CSSP 2003 Program

[Olivier Bonami]

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                                  CSSP 2003
                   
           THE FIFTH SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS CONFERENCE IN PARIS
                             OCTOBER 2-4, 2003

                   
                   
THURSDAY OCTOBER 2 
9h­9h15 Opening 
9h15­10h15 Invited talk: M. Steedman (U. of Edinburgh)
    Scope Alternation and the Syntax-Semantics Interface
10h15­10h45 H.-M. Gärtner (ZAS, Berlin)
    Naming and  Economy
10h45­11h15 Break 
11h15­11h45 B. Suranyi (Eotvos U., Budapest)
    A Checking vs. QR-based Approach to the Differential Scopal Behaviour
    of Quantifier Classes
11h45­12h15 P. Stateva (Humboldt U., Berlin)
    Intervention Effects in Degree Constructions
12h15­12h45 C. Heycock (U. of Edinburgh)
    Adjectival modifiers and 'reconstruction' in relative clauses
12H45-14H30 Lunch break

14h30­15h30 Invited talk: R. Levine (Ohio State U.)
    The syntax of extraction: derivation or constraint satisfaction?
15h30­16H C. Bozsahin & M. Steedman (U. of Edinburgh)
    Control, Grammatical Relations, and Argument Structure
16H­16h30 Break 
16H30-17H A. Meinunger (ZAS, Berlin)
    Verb Second in Germanic and Mood Selection in Romance as a Diagnostics
    Indicating 'QR' for CPs
17h­17h30 A. Bachrach (U. Paris 7)
    Vers une analyse unifiee des demonstratifs en hebreu et en francais
17h30­18h W. Davidson (Ohio State U.)
    Structure preserving  extraction
18h­18h30 R. Borsley (U. of Essex) & B. M. Jones (U. of Wales)
    The distribution and interpretation of Welsh n-words


FRIDAY OCTOBER 3 
9h­10h  Invited talk: M. Krifka (Humboldt U. Berlin)
    Bare plurals: Kind-referring, Indefinites, Both, or Neither?
10h­10h30 Y. Greenberg (Bar-Ilan U.)
    Tolerating Exceptions with "Descriptive" and "In Virtue Of" Generics
10h30­11h Break 
11h­11h30 G. Tsoulas, K.-H. Gil & S. Harlow (U. of York)
    Disjunction and Quantificational Variability
11h30­12h S. Tomioka & Y. Tsai (U. of Delaware)
   Partitivity Derives Distributivity: the Existential You Construction
   in Mandarin Chinese
12h­12h30 L. McNally & G. Boleda Torrent (U. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
    Relational Adjectives as Properties of Kinds
12h30­14h Lunch break

14h­15h Invited talk: N. Kadmon (U. Tel Aviv)
    Some Theories of the Interpretation of Accent Placement
15h­15h30 M. Sailer (U. Tübingen)
    Local semantics in HPSG
15h30­16h Break 
16h­16h30 A. ter Meulen (U. Groningen)
    Temporal Cohesion and the Presuppositions of Temporal Adverbs
16h30h­17h C. Condoravdi (Xerox PARC & Stanford U.)
    Interval Expansion and Scalarity for Phase Adverbials
17h­17h30 P. Denis (U. of Texas, Austin) & P. Muller (IRIT, Toulouse)
    Une semantique pour les expressions referentielles temporellement
    dependantes 
17h30­18h L. Sadler (U. of Essex) & R. Nordlinger (U. of Melbourne)
    An LFG Approach to the Syntax and Semantics of Tensed Nominals

SATURDAY OCTOBER 4 
9h15­10h15 Invited talk: A. Zribi-Hertz (U. Paris 8)
    Contribution a une approche syntaxique du nombre: pourquoi le pluriel
    semble-t-il plus "vrai" en francais qu¹en coreen ?
10h15­10h45 H. Rullman & A. You (U. of Calgary)
    Bare Nouns and Number in Mandarin
10h45­11h15 Break 
11h15­11h45 S. Tomioka (U. of Delaware)
    Definite Plural Pronouns are Definite
11h45­12h15 S. Wechsler (U. of Texas, Austin)
    Number as Person
12h15­12h45 D. Farkas (UCSC) & H. de Swart (U. Utrecht)
    Number Neutrality


ALTERNATES 
J. Jayez (ENS Lyon) & C. Rossari (U. de Genève)
    L'heredite des antecedents
R. Lambert (U. Lyon 2)
    A propos des deux 'prendre' des constructions sérielles complexes


For more information:
Web site: http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/CSSP/index-en.html
E-mail: cssp03 at linguist.jussieu.fr

The conference is supported by the CNRS, Universities of Paris 3, Paris 4
and Paris 7, and by UMR 7110 (CNRS & Paris 8) and UMR 7023 (CNRS & Paris 7).

REVIEWERS 
Anne Abeille (U. Paris 7), Claire Beyssade (CNRS-J. Nicod), Olivier Bonami
(U. Rennes 2), Patrick Blackburn (INRIA), Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (CNRS-U.
Paris 8), Sandra Chung (UC Santa Cruz), Ileana Comorovski (U. Nancy 2),
Francis Corblin (U. Paris 4), Mary Dalrymple (University College-London),
Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie (CNRS-U. Toulouse 2), Elisabet Engdahl (Goteborg
U.), Donka Farkas (UC Santa Cruz), Bernard Fradin (CNRS-U. Paris 7), Bart
Geurts (Nijmegen U.), Daniele Godard (CNRS-Paris 7), Jacques Jayez
(ENS-Lyon), Nirit Kadmon (Tel Aviv U.), Chris Kennedy (Northwestern U.),
Alain Kihm (CNRS-U. Paris 7), Dimitra  Kolliakou (U. of Newcastle), Brenda
Laca (U. Paris 8), Jacqueline Lecarme (CNRS-U. Paris 7), Beth Levin
(Stanford U.), Robert Levine (Ohio State U.), Jean-Marie Marandin
(CNRS-Paris 7), Ora Matushansky (CNRS-U. Paris 8), Detmar Meurers (Ohio
State U.), Lea Nash (U. Paris 8), Bernard Oyharçabal (CNRS-Bayonne), Owen
Rambow (Columbia U.), Sanda Ripeanu (U. of Bucharest), Alain Rouveret (U.
Paris 7), Louisa Sadler (U. of Essex), Roger Schwarzschild (Rutgers U.),
Mark Steedman (U. of Edinburgh), Christopher Tancredi (U. of Tokyo), Lucia
Tovena (U. Lille 3), Jesse Tseng (U. Paris 10), George Tsoulas (U. of York),
Stephen Wechsler (U. of Texas at Austin), Shuichi Yatabe (U. of Tokyo),
Eun-Jung Yoo (Seoul U.), Annie Zaenen (Xerox PARC), Anne Zribi-Hertz (U.
Paris 8), Richard Zuber (CNRS-U. Paris 7).

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Claire Beyssade (CNRS-J. Nicod), Olivier Bonami (chair; Rennes 2), Patricia
Cabredo Hofherr (CNRS-Paris 8), Francis Corblin (Paris 4), Danièle Godard
(CNRS-Paris 7), Jean-Marie Marandin (CNRS-Paris 7)