SALT 7


FRIDAY MARCH 21

8.30: Registration, coffee
9.15: Opening Remarks

9.30-10.30: CHARLES FILLMORE, "FrameNet and Lexical Semantics"
10.30-11.10: Diana Cresti, "On the Apparent Function of Noun
Classifiers"

Coffee Break

11.30-12.10: Vivienne Fong, "A Diphasic Approach to Directional
Locatives"
12.10-12.50: Joost Zwarts and Yoad Winter, "A Semantic
Characterization of Locative PPs"

Lunch Break

2:50-3:50: CRAIGE ROBERTS, "Information Focus in Hungarian and
English, and in Universal Grammar"
3.50-4.30: Chris Kennedy, "Comparison and Polar Opposition"

Coffee Break

4.50-5.30: Sheila Glasbey, "I-Level Predicates that Allow Existential
Readings for Bare Plurals"
5.30-6.10: Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, "Types of Predicates and the
Interpretaton of Bare NPs"

SATURDAY MARCH 22

9.15: Registration, coffee

9.30-10.30: IRENE HEIM, "Semantic Types for Syntactic Categories:
Evidence from Ellipsis"
10.30-11.10: Nicholas Asher, Daniel Hardt, and Joan Busquets,
"Discourse, Parallelism, Scope, and Ellipsis"

Coffee Break

11.30-12.10: Anette Frank and Hans Kamp, "On Context Dependence in
Modal Constructions"
12.10-12.50: David Beaver, "Presuppositions in DRT"

Lunch Break

2.50-3.30: Dorit Abusch and Mats Rooth, "Epistemic NP Modifiers"
3.30-4.10: Rodger Kibble, "Complement Anaphora and Witness Sets"

Coffee Break

4.30-5.10: Christine Brisson, "On Definite Plural Noun Phrases and
the Meaning of 'all'"
5.10-5.50: Hotze Rullmann, "The Semantics of Pied-piping and WH-
indefinites"

6.00-7.00: Business Meeting
7.00-10.00: Dinner Party (open to those registered for the conference)

SUNDAY MARCH 23

9.15: Coffee


9:30-10:30: GENNARO CHIERCHIA
10.30-11.10: Christopher Pinon, "Achievements in an Event Semantics"

Coffee Break

11.30-12.10: Victor Sanchez Valencia and Frans Zwarts, "Temporal
SPEC-phenomena and the Semantics of 'as soon as'"
12.10-12.50: Veneeta Dayal, "Free Relatives and '-ever': `Identity'
and `Free Choice' Readings"

End of Conference

Alternates
----------
Franz Beil, "Comparative Ellipsis and the Indefiniteness Effect"
Javier Gutierrez-Rexach, "Dynamic Action Semantics and Deontic
Operators"
Roumyana Izvorski, "The Perfect as an Epistemic Modal"


SALT-VII Committee
Department of Linguistics
Stanford University
Bldg 460
Stanford CA 94305-2150
salt7@csli.stanford.edu

SALT-VII Committee is:
Donka Farkas
Tracy Holloway King
Bill Ladusaw
Stanley Peters
Henriëtte de Swart


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