CSSP 2013 Call for participation

Wed Jul 31 12:16:40 UTC 2013

*** Please distribute widely ***

We invite you to join us for the

10th Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris (CSSP 2013)

which will be held from September 26-28 2013 at Université Paris Diderot.

* Invited speakers:

Ricardo Exteparre (CNRS, Pau)
Tim Fernando (Trinity College, Dublin)
Bart Geurts (Nijmegen)
Louisa Sadler (Essex)

* Web site:

http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/cssp2013/index_en.html

* Venue:

The conference will be held at the

Bâtiment Buffon,
4 Rue Marie-Andrée Lagroua Weil-Halle,
75013 Paris,

on Campus Rive Gauche, a few minutes walk from Bibliothèque François
Mitterand.

Detailed information and a map can be found at
http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/cssp2013/infos/index_en.html

* Registration:

The regular registration fee is 70€, and 35€ for students. Members of
co-organising sites can register for free.

Please register by Tue Sep 10 at

http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/cssp2013/inscription/inscription.php?langue=en

* Conference programme:

http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/cssp2013/programme/index_en.html

THURSDAY September 26

  9h00-9h20 Opening

  9h20-10h20 Invited speaker Louisa Sadler (U. of Essex),
         Psych predicates and an unexpected case of copy raising
10h20-11h00 Adam Przepiórkowski (U. Warsaw),
         Distance distributivity in Polish at the syntax-semantics 
interface: an LFG account

11h00-11h30 Coffee break

11h30-12h10 Eric Acton (Stanford U.),
         Standard change and the Finnish partitive-accusative object 
distinction
12h10-12h50 Urtzi Etxeberria (U. Pau),
         Basque nominals: from a system with bare nouns to a system without

12h50-14h30 Lunch break

14h30-15h10 Heather Burnett (ENS, U. Montréal) and Michelle Troberg (U. 
Toronto),
         Diachronic Investigations into the Compositional Semantics of 
Resultative Constructions
15h10-15h50 Sebastian Buecking (U. Tuebingen),
         How to elaborate on events by German "indem" and English "by"

15h50-16h20 Coffee break

16h20-17h00 Francesca Foppolo (U. Milano) and Marco Marelli (U. Trento),
         Not all comes for free
17h00-17h40 Uli Sauerland (ZAS Berlin),
         Non-Conservativity in Northern German: Focus-Affected 
Quantification with Proportional Quantifiers
17h40-18h20 Gregory Scontras, Cheng-Yu Edwin Tsai and Maria Polinsky 
(Harvard U.),
         Prohibiting Inverse Scope: An Experimental Study of Chinese vs. 
English

18h30 Reception

FRIDAY September 27

  9h00-10h00 Invited speaker Bart Geurts (U. Nijmegen),
          When language turns inward
10h00-10h40 Igor Yanovich (MIT),
         Symbouletic modality

10h40-11h10 Coffee break

11h10-11h50 Christopher Davis (U. of the Ryukyus) and Yurie Hara (City 
U. of Hong Kong),
            Evidentiality as a Causal Relation: A Case Study from 
Japanese 'youda'
11h50-12h30 Dimitra Kolliakou (U. Paris Diderot),
         French and Greek interrogatives: question resolvedness and 
speaker's commitment

12h30-14h20 Lunch break

14h20-15h20 Invited speaker Tim Fernando (Trinity college),
         Could tense and aspect be finite-state?
15h20-16h00 Jeffrey Runner (U. Rochester) and Kellan Head (Teach for 
America),
         What can visual world eye-tracking tell us about the binding 
theory?

16h00-16h30 Coffee break

16h30-17h10 Matthew Ong and Adrian Brasoveanu (UC Santa Cruz),
         Predicting strict vs. sloppy reflexives in VP ellipsis
17h10-17h50 Timothy Dozat (Stanford U.) and Jeffrey Runner (U. Rochester),
         Someone will attend this talk (and it definitely should be!), I 
just don't know by whom:
         An analysis of voice mismatch in VP ellipsis and sluicing
17h50-18h30 Philip Miller (U. Paris Diderot),
         Pseudo-gapping is a case of VP ellipsis

SATURDAY September 28

9h30-10h30 Invited speaker Ricardo Etxepare (CNRS, U. Pau),
        Minimal Correlatives

10h30-11h00 Coffee break

11h00-11h40 Urtzi Etxeberria and Aritz Irurtzun (U. Pau),
         An experimental test of the effects of focus in generating 
scalar meanings in Basque
11h40-12h20 Pritty Patel-Grosz (U. Tuebingen),
         Epithets as De re Pronouns

12h20-14h00 Lunch break

14h00-14h40 Lauri Karttunen, Annie Zaenen, Cleo Condoravdi and Stanley 
Peters (Stanford U.),
         What does one do when one is not stupid? Factive and 
implicative dialects of evaluative adjectives.
14h40-15h10 Emilie Destruel (U. Iowa) and Dan Bridges Velleman (U. Texas),
         Refining contrastiveness: Empirical evidence from the English 
it-cleft

15h10-15h40 Coffee break

15h40-16h20 Juliette Thuilier (U. Paris Sorbonne),
         Experimental approach: The case of the syntax of attributive 
adjectives
16h20-17h00 Pegah Faghiri and Pollet Samvelian (U. Sorbonne Nouvelle),
         Constituent ordering in Persian and the weight factor

Alternates:

     Sandhya Sundaresan (U. Tromsø),
             Perspectives on reflexivity and the GET-passive: new 
insights from Tamil
     Daniel Gutzmann (U. Frankfurt) and Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin U.),
            Using Descriptions. A Use-conditional View of Referential 
Descriptions

-- 
Berthold Crysmann <crysmann at linguist.jussieu.fr>
CNRS, Laboratoire de linguistique formelle (UMR 7110), U Paris Diderot
Case 7031, 5 rue Thomas Mann, 75205 Paris cedex 13
Bureau 545, bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, rue Albert Einstein, 75013 Paris

-- 
Berthold Crysmann <crysmann at linguist.jussieu.fr>
CNRS, Laboratoire de linguistique formelle (UMR 7110), U Paris Diderot
Case 7031, 5 rue Thomas Mann, 75205 Paris cedex 13
Bureau 545, bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, rue Albert Einstein, 75013 Paris

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