Semantics
and Linguistic
Theory 17
University of Connecticut, May 11-13, 2007
The conference is dedicated to the memory of Tanya Reinhart, who died on March 17, 2007
University of Connecticut, May 11-13, 2007
The conference is dedicated to the memory of Tanya Reinhart, who died on March 17, 2007
Biology/Physics Building (BPB), Room 130
| FRIDAY, MAY 11 |
|
| 9:00
|
Registration and Payment |
| 9:30 – 10:30 |
Thomas Ede Zimmermann
(University of Frankfurt) Painting and Opacity |
| 10:30 – 11:10 |
Olga Kagan (Hebrew
University of Jerusalem) Property-Denoting NPs and Non-Canonical Genitive Case |
| BREAK |
|
| 11:30 –
12:10 |
Eytan Zweig (NYU) Possessive Plurals and Their Readings |
| 12:10 – 12:50 |
Peter Staroverov (Moscow
State University) Relational nouns and reciprocal plurality |
| LUNCH |
|
| 2:50 – 3:30 |
Jessica Rett (Rutgers) Antonymy and Evaluativity |
| 3:30 – 4:10 |
Daniel Büring (UCLA) Cross-Polar Nomalies |
| BREAK |
|
| 4:30 – 5:10 |
Raj Singh (MIT) A Solution to the Proviso Problem: Formal Alternatives, Relevance, and Accommodation |
| 5:10 – 5:50 |
Christopher Davis,
Christopher Potts & Peggy Speas (UMass, Amherst) Evidential marking, interrogatives, and the maxim of quality |
| 6:00
– 6:30 |
BUSINESS
MEETING |
| SATURDAY, MAY 12 |
|
| 9:30 – 10:30 |
Veneeta Dayal (Rutgers) A Third Kind of Weak Indefinte |
| 10:30 – 11:10 |
Ariel Cohen (Ben-Gurion
University) Between Kinds and Properties: Bare Plurals Across Languages |
| BREAK |
|
| 11:30 – 12:10 |
Magdalena Schwager
(Frankfurt University) Under Cover Bodyguards: The Status of Individual Concepts |
| 12:10 –
12:50 |
Pranav Anand (UC Santa
Cruz) Dream Report Pronouns, Local Binding, and Attitudes De Se |
| LUNCH |
|
| 2:50 – 3:30 |
Benjamin Spector (Harvard) Modalized questions and Exhaustivity |
| 3:30 – 4:10 |
Elena Guerzoni (USC) Weak Exhaustivity: A Pragmatic Account |
| BREAK |
|
| 4:30 – 5:10 |
Rajesh Bhatt (UMass,
Amherst) & Shoichi Takahashi (UMass, Amherst/University of Tokyo) Direct Comparisons: Resurrecting the Direct Analysis of Phrasal Comparatives |
| 5:10 – 6:10 |
Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard) Polarity Sensitivity: The Role of Higher Order Implicatures |
| 6:30 |
DINNER |
| SUNDAY, MAY 13 |
|
| 10:00 – 10:40 |
Hedde Zeijlstra
(University of Amsterdam) Modal auxiliaries are empty |
| 10:40 – 11:20 |
Andreas Haida (ZAS, Berlin) Reconsidering the Indirect Dependency Approach to Wh-Scope Marking |
| BREAK |
|
| 11:40 – 12:20 |
Malte Zimmermann (Potsdam
University) Overt Existential Closure in Bura (Central Chadic) |
| 12:20 – 1:00 |
Sela Mador-Haim (Technion,
Haifa) & Yoad Winter (Technion, Haifa and NIAS, Wassenaar) Non-Existential Indefinites and Semantic Incorporation of PP Complements |
| BREAK |
|
| 1:20 – 2:20 |
Danny Fox (MIT) Too Many Alternatives: density, symmetry and other predicaments |
| ALTERNATES |
|
| Martin Hackl, Jorie
Koster-Moeller, and Jason Varvoutis (Pomona College) The Problem of Quantifiers in Object Position: Two Processing Studies |
|
| Vincenzo Moscati
(University of Siena, CISCL) &
Andrea
Gualmini (McGill) More facts that Isomorphism cannot explain |
|
| Uli Sauerland & Penka
Stateva (ZAS, Berlin) Scalar vs. Epistemic Vagueness: Evidence from Approximators |
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