August 26-29 2009, Balatonszemes

Preliminary program

August 26 (Wednesday):

   
12:00-14:45   Registration at the Research Institute for Linguistics (1068 Budapest, Benczúr utca 33.)    
15:00   Bus departure to the conference site (Balatonszemes, Hotel Szemes)    
18:30-19:30   Dinner at the hotel    
19:30-19:40   Opening remarks    
19:40-20:40   Donka F. Farkas (University of California, Santa Cruz, invited speaker) - Adrian Brasoveanu (University of California, Santa Cruz): Scope and the Grammar of Choice   handout
         

August 27 (Thursday):

   
 9:00-10:00   Thomas Ede Zimmermann (Universitaet Frankfurt, invited speaker): tba   handout
10:00-10:35   Yael Greenberg (Bar Ilan University): Additivity in the Domain of Eventualities    
10:35-10:55   Coffee break    
10:55-11:30   Cécile Meier (Universuty of Frankfurt): A Comparative Analysis for Resemblance    
11:30-12:05   Marta Abrusan (Institut Jean Nicod, ENS, CNRS): The Division of Entailments and the Triggering Problem    
12:05-12:40   I-Ta Chris Hsieh (University of Connecticut, Storrs): On NPI-Licensing and the Semantics of Causal Sentences   handout

slides

12:40-15:30   Lunch Break    
15:30-16:05   Chris Fox (CSEE, University of Essex, UK): Obligations, Permissions and Transgressions: An Alternative Approach to Deontic Reasoning    
16:05-16:40   Edgar Onea (University of Stuttgart): To choose or not to choose    
16:40-17:00   Coffee break    
17:00-17:35   Richard Zuber (CNRS, Paris, France): On the Expressive Power of some Non-standard Constituents    
17:35-18:10   Xuping Li (Bar-Ilan University): Bare and Non-bare Proper Names in Chinese    
19:00   Dinner    
         

August 28 (Friday):

   
 9.00- 9:35   Setsuko Arita (Osaka Shoin Women's University) - Stefan Kaufmann (Northwestern University): The Japanese Unconditional Operator 'doose'    
 9:35-10:10   Carla Umbach (Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück): Another Additive Particle under Stress: German Additive NOCH   handout
10:10-10:45   Alex Djalali (University of Amsterdam, Institute of Logic, Language and Computation) - Stefan Kaufmann (Northwestern University): Probabilistic Inferences in Dynamic Semantics    
10:45-11:05   Coffee break    
11:05-11:40   Olga Kagan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): The Actual World is Abnormal: On the Semantics of the Bylo Construction in Russian   handout
11:40-12:25   Ashwini Deo (Yale University): Temporal Genericity and the Contribution of Imperfective Marking    
12:25-14:00   Lunch break    
    Excursion    
    Dinner    
         

August 29 (Saturday):

   
 9.30-10.30   Stefan Kaufmann (Northwestern University, invited speaker): Modal Interpretation of Temporal Expressions   handout
10.30-11.05   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    
11:05-11:30   Coffee break    
11:30-12:05   Kerstin Schwabe (Center for General Linguistics (ZAS)) - Robert Fittler (Freie Universität, Berlin): Syntactic force of consistency conditions for German matrix predicates   handout
12:05-12:40   Anton Benz (Center for General Linguistics (ZAS)): On the Suspension of Implicatures    
12:40   End of Conference