LINGUIST List 21.2342 Tue May 25 2010 Confs: Semantics, Syntax, Pragmatics/France Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Alda Mari, Dispositions, Abilities and States Message 1: Dispositions, Abilities and States Date: 24-May-2010 From: Alda Mari <alda.mariens.fr> Subject: Dispositions, Abilities and States E-mail this message to a friend Dispositions, Abilities and States Short Title: GENIUS II Date: 24-Jun-2010 - 25-Jun-2010 Location: Paris, France Contact: Alda Mari Contact Email: AbilityConferencegmail.com Meeting URL: http://www.genericity.ens.fr/index2.html Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax Meeting Description: Genericity: Interpretation and Uses II Dispositions, Abilities and States ENS Paris 29, rue d'Ulm, Paris Amphitéâtre Jules Ferry June 24th-25th, 2010 Invited Speakers: Claire Beyssade (IJN, CNRS/ENS/EHESS) Greg Carlson (University of Rochester) Valentine Hacquard (University of Maryland) Graham Katz (Georgetown University) Brenda Laca (University of Paris VIII) Giorgio Magri (IJN, CNRS/ENS/EHESS) Louise McNally (University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) Program: June 24th, 2010 ENS, 29, rue d'Ulm Amphithéâtre Jules Ferry 8:45 Welcome Invited Speaker: 9:00-10:00 Greg Carlson (University of Rochester): It Can, but Does It? Dispositions and Generics. 10:00-10:40 Berit Gehrke (University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona): Stative Passives and Event Kinds 10:40 Coffee Break 11:00-11:40 Friederike Moltmann (IHPST / CNRS): Abstract and Concrete States, Events and Tropes Invited Speaker: 11:40-12:40 Giorgio Magri (IJN, CNRS/ENS/EHESS): An Account for Restrictions on Bare Plural Subjects of Individual Level Predicates based on Blind Mandatory Scalar Implicatures 12:40 Lunch Invited Speaker: 14:20-15:20 Valentine Hacquard (University of Maryland): Event Quantification and Actuality, the View from Modals 15:20-16:00 Bridget Copley and Heidi Harley (CNRS and University of Arizona): Two Causatives, Two Kinds of Abilities 16:00 Coffee Break 16:20-17:00 Anastasia Giannakidou and Eleni Staraki (University of Chicago): Rethinking Ability: Ability as Modality and Ability as Action Invited Speaker: 17:00-18:00 Brenda Laca (University of Paris VIII): Vingt ans Après. Generic Objects, Dispositions and Habituals. 18:00 Réception June 25th, 2010 ENS, 29, rue d'Ulm Amphithéâtre Jules Ferry Invited Speaker: 9:00-10:00 Louise McNally (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona): Event Type and Generalization Incorporation 10:00-10:40 Elena Herburger and Simon Mauck (Georgetown University): Conditionals, Adverbs of Quantification and Generics 10:40 Coffee Break 11:00-11:40 Paula Menendez-Benito (University of Gottingen): Dispositions and Choices Invited Speaker: 11:40-12:40 Max Kistler (University of Grenoble and IJN, CNRS): Powers and Dispositions 12:40 Lunch Invited Speaker: 14:20-15:20 Claire Beyssade (IJN, CNRS/ENS/EHESS): t.b.a. 15:20-16:00 Ariel Cohen (Ben Gurion University): Habituals, -er Nominals and Modality 16:00 Coffee Break 16:20-17:00 Isabelle Roy and Elena Soare (UMR 7023 & University of Paris VIII): Genericity and Stativity Inheritance in ''Agent'' Deverbal Nominals Invited Speaker: 17:00-18:00 Graham Katz (Georgetown University): t.b.a. Alternates: Richard Zuber (LLF, CNRS): On the Semantics of Implicatives Gottfried Vosgerau (Heinrich Heine University): Action Related Properties of Objects Poster Session: Sascha Alexejenko (University of Osnabrück): Dispositional Generics as in-virtue-of Generalization Eva Klingvall (Queen Mary, University of London): On the Syntax of Disposition Ascriptions in Swedish Sylvia Reed (University of Arizona): Stativized Predicates in Scottish Gaelic Antonia Rothmayr (Universität Wien): Davidsonian and Kimian States Revisited Registration is free. Please, send an email with your name and affiliation to abilityconferencegmail.com Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 25-May-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.