The 33rd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar -- HPSG 2026 -- (Bergen, Norway)
Date: 03-Aug-2026 - 04-Aug-2026
Location: Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Bergen, Norway)
Contact: Petter Haugereid, Berthold Crysmann & Antonio Machicao y Priemer
Email: hpsg2026@easychair.org
Conference Website: https://petterha.github.io/hpsg2026/
Conference fee: free of charge, both for in-person and online attendees
Registration: https://petterha.github.io/hpsg2026/registration/
Programme: https://petterha.github.io/hpsg2026/program/
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Computational Linguistics; Syntax; Morphology; Semantics; Cognitive Science;
Meeting Description: The 33rd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar will be held on August 03-04 August 2026 at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Bergen, Norway). It will be co-located with the DELPH-IN meeting held over the preceding week (27-31 July).
Keynote speakers: * Dag Trygve Truslew Haug (Universitetet i Oslo, Norway) * Nurit Melnik (Open University, Israel)
PROGRAMME:
August 3
Section 1 09:00 - 09:10 Petter Haugereid: Welcome & Opening 09:10 - 10:10 Dag Haug: Exclamatives - A discourse perspective
Section 2 10:30 - 11:10 Jakob Maché and Vesela Simeonova: Expressive vocatives and exclamative sluices 11:10 - 11:50 Daniil-Konstantin Arbuzov and Stefan Müller: An HPSG Analysis of Bulgarian ‘egati’ and ‘super’ constructions: Adjunct-related constructions with a formally definite article 11:50 - 12:30 Adam Przepiórkowski: HPSG-Based Model-Theoretic Dependency Grammar
Section 3 14:00 - 14:40 Miriam S. Schmidt: Meaning in order. On SOURCE-GOAL asymmetries in German werden-copula constructions werden-Copula Constructions 14:40 - 15:00 Jieun Oh: Partial VP-fronting structure in German complex predicate constructions 15:00 - 15:40 Petter Haugereid: VP fronting in Norwegian
Section 4 16:00 - 16:20 Emily Luedke: A cross-linguistic analysis of noun incorporation in HPSG 16:20 - 17:00 Isaac Schifferer: A Typologically-Motivated Approach to Automatic Morphotactic Inference 17:00 - 17:40 Berthold Crysmann: Udi Infixation in Information-based Morphology
August 4
Section 5 09:10 - 10:10 Nurit Melnik: The Two Senses of Flip Perception Verbs
Section 6 10:30 - 11:10 Adam Przepiórkowski and Berke Şenşekerci: Gradient Selectional Restrictions in HPSG 11:10 - 11:50 Juan Zhong and Jean-Pierre Koenig: The grammar of dish names in Mandarin Chinese 11:50 - 12:30 Antonio Machicao y Priemer & Zehui Guo: Two types of modification in Mandarin Chinese NPs
Section 7 14:00 - 14:20 Müge Gedik: Scrambling in Turkish 14:20 - 15:00 Frank Van Eynde: On the combination of prepositions with an infinitive 15:00 - 15:40 Chia-Hsiang Hsu: Kalaallisut Participles in Relative Clauses (online presentation)
Programme Committee:
- Anne Abeillé (LLF, Université de Paris) - Gabrielle Aguila-Multner (Universität Zürich) - Emily M. Bender (University of Washington) - Gabriela Bîlbîie (University of Bucharest) - Felix Bildhauer (Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim) - Olivier Bonami (Universite Paris Diderot) - Francis Bond (Palacký University) - Rui Chaves (University at Buffalo, SUNY) - Berthold Crysmann (CNRS - LLF, Université de Paris) - Petter Haugereid (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences) - Fabiola Henri (University at Buffalo) - Anke Holler (University of Göttingen) - Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee University) - Jean-Pierre Koenig (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York) - Andy Lücking (Goethe University Frankfurt) - Antonio Machicao y Priemer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) - Jakob Maché (Universidade de Lisboa) - Nurit Melnik (The Open University of Israel) - Luis Morgado Da Costa (Palacký University Olomouc) - Stefan Müller (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) - Tsuneko Nakazawa (The University of Tokyo) - Joanna Nykiel (UC Davis) - David Oshima (Nagoya University) - Gerald Penn (University of Toronto) - Frank Richter (Goethe Universität Frankfurt) - Manfred Sailer (Goethe Universität Frankfurt) - Frank Van Eynde (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) - Giuseppe Varaschin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) - Elodie Winckel (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) - Shûichi Yatabe (The University of Tokyo) - Eun-Jung Yoo (Seoul National University) - Olga Zamaraeva (Universidade da Coruña)
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Antonio Machicao y Priemer