjunctive expressions in Georgian and Hungarian” at Form and Meaning of Coordination, Göttingen. More info on the website of Georg-August University Göttingen.
June 28, 2024: Paloma Jeretic, Itai Bassi, Aurore Gonzalez, Marie-Christine Meyer, Kazuko Yatsushiro, and Uli Sauerland presented the poster “Core Concepts and Indirect Alternatives: On the Anti-Duality of Quantifiers” at the Workshop on Speech Act Related Operators (SARO), organized by ZAS. More info on the ZAS website.
June 22, 2024: Uli Sauerland presented “Kinder und große Sprachmodelle der KI: ein Vergleich” at Long Night of the Sciences, Berlin.
June 19, 2024: Silvia Curti, Desiré Carioti, and Maria Teresa Guasti presented “Assessing Italian Monolingual Adults’ interpretation of telic-perfective sentences: an exploratory study” at Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics (LingO 2024) at the University of Oxford. More info on the website of University of Oxford.
June 14, 2024: Letizia Raminelli, Desiré Carioti, Jakob Wünsch, and Maria Teresa Guasti presented a poster on “Assessing scalar meaning: a first exploratory study on some Italian focus particles” at Experiments in Linguistics Meaning (ELM 3) at the University of Pennsylvania. More info on the ELM website.
June 13, 2024: Chiara Saponaro, Desiré Carioti, and Maria Teresa Guasti presented a poster on “Talking about Distributivity: How Cognitive Factors Influence Children’s Language” at Experiments in Linguistics Meaning (ELM 3) at the University of Pennsylvania. More info on the ELM website.
June 13, 2024: Silvia Curti, Desiré Carioti, and Maria Teresa Guasti presented a poster on “Do all Telic-Perfective Sentences (Always) Culminate? An Exploratory Study on Event Culmination in Italian Monolingual Adults” at Experiments in Linguistics Meaning (ELM 3) at the University of Pennsylvania. More info on the ELM website.
June 7, 2024: Irene Amato and Artemis Alexiadou presented “Transparent and redundant productions in child language: the case of Italian motion verbs” at RALFE, Bayonne. More info on the Iker website.
June 7, 2024: Rümeysa Bektaş and Aurore Gonzalez presented the poster “How do children answer polar questions? The view from Turkish” at RALFE, Bayonne. More info on the Iker website.
June 6, 2024: Chiara Saponaro, Desiré Carioti, and Maria Teresa Guasti presented a poster on “Plurals and Preschoolers: How Cognitive and Social Factors Impact the Acquisition of Distributivity” at the IMPRS conference at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen. More info on the IMPRS website.
May 25, 2024: Anastasia Parini presented “The Leibnizdream Italian Sign Language (LIS) acquisition study” at Miniolimpiadi Malnate (VA), organized by Ente Nazionale Sordi Lombardia.
May 11, 2024: Irene Amato and Artemis Alexiadou presented “Overt path in motion events: child language as a magnifier for event structure” at 54th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL). More info on the LSRL website.
April 27, 2024: Artemis Alexiadou was invited to present “All nominalizations big and small: a typology of complex event nominals” at the 60^th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS). More info on the CLS website.
April 23, 2024: Anastasia Parini and Maria Teresa Guasti presented “The Leibnizdream Italian Sign Language (LIS) acquisition study” at University of Milano-Bicocca in collaboration with Ente Nazionale Sordi – Sede Provinciale di Milano.
March 23, 2024: Artemis Alexiadou was invited to present “Building possessive adjectives” at the Workshop on Morphology (WOMP) at Princeton. More info on the Princeton website.
February 23, 2024: Letizia Raminelli, Desiré Carioti, Jakob Wünsch, and Maria Teresa Guasti presented a poster on “Assessing scalar meaning: a first exploratory study on some Italian focus particles” at 49° Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG49). More info on the IGG49 Google Site.
February 23, 2024: I. Driemel, J. Hein, D. Carioti, J. Wünsch, V. Tsakali, A. Alexiadou, U. Sauerland, and M.T. Guasti presented a poster on “Quantifying kind/generic statement preferences across four languages” at 49° Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG49). More info on the IGG49 Google Site.
January 27, 2024: Artemis Alexiadou, Johannes Hein, Ivona Ilić, and Uli Sauerland presented “The third person is present: An argument from determiners in generic statements” at the 54th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 54), MIT. More info on the NELS website.
January 6, 2024: Ivona Ilić presented the poster “Unagreement and Modifiers: Implications for typologies of pronouns” at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). More info on the LSA website.
January 5, 2024: Yining Nie, Fabienne Martin, Chiara Dal Farra and Silvia Silleresi presented the poster “Interpreting causatives: The case of faire se in French and Italian” at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). More info on the LSA website.

2023

December 8-9, 2023: Artemis Alexiadou, Johannes Hein, Ivona Ilić, and Uli Sauerland presented “The third person is present: An argument from determiners in generic statements” at the Workshop Issues in the Syntax and Semantics of Definiteness, University of Bucharest.
December 1, 2023: Fabienne Martin, Yining Nie, and Artemis Alexiadou presented “A prepositional cycle in French” at Going Romance, Nijmegen University. More info on the conference website.
November 30, 2023: Letizia Raminelli, Desiré Carioti, Jakob Wünsch and Maria Teresa Guasti presented “Assessing scalar meaning: a first exploratory study on some Italian focus particle” at Going Romance 37, Nijmegen University. More info on the conference website.
November 30, 2023: Chiara Saponaro, Desiré Carioti, Martina Riva, and Maria Teresa Guasti presented “Language as a Mirror of the Mind: How Italian Children Think about Distributivity” at Going Romance 37, Nijmegen University. More info on the conference website.
November 28, 2023: Maria Teresa Guasti presented “Strutture concettuali e acquisizione del linguaggio” (Coneptual strutures and language acquisition) at the Formae Mentis conference, University of Pisa. More info on the Formae Mentis Google Site.
November 16, 2023: Chiara Saponaro, Desiré Carioti, Martina Riva, and Maria Teresa Guasti presented “What can children tell us about distributivity and collectivity?” at 8th Bucharest Colloquium of Language Acquisition. More info on the conference website.
November 3, 2023: Artemis Alexiadou presented LeibnizDream at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
September 29, 2023: Chiara Saponaro, Desiré Carioti, Martina Riva, and Maria Teresa Guasti presented “Conceptual Representations of Plurals: A Production Study on the Acquisition of Distributivity and Collectivity” at the 19th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Phonology, Nantes Université, France.
September 22, 2023: Ivona Ilić presented “Unagreement and Clitic Doubling: Realization of strong definiteness in external and internal arguments” at Topic, Focus and Subject: Between grammatical necessity and information-structural load (TFS) in Osnabrück. More info on the TFS Google Site.
September 21, 2023: Artemis Alexiadou was invited to present “Portmanteau sentences: some puzzles and challenges” at SinFonIJA 16 in Brno. More info on the SinFonIJA Google Site.
September 20, 2023: C. Dal Farra, A. Gonzalez, J. Hein, S. Silleresi, K. Yatsushiro, M. T. Guasti, and U. Sauerland presented “The acquisition of long-distance wh-questions in Italian: a production study” at The Romance Turn 11. More info on the conference website.
September 20, 2023: C. Dal Farra, A. Gonzalez, S. Silleresi, D. Carioti, and M. T. Guasti presented “Sì e no: How Italian children answer positive and negative polar questions” at The Romance Turn 11. More info on the conference website.
August 7, 2023: Rümeysa Bektaş presented “Children’s preference for the overt marking of the transition to end-locations in German” at the 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC16) Düsseldorf. More info on the ICLC16 website.
July 20, 2023: Artemis Alexiadou was invited to present “Overmarking in inflectional morphology: the view from language contact and language acquisition” at the 10th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC) Mannheim. More info on the ICLC website.
July 19, 2023: Uli Sauerland presented “Baby steps at the tree nursery: The semantics of conceptual structures” at the workshop “Meaning First and Language Acquisition” at CreteLing Summer School of Linguistics, University of Crete, Greece. More info on the CreteLing website.
July 19, 2023: Maria Teresa Guasti presented “Acquiring language within the meaning first perspective” at the workshop “Meaning First and Language Acquisition” at CreteLing Summer School of Linguistics, University of Crete, Greece. More info on the CreteLing website.
July 19, 2023: Cory Bill presented “Acquiring negative indefinites: A Meaning First perspective” at the workshop “Meaning First and Language Acquisition” at CreteLing Summer School of Linguistics, University of Crete, Greece. More info on the CreteLing website.
July 19, 2023: Johannes Hein presented “Undercompression errors in child English past tense formation and beyond” at the workshop “Meaning First and Language Acquisition” at CreteLing Summer School of Linguistics, University of Crete, Greece. More info on the CreteLing website.
July 19, 2023: Itai Bassi presented “Towards a theory of movement dependencies without movement” at the workshop “Meaning First and Language Acquisition” at CreteLing Summer School of Linguistics, University of Crete, Greece. More info on the CreteLing website.
June 15, 2023: Cory Bill presented “children’s productions of negative indefinites” at the FB2 Multilingualism and grammar circle at ZAS, Berlin.
June 8, 2023: Andreea Nicolae, Paloma Jeretic, Letizia Raminelli &
Uli Sauerland presented “Negative Concord and the Mass/Count Distinction: A Compositional Account” at the workshop logic ˄ grammar ˄ meaning at University of Milano-Bicocca.
June 7, 2023: Cory Bill, Aurore Gonzalez, Imke Driemel, Tamar Makharoblidze & Lilla Pintér presented “Simple vs. complex conjunctions: insights from Georgian and Hungarian” at the workshop logic ˄ grammar ˄ meaning at University of Milano-Bicocca.
May 29, 2023: Maria Teresa Guasti presented “What do children express into language”at Chulalongkorn University Bangkok.
May 12, 2023: Imke Driemel presented “Negative Concord without Agree: Insights from German, Dutch, and English child language” at the Syntax Colloquium at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany. More info on the Institute of Linguistics’s website.
April 13, 2023: Maria Teresa Guasti gave a seminar on “Language Acquisition within Meaning First” at the University of Konstanz.
April 13, 2023: J. Hein, I. Driemel, F. Martin, Y. Nie & A. Alexiadou presented the poster “Errors of redundancy in child English and beyond” at Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 46 in Vienna & Graz. More info on the GLOW website.
April 7, 2023: Yining Nie presented joint work with Fabienne Martin, Chiara Dal Farra, and Silvia Silleresi on “Causatives and ambiguity in French and Italian” at the UCSC S-Circle. More info on the UCSC website.
March 24, 2023: Artemis Alexiadou was invited to present “Double plurals and nominal structure: monolingual and multilingual perspectives” at the Exo-words workshop at Penn State. More info on the workshop’s website.
March 8, 2023: I. Driemel, J. Hein, D. Carioti, J. Wünsch, V. Tsakali, A. Alexiadou, U. Sauerland, and M.T. Guasti presented “Number and definiteness in kinds across languages: Insights from an experimental study” at 45th annual conference of the DGfS 2023, Cologne (Workshop 2). More info on the Uni Köln website.
March 5, 2023: I. Driemel, J. Hein, D. Carioti, J. Wünsch, V. Tsakali, A. Alexiadou, U. Sauerland, and M.T. Guasti presented “Genericity and the too-many-structures puzzle: A cross-linguistic study on English, German, Italian, and Greek” at the 3rd Network Meeting on Definiteness across domains, Wuppertal. More info on the Network’s website.
February 27 – March 3, 2023: seminar week (internal).
January 9-20, 2023: A. A. Bimpeh taught a course on “Tense/Aspect” and a course on “Quantification & Number” at the winter school on ‘Experimental semantic field research’, organized by the University of Ghana at Legon and the University of Potsdam.
January 13, 2023: C. Bill, A. Gonzalez, I. Driemel and T. Makharoblidze presented a poster “As complex as they appear: Children’s comprehension of conjunctive expressions in Georgian” at NELS 53 in Göttingen. More info on the NELS website.
January 12, 2023: I. Driemel, J. Hein, D. Carioti, J. Wünsch, V. Tsakali, A. Alexiadou, U. Sauerland, and M.T. Guasti presented “Genericity and the too-many-structures puzzle: Insights from an experimental study” at NELS 53 in Göttingen. More info on the NELS website.
January 7, 2023: F. Martin, Y. Nie, C. Dal Farra, S. Silleresi, M. T. Guasti and A. Alexiadou presented “Agentivity in child and adult Italian event descriptions” at LSA’s 97th Annual Meeting. More info on the LSA website.

2022

December 20, 2022: C. Bill, A. Gonzalez, I. Driemel and T. Makharoblidze presented “As complex as they appear: Children’s comprehension of conjunctive expressions in Georgian” at Amsterdam Colloquium. More info on the Amsterdam Colloquium website.
December 19, 2022:I. Driemel, J. Hein, D. Carioti, J. Wünsch, V. Tsakali, A. Alexiadou, U. Sauerland, and M.T. Guasti presented “Genericity and the too-many-structures puzzle: Insights from an experimental study” at the 23rd Amsterdam Colloquium. More info on the Amsterdam Colloquium website.
December 1, 2o22: F. Martin, Y. Nie, C. Dal Farra, S. Silleresi, M. T. Guasti and A. Alexiadou presented “Agentivity in child and adult Italian event descriptions” at Going Romance 36, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. More info on the website of the Center for Theoretical Linguistics.
November 5, 2022: C. Dal Farra, A. Gonzalez, J. Hein, S. Silleresi, K. Yatsushiro, U. Sauerland, & M. T. Guasti presented the poster “What do you think we know about Italian children’s long-distance wh-questions?” at BUCLD 47. More info on the BUCLD website.
November 5, 2022: K. Yatsushiro, A. Gonzalez, V. Eturi, C. Dal Farra, J. Hein, G. G. Krishnan, V. Sarma, S. Silleresi, M. T. Guasti, & U. Sauerland presented “Use of null-arguments in wh-questions: the view from Malayalam and Telugu” at BUCLD 47. More info on the BUCLD website.
November 5, 2022: A. Alexiadou & I. Ilic presented a poster on “Acquiring Japanese passives: a production study” at BUCLD 47. More info on the BUCLD website.
November 4, 2022: Silvia Silleresi, Chiara Dal Farra, Yining Nie, Fabienne Martin, Maria-Teresa Guasti, & Artemis Alexiadou presented “The agent bias holds in production too: event descriptions in child Italian” at BUCLD 47. More info on the BUCLD website.
October 21, 2022: F. Martin & A. Alexiadou presented “Commissive productions in child heritage language: A case study of child heritage French in Germany” at Heritage Language Syntax (HLS) 3. More info on the HLS Google Site.
October 20, 2022: Maria Teresa Guasti, Artemis Alexiadou & Uli Sauerland presented “Language acquisition meets Meaning First: Undercompression errors as evidence for conceptual primitives” at XPRAG Wine Gatherings. More info on the XPRAG Google Site.
October 19, 2022: I. Bassi, A. A. Bimpeh, I. Driemel, & S. Silleresi presented “Strict readings of logophors and the LF of anaphoric dependencies” at IATL37. More info on the IATL website.
October 15, 2022: I. Driemel, J. Hein, C. Bill, A. Gonzalez, I. Ilic, P. Jeretič, & A. van Alem presented “Negative concord in Dutch, English and German child language” at CGSW 36, Chicago. More info on the CGSW Google Site.
October 13, 2022: Paloma Jeretič presented “Force and flavor of derived modals: Lessons from an existential modal construction in Ecuadorian Siona” at SULA 12. More info on the SULA website.
October 6, 2022: A. Alexiadou & I. Ilic presented “Overt and implicit arguments and Voice in Japanese passives: a child language perspective” at BCGL 15. More info on the website of CRISSP.
September 23, 2022: I. Ilic & A. Alexiadou presented “Silent and overt arguments in child language” at Sinfonija 15. More info on the Sinfonija website.
September 23, 2022: Silvia Silleresi, Chiara Dal Farra, Artemis Alexiadou, Maria Teresa Guasti, & Uli Sauerland presented “Impersonal si in child Italian” at GALA 15, Frankfurt. More info on the GALA website.
September 23, 2022: Letizia Raminelli & Adriana Belletti presented “On the comprehension of reflexive si in preschool Italian-speaking children” at GALA 15, Frankfurt. More info on the GALA website.
September 23, 2022: J. Hein, C. Bill, I. Driemel, A. Gonzalez, I. Ilic, & P. Jeretič presented a poster on “Do child languages have negative concord: A corpus study” at GALA 15, Frankfurt. More info on the GALA website.
September 22, 2022: Chiara Dal Farra, Fabienne Martin, Yining Nie, Maria Teresa Guasti, & Artemis Alexiadou presented “Bigger is better! Older Italian children prefer heavy locative prepositions” at GALA 15, Frankfurt. More info on the GALA website.
September 16, 2022: Uli Sauerland presented “An Algebra of Thought that Predicts Key Aspects of Language Structure” at SuB27. More info on the SuB website.
September 14, 2022: A. Gonzalez, P. Jeretič, C. Dal Farra, & J. Hein presented “Presupposition projection from the scope of ‘say'” at SuB27. More info on the SuB website.
September 14, 2022: I. Bassi, A. A. Bimpeh, I. Driemel, & S. Silleresi presented “Strict readings of logophors and the LF of anaphoric dependencies” at SuB27. More info on the SuB website.
September 13, 2022: I. Ilic, F. Martin, & A. Alexiadou presented “What do children do with do? Superfluous do as a marker of agency in child English” at LAGB 2022. More info on the LAGB website.
September 13, 2022: Maria Teresa Guasti presented “Children’s non-target utterances reveal some underlying structures” at the Henry Sweet Lecture at at LAGB 2022. More info on the LAGB website.
September 12, 2022: Maria Teresa Guasti presented “Verba volant: anticipation in language acquisition” at LAGB 2022. More info on the LAGB website.
August 1, 2022: Uli Sauerland presented “Baby steps at the tree nursery” at Osaka University.
July 19-29, 2022: Maria Teresa Guasti and Kazuko Yatsushiro taught the course “What children get, what they don’t, and why” at Creteling 2022 Summer School. More info on the Creteling website.
July 13, 2022: A. Alexiadou, I. Driemel, J. Hein, F. Martin, Y. Nie were invited to present “Redundant errors in child language” at the IGRA Colloquium at Leipzig University. More info on the website of Uni Leipzig.
July 12, 2022: Uli Sauerland presented “Baby steps at the tree nursery” at Syntax/semantics Oberseminar at University Göttingen.
June 14, 2022: Maria Teresa Guasti presented “Relative clauses across languages and across modes of acquisition” at the GK colloquium of the research training group “Nominal Modification” at Goethe University Frankfurt. More info on the GK colloquium website.
June 7, 2022: A. Alexiadou presented “Numeral-noun combinations and the hidden partitive hypothesis revisited” at the GK colloquium of the research training group “Nominal Modification” at Goethe University Frankfurt. More info on the GK colloquium website.
June 7, 2022: Maria Teresa Guasti presented “Verba volant, mais on les attrape très bien. Le rôle de la creation d’attents dans le langage” at an invited seminar at Collège de France, Paris. More info & recording on the website of Collège de France.
May 27, 2022: Fabienne Martin, Yining Nie, Chiara Dal Farra, & Silvia Silleresi presented “Who did it? How alternating verbs are interpreted under faire” at The Syntax of Causative, Perception and Restructuring Verbs in Romance and Latin (SCUP22), University of Palermo. More info on the SCUP Google Site.
May 26, 2022: Maria Teresa Guasti presented “How children navigate the causative space” at The Syntax of Causative, Perception and Restructuring Verbs in Romance and Latin (SCUP22), University of Palermo. More info on the SCUP Google Site.
May 26, 2022: A. Alexiadou presented “Numeral-noun combinations and the hidden partitive hypothesis revisited” at a workshop on “Part-whole Structures in Natural Language” at Masaryk University in Brno. More info on the Workshop Google Site.
May 17, 2022: Maria Teresa Guasti presented “Negative connectives in child language” at a Departmental Colloquium in Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University. More info on the website of Ben-Gurion University.
May 17, 2022: Uli Sauerland presented “Baby steps at the tree nursery” at COSAQ Closing Workshop, Amsterdam. More info on the COSAQ website.
May 15, 2022: J. Hein, F. Martin, Y. Nie & A. Alexiadou presented “Minimizing and maximizing exponence in child language” at 40th Meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 40). More info on the WCCFL website.
May 13, 2022: Abigail Anne Bimpeh, Imke Driemel, Itai Bassi & Silvia Silleresi presented “Obligatory de se logophors in Ewe, Yoruba and Igbo: variation and competition” at 40th Meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 40). More info on the WCCFL website.
April 26, 2022: Abigail Anne Bimpeh, Imke Driemel, Itai Bassi & Silvia Silleresi presented “Obligatory de se logophors in Ewe, Yoruba and Igbo: variation and competition” at Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 45. Abstract and schedule on the GLOW website.
April 24, 2022: J. Hein, C. Bill, I. Driemel, A. Gonzalez, I. Ilic, P. Jeretic & M. T. Guasti presented “Negative concord in the acquisition of non-negative concord languages” at Chicago Linguistic Society 58. More info on the website of Chicago Linguistic Society.
April 7, 2022: Artemis Alexiadou presented “Language and thought. Evidence from language acquisition” at LingLab Webinars at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. More info on the LingLab website.
March 28 – April 1, 2022: Seminar Week (internal)
February 24, 2022: Chiara Dal Farra, Silvia Silleresi, Artemis Alexiadou, Maria Teresa Guasti, & Uli Sauerland presented “The use of clitic si in Child Italian: A corpus study” at IGG47 (Incontro di Grammatica Generativa). More info on the IGG website.
January 29, 2022: Maria Teresa Guasti presented “Issues in semantic acquisition” at IRS Winter school.
January 11, 2022: Artemis Alexiadou presented “Multiple exponence: the view from radical decomposition” at the Syntax-Semantics seminar at the University of Potsdam. More info on the website of Uni Potsdam.

2021

December 10, 2021: Artemis Alexiadou presented “Multiple exponence: sometimes two is better than one” at the Austrian Linguistics Society annual Conference. More info on the conference website.
December 3, 2021: A. Alexiadou, I. Driemel, J. Hein, F. Martin & Y. Nie presented “Multiple exponence in child language” at the Multiple Exponence Workshop @ZAS. Schedule and abstracts on the MultEx Google Site.
December 1, 2021: C. Dal Farra, S. Silleresi, A. Alexiadou, M.T. Guasti & U. Sauerland presented “‘Come si usa?’ The production of clitic si in child Italian” at Going Romance 2021, special session: “Syntactic theory and language acquisition: the Romance perspective”.
November 21, 2021: Maria Teresa Guasti presented “Wh-questions across languages” at the 3rd International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP-3) at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. More info on the ICTEAP Google Site.
November 17, 2021: Abigail Anne Bimpeh presented: “Getting the Ewe logophor out of control” at the virtual Department of Linguistics (University of Ghana) weekly seminar.
November 7, 2021: F. Martin, Y. Nie, A. Alexiadou, and M. T. Guasti presented “Wearing causation on its sleeve: Overt CAUSE in child French causatives” at BUCLD 46. Schedule and abstracts on the BUCLD website.
November 4, 2021: K. Yatsushiro, C. Dal Farra, A. Gonzalez, J. Hein, S. Silleresi, A. Avellana, G. Gayathri, A. Huang, J. Ilori, L. Pintér, M. Guasti, and U. Sauerland presented “How children ask questions across languages” at BUCLD 46. Schedule and abstracts on the BUCLD website.
October 26, 2021: Artemis Alexiadou presented “A non-canonical view on the causative alternation” at the linguistics colloquium series at the University of Connecticut. More info on the website of UConn.
October 21, 2021: Imke Driemel, Johannes Hein, Desiré Carioti, Jakob Wünsch, Artemis Alexiadou, Maria Teresa Guasti & Uli Sauerland presented “An acceptability judgement study of generic readings for Leibniz Dream” at TerraLing Workshop. Schedule can be downloaded on the TerraLing website.
August 30, 2021: Artemis Alexiadou presented “The building blocks of causation: evidence from non-canonical realization” at 54^th SLE Conference, Workshop 4: Causation: from concept(s) to grammar.
June 16, 2021: Artemis Alexiadou, Despina Oikonomou, and Fenia Karkaletsou presented “Double comparatives: structural complexity and evaluativity” at the 12th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics. More info on the website of U of Oslo.
May 27, 2021: Artemis Alexiadou (HU Berlin) and Adriana Belletti (U of Siena) debated the topic of “Voice”. The “Linguistics Flash – Mobs” video conferences can be streamed at the following YouTube link.
May 19, 2021: Uli Sauerland (ZAS Berlin) presented “A Meaning First Approach to Generative Grammar.” at the 12th Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science: Linguistic & Cognitive Foundations of Meaning.
March 30, 2021: Artemis Alexiadou, Despina Oikonomou, and Fenia Karkaletsou presented “Double comparatives from a crosslinguistic perspective” at the University of Geneva.
March 17, 2021: Artemis Alexiadou, Maria Teresa Guasti, and Uli Sauerland presented “A Meaning First approach through a Kids First view” at the University of Milano-Bicocca.
March 12, 2021: Uli Sauerland presented “A Meaning First Approach to Generative Grammar” at the online event “On Linguistics”, organized by the Graduation Program in Linguistics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Recording can be streamed at the following YouTube link.
March 1-5 2021: Seminar Week (internal)
February 12, 2021: Artemis Alexiadou and Uli Sauerland presented “Meaning-First meets Super Linguistics” at Superlinguistics Colloquium at University of Oslo. More info on the website of U of Oslo.

2020

December 3, 2020: Uli Sauerland presented “A Meaning First Approach to Generative Grammar” at GLiF seminar at the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
December 2, 2020: Uli Sauerland presented “A Meaning First Approach to Generative Grammar” at The Future of Linguistics at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen.