17.545, Confs: Ling Theories/Semantics/Tokyo, Japan

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Subject: 17.545, Confs: Ling Theories/Semantics/Tokyo, Japan

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Date: 17-Feb-2006
From: Christopher Tancredi < cdtancredi at hotmail.com >
Subject: Semantics and Linguistic Theory 

	
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 15:47:40
From: Christopher Tancredi < cdtancredi at hotmail.com >
Subject: Semantics and Linguistic Theory 
 



Semantics and Linguistic Theory 
Short Title: SALT 

Date: 22-Mar-2006 - 24-Mar-2006 
Location: Tokyo, Japan 
Contact: Christopher Tancredi 
Contact Email: cdtancredi at hotmail.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

SALT is the longest-running annual conference dedicated to semantic  research in the world. 

(Full conference information is available at:  http://research.nii.ac.jp/salt16/ )

Wednesday, March 22

9:45 	Opening Remarks

10:00 	Angelika Kratzer (University of Massachusetts Amherst): TBA

11:00 	Break

11:20 	Michela Ippolito (Boston University): On the meaning of 'only'

12:00 	Giorgio Magri (MIT): A semantic account for the properties of individual-level predicates

12:40 	Lunch

2:30 	Carmen Rotstein (Intel Corporation/Haifa) and Yoad Winter (Technion): Telicity across Semantic Domains: The case of almost

3:10 	David Y. Oshima (Stanford University): Motion Deixis, Indexicality, and Presupposition

3:50 	Break

4:10 	Ezra Keshet (MIT): Scalar Implicatures with Alternative Semantics

4:50 	Break

5:00 	Maribel Romero (University of Pennsylvania): On Concealed Questions

6:00 	End of first day

Thursday, March 23

10:00 	Toshiyuki Ogihara (University of Washington): TBA

11:00 	Break

11:20 	Ilaria Frana (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Wondering about Concealed Questions

12:00 	Kimiko Nakanishi (University of Calgary): Even, Only, and Negative Polarity in Japanese

12:40 	Lunch

2:30 	Philippe de Groote (Inria-Lorraine & Loria): Towards a Montagovian account of dynamics

3:10 	Jessica Rett (Rutgers University): How 'many' maximizes in the Balkan Sprachbund

3:50 	Break

4:10 	Takuro Tanaka (University of Connecticut): Lexical Decomposition and Comparative Structures for Japanese Determiners

4:50 	Stanley Peters (Stanford University) and Dag Westerstahl (Gothenburg University): Taking Exception to Quantified Statements

5:30 	Break

6:00 	Party

Friday, March 24

10:00 	Irene Heim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): TBA

11:00 	Break

11:20 	Michael Wagner (Cornell University): Givenness and Locality

12:00 	Sophia A. Malamud (University of Pennsylvania): (Non)-maximality and distributivity: A Decision Theory approach

12:40 	Lunch (Business Meeting)

2:30 	Daniel Rothschild (Princeton University): Negative Polarity Items and Definite Descriptions

3:10 	Florian Schwarz (University of Massachusetts Amherst): On NEEDING propositions and LOOKING FOR properties

3:50 	Break

4:10 	Tom Werner (Carnegie Mellon University): An analysis of existential anankastics: How to get there from here

4:50 	Break

5:00 	James Higginbotham (University of Southern California): TBA

6:00 	Closing

Alternates

Friederike Moltmann (Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques): Genericity de se

Magdalena Schwager (University of Frankfurt): Conditionalized Imperatives





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