CSSP 99 Conference Program

[CSSP 99]

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THE PARIS SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS CONFERENCE / COLLOQUE DE SYNTAXE ET
SEMANTIQUE A PARIS

Programme

Thursday, October 7th

9h-9h10 : Opening

9h10-10h10 : Invited speaker
Eva Hajicova (Charles U., Prague) : Discourse, focus and presupposition

Thematic session

10h30-11h:  Dimitra Kolliakou (Newcastle) & Theodora Alexopoulou
(Edinburgh) : Towards a structural definition of linkhood in Greek
11h-11h30 : Hanneke van Hoof (Tübingen) : I-topicalization: contrastive
topic or multiple focus?
11h30-12h : Ron Artstein (Rutgers) : Focus below the word level
12h-12h30 :  Robert D. Van Valin (SUNY Buffalo) : Quantifier scope in Toba Batak

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Thematic Session

14h-14h30 : Jacques Jayez (EHESS) & Corinne Rossari (U. Genève) : The
accommodation profile of discourse markers
14h30-15h : Arthur Merin (Stuttgart) : For every BUT there is an IF

15h30-16h : Laurence Danlos (Paris 7) : Sur la coréférence événementielle
16h-16h30 : Ana T. Alves (Austin) & Isabel Gomez Txurruka (Austin) :
Discourse effects of same in anaphoric temporal adverbials
16h30-17h : Helen de Hoop (Utrecht) & Henriëtte de Swart (Utrecht) :
Optimal interpretations of discourse
17h-17h30 :  Massimo Poesio (Edinburgh) & Uwe Reyle (Stuttgart) : Partially
resolved interpretations

17h30-19h30 : Party

19h30-20h30 : Invited speaker  :
Oswald Ducrot (EHESS) : La concession dans les énoncés interrogatifs.
Approche argumentative

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Friday, October 8th

9h-10h : Invited Speaker :
Nicholas Asher (Austin) : Logics of conversation

10h30-11h : Josep Quer (U.A. Barcelone) : The quantificational force of
free choice items
11h-11h30 :  Cécile Meier (Tübingen) : A semantics for result clauses and
constructions with too
11h30-12h :  Meltem Kelepir (MIT) : Negation is free: evidence from Turkish
12h-12h30 :  Malka Rappaport Hovav (Bar Ilan) & Beth Levin (Stanford) :
Reevaluation the direct object restriction on English resultatives

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14h-15h : Invited Speaker   :
Tanya Reinhart  (Utrecht) : Interpretation of theta-roles

15h30-16h : Martine Coene (Antwerp), Yves d'Hulst (Leiden) & Liliane
Tasmowski (Leuven) : Romance vocatives and the DP hypothesis
16h-16h30 : Kleanthes K. Grohmann (U. Maryland) : The syntax-discourse
interface of multiple Wh-constructions
16h30-17h : Caroline Heycock (Edinburgh) & Roberto Zamparelli (Edinburgh) :
The syntax and semantics of DP-internal coordination

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Saturday, October 9th

9h-10h : Invited Speaker :
Sandra Chung (UCSC) : Restriction versus saturation

10h30-11h : James Mc Closkey (UCSC) : On the expression of existence in Irish
11h-11h30 : Robert D. Levine (Ohio State), Thomas E. Hukari (U. Victoria),
Michael Calcagno (Tübingen): Unbounded dependencies : a unified class
11h30-12h : Robert D. Levine (Ohio State): Tough complementation and
clausal transparency
12h-12h30 : Alan Munn (Michigan) : Extraction domains and the semantics of
variables


Alternates

Jean-Pierre Koenig (SUNY Buffalo), Gail Mauner (SUNY Buffalo) & Breton
Bienvenue (SUNY Buffalo) : Arguments for adjuncts
Petra Sleeman (Amsterdam) : Adjectival agreement within DP without feature
movement
Monika Kozlowska (Genève) : Ensuite et la narration dans le discours
George Tsoulas (York) & Artemis Alexiadou (Tübingen) : Scrambling and
extraposition : a case for cyclic spell-out

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Registration Form / Fiche d'Inscription

Name / Nom :
Affiliation :
e-mail address / courriel :

Will attend the conference / Participera à la conférence

Fees / Tarif (including party / réception comprise) : FF 250 - Students /
Etudiants : FF 150,
to be paid on registration in Paris / payables lors de la conférence

Please send this completed form via e-mail or post to / Renvoyez-nous cette
fiche complétée par courrier électronique ou postal à :

cssp99 at linguist.jussieu.fr      CSSP99
        URA 1028
        Tour Centrale 9ème Etage
        Université Paris 7
        2 place Jussieu
        75251 Paris cedex 05

Practical Information / Informations pratiques

The Conference takes place in Paris 7th University / La conférence a lieu à
l'Université Paris 7
Metro station : Jussieu
For more information, see our Web page starting Tuesday, September 14th /
Pour plus d'informations, reportez-vous à notree page Web à partir du mardi
14 septembre:
http://www.cssp99.linguist.jussieu.fr

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CSSP 99
Universite Paris 7
Linguistique
UFRL, Case 7003
2 Place Jussieu
75251 Paris-Cedex 05
France

email: cssp99 at linguist.jussieu.fr
http://cssp99.linguist.jussieu.fr
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