| | 3rd floor, room 308 | 4th floor, room 403 |
| Wednesday, 25. June 2014 |
| 11.00 -- 13.00 | Tutorial 1
Manfred Krifka (ZAS)
Questions: from embedded clauses to speech acts |
Tutorial 2
Friederike Moltmann (CNRS), Carla Umbach (ZAS)
Evaluative predicates
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14.30 -- 16.30 |
| Thursday, 26. June 2014 |
| 9.15 | Welcome | |
| 9.30 | Plenary talk: Galit Sassoon (Bar Ilan University)
Breaking myths about similarity | |
| 10.30 | Antje Rossdeutscher, Tillmann Pross
Measuring out the relation between conceptual structures and
truth-conditional semantics |
Lorenzo Rossi
Adding a conditional to Kripke’s theory of truth |
| 11.15 | Coffee break |
| 11.35 | Sebastian Bücking, Frauke Buscher
How do compositional semantics and conceptual structures
interact? A case-study on mental attitude adverbials |
Katharina Felka
Presuppositions and Truth-Value Intuitions |
| 12.20 | Michael Glanzberg
Concepts and Composition in the Lexicon |
Jan Wislicki
Expressing the meaning of quotation |
| 13.05 | Lunch break |
| 14.30 | Claudia Maienborn, Johanna Herdtfelder
Composition, Coercion and the Lexicon: Deriving Eventive and
Stative Readings of Causal Modifiers in Copula Sentences |
Dolf Rami, Wilfried Keller
A Uniform Analysis of Incomplete and
Referential Definite Descriptions |
| 15.15 | Peter Sutton
Probabilistic Prototypes and Compositionality |
Peter Fritz
Counterfactuals and Contingently Existing Propositions |
| 16.00 | Coffee break |
| 16.20 | Plenary talk: Peter Gärdenfors (Lund University)
Lexical semantics based on conceptual spaces | |
| 17.20 | | Poster Session (plus drinks and snacks) |
| Friday, 27. June 2014 |
| 9.30 | Plenary talk: Maria Aloni (University of Amsterdam)
On concealed questions and specificational subjects | |
| 10.30 | Maria Biezma, Kyle Rawlins
Bundling questions and granularity in discourse |
Eva Poortman
Boolean "and" and Non-Boolean "and":
Resolving Vagueness of Plural Predication |
| 11.15 | Coffee break |
| 11.35 | Ivano Ciardelli
Question meaning = resolution conditions |
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin
The Homogeneity Constraint on Plural Quantifiers |
| 12.20 | Robert Matthews
Intellectualism, Competence, and Knowledge |
Manuel Križ, Emmanuel Chemla
Finding Gaps |
| 13.05 | Lunch break |
| 14.30 | Barbara Vetter, Emanuel Viebahn
How many meanings for 'may'? The case for modal polysemy |
Daniel Tiskin
De Se, Transparent Readings and the Structure of Pronouns |
| 15.15 | Martin Aher
A New Twist to the Miners Puzzle |
Corien Bary and Daniel Altshuler
Double access and acquaintance |
| 16.00 | Coffee break |
| 16.20 | Andy Yu
Epistemic modals under disjunction |
Brendan Balcerak Jackson
Linguistic Solutions to Philosophical Problems? |
| 17.20 - 18.20 | Plenary talk: Jane Friedman (New York University)
Inquiry | |
| 20.00 | Conference dinner (Vabrique, Ritterstrasse 12-14, 10969 Berlin) |
| Saturday, 28. June 2014 |
| 9.30 | Plenary talk: Rick Nouwen (Utrecht University)
On the blooming descriptive content of (some) expressives | |
| 10.30 | Cornelia Ebert, Christian Ebert
Gestures, demonstratives, and the attributive/referential distinction |
Matthijs Westera
Giving conversational implicatures the status they need
and deserve |
| 11.15 | Coffee break |
| 11.35 | Philippe Schlenker
Natural Logic with Iconicity |
Jessica Pepp
Puzzles, data, and theory: a case study |
| 12.20 - 13.20 | Plenary talk: Jason Stanley (Yale University)
Subordinating Speech and Linguistic Context | |
