LINGUIST List 22.3467 Sat Sep 03 2011 Confs: Syntax, Semantics/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.     Patricia Cabredo Hofherr , Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris Message 1: Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris Date: 01-Sep-2011 From: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr <pcabredouniv-paris8.fr> Subject: Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris E-mail this message to a friend Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris Short Title: CSSP 2011 Date: 21-Sep-2011 - 23-Sep-2011 Location: Paris, France Contact: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/ Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax Meeting Description: CSSP 2011 September 21-23, 2011 Paris-8 St Denis The 9th Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris (CSSP 2011) will take place on September 21-23, 2011. Invited Speakers: Cleo Condoravdi (PARC/ NLTT & Stanford) Danièle Godard (CNRS UMR 7110 / Paris 7) Jean-Pierre Koenig (Buffalo) Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz) 9th Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris (CSSP 2011) 21-23 Sept 2011 Amphi D02 Université Paris 8 2 rue de la liberté F-93 536 St Denis The program is updated online at: http://www.cssp.cnrs.fr/cssp2011/index_en.html Program Wed 21 Sept 2011 9h45–10h Opening 10h–11h Invited speaker: Danièle Godard (UMR7110 LLF Paris 7) Title to be confirmed 11h–11h40 Emilie Destruel (UT Austin) The meaning and use of the French c'est-cleft 11h40–12h Coffee break 12h–12h40 Yusuke Kubota (U Tokyo) & Robert Levine (Ohio State) Against ellipsis: Arguments for the direct licensing of 'non-canonical' coordinations 12h40–13h20 Gabriela Bilbiie & Anna Gazdik (Paris 7) Coordination of unlikes in multiple questions 13h20–14h45 Lunch break 14h45–15h25 Valentina Bianchi (Siena) & Giuliano Bocci (Bologna) 'Should I stay or should I go?' Optional focus movement in Italian 15h25–16h05 Theresa Biberauer (U Cambridge/ Stellenbosch U) & Hedde Zeijlstra (U Amsterdam) Inherent instability and spontaneous change: an Afrikaans case study 16h05-16h35 Coffee break 16h35–17h15 Elizabeth Coppock (U Lund) & David Beaver (UT Austin) Exclusivity, Uniqueness and Definiteness 17h15–17h55 Sonia Cyrino (Unicamp) & M.Teresa Espinal (UA Barcelona) Object BNs in Brazilian Portuguese. More on the NP/DP analysis 18h10 Reception Thur 22 Sept 2011 10h–11h Invited speaker: Cleo Condoravdi (Zukunftskolleg, U Konstanz) Imperatives: Meaning and Illocutionary Force 10h–10h40 Anamaria Falaus (U Basque Country /UPV-EHU) Modal indefinites and free-choice inference in imperatives 11h40–12h Coffee break 12h–12h40 Huy Linh Dao (Paris 3) Polarité positive et concordance modale : le cas de la particule'injonctive' di en vietnamien 11h50–12h30 Wataru Uegaki (MIT) Content nouns and the semantics of question-embedding predicates 13h20–14h30 Lunch break 14h30–15h30 Invited speaker: Jean-Pierre Koenig (U Buffalo) The (non)-universality of syntactic selection and functional application 15h30–16h10 Laura Kallmeyer & Rainer Osswald (Heinrich-Heine-U Duesseldorf) A Frame-Based Semantics of the Dative Alternation in Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars 16h05–16h35 Coffee break 16h40–17h20 Anne Dagnac (CLLE-ERSS, U Toulouse 2) How do you double your C? Evidence from a Gallo-Romance dialect 17h20–18h Thomas Grano (U Chicago) Exhaustive control is not control: Cinque's IP and the raising/ control divide Fri 23 Sept 2011 9h–10h Invited speaker: Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz) Polarity and case licensing 10h–10h40 Ashwini Deo (Yale), Itamar Francez (U Chicago) & Andrew Koontz-Garboden (U Manchester) The morphosemantics of -ed 11h40–12h Coffee break 12h–12h40 Eric Potsdam (U Florida) The Syntax of Malagasy Phrasal Comparatives 12h40–13h20 Thomas Grano & Chris Kennedy (U Chicago) Severing the degree argument from the adjective: Evidence from Mandarin transitive comparatives 13h20–14h45 Lunch break 14h45–15h25 Yusuke Kubota (U Tokyo) Revisiting the progressive/ perfect ambiguity of -te iru in Japanese: A scale-based analysis 15h25–16h05 Artemis Alexiadou and Gianina Iordachioaia (U Stuttgart) Causative nominalizations from psych verbs 16h05–16h45 Sergei Tatevosov & Ekaterina Lyutikova (Lomonossov U Moscow) A finer look at predicate decomposition: evidence from causativization Alternates: Daniel Gutzmann & Katharina Turgay (Goethe-U Frankfurt/ U Landau) The syntactic-semantic puzzle of expressive intensifiers Gabi Danon (Bar-Ilan U) Agreement features and non-agreeing copulas in Modern Hebrew Stephen Wechsler (UT Austin) Polysemy and Pancakes Patrick Grosz (Massachussets Institute of Technology) On the Role of Epistemic Contexts in Root Clause Phenomena Janna Lipenkova (U Stuttgart) Obligatory event modifiers and lexical licensing in the Chinese ba-construction Mojmir Docekal and Dalina Kallulli (U Brno/ U Vienna) More on the semantics of clitic doubling: principal ultrafilters, quantifiers and collective predicates Yasutada Sudo (Massachussets Institute of Technology) Towards a Unified Account of Anti-Uniqueness Inferences Andreea Nicolae (Harvard U) Situating PPIs within an alternative-based framework of the Polarity System Acknowledgements: We thank the following organizations for their financial or material support for CSSP 2011: The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) The Conseil scientifique of the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4) The Conseil scientifique of the Université Paris 8 The EA 4503 of the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4) The departement of linguistics UFR de linguistique of the Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7) The École doctorale Concepts et Langages (U. Paris 4) The École doctorale Sciences du langage (U. Paris 7) The research group Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (UMR7110 – CNRS& U. Paris 7) The research group Structures Formelles du Langage (UMR7023 – CNRS & U. Paris 8) The research group Institut Jean Nicod (UMR8129 – CNRS, ENS & EHESS) (projet EURYI, resp. Philippe Schlenker) The research group Savoirs, Textes, Langage (UMR 8163 – CNRS & U. Lille 3) The research group Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie (CLLE UMR 5263, CNRS & U. de Toulouse Le Mirail) The project of the ANR Cognitive Origins of Vagueness (resp. Paul Egré) The project of the ANR Genericity Interpretation and Uses (resp. Alda Mari) The Institut Universitaire de France (Olivier Bonami) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 03-Sep-2011       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.