(with links to abstracts)
For enthusiasts of semantics/pragmatics in all their variety; the public is welcome
All sessions take place in the Barwise Room, CSLI (Panama St. at Campus Dr.)
Friday March 15, 2019
9:00-9:30: Coffee and welcome
9:30-10:00 John Beavers & Andrew Koontz-Garboden, “Two Types of Roots for Internally Caused Change-of-State Verbs”
10:00-10:30 Shiao Wei Tham, “Structural and Contextual Factors in Result Interpretations of Mandarin Locative Compounds”
10:30-11:00 Helena Aparicio, Roger Levy & Elizabeth Coppock, “How to Find the rabbit in the big(ger) box: Reasoning About Contextual Parameters for Gradable Adjectives Under Embedding”
11:00-11:30 BREAK
11:30-12:00 Gregory Scontras, Asya Achimova, Christian Stegemann & Martin Butz, “The Added Informativity of Ambiguous Language”
12:00-12:30 Eric Acton & Heather Burnett, “Markedness, ‘Truth’, and Rationality in Social Meaning Games”
12:30-2:00 LUNCH (and mentoring event w/lunch for grad students and some participants)
2:00-2:30 Arnold Zwicky,“A Natural History of Snowclones”
2:30-3:00 Tatiana Nikitina, “Semantic Maps in a Typologist’s Toolbox: The Challenge of Semi-lexical Networks”
3:00-3:30 BREAK
3:30-4:00 Sunwoo Jeong & James Collins, “Updating Alternatives in Pragmatic Competition”
4:00-4:30 Sebastian Schuster & Judith Degen, “Adaption to Variable Use of Expressions of Uncertainty”
4:30-4:45 BREAK
4:45-5:30 David Beaver, TBA
5:30 Drinks
6:00 Dinner (provided)
7:00-9:00 Party/band
Saturday, March 16, 2019
9:30-10:00 Coffee/breakfast
10:00-10:30 Ashwini Deo, “Identifying the Strongest True Alternative: Marathi =c and its Counterparts”
10:30-11:00 Stefan Kaufmann, “Worlds Are Not Enough”
11:00-11:30 BREAK
11:30-12:00 Sven Lauer & Prerna Nadathur, “Sufficiency Causatives”
12:00-12:30 Yingying Wang & Frank Veltman, “Varieties of Modal Predicates and their Semantic Interpretation”
12:30-1:45 LUNCH (provided)
1:45-2:15 Lelia Glass, “Experimental Evidence that Verbs Describing Routines Facilitate Implicit Objects”
2:15-2:45 Itamar Francez, “Markedness and the Morphosemantics of Number”
2:45-3:00 BREAK
3:00-3:30 Ciyang Qing, “Zero or Minimum Degree? Rethinking Minimum-standard Gradable Adjectives”
3:30-4:00 Judith Tonhauser & Judith Degen, “An Empirical Challenge to the Categorical Notion of Factivity”
4:00 Closing remarks
