CSSP 2003 Preliminary Program

[Olivier Bonami]

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                                  CSSP 03

           THE FIFTH SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS CONFERENCE IN PARIS
                             OCTOBER 2-4, 2003

                           PRELIMINARY PROGRAM


THURSDAY OCTOBER 2
9h­9h15 Opening
9h15­10h15 Invited talk: A. Zribi-Hertz (U. Paris 8)
    Contribution a une approche syntaxique du nombre: pourquoi le pluriel
    semble-t-il plus "vrai" en francais qu¹en coreen ?
10h15­10h45 H. Rullman & A. You (U. of Calgary)
    Bare Nouns and Number in Mandarin
10h45­11h15 Break
11h15­11h45 S. Tomioka (U. of Delaware)
    Definite Plural Pronouns are Definite
11h45­12h15 S. Wechsler (U. of Texas, Austin)
    Number as Person
12h15­12h45 D. Farkas (UCSC) & H. de Swart (U. Utrecht)
    Number Neutrality
12h45­14h Lunch break
14h­15h Invited talk: R. Levine (Ohio State U.)
    The syntax of extraction: derivation or constraint satisfaction?
15h­15h30 C. Bozsahin & M. Steedman (U. of Edinburgh)
    Control, Grammatical Relations, and Argument Structure
15h30­16h Break
16h­16h30 A. Bachrach (U. Paris 7)
    Vers une analyse unifiee des demonstratifs en hebreu et en francais
16h30­17h R. Borsley (U. of Essex) & B. M. Jones (U. of Wales)
    The distribution and interpretation of Welsh n-words
17h­17h30 W. Davidson (Ohio State U.)
    Structure preserving  extraction


FRIDAY OCTOBER 3
9h­10h  Invited talk: M. Krifka (Humboldt U. Berlin)
    Bare plurals: Kind-referring, Indefinites, Both, or Neither?
10h­10h30 Y. Greenberg (Bar-Ilan U.)
    Tolerating Exceptions with "Descriptive" and "In Virtue Of" Generics
10h30­11h Break
11h­11h30 G. Tsoulas, K.-H. Gil & S. Harlow (U. of York)
    Disjunction and Quantificational Variability
11h30­12h S. Tomioka & Y. Tsai (U. of Delaware)
   Partitivity Derives Distributivity: the Existential You Construction
   in Mandarin Chinese
12h­12h30 L. McNally & G. Boleda Torrent (U. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
    Relational Adjectives as Properties of Kinds
12h30­14h Lunch break
14h­15h Invited talk: N. Kadmon (U. Tel Aviv)
    Some Theories of the Interpretation of Accent Placement
15h­15h30 M. Sailer (U. Tübingen)
    Local semantics in HPSG
15h30­16h Break
16h­16h30 A. ter Meulen (U. Groningen)
    Temporal Cohesion and the Presuppositions of Temporal Adverbs
16h30h­17h C. Condoravdi (Xerox PARC & Stanford U.)
    Interval Expansion and Scalarity for Phase Adverbials
17h­17h30 P. Denis (U. of Texas, Austin) & P. Muller (IRIT, Toulouse)
    A Semantics for Temporally Dependent Referring Expressions
17h30­18h L. Sadler (U. of Essex) & R. Nordlinger (U. of Melbourne)
    An LFG Approach to the Syntax and Semantics of Tensed Nominals

SATURDAY OCTOBER 4
9h­10h Invited talk: M. Steedman (U. of Edinburgh)
    Scope Alternation and the Syntax-Semantics Interface
10h­10h30 H.-M. Gärtner (ZAS, Berlin)
    Naming and  Economy
10h30­11h Break
11h­11h30 B. Surányi (Eötvös U., Budapest)
    A Checking vs. QR-based Approach to the Differential Scopal Behaviour
    of Quantifier Classes
11h30­12h R. Etxepare (CNRS Bayonne)
    On some cases of so called Constituent Negation in Spanish
12h­12h30 C. Heycock (U. of Edinburgh)
    Adjectival modifiers and 'reconstruction' in relative clauses

ALTERNATES
J. Jayez (ENS Lyon) & C. Rossari (U. de Genève)
    L'heredite des antecedents
R. Lambert (U. Lyon 2)
    About the two 'takes' in sequential SVCs
A. Meinunger (ZAS, Berlin)
    Verb Second in Germanic and Mood Selection in Romance as a Diagnostics
    Indicating 'QR' for CPs
P. Stateva (Humboldt U., Berlin)
    Intervention Effects in Degree Constructions

For more information:
Web site: http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/CSSP/index-en.html
E-mail: cssp03 at linguist.jussieu.fr


REVIEWERS
Anne Abeille (U. Paris 7), Claire Beyssade (CNRS-J. Nicod), Olivier Bonami
(U. Rennes 2), Patrick Blackburn (INRIA), Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (CNRS-U.
Paris 8), Sandra Chung (UC Santa Cruz), Ileana Comorovski (U. Nancy 2),
Francis Corblin (U. Paris 4), Mary Dalrymple (University College-London),
Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie (CNRS-U. Toulouse 2), Elisabet Engdahl (Goteborg
U.), Donka Farkas (UC Santa Cruz), Bernard Fradin (CNRS-U. Paris 7), Bart
Geurts (Nijmegen U.), Daniele Godard (CNRS-Paris 7), Jacques Jayez
(ENS-Lyon), Nirit Kadmon (Tel Aviv U.), Chris Kennedy (Northwestern U.),
Alain Kihm (CNRS-U. Paris 7), Dimitra  Kolliakou (U. of Newcastle), Brenda
Laca (U. Paris 8), Jacqueline Lecarme (CNRS-U. Paris 7), Beth Levin
(Stanford U.), Robert Levine (Ohio State U.), Jean-Marie Marandin
(CNRS-Paris 7), Ora Matushansky (CNRS-U. Paris 8), Detmar Meurers (Ohio
State U.), Lea Nash (U. Paris 8), Bernard Oyharçabal (CNRS-Bayonne), Owen
Rambow (Columbia U.), Sanda Ripeanu (U. of Bucharest), Alain Rouveret (U.
Paris 7), Louisa Sadler (U. of Essex), Roger Schwarzschild (Rutgers U.),
Mark Steedman (U. of Edinburgh), Christopher Tancredi (U. of Tokyo), Lucia
Tovena (U. Lille 3), Jesse Tseng (U. Paris 10), George Tsoulas (U. of York),
Stephen Wechsler (U. of Texas at Austin), Shuichi Yatabe (U. of Tokyo),
Eun-Jung Yoo (Seoul U.), Annie Zaenen (Xerox PARC), Anne Zribi-Hertz (U.
Paris 8), Richard Zuber (CNRS-U. Paris 7).

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Claire Beyssade (CNRS-J. Nicod), Olivier Bonami (chair; Rennes 2), Patricia
Cabredo Hofherr (CNRS-Paris 8), Francis Corblin (Paris 4), Danièle Godard
(CNRS-Paris 7), Jean-Marie Marandin (CNRS-Paris 7)