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 is:
Donka Farkas
Tracy Holloway King
Bill Ladusaw
Stanley Peters
Henriëtte de Swart