Schedule

8:30-8:50               Registration
8:50-9:00              Welcoming speech

9:00-10:00

Talk by invited speaker

Sara Farshchi (Lund University)

The processing of negation: from early theories to current challenges

10:00-10:30 

Talk 1 

Anna Teresa Porrini, Veronica D’Alesio, Matteo Greco (IUSS Pavia)

Not really not: Developmental Trajectories in Expletive Negation Processing and Interpretation

10:30-11:00           Coffee Break

11:00-11:30 

Talk 2

Jan Köpping, Eleonora Zani (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Challenging not-at-issue content: Evidence from Bavarian fei and German doch

11:30-12:00 

Talk 3

Anna Staňková (Charles University)

Negation in Czech polar questions can receive three different interpretations: a rating study

12:00-12:30 

Talk 4

Shenshen Wang, Richard Breheny, Chao Sun (University College London)

Processing Negation in Sentence Verification: Evidence for the Language-Specific Effect

12:30-14:00           Lunch Break

Chiara Boila, Daria Tack, Yvonne Portele, Angela Grimm, Barbara Kaup (Goethe University Frankfurt)

What pupil size changes and eye movements reveal about expectedness in negation processing

Cailie Keating (Georgetown University)

Brazilian and Afro-Hispanic negative concord: A morphosyntactic and pragmatic analysis

Elena Albu, Oksana Tsaregorodtseva, Tessa Warren, Barbara Kaup (University of Tübingen)

The interpretation of negated relative adjectives.  Evidence from a picture selection task

Chloé Tahar (Université de Neuchâtel)

Expletive negation and the semantic reanalysis of avertive “pour peu” in historical French

Xander MacSwan, Clara McMahon (CUNY Graduate Center)

Is Un Unlike Not, or Not? An experimental investigation into constituent negation

Dorjderem Byambasuren, Ryan Paulů, Shanley Allen (RPTU University of Kaiserslautern-Landau)

Acquisition of negation in Mongolian using the Acquisition Sketch approach

Anna Smirnitskaya (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Lexical negation in semantic shifts: cross-linguistic analysis based on Datsemshift 3.0

Kexin Sun (Philipps-Universität Marburg)

Substitution, Transfer, and Overgeneralisation: A Longitudinal Study of L1-Chinese Learners’ Acquisition of German Negation

15:30-16:00 

Talk 5

Sara Martín, Isabel Orenes, David Beltrán (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia – UNED)

Negation-Induced Forgetting Beyond Retrieval: Evidence from Verbal and Visual Recognition

16:00-16:30 

Talk 6

Asya Zanollo, Anna Teresa Porrini, Matteo Greco, Veronica D’Alesio (IUSS-Pavia) – presented by Anna Teresa Porrini

The processing of standard and expletive negation: An eye-tracking study on Italian temporal and causal clauses

16:30-17:00 

Talk 7

Irene Mognon, Jacopo Torregrossa (Goethe University Frankfurt)

The Temporal Dynamics of Implicit and Explicit Negation Processing: Evidence from Self-Paced Reading

18:00           Conference dinner

8:30-9:00               Registration desk open

9:00-10:00

Talk by invited speaker

Sophie Repp (University of Cologne)

Negation meets prosody: On the meaning of English polar interrogatives

10:00-10:30 

Talk 8

Annika McDermott-Hinman, Rowena Garcia, Scott AnderBois, Roman Feiman (Brown University)

Mapping Concepts to Words: A cross-linguistic corpus study of negation acquisition

10:30-11:00           Coffee Break

11:00-11:30 

Talk 9

Andrea Matticchio, Maik Thalmann (UMass Amherst) 

Answering questions with negated conjunction

11:30-12:00 

Talk 10

Pablo Rivas-Robledo, Valeria Gradimondo (ILLC, University of Amsterdam)

The Logical Syntax of Expletive Negation: A Resource-Sensitive Analysis of Italian Finché

12:00-12:30 

Talk 11

Francesco Pinzin (Università degli Studi di Padova)

Sentential negation as part of indefinite direct objects, a Nanosyntactic take

12:30-14:00           Lunch Break

Andrea Matticchio, Maik Thalmann (UMass Amherst) 

Contrastive negation is embedded focus, not local accommodation

Aleksandr Sergienko (Université Paris Cité, Masaryk University)

Negative allomorphy and negative intervention in Shughni

Paolo Cassina, Karen De Clercq (Ecole Normale Superieure)

A Nanosyntactic Account of three strategies for Sentence Negation in Palestinian Arabic

Francesca Capuano, Elisa Berger, Sophia Weber, Barbara Kaup (University of Tübingen)

Alternative-Space Structure can Shape Multimodal Models’ Interpretation of Negation: Insights from Human Negation Processing

Maria-Margarita Makri, Ruby Sleeman, Christos Zioutis, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Dimitris Michelioudakis, Elena Anagnostopoulou(Institute of Mediterranean Studies)

Exploring the diachrony of negative concord in Indo-European: an evolutionary approach

Madhusmitha Venkatesan, Biswanath Dash (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)

Clausal Properties as Determinants of NEG Positions: The Case of Odia

Luigi Palumbo, Elena Albu, Barbara Kaup (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)

Narrow vs. Wide Scope of Negation: Distinguishing Negative Events from Absence of Events

Sumiyo Nishiguchi (The University of Edinburgh)

Medium Weak NPI in Guan

15:30-16:00 

Talk 12

Lorena Figueiredo (University of Bergen)

Strategies for Expressing Negation in Sign Languages: Evidence from a Corpus-Based Study of Brazilian Sign Language (Libras)

16:00-16:30 

Talk 13

Andy Lücking (Goethe University Frankfurt)

What Are You Shaking Your Head About? From Austinian to “Noetic” Negation

16:30-17:00 

Talk 14

Damiana Porcellato (Saarland University)

Semantic maps of negation in Indo-Europea

17:00           Closing speech