24.2780, Confs: Semantics, Morphology, Syntax, Typology/USA
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Subject: 24.2780, Confs: Semantics, Morphology, Syntax, Typology/USA
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Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 13:21:52
From: Andrew Koontz-Garboden [andrewkg at manchester.ac.uk]
Subject: Workshop on Semantic Variation
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Workshop on Semantic Variation
Date: 25-Oct-2013 - 26-Oct-2013
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Contact: Itamar Francez and Andrew Koontz-Garboden
Contact Email: semvar.2013 at gmail.com
Meeting URL: http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/semvar2013/
Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Semantics; Syntax; Typology
Meeting Description:
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago will host a two day workshop on semantic variation, October 25-26, 2013.
Invited Speakers:
Ivano Caponigro (UC, San Diego)
Mary Dalrymple (University of Oxford)
Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago)
Ed Keenan (UCLA)
Paul Kiparsky (Stanford University)
Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia)
The workshop is organized by Itamar Francez (University of Chicago) and Andrew Koontz-Garboden (University of Manchester) and is sponsored by the University of Chicago Department of Linguistics and Division of Humanities, the University of Manchester Department of Linguistics and English Language, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Friday 25 October 2013
8:30-9:00
Coffee and registration
9:00-10:00
Paul Kiparsky (Stanford University)
TBC
10:00-10:20
Coffee break
10:20-11:00
Anja Goldschmidt (Utrecht University) and Joost Zwarts (Utrecht University)
>From picture to preposition: Modeling lexical-semantic variation in the spatial domain
11:00-11:40
Ashwini Deo (Yale University)
TBC
11:40-12:00
Coffee break
12:00-13:00
Ivano Caponigro (UC San Diego)
TBC
13:00-14:30
Lunch
14:30-15:30
Mary Dalrymple (University of Oxford)
TBC
15:30-15:50
Coffee break
15:50-16:30
Amy Rose Deal (UC Santa Cruz)
Mass and count in Nez Perce and beyond
16:30-17:30
Poster session
+ Jefferson Barlew (The Ohio State University)
Semantic variation in spatial expressions: A transparent mapping account
Ryan Bochnak (UC Berkeley)
Lexical variation in the semantics of gradable predicates
Heather Burnett (Université de Montréal & École normale supérieure, Paris) and Michelle Troberg (University of Toronto)
The shape of variation and change at the syntax-semantics interface: New evidence from Old French resultative secondary predication
Ed Cormany (Cornell University)
Exceptional imperative constructions are semantically regular
Irina Nikolaeva (School of Oriental and African Studies)
On the expression of TAM in nominals
Lilia Rissman (University of Chicago), Kyle Rawlins (Johns Hopkins University), and Barbara Landau (Johns Hopkins University)
Instruments and verbal meaning: evidence from English, Spanish and Mandarin
Sergei Tatevosov (Lomonosov Moscow State University)
Reducing aspectual variation: The case for Russian
* Jozina Vander Klok (University of British Columbia)
Restrictions on semantic variation: A case study on modal system types
* = first alternate for a talk
+ = second alternate for a talk
Saturday 26 October 2013
8:30-9:00
Coffee and registration
9:00-10:00
Ed Keenan (UCLA)
TBC
10:00-10:20
Coffee break
10:20-11:00
Lauren Winans (UCLA)
Disjunction in Egyptian Arabic
11:00-11:40
Kathryn Davidson (University of Connecticut)
Variation in semantic scales
12:00-13:00
Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia)
TBC
13:00-14:20
Lunch
14:20-15:00
Osamu Sawada (Mie University)
Cross-linguistic variation of intensified comparison: The semantics/pragmatics interface
15:00-15:40
Balazs Suranyi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Variation in exhaustivity of focus: Experimental evidence from Hungarian
15:40-16:00
Coffee break
16:00-17:00
Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago)
TBC
17:00-18:00
Wine reception
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