Colloquium of Syntax and Semantics in Paris 2023
Short Title: CSSP 2023

Date: 07-Dec-2023 - 09-Dec-2023
Location: Paris, France
Contact: Gerhard Schaden
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://cssp-2023.llf-paris.fr/?lang=en

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax

Meeting Description:

The 15th Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris (CSSP 2023) will take place on December 7-9, 2023 in Paris, and will be organized by the Jean-Nicod Institute (ENS, PSL, EHESS, CNRS). CSSP invites papers combining empirical inquiry and formal explicitness, and favours comparisons between different theoretical frameworks.

*Thursday, 7 December*

9:30-10:30 Adam Przepiórkowski (ICS Polish Academy of Sciences & University of Warsaw)
Symmetry in coordination

10:30-11:10 Chenghao Hu & Victor Junnan Pan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
A Workspace-Based Approach to Tag Questions in Mandarin Chinese

11:10-11:40 Break

11:40-12:20 Kim Tien Nguyen (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main)
An empirical study on the wide scope of topical singular indefinites in German

12:20-13:00 Ruxandra Ionescu, Fabian Istrate & Barbara Hemforth (Université Paris Cité & LLF)
Implicit Causality in Romanian Pronoun Production and Comprehension

13:00-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-15:10 Junseon Hong (Seoul National University)
The Semantic and Pragmatic Interpretation of Rising Declaratives

15:10-15:50 Makoto Kaneko (Ehime University)
Intention as an intersection between imperative and conjecture

15:50-16:20 Break

16:20-17:00 Long Chen, Rainer Osswald & Laura Kallmeyer (Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf )
Primary and secondary meaning facets of polysemous nouns and their formalization

17:00-18:00 András Kornai (Budapest Institute of Technology & SZTAKI Institute of Computer Science)
Bridging the gap between theoretical syntax and large language models: Can Hopf algebras do the job?

18:00 Social Event: Cocktail

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*Friday, 8 december*

9:30-10:30 Heather Burnett (LLF & Université Paris Cité)
Linking sociolinguistic variation and strategic action with game theory and video games

10:30-11:10 Yanis da Cunha (Université Paris Cité & LLF)
Social gender and agreement with gender-fair forms: an LFG account

11:10-11:40 Break

11:40-12:20 Jean-Pierre Koenig & Ali Salehi (University at Buffalo)
Morphological Argument referencing by itself: Evidence from Soranî Kurdish

12:20-13:00 Chenyuan Deng, Giuseppe Varaschin & Antonio Machicao y Priemer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Mandarin Chinese nominal complexes: Unifying classifiers, modifiers and demonstratives.

13:00-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-15:10 Simon Masloch, Johanna Poppek & Tibor Kiss (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
These Rumours About Psych Verbs Worry Us More Than Anything Else: On the (Im-)possibility of Reflexive Binding Into the Subject of German Experiencer-Object Verbs

15:10-15:50 Achille Fusco, Cristiano Chesi (IUSS Pavia) & Valentina Bianchi (Università degli Studi di Siena)
Using Belief-Perception Mismatch to Assess the Meaning of Subjective Attitude Verbs

15:50-16:20 Break

*Alternates*

Patrick Caudal (LLF & Université Paris Diderot)
Australian apprehensive grams as scalar negative modals

Kata Balogh & Rainer Osswald (Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf )
A novel representation of non-constituent focus and discontinuous focus

Jacques Jayez (ENS Lyon & CNRS LORIA) & Mathilde Dargnat (Université de Lorraine & CNRS UMR 7118)
The semantic families of French discourse markers

Liliane Haegeman (Hogeschool Gent) & Rebecca Woods (Newcastle University)
Interrogative clauses that don't interrogate: The syntax and semantics of West Flemish kwestje