26.3985, Confs: General Ling, Lang Acquisition, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/France

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Subject: 26.3985, Confs: General Ling, Lang Acquisition, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax/France

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Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 12:29:37
From: Jonathan Ginzburg [yonatan.ginzburg at univ-paris-diderot.fr]
Subject: CSSP 2015: The 11th Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris

CSSP 2015: The 11th Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris 
Short Title: CSSP 2015 

Date: 08-Oct-2015 - 10-Oct-2015 
Location: Paris, France 
Contact: Jonathan Ginzburg 
Contact Email: info at cssp.cnrs.fr 
Meeting URL: http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/cssp2015/index_en.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

The 11th Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris (CSSP 2015) will take place on October 8-10th, 2015 at Université Paris 7 – Paris Diderot. The Conference welcomes papers combining empirical inquiry and formal explicitness. CSSP aims at favouring comparisons between different theoretical frameworks. CSSP conferences combine a general session and a thematic session. This year's topic is: Global or genre/domain-dependent grammar?

Scientific Committee:

Anne Abeillé (Université Paris Diderot)
Hans-Martin Gärtner (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Jonathan Ginzburg (Université Paris Diderot) (Chair)
Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh)
Brenda Laca (Université Paris 8)
Alda Mari (CNRS, ENS Ulm)
Christopher Piñón (Université Lille 3 / UMR 8163 STL)
Benjamin Spector (CNRS / EHESS / ENS Ulm)
Jesse Tseng (CNRS, Université Toulouse) 

Program:

Thursday, October 8, 2015

08:45-09:15
Registration & coffee

09:15-09:30
Welcome

09:30-10:30
Chris Potts (Stanford, invited talk) 
Negotiating lexical uncertainty and speaker expertise with disjunction

10:30-11:10
Robin Cooper (Gothenburg University)	
Creating lexical meaning on the fly

11:10-11:40 Coffee 

11:40-12:20
Yoad Winter (Utrecht University) 	
Proto-predicates and the Lexical Origins of Reciprocity	

12:20-13:00
Ariel Cohen (Ben Gurion University)	 
Non-Temporal Tense	

13:00-15:00 Lunch	

15:00-15:40
Doreen Georgi and Martin Salzmann (University of Leipzig)		
Complementarity of gaps and resumptives as the result of Case attraction: 
local modeling under top-down derivation	

15:40-16:20
Anne Abeillé, Berthold Crysmann and Aoi Shiraishi (Université Paris-Diderot)	
Syntactic mismatches in French peripheral ellipsis	

16:20-17:00
Oleg Belyaev (Lomonosov Moscow State University), Mary Dalrymple (Oxford University) and John J. Lowe (Oxford University)           
Number mismatches in adjective coordination: Feature distributivity and the directionality of agreement	

18:00
Reception

Friday, October 9, 2015

09:30-10:30
Vera Demberg (Saarbrücken, Invited Talk) 
Towards a structured model of semantic surprisal

10:30-11:10
Tohru Seraku (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies) and Akira Ohtani (Osaka Gakuin University)The Wh-Licensing in Japanese Right Dislocations: An Incremental Grammar View

11:10-11:40 Coffee

11:40-12:20
Timm Lichte and Laura Kallmeyer (University of Düsseldorf) 	
Same syntax, different semantics: A compositional approach to idiomaticity in multi-word expressions	

12:20-13:00
Glyn Morrill and Oriol Valentín (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)	
Computational Coverage of TLG: The Montague Test

13:00-15:10 Lunch

Special session: Global or genre/domain-dependent grammar?

15:10-15:50
Jean-Pierre Koenig and Karin Michelson (SUNY Buffalo)      
Fractured domain-dependent grammars: The grammar of possession in Oneida

15:50-16:30
Staffan Larsson (Gothenburg University) and Alex Berman (Talkamatic AB)	
Domain-specific and general syntax and semantics in the Talkamatic Dialogue Manager	

16:30-17:00 Coffee break

17:00-18:00
Ray Jackendoff (Tufts, invited talk) 
Morphology in the parallel architecture

Saturday, October 10, 2015

09:30-10:30
Ira Noveck (L2C2, Lyon, invited talk) 
When mindreading is not taboo:  Discerning intention in pragmatic processing

10:30-11:10
Yasutada Sudo (University College, London)           
The existential problem of scalar implicatures and anaphora in alternatives	

11:10-11:40 Coffee

11:40-12:20
Eva Csipak (Universität Göttingen) and Sarah Zobel (Universität Tübingen)	
Discourse particle ''denn'' in conditionals	

12:20-13:00
M. Ryan Bochnak (UC, Berkeley)        
Optional past tense and the nature of presuppositional alternatives

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:10
Miriam Nussbaum (MIT)            
Tense and Scope in Superlatives

15:10-15:50
Bernhard Schwarz (Mcgill) and Alexandra Simonenko (Labex EFL)	     
Two pragmatic accounts of factive islands	

Alternate:

Laura Kallmeyer (University of Duesseldorf), Rainer Osswald (University of Duesseldorf) and Sylvain Pogodalla.(LORIA/INRIA Lorraine)	
Progression and Iteration in Event Semantics  LTAG Analysis Using Hybrid Logic and Frame Semantics

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