Les alternatives en s émantique formelle - programme

[Anamaria Falaus]

Cher(e)s collègues,

veuillez trouver ci-dessous le programme du 'Colloque sur les alternatives en sémantique formelle', organisé par le Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes, les 29-30 octobre 2010.

Pour plus d'informations sur les modalités d'inscription, veuillez consulter le site du colloque http://www.alternative-semantics.univ-nantes.fr/ 

Très cordialement,
Anamaria Falaus

Workshop on Alternative-Based Semantics
University of Nantes, October 29-30, 2010
Campus Tertre, Bâtiment Censive, Salle de conférences

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29

8:45-9:15 Registration/Coffee

9:15-9:45 Introduction
Anamaria Falaus, Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes

9:45-10:45 Phenomena involving alternatives: experimental comparison
Emmanuel Chemla, Institut Jean
 Nicod

10:45-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-12:00 Widening as Entropy
Jacques Jayez, ENS Lyon

12:00-12:45 Inquisitive and alternative semantics
Jeroen Groenendijk & Floris Roelofsen, ILLC, Amsterdam

12:45-14:45 Lunch break

14:45-15:45   tba
Maribel Romero, University of Konstanz

15:45-16:15 Coffee break

16:15-17:00 Ignorance in free relatives via a wideness constraint on Hamblin alternatives
Kyle Rawlins, Johns Hopkins University

17:00-17:45 What we gain, and what we lose, with a Hamblin semantics for free choice  
Anastasia Giannakidou & Josep Quer, U. Chicago & U. Pompeu Fabra

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30

8:30-9:00 Coffee

9:00-10:00 Scalar Implicatures and Dependent Plurality in Spanish
Paula Menéndez-Benito, University of Göttingen  

10:00-10:30 Coffee break

10:30-11:15 Domain alternatives cause intervention effects in
 German wh-questions    
Clemens Mayr, ZAS

11:15-12:00 English FCI: Plurality, Universality, and Definiteness
Veneeta Dayal, Rutgers University

12:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:00 On the Role of Scalar Alternatives in the Polarity System
Gennaro Chierchia, Harvard University

15:00-15:30   Coffee break

15:30-16:15   Alternatives in Givenness Marking
Michael Wagner, McGill University

16:15-17:00   Mere-ology
Elizabeth Coppock & David Beaver, University of Texas at Austin

17:00-18:00 Discussion

Alternate talks:

Contrastive Topic: A Reductionist Approach - Uli Sauerland, ZAS
Prosody and interpretation of disjunctive questions – Kathryn Pruitt & Floris  Roelofsen, UMass & ILLC, Amsterdam


      
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