The 32nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar will be held in a hybrid format on 2 September - 4 September 2025 at Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. The conference addresses linguistic, foundational, or computational issues relating to or in the spirit of the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. The conference will consist of a two-day main conference (2 September - 3 September) and a one-day (4 September) workshop, entitled "Minor sentence types–––their form and its impact on grammar," whose program will be announced separately.
Conference Website: https://dkaramasov.github.io/hpsg2025/
Program:
**Schedule for the Main Conference** (The program is subject to last-minute changes, please consult https://dkaramasov.github.io/hpsg2025/)
Venue: Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, Biblioteca sala B112.C.
September 2nd 9:15–9:30 Welcome and Opening 9:30–10:30 Plenary talk: Stefan Müller (HU Berlin) Virtual lexical items and the Danish impersonal passive 10:30–11:00 Coffee break 11:00–11:40 Frank Van Eynde (KU Leuven) The absolute PP-construction 11:40–12:20 Antonio Machicao Y Priemer, Pauline Reiß and Giuseppe Varaschin (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) Genitive vs. PP Arguments in German NPs: Grammatical and Usage Conditions 12:20–13:00 Mona Sinha Mahapatra (The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad) Bangla N-V conjunct verbs: Case, Compositionality and Phrasal category 13:00–14:30 Lunchbreak 14:30–15:10 Jimin Kim and Eun-jung Yoo (Seoul National University) A Direct Interpretation Approach to English Multiple Sluicing Constructions 15:10–15:50 Edgar David Martinez (University of Nicosia) Having at least an iota of talent: a Gradable HPSG Analysis of the Syntactic Distribution and Semantics of the minimizer an iota 15:50–16:30 Joanna Ut-Seong Sio and Francis Bond (Palacký University Olomouc) Inner and outer aspect in Cantonese 16:30–17:00 Coffee break 17:00–18:00 Business meeting
September 3rd 9:30–10:30 Plenary talk: Ana Luís (Universidade de Coimbra) and Berthold Crysmann (LLF, Université Paris Cité) tba 10:30–11:00 Coffee break 11:00–11:40 Berthold Crysmann (LLF, Université Paris Cité) and Ana Luís (Universidade de Coimbra) Mixed clitics in Udi: the lexical verb as interface 11:40–12:20 Bruno Estigarribia (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) An SBCG analysis of ‘middle’ je- in Paraguayan Guarani 12:20–13:00 Jieun Oh (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) A typological analysis of the Korean verb ha- with verbal nouns and psych verbs 13:00–14:30 Lunchbreak 14:30–15:10 Felix Bildhauer (IDS Mannheim) An HPSG approach to the German am-progressive 15:10–15:50 Frank Van Eynde (KU Leuven) On the Head-Complement combination 15:50–16:30 Mona Sinha Mahapatra (The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad) Reverse Constructions of Bangla Compound verbs: Light verb fronting phenomenon 16:30–17:00 Coffee break 17:00–17:40 Hyeonjoon Park (Seoul National University) English NPN Constructions: A ConstraintBased Analysis 17:40–18:20 Manfred Sailer (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Universität Frankfurt) A phrasal construction for an ‘ex quolibet falsum’ inference 20:00–22:30 Conference Dinner: The Food Temple (registration required) https://www.thefoodtemple.com/
**Registration** https://dkaramasov.github.io/hpsg2025/ Conference fee: 80€ (faculty)/50€ (student) Registration Deadline: 20th August Virtual attendance is free, but please register so we have an idea of numbers. In order to register for the conference dinner and social activities (coastal hike on 5th September, guided city tour on 6th September), please contact Jakob (hpsg2025@easychair.org).
**Contact information** hpsg2025@easychair.org Local Organizing Committee Chair: Jakob Maché (University of Lisbon)