February 1st
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration | |
| 09:00-10:00 | Prof. Tal Siloni (Tel Aviv University) | Invited lecture: Reciprocals and Reflexives Revisited |
| 10:00-10:45 | Veronica Miatto (University of Amsterdam) | The spontaneous causativity of directed motion verbs in Southern Italian |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee break | |
| 11:15-12:00 | Cornelia Loos (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) | Argument realization in composed events: A closer look at resultatives in German Sign Language (DGS) |
| 12:00-12:45 | Gladys Tang and Jia He (CUHK) | Instrument in HKSL and TJSL Classifier Predicates |
| 12:45-14:15 | Lunch | |
| 14:15-15:00 | Loes Koring (Utrecht University) and Rosalind Thornton (Macquarie University) | Verbs come with arguments: an argument from the language-acquiring child |
| 15:00-15:45 | Carl Börstell (Stockholm University), Tommi Jantunen (University of Jyväskylä), Johanna Mesch (Stockholm University), Vadim Kimmelman, Marloes Oomen and Vanja de Lint (University of Amsterdam) | Transitivity prominence within and across modalities |
| 15:45-16:15 | Coffee break | |
| 16:15-17:00 | Suwei Wu (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Alan Cienki (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Moscow State Linguistic University) | The transitive-intransitive alternation and co-speech gestures |
| 17:00-18:00 | Prof. Markus Steinbach (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) | Invited lecture: Constructing Arguments in Constructed Action |
February 2nd
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration | |
| 09:00-10:00 | Prof. Gillian Ramchand (University of Tromsø) | Invited lecture: Quotational Semantics: A New Ontology for Natural Language Slides |
| 10:00-10:45 | Elly van Gelderen (Arizona State University) | The diachrony of argument structure |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee break | |
| 11:15-12:00 | María Eugenia Mangialavori Rasia (CONICET) | Argument structure alternation, minimal pairs and a non-minimal variation |
| 12:00-12:45 | Jeremy Kuhn (Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS, EHESS, ENS) | Telicity and iconic scales in ASL |
| 12:45-14:15 | Lunch | |
| 14:15-15:00 | Julian A. Rott, Elisabeth Verhoeven & Paola Fritz Huechante (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) | Structural effects of morphological directionality in psych verbs. A typology. |
| 15:00-15:45 | David Basilico (Univeristy of Alabama at Birmingham) | Antipassive: Intransitivizing and Argument-Introducing Types |
| 15:45-16:15 | Coffee break | |
| 16:15-17:00 | Vadim Kimmelman, Enoch O. Aboh, Vanja de Lint (University of Amsterdam), Connie de Vos (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), Marloes Oomen, Roland Pfau and Lianne Vink (University of Amsterdam) | Non-canonical argument structure in classifier predicates in four sign languages |
| 17:00-18:00 | Prof. Elena Benedicto | Invited lecture: Agents, Classifiers and SVCs: Structural Deconstructing Strategies for Motion Predicates (in ASL and beyond) |
1st alternate: Joris Wolterbeek (University of Amsterdam). Argument structure: processing evidence for computation
2nd alternate: Jia He and Gladys Tang (CUHK). Wrestling with the shared internal argument in the acquisition of verb resultative constructions by late learners of CSL
ASAM 2018 