22.3467, Confs: Syntax, Semantics/France

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Subject: 22.3467, Confs: Syntax, Semantics/France

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Date: 01-Sep-2011
From: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr [pcabredo at univ-paris8.fr]
Subject: Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris
 

	
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From: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr [pcabredo at univ-paris8.fr]
Subject: Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris

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Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris 
Short Title: CSSP 2011 

Date: 21-Sep-2011 - 23-Sep-2011 
Location: Paris, France 
Contact: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr 
Contact Email: pcabredo at univ-paris8.fr 
Meeting URL: http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

CSSP 2011
September 21-23, 2011
Paris-8 St Denis

The 9th Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris (CSSP 2011) will take place on September 21-23, 2011.

Invited Speakers:

Cleo Condoravdi (PARC/ NLTT & Stanford)
Danièle Godard (CNRS UMR 7110 / Paris 7)
Jean-Pierre Koenig (Buffalo)
Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz) 

9th Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris (CSSP 2011)
21-23 Sept 2011

Amphi D02
Université Paris 8
2 rue de la liberté
F-93 536 St Denis

The program is updated online at:

http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/cssp2011/index_en.html

Program

Wed 21 Sept 2011

9h45-10h 
Opening

10h-11h
Invited speaker:
Danièle Godard (UMR7110 LLF Paris 7)
Title to be confirmed

11h-11h40 
Emilie Destruel (UT Austin)
The meaning and use of the French c'est-cleft

11h40-12h 
Coffee break

12h-12h40 
Yusuke Kubota (U Tokyo) & Robert Levine (Ohio State)
Against ellipsis: Arguments for the direct licensing of 'non-canonical' coordinations

12h40-13h20 
Gabriela Bilbiie & Anna Gazdik (Paris 7)
Coordination of unlikes in multiple questions

13h20-14h45 
Lunch break

14h45-15h25 
Valentina Bianchi (Siena) & Giuliano Bocci (Bologna)
'Should I stay or should I go?' Optional focus movement in Italian

15h25-16h05 
Theresa Biberauer (U Cambridge/ Stellenbosch U) & Hedde Zeijlstra (U Amsterdam)
Inherent instability and spontaneous change: an Afrikaans case study

16h05-16h35 
Coffee break

16h35-17h15 
Elizabeth Coppock (U Lund) & David Beaver (UT Austin)
Exclusivity, Uniqueness and Definiteness

17h15-17h55 
Sonia Cyrino (Unicamp) & M.Teresa Espinal (UA Barcelona)
Object BNs in Brazilian Portuguese. More on the NP/DP analysis

18h10 
Reception

Thur 22 Sept 2011

10h-11h
Invited speaker:
Cleo Condoravdi (Zukunftskolleg, U Konstanz)
Imperatives: Meaning and Illocutionary Force

10h-10h40 
Anamaria Falaus (U Basque Country /UPV-EHU)
Modal indefinites and free-choice inference in imperatives

11h40-12h 
Coffee break

12h-12h40 
Huy Linh Dao (Paris 3)
Polarité positive et concordance modale : le cas de la particule'injonctive' di en vietnamien

11h50-12h30 
Wataru Uegaki (MIT)
Content nouns and the semantics of question-embedding predicates

13h20-14h30 
Lunch break

14h30-15h30
 Invited speaker:
Jean-Pierre Koenig (U Buffalo)
The (non)-universality of syntactic selection and functional application

15h30-16h10
Laura Kallmeyer & Rainer Osswald (Heinrich-Heine-U Duesseldorf)
A Frame-Based Semantics of the Dative Alternation in Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars

16h05-16h35 
Coffee break

16h40-17h20 
Anne Dagnac (CLLE-ERSS, U Toulouse 2)
How do you double your C? Evidence from a Gallo-Romance dialect

17h20-18h 
Thomas Grano (U Chicago)
Exhaustive control is not control: Cinque's IP and the raising/ control divide

Fri 23 Sept 2011

9h-10h 
Invited speaker:
Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz)
Polarity and case licensing

10h-10h40 
Ashwini Deo (Yale), Itamar Francez (U Chicago) & Andrew Koontz-Garboden (U Manchester)
The morphosemantics of -ed

11h40-12h 
Coffee break

12h-12h40 
Eric Potsdam (U Florida)
The Syntax of Malagasy Phrasal Comparatives

12h40-13h20
Thomas Grano & Chris Kennedy (U Chicago)
Severing the degree argument from the adjective: Evidence from Mandarin transitive comparatives

13h20-14h45 
Lunch break

14h45-15h25 
Yusuke Kubota (U Tokyo)
Revisiting the progressive/ perfect ambiguity of -te iru in Japanese: A scale-based analysis

15h25-16h05 
Artemis Alexiadou and Gianina Iordachioaia (U Stuttgart)
Causative nominalizations from psych verbs

16h05-16h45 
Sergei Tatevosov & Ekaterina Lyutikova (Lomonossov U Moscow)
A finer look at predicate decomposition: evidence from causativization

Alternates:

Daniel Gutzmann & Katharina Turgay (Goethe-U Frankfurt/ U Landau) The syntactic-semantic puzzle of expressive intensifiers
Gabi Danon (Bar-Ilan U) Agreement features and non-agreeing copulas in Modern Hebrew
Stephen Wechsler (UT Austin) Polysemy and Pancakes
Patrick Grosz (Massachussets Institute of Technology) On the Role of Epistemic Contexts in Root Clause Phenomena
Janna Lipenkova (U Stuttgart) Obligatory event modifiers and lexical licensing in the Chinese ba-construction
Mojmir Docekal and Dalina Kallulli (U Brno/ U Vienna) More on the semantics of clitic doubling: principal ultrafilters, quantifiers and collective predicates
Yasutada Sudo (Massachussets Institute of Technology) Towards a Unified Account of Anti-Uniqueness Inferences
Andreea Nicolae (Harvard U) Situating PPIs within an alternative-based framework of the Polarity System

Acknowledgements:

We thank the following organizations for their financial or material support for CSSP 2011:

The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
The Conseil scientifique of the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4)
 The Conseil scientifique of the Université Paris 8
The EA 4503 of the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4)
The departement of linguistics UFR de linguistique of the Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7)
The École doctorale Concepts et Langages (U. Paris 4)
 The École doctorale Sciences du langage (U. Paris 7)
The research group Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (UMR7110 - CNRS& U. Paris 7)
The research group Structures Formelles du Langage (UMR7023 - CNRS & U. Paris 8)
The research group Institut Jean Nicod (UMR8129 - CNRS, ENS & EHESS) (projet EURYI, resp. Philippe Schlenker)
The research group Savoirs, Textes, Langage (UMR 8163 - CNRS & U. Lille 3)
The research group Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie (CLLE UMR 5263, CNRS & U. de Toulouse Le Mirail)
The project of the ANR Cognitive Origins of Vagueness (resp. Paul Egré)
The project of the ANR Genericity Interpretation and Uses (resp. Alda Mari)
The Institut Universitaire de France (Olivier Bonami)








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