| Day 1 - September 28 | ||
| Session 1 | Session 2 | |
| 9.00 - 10.30 | Invited talk: Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard University) On the explanatory power of dynamic theories of presuppositions |
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| 10.30 - 10.50 | Coffee break | |
| 10.50 - 11.35 | Heather Burnett (UCLA) Adverbial Quantification and (Un)Reducibility: Quantification `at a Distance' is Binary Quantification |
Daniel Rothschild (Columbia University) Conditionals and Probability |
| 11.35 - 12.20 | Luka Crnic (MIT) On the (non-)cumulativity of cumulative quantifiers |
Pranav Anand (UC Santa Cruz) and Valentine Hacquard (University of Maryland) The role of the imperfect in Romance counterfactuals |
| 12.20 - 12.40 | Coffee break | |
| 12.40 - 13.25 | Marc Novel and Maribel Romero (University of Konstanz) The Interaction between Hamblin-Semantics and Quantifier Raising |
Ana Arregui (University of Ottawa) On negative antecedents in deontic conditionals |
| 13.25 - 15.00 | Lunch break | |
| 15.00 - 15.45 | Jacopo Romoli (Harvard University) Towards a Structural Account of Conservativity |
Maria Cieschinger and Cornelia Ebert(Universität Osnabrück) Between 'der' and 'ein': Maximizing Presuppositions with a weird determiner in German |
| 15.45 - 16.30 | Pritty Patel and Patrick Grosz (MIT) The Typology of Pronouns: Two Types of Anaphora Resolution |
Clemens Mayr (Harvard University) and Benjamin Spector (Institut Jean-Nicod/CNRS/Ecole Normale Supérieure/EHESS) Not Too Strong: Generalizing the Scope Economy Condition |
| 16.30 - 16.50 | Coffee break | |
| 16.50 - 17.35 | Malte Zimmermann and Lena Karvovskaya (Potsdam University) Pronoun binding and the notion of 'reflexivity' in Kildin Saami (Uralic) |
Christian Ebert (Universität Bielefeld), Cornelia Ebert (Universität Osnabrück) and Stefan Hinterwimmer (HU Berlin) The Interpretation of the German Specificity Markers "Bestimmt" and "Gewiss" |
| Day 2 - September 29 | ||
| Session 1 | Session 2 | |
| 9.00 - 10.30 | Invited talk: Martin Hackl (MIT) Superlative Quantifiers |
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| 10.30 - 10.50 | Coffee break | |
| 10.50 - 11.35 | Luis Alonso-Ovalle (University of Massachusetts) and Paula Menéndez-Benito (Universität Göttingen) Distributed Plurality in Spanish: unos vs. algunos |
Patrick Grosz (MIT) Grading Modality: A New Approach to Modal Concord and its Relatives |
| 11.35 - 12.20 | Lucas Champollion (University of Pennsylvania/Palo Alto Research Center) A unified account of distributive QNPs, for-adverbials, and measure phrases |
Pranav Anand and Adrian Brasoveanu (UC Santa Cruz) Modal Concord as Modal Modification |
| 12.20 - 12.40 | Coffee break | |
| 12.40 - 13.25 | Mike Solomon (NYU) Partitives and the semantics of "same" |
Emar Maier (Radboud University Nijmegen) Quoted Imperatives |
| 13.25 - 15.00 | Lunch break | |
| 15.00 - 15.45 | Scott Grimm (Stanford University) Number and Markedness: A View from Dagaare |
Daniel Altshuler (Rutgers University) Flashback discourses and the meaning of the Russian (im)perfective |
| 15.45 - 16.30 | Junri Shimada (MIT) A Scope Theory of Non-presuppositional Noun Phrases |
Doris Penka (Universität Konstanz) and Arnim von Stechow (Universität Tübingen) Phrasal 'before'/'after' |
| SuB Business Meeting | ||
| Conference Dinner/SuB Party | ||
| Day 3 - September 30 | ||
| Session 1 | Session 2 | |
| 9.00 - 10.30 | Invited talk: Katrin Schulz (University of Amsterdam) Conditionals from top to bottom |
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| 10.30 - 10.50 | Coffee break | |
| 10.50 - 11.35 | Richard Breheny (UCL), Heather Ferguson (UCL) and Napoleon Katsos (Cambridge) An online investigation into how Gricean pragmatic reasoning affects incremental utterance interpretation |
Guillaume Thomas (MIT) Incremental Comparison |
| 11.35 - 12.20 | Lucas Champollion (University of Pennsylvania/Palo Alto Research Center) and Uli Sauerland (Stanford/ZAS Berlin) An Inverse Linking Account of Nested Definites |
Sveta Krasikova (Universität Tübingen) Comparing to What is Possible or Permitted |
| 12.20 - 12.40 | Coffee break | |
| 12.40 - 13.25 | Mingya Liu (Universität Göttingen) Universal quantification and NPI licensing |
Yael Greenberg (Bar Ilan University) Additivity in the Domain of Eventualities |
| 13.25 - 15.00 | Lunch break | |
| 15.00 - 15.45 | Vladimir Popescu and Jean Caelen (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble) Generating Presupposition-Sensitive Discourse Connectors in Dialogue |
Hazel Pearson (Harvard University) A semantics for the comparative in Fijian |
| 15.45 - 16.30 | Grégoire Winterstein (Université Paris 7) Linking argumentativity and information structure in adversatives |
Andreas Haida (HU Berlin) The Syntax and Semantics of Alternative Questions in Chadic |
| 16.30 - 16.50 | Coffee break | |
| 16.50 - 17.35 | Karsten Koch (ZAS Berlin) and Malte Zimmermann (Potsdam University) Focus-sensitive operators in Nlhe7kepmxcin (Thompson Salish) |
Ilaria Frana (Universität Göttingen) Specificational WH-questions and Concealed Questions |