26.371, Confs: Syntax, Semantics/Israel

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LINGUIST List: Vol-26-371. Tue Jan 20 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.371, Confs: Syntax, Semantics/Israel

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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 17:24:16
From: Ivy Sichel [isichel at mscc.huji.ac.il]
Subject: Jerusalem Workshop on Syntax & Semantics: Negation and Polarity

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Jerusalem Workshop on Syntax & Semantics: Negation and Polarity 

Date: 08-Feb-2015 - 10-Feb-2015 
Location: Jerusalem, Israel 
Contact: Ivy Sichel 
Contact Email: isichel at mscc.huji.ac.il 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

Jerusalem Workshop on Syntax-Semantics

Syntax and Semantics of negation, negative expressions, and polarity expressions.

As the study of negation and negative-related expressions has become more fine-grained, it has become increasingly clear that further progress in the field requires the combination of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic tools.

The goal of the workshop is to bring together people working in different areas to discuss open issues related to the syntax, semantics, pragmatics (and their interfaces) of negative expressions, negation and polarity. These issues include but are not limited to: Negation, Neg-Raising (Collins & Postal 2013), Neg-Concord, licensing of NegDPs (Abels & Marti 2010, Zeijlstra 2011, Iatridou & Sichel 2011), licensing of NPIs and PPIs (see e.g. Nicolae 2012, Chierchia 2013, Crnič 2014, Spector 2014); the distribution of NPIs in non-declarative environments (e.g., Guerzoni 2004, Nicolae 2013, Guerzoni & Sharvit 2014); variation in distribution among NPIs, PPIs (e.g., Gajewski 2011, Iatridou & Zeijlstra 2013, Chierchia 2013), etc.

Invited Speakers:

Vincent Homer (UMass)
Yael Sharvit (UCLA) & Elena Guerzoni (USC)
Benjamin Spector (CNRS, IJN)
Hedde Zeijlstra (Göttingen)
Sabine Iatridou (MIT)
Chris Collins & Paul Postal (NYU) 

Program:

New Directions in Negation and Polarity
Jerusalem Syntax and Semantics 2015
February 8-10, 2015
Language Logic Cognition Center, 
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Sunday - 8/2/2015 

9:30-10:30 
Hedde Zeijlstra 
University of Göttingen 
The Pluriform landscape of negative dependencies 

10:30-10:45 Coffee break 

10:45-11:45 
Sabine Iatridou & Ivy Sichel 
MIT & Hebrew University 
Thoughts about how to decompose NegDPs    

11:45-12:00 Coffee break 

12:00-13:00    
Chris Collins, Paul Postal & Elvis Yevudey 
New York University 
Ewe and the typology of NPIs  

13:00-14:15 Lunch 

14:15-15:15    
Karen De Clercq 
Ghent University  
A unified Syntax of negation

15:15-15:30 Coffee break  

15:30-16:30  
Anne Breitbarth 
Ghent University  
Jespersen’s Cycle = Minimize Structure + Feature Economy 

16:30-17:00 Coffee break 

17:00-18:00    
Yosef Grodzinsky 
Hebrew University 
Semantic and syntactic accounts of quantifier polarity: An experimental perspective 

Monday - 9/2/2015 

9:30-10:30 
Luka Crnič 
Hebrew University 
Ellipsis, Parallelism, and Polarity 

10:30-10:45 Coffee break 

10:45-11:45 
Yael Greenberg  
Bar Ilan University 
An even better scale for even

11:45-12:00 Coffee break 

12:00-13:00   
Benjamin Spector 
Institut Jean Nicod & CNRS 
Why are Class B modifiers Positive Polarity Items?  

13:00-14:15 Lunch 

14:15-15:15     
Einat H. Keren
Hebrew University
Negative concord in Modern Hebrew:  Trying to track down its origin
Itai Bassi
Hebrew University
On NPI licensing in existential conditionals

15:15-15:30 Coffee break   

15:30-16:30  
Aynat Rubinstein & Edit Doron 
Hebrew University  
Expletive negation in constituent unconditionals  

16:30-17:00 Coffee break 

17:00-18:00 
Ariel Cohen 
Ben Gurion University 
A natural pre-history of negation    

Tuesday - 10.2.2015 

9:30-10:30 
Vincent Homer 
University of Massachusetts Amherst 
TBA 

10:30-10:45 Coffee break 

10:45-11:45 
Andrea Nicolae 
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin 
Deriving the PPI behavior of weak disjunction   

11:45-12:00 Coffee break 

12:00-13:00  
Despina Oikonomou 
MIT 
C-Negation is CP-Negation and NOT constituent negation: Evidence from Modern Greek 

13:00-14:15 Lunch 

14:15-15:15     
Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal 
Hebrew University  
The case for external negation and Bochvar’s thesis revisited   

15:15-15:30 Coffee break 

15:30-16:30  
Masaaki Kamiya & Thomas Roeper 
University of Massachusetts Amherst 
Neg-feature separation in DP/Nominalization     

16:30-17:00 Coffee break 

17:00-18:00 
Yael Sharvit & Elena Guerzoni 
UCLA & USC 
Whether or not NPIs in questions

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