Program



This year's invited speakers:
Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard University)
Martin Hackl (MIT)
Katrin Schulz (University of Amsterdam)


The titles of the talks are linked to the abstracts. All abstracts open in a new window.

Day 0 - September 27: Registration and reception at the conference site, starting 19.00. Details are given in the Social Program section.

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
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
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
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


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  • Mana Kobuchi-Philip (Utrecht University) - Japanese Mo 'Also' and Shika 'Except for': Two Peas in the Same Pod