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Friday, May 15
| 8:30-9:00 | Registration and refreshments | |
| 9:00-9:10 | Welcome | |
| Session 1 – Chair: Lauri Karttunen (Stanford) | ||
| 9:10-9:50 | Daniel Altshuler (Düsseldorf), Valentine Hacquard (Maryland), Thomas Roberts (Maryland) and Aaron Steven White (Maryland) | On double access, cessation and parentheticality |
| 9:50-10:30 | Fabienne Martin (Stuttgart/Paris 8) | Explaining the link between agentivity and non-culminating causation |
| 10:30-11:10 | Rebekah Baglini (U. Chicago) | Property concepts and non-mereological semantics in Wolof |
| 11:10-11:40 | Break | |
| Session 2 – Chair: Dag Westerståhl (Gothenburg) | ||
| 11:40-12:20 | Simon Charlow (Rutgers) | The scope of alternatives |
| 12:20-1:00 | Philippe de Groote (Inria) | Modularity and compositionality: the case of temporal modifiers |
| 1:00-2:20 | Lunch (on your own) | |
| Session 3 – Chair: Dan Lassiter (Stanford) | ||
| 2:20-3:00 | Christopher Davis (U. of Ryukyus) | Plurality and distributivity in Yaeyaman Wh-questions |
| 3:00-4:00 | Poster lightning talks | |
| 4:00-5:00 | Poster session | show details |
| Moshe E. Bar-Lev (Hebrew U) | De re tenses and Trace Conversion | |
| Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (CNRS-LLF, Paris 7) | Two types of most | |
| Patrick Elliott (UCL), Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin) and Yasutada Sudo (UCL) | Discourse even vs. attitude even | |
| Peter Jenks (UC Berkeley) | Two kinds of definites in numeral classifier languages | |
| Claudia Maienborn (U. Tübingen) and Johanna Herdtfelder (U. Tübingen) | On the interplay of compositionality and coercion: The case of German causal von-PPs | |
| Luisa Marti (Queen Mary) | The morpho-semantics of Spanish indefinites and the theory of number | |
| Clemens Mayr (ZAS) | Plural definite NPs presuppose multiplicity via embedded exhaustification | |
| Yaron McNabb (Utrecht) | Differences and similarities between scalar inferences and scalar modifiers | |
| Todd Snider (Cornell) and Adam Bjorndahl (Carnegie Mellon) | Informative counterfactuals | |
| Frank Sode (Göttingen) | A new perspective on German logophoric subjunctive | |
| Guillaume Thomas (PUC-RJ) | Rising scale segments: additivity, comparison and continuation | |
| Barbara Tomaszewicz (Tilburg) | Relative readings of superlatives: scope or focus? | |
| 5:00-5:15 | Break | |
| Session 4 – Chair: Cleo Condoravdi (Stanford) | ||
| 5:15-6:15 | Invited talk: Ashwini Deo (Yale) | Scale structure and genericity (joint work with Mokshay Madiman) |
Saturday, May 16
| 8:45-9:00 | Light breakfast | |
| Session 1 – Chair: Beth Levin (Stanford) | ||
| 9:00-10:00 | Invited talk: Elsi Kaiser (USC) | Perspective-shifting and anaphora: Experimental investigations |
| 10:00-10:40 | Lyn Tieu (ENS), Kazuko Yatsushiro (ZAS), Alexandre Cremers (ENS), Jacopo Romoli (Ulster), Uli Sauerland (ZAS Berlin) and Emmanuel Chemla (ENS) | On the acquisition of simple and complex disjunctions in French and Japanese |
| 10:40-11:00 | Break | |
| Session 2 – Chair: Judith Degen (Stanford) | ||
| 11:00-11:40 | Michael Franke (U. Tübingen) and Anthea Schoeller (U. Tübingen) | Semantic values as latent pragmatic parameters: surprising few and many |
| 11:40-12:20 | Sonja Tiemann (U. Tübingen) | Presuppositions in the scope of quantifying expressions: Eye tracking data |
| 12:20-1:30 | Lunch (provided) | |
| Session 3 – Chair: Itamar Francez (U. Chicago) | ||
| 1:30-2:10 | Dominique Blok (Utrecht) | The semantics and pragmatics of directional numeral modifiers |
| 2:10-2:50 | Stavroula Alexandropoulou (Utrecht), Jakub Dotlacil (Groningen), Yaron McNabb (Utrecht) and Rick Nouwen (Utrecht) | Pragmatic inferences with numeral modifiers: novel experimental data |
| 2:50-3:15 | Break | |
| Session 4 – Chair: Sven Lauer (Konstanz) | ||
| 3:15-4:15 | Poster lightning talks | |
| 4:15-5:15 | Poster session | show details |
| Dorothy Ahn (Harvard) and Uli Sauerland (ZAS) | The grammar of relative measurement | |
| Daniel Altshuler (Düsseldorf) and Károly Varasdi (Düsseldorf) | Discourse relations with temporal import: A proof of definitional adequacy | |
| Helena Aparicio (U. Chicago), Ming Xiang (U. Chicago) and Chris Kennedy (U. Chicago) | Online processing of relative vs. absolute adjectives: a visual world study | |
| Nicholas Asher (CNRS/Toulouse) and Antoine Venant (Toulouse) | OK or not OK? Commitments in acknowledgements and corrections | |
| Bridget Copley (CNRS/Paris 8), Phillip Wolff (Emory) and Jason Shepard (Emory) | Structural causal pluralism and underspecification in the expression of causation | |
| Joseph Deveaugh-Geiss (Potsdam), -Christina Boell (Göttingen), Malte Zimmermann (Potsdam) and Edgar Onea Gáspár (Göttingen) | Contradicting (not-)at-issueness in exclusives and clefts: an empirical study | |
| Edit Doron (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Aynat Rubinstein (Hebrew U) | Transparent unconditionality | |
| Natalia Korotkova (UCLA) | Evidentials and attitudes | |
| Manfred Krifka (ZAS, Humboldt) | Bias in commitment space semantics: declarative questions, negated questions, and question tags | |
| Maribel Romero (Konstanz) | Surprise-predicates, strong exhaustivity and whether-questions | |
| Andreas Walker (Konstanz) and Maribel Romero (Konstanz) | Counterfactual donkeys: A strict conditional analysis | |
| 5:15-5:30 | Break | |
| Session 5 – Chair: Thomas Icard (Stanford) | ||
| 5:30-6:30 | Invited talk: Adrian Brasoveanu (UCSC) | Incremental and predictive interpretation: Experimental evidence and possible accounts (joint work with Jakub Dotlačil) |
| 6:30-7:00 | Business meeting (Huang Amphitheater) | |
| 7:00-10:00 | Dinner and party | |
Sunday, May 17
| 9:15-9:30 | Light breakfast | |
| Session 1 – Chair: Ivano Caponigro (UCSD) | ||
| 9:30-10:10 | Elena Herburger (Georgetown) | Conditional perfection: The truth and the whole truth |
| 10:10-10:50 | Marie-Christine Meyer (Hebrew U) | Redundancy and embedded exhaustification |
| 10:50-11:10 | Break | |
| Session 2 – Chair: Greg Scontras (Stanford) | ||
| 11:10-11:50 | Luka Crnic (Hebrew U) | Ellipsis, parallelism, and polarity |
| 11:50-12:30 | Andrew Kehler (UCSD) | On QUD-based licensing of strict and sloppy ambiguities |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch (provided) | |
| Session 3 – Chair: Christopher Potts (Stanford) | ||
| 1:30-2:10 | Scott Grimm (Rochester) and Louise McNally (Pompeu Fabra) | The -ing dynasty: rebuilding the semantics of nominalizations |
| 2:10-3:10 | Invited talk: Daniel Büring (Vienna) | Unalternative semantics |
Talk alternate (drawn from the poster sessions)
- Yaron McNabb (Utrecht), 'Differences and similarities between scalar inferences and scalar modifiers'
