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Monday, 23th of March, 2026
Venue: Casa Lago, Instituto de Lingüística, Universidad de la República

9:30-10:00	Inauguration and Opening remarks
10:00-11:00	Invited Speaker. Laura Kornfeld (UBA/CONICET) : “Proper names, degree and infinitive clauses in Spanish.”
11:00-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-12:00	Francisco Ordóñez (Stony Brook University): “On the Syntax of Proper Names with articles in Spanish and Catalan.”
12:30-13:00	Thomas Stolz & Nataliya Levkovych (Universität Bremen): “Proprial articles in a cross-linguistic perspective.”
13:00-14:30	Lunch
14:30-15:30	Invited Speaker. Antonio Fábregas (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): “Honorific markers in Spanish proper names and the internal structure of the nominal area.”
15:30-16:00	Ana Polakof (Universidad de la República/SNI) & Renato García (IIA-UNAM): “Determined last names in Spanish.”
16:00-16:30	Coffee break
16:30-17:00	Andrea Bohrn (UBA): “Concatenative and Non-Concatenative Morphology in Proper Names.”
17:00-17:30	Luisina Piovano (Universidad Nacional del Litoral): “Proper Names as slurs.”
17:30-18:00	Eduardo García-Ramírez (Universidad de San Andrés): “Proper Names Do Not Exist.”

Tuesday, 24th of March, 2026
Venue: Casa Lago, Instituto de Lingüística, Universidad de la República

09:30-10:00	Klaus von Heusinger (University of Cologne): “The referential properties of indefinite proper names.”
10:00-10:30	Jesse Harris (University of California Los Angeles): “When the Picasso painting isn’t Picasso’s painting: A semantics for proper names in compound structures in English.”
10:30-11:00	María Mare (Universidad Nacional del Comahue) & Juan José Arias (Universidad Nacional del Comahue): “On plural number in Proper Names.”
11:00-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-12:00	Thomas Stolz (Universität Bremen): “Article-Proper Name compatibility throughout Mesoamerica. An areal-typological account.”
12:00-12:30	“The Proper Nouns Questionnaire.” Ana Aguilar Guevara (UNAM), Timo Buchholz (University of Cologne), Klaus von Heusinger (University of Cologne), Rafael Herrera (FFyL-UNAM), Carolina Oggiani (Udelar) & Julia Pozas (COLMEX).
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:30	Renato Basso (Universidade Federal de São Carlos) & Lovania Roehrig Teixeira (Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná): “Demonstratives + Proper Nouns in Brazilian Portuguese.”
14:30-15:00	Rafael Herrera (FFyL-UNAM) & Andrés Martínez (ENAH/FFyL-UNAM): “Proper names with demonstratives in Tzocohuite Nahuatl.”
15:00-15:30	Karla Sandoval (UNAM): “Esa Ogui viene con todo. Demonstrative + Proper Name in Mexico City Spanish: An interactional approach.”
15:30-16:00	Carla Mussini (UBA/CONICET): “Gender presuppositions in non-bare uses of proper names.”
16:00-16:30	Coffee break
16:30-17:30	Invited Speaker. Samuel Jambrović (McGill University): “Los Herrero(s): Family names, plural marking, and head versus modifier position in Spanish.”
17:30-17:45	Closing remarks and Future plans