18.2218, Confs: Semantics,Syntax/France

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Subject: 18.2218, Confs: Semantics,Syntax/France

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Date: 23-Jul-2007
From: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr < info at cssp.cnrs.fr >
Subject: 7th Syntax and Semantics Conference

 

	
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7th Syntax and Semantics Conference 
Short Title: CSSP 2007 

Date: 04-Oct-2007 - 06-Oct-2007 
Location: Paris, France 
Contact: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr 
Contact Email: info at cssp.cnrs.fr 
Meeting URL: http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/index_en.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

CSSP will incorporate combining empirical inquiry and formal explicitness. The
conference aims at favouring comparisons between different theoretical frameworks. 

The Seventh Syntax and Semantics Conference
October 4-6, 2007
ENS, Amphi Jules Ferry, 29 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris

Invited speakers

Guglielmo Cinque (Venice)
Denis Creissels (Lyon 2)
Mary Dalrymple (Oxford)
Laurence R. Horn (Yale)
Chris Kennedy (Chicago)

Thematic session: The syntax and semantics of comparison

Program
(also available at http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/cssp2007/index_en.html)

Thursday October 4 

9h-9h15 		Opening and Welcome 

9h15-10h15 	Invited talk: G. Cinque (Venice)

10h15-10h45 	Nora Boneh & Ivy Sichel (Jerusalem)
			Deconstructing Possession
10h45-11h15 	Coffee break
11h15-11h45 	Lobke Aelbrecht (Brussels)
			Dutch auxiliaries with a null VP proform complement
11h45-12h15    	Franc Marusic & Rok Zaucer (Nova Gorica & Ottawa)
		The Dual Source of the adjective-plus-indefinite-pronoun construction
12h15-12h45 	Elena Soare & Gianina Iordachioaia (Paris 8 & Tübingen)
			Two Kinds of Event Plurals: Evidence from Romanian Nominalizations

12h45-14h30     	Lunch break

14h30-15h30 	Invited talk: M. Darymple (Oxford)

15h30-16h00 	Markus Egg (Groningen)
			Semantic construction for restrictive and non-restrictive relative clause
16h00-16h30 	Coffee break

16h30-17h	Martin Schäfer (Leipzig)
			Resolving scope mismatches in manner modification
17h-17h30	Jean-Pierre Koenig & Chief Liancheng (Buffalo)
			Scalarity and state-changes in Mandarin, Hindi, Tamil, and Thai
17h30-18h 	Sergei Tatevosov (Moscow)
			Subevental structure and non-culmination
18h30			Reception

Friday October 5 

9h15-10h15		Invited talk:  D. Creissels (Lyon 2)

10h15-10h45	Irena Botwinik-Rotem & Anna Asbury (Tel Aviv & Utrecht)
			Deriving the differences between Hungarian Ps
10h45-11h15	Coffee break
11h15-11h45	Ezra Keshet (MIT)
			Infinitival Complements and Tense
11h45-12h15    	Olga Kagan (Jerusalem)
			Imperfective Aspect and Verbs of Motion in Russian
12h15-12h45	Jinyoung Choi & Maribel Romero (Pennsylvania)
			Rescuing existential Free Choice Items in episodic Sentences
12h45-14h30    	Lunch break

14h30-15h	Luis Alonso-Ovalle (Boston)
			Innocent Exclusion in an Alternative Semantics
15h-15h30	Yasuyuki Fukutomi (Fukushima)
			The Internal Structure of Japanese Wh-Phrases
15h30-16h	Marta Abrusan (MIT)
		Contradiction and grammaticality: the case of negative islands
16h00-16h30	Coffee break
16h30-17h	Michaela Ippolito (Toronto)
			The meaning of 'would' and 'would have' in conditionals
17h-17h30	Ana Arregui (Ottawa)
			Past facts and the semantics of counterfactuals
17h30-18h	Tatjana Scheffler (Pennsylvanie)
			Relevance Conditionals - 'if' in Different Dimensions

Saturday October 6 

9h15-10h15		Invited talk: L. Horn (Yale)
		''I love me some him'': The landscape of non-argument datives

10h15-10h45	Nausicaa Pouscoulous & Barts Geurts (Nijmegen)
			Experimental evidence against local implicatures
10h45-11h15	Coffee break
11h15-11h45	Scotts Fults (Maryland)
			Representations of magnitude and Comparison
11h45-12h15	Carla Umbach (Osnabruck)
			The role of German 'so' in equative comparison
12h15-12h45	Sveta Krasikova (Tübingen)
			Comparison in Chinese
12h45-14h30	Lunch break

14h30-15h30	Invited talk: C. Kennedy (Chicago)

15h30-16h00	Robert van Rooij (Amsterdam)
			Comparatives and standards of precision
16h00-16h30	Coffee break
16h30-17h	Jacques Jayez & Lucia Tovena (Lyon & Paris 7)
			Hidden comparison and the meaning of 'presque'
17h-17h30	Uli Sauerland (Berlin)
			Pseudo-Sloppy Readings in Flat Binding
 
Alternates
- Gabriela Matos & Ana Brito (Lisboa & Porto): Comparative clauses and cross
linguistic variation
- Carlo Geraci & Francesca Panzeri (Milano): Comparative Correlatives: the Case
of Italian Sign Language  and more...
- Jean-Pierre Koenig et al. (Buffalo): The micro-geography of verb meanings
- Yusuke Kubota (Ohio): A Multi-Modal Combinatory Categorial Grammar analysis of
-te form complementation in Japanese
- Bridget Copley & Heidi Harley (Paris 8 & Arizona): Have-causatives are
futurates with an extra argument
- Elena Castrovielo Miro (Pompeu Fabra): When manner adverbs cannot be
interpreted as predicate modifiers

Contact: info at cssp.cnrs.fr
Website: http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/cssp2007/






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