August 26-29 2009, Balatonszemes

Abstracts

 

Marta Abrusan (Institut Jean Nicod, ENS, CNRS): The Division of Entailments and the Triggering Problem

Setsuko Arita (Osaka Shoin Women's University) - Stefan Kaufmann (Northwestern University): The Japanese Unconditional Operator 'doose'

Anton Benz (Center for General Linguistics (ZAS)): On the Suspension of Implicatures

Alastair Butler (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Tohoku University) - Kei Yoshimoto (Center for the Advancement of Higher Education, Tohoku University): Making Semantics Thrive on Cheap Syntax

Ashwini Deo (Yale University): Temporal Genericity and the Contribution of Imperfective Marking

Alex Djalali (University of Amsterdam, Institute of Logic, Language and Computation) - Stefan Kaufmann (Northwestern University): Probabilistic Inferences in Dynamic Semantics

Chris Fox (CSEE, University of Essex, UK): Obligations, Permissions and Transgressions: An Alternative Approach to Deontic Reasoning

Yael Greenberg (Bar Ilan University): Additivity in the Domain of Eventualities

I-Ta Chris Hsieh (University of Connecticut, Storrs): On NPI-Licensing and the Semantics of Causal Sentences

Olga Kagan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): The Actual World is Abnormal: On the Semantics of the Bylo Construction in Russian

Xuping Li (Bar-Ilan University): Bare and Non-bare Proper Names in Chinese

Cécile Meier (Universuty of Frankfurt): A Comparative Analysis for Resemblance

Edgar Onea (University of Stuttgart): To choose or not to choose

Kerstin Schwabe (Center for General Linguistics (ZAS)) - Robert Fittler (Freie Universität, Berlin): Syntactic force of consistency conditions for German matrix predicates

Carla Umbach (Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück): Another Additive Particle under Stress: German Additive NOCH

Richard Zuber (CNRS, Paris, France): On the Expressive Power of some Non-standard Constituents