CSSP 2007

[Olivier Bonami]

CSSP 2007
The Seventh Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris
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

Thursday October 4
9h–9h15       Opening and Welcome
9h15–10h15    Invited talk: G. Cinque (Venice)
                   The prenominal origin of relative clauses
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)
                   Syntax and semantics of noun coordination
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)
                   Remarks on split intransitivity
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   Elena Castrovielo Miro (Frankfurt)
                   When manner adverbs cannot be interpreted as  
predicate modifiers
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     Uli Sauerland (Berlin)
                   Pseudo-Sloppy Readings in Flat Binding
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 & Bart 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)
                   Standards of Comparison
15h30–16h00   Robert van Rooij (Amsterdam)
                   Comparatives and standards of precision
16h00–16h30   Coffee break
16h30–17h     Gabriela Matos & Ana Brito (Lisboa & Porto)
                   Comparative clauses and cross linguistic variation.
17h–17h30     Jacques Jayez & Lucia Tovena (Lyon & Paris 7)
                   Hidden comparison and the meaning of 'presque'

Alternates
• 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

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