Program | Heritage Language Syntax 6<br>Istanbul, November 6-7, 2025

Day 1: November 6, 2025 (Özger Arnas Hall)

8:45 - 9:20	Coffee and registration
9:20 - 9:30	Opening
9:30 - 10:10	The left periphery in bilectal children: when the Heritage Language influences the dominant language Jan Casalicchio, Francesco Constantini, Nicola D'Antuono, Gabriele Ganau, Fernando Giacinti, Emanuela Li Destri, Elena Marcati, Angelapia Massaro, Cecilia Poletto and Emanuela Sanfelici (University of Siena, University of Udine and University of Padua)
10:10 - 10:50	Turkish definiteness: is it a vulnerable phenomenon for heritage speakers? Leyla Zidani-Eroğlu and Serkan Uygun (Bahçeşehir University & Central Connecticut State University)
10:50 - 11:20	Coffee break
11:20 - 12:20	Keynote Heritage languages as a test-bed for syntactic theory: verb movement and dynamic domains Roberta D'Alessandro (Utrecht University)	[Online]
12:20 - 13:30	Lunch break
13:30 - 14:10	Transmission in heritage languages without official status: Colognian, Cypriot Turkish, Westphalian and Zazaki Onur Özsoy, Mara Degen, Berkin Demirtaş, Antonia Hayne, Emilia Onaran, Kim Schumacher and Ali Yıldız (University of Cologne)
14:10 - 14:50	From null to overt subjects: the case of heritage Vlach Aromanian in Epirus Alexandra Prentza and Anna Roussou (University of Ioannina and University of Patras)
14:50 - 15:30	Contact-induced syntactic phenomena in contemporary Istanbul Greek Konstantinos Sampanis (University of Vienna)
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee break + Poster presentations
16:00 - 16:40	Differential object marking in heritage Romanian under conditions of language change: evaluating the role of crosslinguistic influence Larisa Avram, Alexandru Mardale and Elena Soare (University of Bucharest, INALCO & SEDYL CNRS, and University of Paris 8 & SFL CNRS)
16:40 - 17:20	The acquisition of Italian object clitics by heritage language speakers Linda Badan, Francesco Romano and Pedro Guijarro Fuentes (University of Padua, Uppsala University and University of the Balearic Islands)
17:20 - 18:00	Number agreement in heritage Chinese in Europe Zetao, Xu, Roberta D’Alessandro and Victor Junnan Pan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Utrecht University)
19:30	Conference Dinner

Day 2: November 7, 2025 (Vedat Yerlici Conference Venue, Room 2)

9:00 - 9:40	Subject-verb agreement marking in Turkish heritage speakers: Offline vs. online experiments Serkan Uygun (Bahçeşehir University)
9:40 - 10:20	Pronoun resolution in bilingual Turkish-German children Onur Özsoy, Angelika Golegos, Nisa Büyükyıldırım, Theodors Marinis and Jacopo Torregrossa (University of Cologne, University of Zurich, University of Bonn, University of Konstanz and University of Frankfurt)
10:20 -11:00	Age and input effects in ultimate attainment of morphosyntax: The case of Turkish-American treturnees and L2 learners residing in Turkey Aylin Coşkun Kunduz and Silvina Montrul (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30	Keynote Heritage languages and referential expressions: evidence from heritage Greek in school-age children Ianthi Maria Tsimpli (University of Cambridge)
12:20- 13:30	Lunch break
14:00-14:40	Cross-linguistic influence and degrees of grammaticality: priming null and overt subject pronouns in bilingual heritage children Ioli Baroncini, Helen Engemann, Jacopo Torregrossa and Anna Michelotti (University of Mannheim, Goethe University of Frankfurt)
14:40-15:20	Syntactic doubling as innovation in heritage Tamil Madhusmitha Venkatesan and Pritha Chandra (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)	[Online]
15:20-16:00	Exploring heritage Romanian in the USA through narrative analysis Irina Stoica, Silvina Montrul and Anamaria Bentea (University of Bucharest, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and University of Konstanz)	[Online]
16:00-16:30	Coffee break
16:30-17:10	Structural Innovation in heritage Odia adjectives under Telugu contact: from atomic aPs to CPs Akankshya Mishra (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)	[Online]
17:10-17:50	Gender as a derivational constraint in predicative possession: the case of heritage Tamil Madhusmitha Venkatesan (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)	[Online]
17:50	Closing

Posters

Crosslinguistic priming in adolescent heritage language speakers

Duygu Şafak and Ioli Baroncini
(TU Braunschweig and University of Mannheim)

Morphosyntactic and prosodic cue sensitivity in Turkish child heritage speakers: evidence from eye-tracking

Selim Tiryakiol, Fatih Bayram and Leyla Zidani-Eroğlu
(Istanbul Medeniyet University, Lancaster University and Central Connecticut State University)

Clitic placement in heritage Cappadocian Greek

Metin Bağrıaçık and Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz
(Boğaziçi University)