Thursday Room 32-D461
6:30pm-8:30pm Special session on Semantics and Inclusion/Diversity
Lynne Tirrell (University of Connecticut) Language Games and Normative Change
(refreshments will be available; see home page for more information on this talk).
All conference talks will take place in room 32-123
Friday
| 8:00-8:50 | Registration, breakfast | |
| 8:50-9:00 | Welcome | |
| Session 1 Chair: Martin Hackl | ||
| 9:00-9:40 | Alexis Wellwood | Structure preservation in comparatives |
| 9:40-10:20 | Nicholas Fleisher | than clauses as embedded questions |
| 10:20-11:00 | Sophie Moracchini | Evaluativity and structural competition |
| 11:00-11:30 | Break | |
| 11:30-1:00 | Poster 1 | |
| 1:00-2:30 | Lunch (on your own; Forbes Cafe will give discount) | |
| Session 2 Chair: Yael Sharvit | ||
| 2:30-3:10 | Milica Denić | Domain alternatives of disjunction and triviality |
| 3:10-3:50 | Moshe E. Bar-Lev | An implicature account of homogeneity and non-maximality |
| 3:50-4:15 | Break | |
| 4:15-5:45 | Poster 2 | |
| Session 3 Chair: Irene Heim | ||
| 5:45-6:25 | Amir Anvari | Logical integrity |
| 6:25-7:25 | Amy Rose Deal | Compositional paths to de re |
| 7:25-9:00 | Informal buffet dinner (burritos, on the Stata student street) | |
Saturday
| Breakfast on your own | ||
| Session 4 Chair: Justin Khoo | ||
| 9:00-9:40 | Uli Sauerland | The thought uniqueness hypothesis |
| 9:40-10:20 | Matthew Mandelkern & Jonathan Phillips | Force: Morality and context |
| 10:20-11:00 | Márta Abrusán | Protagonist projection |
| 11:00-11:30 | Break | |
| 11:30-1:00 | Poster 3 | |
| 1:00-2:30 | Lunch (provided, on the student street) | COSWL Popup Mentoring |
| Session 5 Chair: Elizabeth Coppock | ||
| 2:30-3:10 | Naomi Francis | Presupposition-denying uses of even |
| 3:10-3:50 | Jon Ander Mendia | Epistemic numbers |
| 3:50-4:00 | Minimal Break | |
| 4:00-5:30 | Poster 4 | |
| 5:30-6:00 | Business Meeting | |
| 6:00-11:00 | Party at the MIT Museum (dinner, karaoke, quiet areas, open bar) | |
Sunday
| Breakfast on your own | ||
| Session 6 Chair: Polly Jacobson | ||
| 9:00-9:40 | Dylan Bumford | Sloppy binding into relative superlative descriptions |
| 9:40-10:20 | Wataru Uegaki | The problem of presupposition projection in question-embedding |
| 10:20-11:00 | Maayan Abenina-Adar & Yael Sharvit | Domain uniformity in questions |
| 11:00-11:30 | Break | |
| Session 7 Chair: Gennaro Chierchia | ||
| 11:30-12:15 | Nina Haslinger & Viola Schmitt | Scope-related cumulativity asymmetries and cumulative composition |
| 12:15-1:15 | Benjamin Spector | What do we learn from game-theoretic pragmatics? |
| 1:15-1:30 | Award & Closing | |
Poster 1: Friday 11:30-1:00
| Floris Roelofsen and Wataru Uegaki | Do modals take propositions or questions? Evidence from Japanese |
| Gabriel Martínez Vera | Superlatives across domains: Evidence from degree achievements in Southern Aymara |
| Mary Dalrymple and Dag Haug | Reciprocal scope revisited |
| Timothée Bernard and Lucas Champollion | Negative events |
| Deniz Rudin | Rising imperatives |
| Serge Minor | The Habitual Imperfective and Evaluation Plurality |
| Deniz Özyıldız | Overt Quantifier Raising derives factivity and its prosody |
| Keely New and Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine | The expression of exhaustivity and scalarity in Burmese |
| Carina Kauf and Hedde Zeijlstra | Towards a New Explanation of Sequence of Tense |
Poster 2: Friday 4:15-5:45
| Scott AnderBois and Pauline Jacobson | Answering Implicit Questions: The case of ‘namely’ |
| Nicole Gotzner, Stephanie Solt and Anton Benz | Scalar implicature and negative strengthening in different types of gradable adjectives |
| Sascha Alexeyenko | Modeling quantification in event semantics: evidence from habituals |
| Keny Chatain | Gaps in the interpretation of pronouns |
| Richard Stockwell | Ellipsis in tautologous conditionals |
| Milica Denić and Emmanuel Chemla | Quantifier spreading in child language as distributive inferences |
| Jon Ander Mendia, Ethan Poole and Brian Dillon | Spurious NPI licensing is covert licensing |
Poster 3: Saturday 11:30-1:00
Poster 4: Saturday 4:00-5:30
| Thom van Gessel, Alexandre Cremers, and Floris Roelofsen | Polarity sensitivity of question embedding: experimental evidence |
| Stephanie Solt and Jon Stevens | Some three students: Towards a unified account of ‘some’ |
| Carla Bombi | Definiteness in Akan (Kwa): familiarity and uniqueness revisited |
| Katja Jasinskaja and Claudia Poschmann | Attachment in Syntax and Discourse: Towards an explanation for the variable scope of non-restrictive relative clauses |
| Robert Pasternak | Thinking alone and thinking together |
| Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Aron Hirsch | Keep “only” strong |
| Zhuo Chen | Unifying three uses of dou in event semantics |
| Paul Marty | Towards an Implicature-Based Account of Disjoint Reference |
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