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Conference site: Herter 227 [annotated map]
Friday
- 8:45-9:20
- Registration
- Chair: Christopher Potts (UMass Amherst)
- 9:20-10:00
- Chris Kennedy (University of Chicago) & Jason Stanley (Rutgers)
- What an 'average' semantics needs
- 10:00-10:40
- Jon Gajewski (UConn)
- More on quantifiers in comparative clauses
- 10:40-11:20
- Rick Nouwen (Utrecht)
- Directional numeral quantifiers
- 11:20-11:40
- Break
- Chair: Muffy Siegel (Temple)
- 11:40-12:20
- Andreas Haida (Humboldt University)
- The indefiniteness and focusing of question words
- 12:20-1:00
- Floris Roelofsen (Amsterdam) & Maria Aloni (Amsterdam)
- Perspectives on concealed questions
- 1:00-3:00
- Lunch
- Chair: Peggy Speas (UMass Amherst)
- 3:00-3:40
- Ivano Caponigro (UC San Diego) & Maria Polinsky (Harvard)
- Almost everything is relative in the Caucasus
- 3:40-4:20
- Daphna Heller (University of Rochester) & Lynsey Wolter (University of Rochester)
- Identity and indeterminacy in -ever free relatives
- 4:20-5:20
- Ten-minute poster talks
- 5:20-6:20
- Posters show details
- 6:20-6:40
- Break
- Chair: Emmon Bach (UMass Amherst)
- 6:40-7:40
- Hotze Rullmann (UBC)
- Binding and person/number features: Prospects and challenges for a semantic approach
Saturday
- Chair: Angelika Kratzer (UMass Amherst)
- 9:20-10:20
- Lisa Matthewson (UBC)
- Pronouns, presuppositions, and semantic variation
- 10:20-11:00
- Paul Elbourne (Queen Mary, University of London)
- Implicit content and the argument from binding
- 11:00-11:20
- Break
- Chair: Irene Heim (MIT)
- 11:20-12:00
- Katrin Schulz (Amsterdam)
- Non-deictic tenses in conditionals
- 12:00-12:40
- Øystein Nilsen (CASTL, Tromsø/Utrecht) & Jakub Dotlacil (Utrecht)
- The others, each other, and the Strongest Meaning Hypothesis
- 12:40-1:20
- Tim Hunter (Maryland), Justin Halberda (Johns Hopkins), Jeffrey Lidz (Maryland) & Paul Pietroski (Maryland)
- Beyond truth conditions: The semantics of 'most'
- 1:20-3:20
- Lunch
- Chair: Roger Schwarzschild (Rutgers)
- 3:20-4:00
- Arjen Zondervan (Utrecht), Luisa Meroni (Utrecht) & Andrea Gualmini (Utrecht)
- Experiments on the role of the Question Under Discussion for ambiguity resolution and implicature computation in adults
- 4:00-5:00
- Ten-minute poster talks
- 5:00-6:00
- Posters show details
- 6:00-6:20
- Break
- Chair: Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard)
- 6:20-7:20
- Lyn Frazier (UMass Amherst)
- Computing scalar implicatures
- 8:00-12:00
- Dinner party (Fine Arts Center Lobby)
Sunday
- Chair: Gregory Carlson (University of Rochester)
- 10:00-10:40
- Christian Ebert (Bielefeld), Cornelia Endriss (Osnabrück) & Stefan Hinterwimmer (Humbolt University)
- A unified analysis of indicative and Biscuit conditionals as topics
- 10:40-11:20
- Jeroen Groenendijk (Amsterdam)
- Inquisitive semantics: conditionals, questions, and disjunction
- 11:20-12:00
- Simon Charlow (Brown)
- Free and bound pro-verbs: A unified treatment of anaphora
- 12:00-13:30
- Lunch
- Chair: Kai von Fintel (MIT)
- 1:30-2:10
- Marta Abrusan (Institut Jean-Nicod/Collegium Budapest)
- Islands of contradiction: Presuppositional and negative interveners
- 2:10-2:50
- Vincent Homer (UCLA)
- Intervention by presuppositions
- 2:50-3:15
- Break
- Chair: Rajesh Bhatt (UMass Amherst)
- 3:15-4:15
- Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod/NYU)
- Presupposition projection: The new debate