CSSP 2013: Call for participation (Sep 26-28)

[Berthold Crysmann]

*** Please distribute widely ***

We invite you to join us for the


10th Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris (CSSP 2013)


which will be held from September 26-28 2013 at Université Paris Diderot.


* Invited speakers:

Ricardo Exteparre (CNRS, Pau)
Tim Fernando (Trinity College, Dublin)
Bart Geurts (U. Nijmegen)
Louisa Sadler (U. of Essex)


* Web site:

http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/cssp2013/index_en.html

* Venue:

The conference will be held at the

Bâtiment Buffon,
4 Rue Marie-Andrée Lagroua Weil-Halle,
75013 Paris,

on Campus Rive Gauche, a few minutes walk from Bibliothèque François
Mitterand.

Detailed information and a map can be found at
http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/cssp2013/infos/index_en.html

* Registration:

The regular registration fee is 70€, and 35€ for students. Members of
co-organising sites (LLF, Institut Jean Nicod; SFL;
CLILLAC-ARP; STL; CLLE-ERSS) can register for free. Even, if you are 
exempt from
registration fees, your registration will help us to better organise
the event.

We would like to kindly ask you to fill in the online registration
form as soon as possible, preferably before by Sep 15, at:

http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/cssp2013/inscription/inscription.php?langue=en


* Conference programme:

http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/cssp2013/programme/index_en.html


THURSDAY September 26

  9h00-9h20 Opening

  9h20-10h20 Invited speaker Louisa Sadler (U. of Essex),
         Psych predicates and an unexpected case of copy raising
10h20-11h00 Adam Przepiórkowski (Institute of Computer Science, Polish 
Academy of Sciences),
         Distance distributivity in Polish at the syntax-semantics 
interface: an LFG account


11h00-11h30 Coffee break


11h30-12h10 Eric Acton (Stanford U.),
         Standard change and the Finnish partitive-accusative object 
distinction
12h10-12h50 Urtzi Etxeberria (U. Pau),
         Basque nominals: from a system with bare nouns to a system without


12h50-14h30 Lunch break

14h30-15h10 Heather Burnett (ENS, U. Montréal) and Michelle Troberg (U. 
Toronto),
         Diachronic Investigations into the Compositional Semantics of 
Resultative Constructions
15h10-15h50 Sebastian Buecking (U. Tuebingen),
         How to elaborate on events by German "indem" and English "by"

15h50-16h20 Coffee break

16h20-17h00 Francesca Foppolo (U. Milano) and Marco Marelli (U. Trento),
         Not all comes for free
17h00-17h40 Uli Sauerland (ZAS Berlin),
         Non-Conservativity in Northern German: Focus-Affected 
Quantification with Proportional Quantifiers
17h40-18h20 Gregory Scontras, Cheng-Yu Edwin Tsai and Maria Polinsky 
(Harvard U.),
         Prohibiting Inverse Scope: An Experimental Study of Chinese vs. 
English

18h30 Reception


FRIDAY September 27

  9h00-10h00 Invited speaker Bart Geurts (U. Nijmegen),
          When language turns inward
10h00-10h40 Igor Yanovich (MIT),
         Symbouletic modality

10h40-11h10 Coffee break

11h10-11h50 Christopher Davis (U. of the Ryukyus) and Yurie Hara (City 
U. of Hong Kong),
            Evidentiality as a Causal Relation: A Case Study from 
Japanese 'youda'
11h50-12h30 Dimitra Kolliakou (U. Paris Diderot),
         French and Greek interrogatives: question resolvedness and 
speaker's commitment

12h30-14h20 Lunch break

14h20-15h20 Invited speaker Tim Fernando (Trinity college),
         Could tense and aspect be finite-state?
15h20-16h00 Jeffrey Runner (U. Rochester) and Kellan Head (Teach for 
America),
         What can visual world eye-tracking tell us about the binding 
theory?

16h00-16h30 Coffee break


16h30-17h10 Sandhya Sundaresan (U. Tromsø),
         Perspectives on reflexivity and the GET-passive: new insights 
from Tamil
17h10-17h50 Timothy Dozat (Stanford U.) and Jeffrey Runner (U. Rochester),
         Someone will attend this talk (and it definitely should be!), I 
just don't know by whom:
         An analysis of voice mismatch in VP ellipsis and sluicing
17h50-18h30 Philip Miller (U. Paris Diderot),
         Pseudo-gapping is a case of VP ellipsis


SATURDAY September 28

9h30-10h30 Invited speaker Ricardo Etxepare (CNRS, U. Pau),
        Minimal Correlatives

10h30-11h00 Coffee break

11h00-11h40 Urtzi Etxeberria and Aritz Irurtzun (U. Pau),
         An experimental test of the effects of focus in generating 
scalar meanings in Basque
11h40-12h20 Pritty Patel-Grosz (U. Tuebingen),
         Epithets as De re Pronouns

12h20-14h00 Lunch break

14h00-14h40 Lauri Karttunen, Annie Zaenen, Cleo Condoravdi and Stanley 
Peters (Stanford U.),
         What does one do when one is not stupid? Factive and 
implicative dialects of evaluative adjectives.
14h40-15h10 Emilie Destruel (U. Iowa) and Dan Bridges Velleman (U. Texas),
         Refining contrastiveness: Empirical evidence from the English 
it-cleft

15h10-15h40 Coffee break

15h40-16h20 Juliette Thuilier (U. Paris Sorbonne),
         Experimental approach: The case of the syntax of attributive 
adjectives
16h20-17h00 Pegah Faghiri and Pollet Samvelian (U. Sorbonne Nouvelle),
         Constituent ordering in Persian and the weight factor


Alternate:

     Daniel Gutzmann (U. Frankfurt) and Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin U.),
            Using Descriptions. A Use-conditional View of Referential 
Descriptions

Acknowledgements:

CSSP 2013 is organised by the Laboratoire de linguistique formelle
(UMR 7110), CNRS & U Paris Diderot.

We would like to thank the Région Île de France, the Laboratoire
d'excellence Empirical Foundations in Linguistics, and our partner
labs (Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS & ENS ULM; SFL, CNRS & U Paris 8; 
CLILLAC-ARP, U
Paris Diderot; STL, CNRS & U Lille; CLLE-ERSS, CNRS & U Toulouse) for their
financial support.

-- 
Berthold Crysmann <crysmann at linguist.jussieu.fr>
CNRS, Laboratoire de linguistique formelle (UMR 7110), U Paris Diderot
Case 7031, 5 rue Thomas Mann, 75205 Paris cedex 13
Bureau 545, bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, rue Albert Einstein, 75013 Paris