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| 8:30 | |
| 9:15 | Opening remarks by John Perry, Director, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University |
| Morning Session |
| 9:30-10:30 | CHARLES FILLMORE | University of California, Berkeley | FrameNet and Lexical Semantics |
| 10:30-11:10 | Diana Cresti | University of Chicago | On the Apparent Function of Noun Classifiers |
| 11:30-12:10 | Vivienne Fong | Stanford University | A Diphasic Approach to Directional Locatives |
| 12:10-12:50 | Joost Zwarts and Yoad Winter | OTS, Utrecht | A Semantic Characterization of Locative PPs |
| Afternoon Session |
| 2:50-3:50 | CRAIGE ROBERTS | The Ohio State University | Information Focus in Hungarian and English, and in Universal Grammar |
| 3:50-4:30 | Chris Kennedy | University of California, Santa Cruz | Comparison and Polar Opposition |
| 4:50-5:30 | Sheila Glasbey | Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh | I-Level Predicates that Allow Existential Readings for Bare Plurals |
| 5:30-6:10 | Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin | Universite Paris-VII | Types of Predicates and the Interpretation of Bare NPs |
| 9:15 |
| Morning Session |
| 9:30-10:30 | IRENE HEIM | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Semantic Types for Syntactic Categories: Evidence from Ellipsis |
| 10:30-11:10 | Nicholas Asher, Daniel Hardt, and Joan Busquets | University of Texas, Austin; Universite Paul Sabatier; Villanova University | Discourse, Parallelism, Scope, and Ellipsis |
| 11:30-12:10 | Anette Frank and Hans Kamp | IMS, Universität Stuttgart | On Context Dependence in Modal Constructions |
| 12:10-12:50 | David Beaver | University of Tilburg | Presuppositions in DRT |
| Afternoon Session |
| 2:50-3:30 | Dorit Abusch and Mats Rooth | IMS, Universität Stuttgart | Epistemic NP Modifiers |
| 3:30-4:10 | Rodger Kibble | London SOAS | Complement Anaphora and Witness Sets |
| 4:30-5:10 | Christine Brisson | Rutgers University | On Definite Plural Noun Phrases and the Meaning of 'all' |
| 5:10-5:50 | Hotze Rullmann | University of Groningen | The Semantics of Pied-Piping and WH-indefinites |
| 6:00-7:00 | |
| 7:00-10:00 |
| 9:15 |
| Morning |
| 9:30-10:30 | GENNARO CHIERCHIA | ||
| 10:30-11:10 | Christopher Pinon | ASG-MPG, Berlin | Achievements in an Event Semantics |
| 11:30-12:10 | Victor Sanchez Valencia and Frans Zwarts | University of Groningen | Temporal SPEC-phenomena and the Semantics of 'as soon as' |
| 12:10-12:50 | Veneeta Dayal | Rutgers University | Free Relatives and '-ever': 'Identity' and 'Free Choice' readings |
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