Preliminary program (Location TBA on the ESSLLI 2026 Schedule):

Monday, August 3
11:00-11:10: Introduction. Louise McNally, Gemma Boleda (U. Pompeu Fabra)
11:10-11:30: Why the small mug? Modifier-informed reasoning in reference interpretation. Kelly Cheuk, Hannah Rohde, Chris Cummins (U. Edinburgh)
11:30-12:30: Invited talk: TBA. Denis Paperno (Utrecht U.)

Tuesday, August 4
11:00-11:45: The role of subject discourse-accessibility, specificity, and concreteness in multiple center-embedding. Emily Davis, Robert Kluender (UCSD)
11:45-12:30: Effect of surprisal on the form and prosody of referring expressions. Ivan Rygaev, Güliz Günes, Asya Achimova (U. Tübingen)

Wednesday, August 5
11:00-11:20: Accessibility-precision tradeoffs in grounded referring expression choice: Insights from monolingual and bilingual speakers. Junyi Chen, Martin Zettersten, Anne L. Beatty-Martínez (UCSD)
11:20-12:20: Invited talk: From Winograd's SHRDLU to Vision-Language Models: Why Aren't We There Yet? Raffaella Bernardi, Free U. of Bozen-Bolzano
12:20-12:30: Poster flash talks 1-3 (see list under "Poster session")

Thursday, August 6
11:00-11:10: Poster flash talks 3-6 (see list under "Poster session")
11:20-12:30: Poster session (All posters). List of posters:

  1. Mandarin demonstratives and bare NPs: more than anaphoricity and uniqueness -- Evidence from natural discourse data. Jennifer Yao (Poly. U. CPCE)
  2. Anaphoric relations between narrative layers. Katja Jasinskaja, Klaus von Heusinger (U. Köln)
  3. Partner effects on referential expression production in autistic adults. Yage G. Xin, Rachel Dudley (UCSD)
  4. Croatian jedan and neki as (non)specificity markers. Rita Rumboldt (FU-Berlin)
  5. Multidimensional indexicality of second-person pronouns: The indexical meanings of T/V address forms. Yizhuo Zhang (U. Groningen)
  6. Referring expressions and global anchoring: Subjective predication, third-person extension, and honorific agreement in Korean. Chungmin Lee (Seoul National U.)

Friday, August 7
11:00-11:20: Recognitional demonstratives in Chinese: A pragmatic analysis of nàxiē in the CCL Corpus. Lijun Li, Chunxu Chen (U. Freiburg)
11:20-12:20: Invited talk: TBA. Laia Mayol (U. Pompeu Fabra)
12:20-12:30: Closing comments