GLOW Syntax Workshop in Florence, 20th April 2026
Università degli Studi di Firenze – Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia
Via della Pergola, 60 – Sala del Consiglio (C218-D219) 2nd floor
Registration form: https://www.ritamanzini.it/glow-workshop/registration/
Program
h 9:00 – 9:30 a.m. Registration
h 9:30 – 10:10 a.m.
Maria Kouneli (Rutgers University)
Reconstruction for Principle C: The view from Nilotic
h 10:10 – 10:50 a.m.
Daniel Aremu (Bielefeld University), Philipp Weisser (Leipzig University)
Gapping in Yorùbá and why it licenses non-canonical word order
h 10:50 – 11:20 a.m. Coffee break
h 11:20 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Rebecca Jarvis (University of Potsdam)
Multiple, derivationally-derived resumptive clitics in Atchan A- and A’-movement
h 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Julie Anne Legate (University of Pennsylvania) – Invited Speaker
Lessons from Lesser-Studied Languages
h 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch (a selection of restaurants in the area here)
h 2:00 – 2:40 p.m.
Víctor Acedo-Matellán (University of Oxford), Isabelle Roy (Nantes Université/CNRS)
Adjectives in an adjective-less language: Wolof
h 2:40 – 3:20 p.m.
Philip Shushurin, Anna Kulikova (HSE University)
Degree preverbs in Kazym Khanty and Ingush
h 3:20 – 4:00 p.m.
Qiushi Chen (University of Connecticut)
The interaction of person and number in Japhug: Towards a theory of cyclic fission
h 4:00 – 4:30 p.m. Coffee break
h 4:30 – 5:10 p.m.
Cristina Guardiano (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia), Diego Pescarini (Université Côte d’Azur, Nice)
Adjectival possessives that aren’t quite adjectives
h 5:10 – 6:00 p.m.
Round table
Data infrastructures for linguistic analysis
For further information on the GLOW workshop, please visit the website www.ritamanzini.it/glow-workshop.