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Mon Nov 3 1997

Confs: Annual Meeting of the Society for Semantics

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SINN UND BEDEUTUNG 1997
Annual Meeting of the Society for Semantics
Berlin, Dec 5-7


Invited Speakers:

Angelika Kratzer (Umass): German Impersonal Pronouns
 and Logophoricity
Frans Zwarts (Univ. Groningen): Negation, Veridicality
 and the Semantic Typology of Temporal Conjunctions


List of Talks:

Arregui, Ana (Univ. Leiden) & Kiyomi Kusumoto (UMass):
 Tense in Temporal Adjunct Clauses: Evidence from Japanese
Bartsch, Renate (Univ. Amsterdam):
 Dynamic Conceptual Semantics: a model of concept
 formation and understanding
Blutner, Reinhard (HU Berlin, ASG):
 Psychologik
Brandt, Patrick (Univ. Goettingen):
 Praedikation und LF
Buering, Daniel (Univ. Koeln):
 Identitaet, Modalitaet und die Kandidatin hinter der Wand
Butt, Miriam (Univ. Konstanz):
 Dispositional Complex Predicates in Urdu
Carstensen, Kai-Uwe (Univ. Osnabrueck):
 Mikroperspektivierung und die Semantik der Graduierung
Dekker, Paul (Univ. Amsterdam) & Robert van Rooy Univ.
 Stuttgart): Intentional Identity and Information Exchange
Doelling, Johannes (Univ. Leipzig):
 Modifikation von implizit erfassten Resultatszustaenden 
Eckardt, Regine (Univ. Konstanz):
 Lifetime Effects for (Indefinite) Objects
Ehrich, Veronika (Univ. Tuebingen):
 Thematic Roles and Argument Selection: The Case of
 German Nominalizations
Eide, Kristin M. & Tor A. Aafarli (Univ. Trondheim):
 A semantic explanation of the subject requirement
Eijck, Jan van (Amsterdam):
 Dynamic Reasoning Without Variables
Eschenbach, Carola (Univ. Hamburg):
 Standpunkte und Perspektiven: Zur raeumlichen Struktur
 von deiktischen und intrinsischen Referenzsystemen
Fintel, Kai von (MIT): 
 NPI Licensing, Strawson Entailment, and Context-Dependency
Geilfuss, Jochen (Univ. Leipzig):
 sber absolute und komparative Superlative
Geuder, Wilhelm (Univ. Tuebingen):
 Was macht ein Ereignispraedikat? Zur Semantik von
 depiktiven und adverbiell gebrauchten Adjektiven 
Giannakidou, Anastasia (Univ. Amsterdam):
 Mood choice and polarity items
Giannakidou, Anastasia (Univ. Amsterdam) & Jason Merchant
 (UC Santa Cruz / Univ. Utrecht): Aspectual effects on
 donkey anaphora
Hackl, Martin (MIT):
 On the Lack of Duality in "Ability Attributions"
Haertl, Holden & James Witt (Univ. Leipzig):
 Worauf man Folien legt: Partikelverben und
 lokale Konzepte
Helmantel, Marjon (Univ. Leiden):
 Simplex adpositions and vector theory
Heusinger, Klaus von (UC Santa Cruz / Univ. Konstanz):
 The Alternative Semantics of definite and indefinite NPs
Heydrich, Wolfgang (Univ. Hamburg / Univ. Bielefeld):
 Theory of Mutuality
Hole, Daniel (FU Berlin):
 German "Auxiliary + PP"-constructions
Hout, Angeliek van (UPenn) & Thomas Roeper (UMass):
 Events and Aspectual Structure in Derivational
 Morphology
Katz, Graham (Univ. Tuebingen):
 Context, content and the interpretation of
 contensive modifiers
Kaufmann, Ingrid (Univ. Duesseldorf):
 Aktiv/Medium-Voice und Kontrolle
Kiss, Tibor (IBM Heidelberg):
 Scope and Obliqueness
Kupffer, Manfred (Univ. Tuebingen):
 Counterpart theory and four-valued modal logic
Loebner, Sebastian (Univ. Duesseldorf):
 Temporal, semi-temporal and non-temporal uses of
 German 'schon': A case study in Lakoffian metaphor 
Max, Ingolf (Univ. Leipzig):
 Zum logischen Status natuerlichsprachlicher
 Negationen 
Meier, Cecile (Univ. Tuebingen):
 Fokussierte Praesuppositionsausloeser
Merin, Arthur (Univ. Stuttgart):
 Negation and the Structure of the Lexicon
Naumann, Ralf (Univ. Duesseldorf):
 Eine Dynamische Dekompositionale Ereignissemantik
Ning, Zhang (Univ. Toronto / ZAS Berlin):
 The Interactions Between Construction Meaning and
 Lexical Meaning
Peres, Joao Andrade (Univ. Lisboa):
 Towards a cross-linguistic and cross-categorial view
 of negative concord
Pinon, Christopher (Univ. Budapest / Univ. Duesseldorf):
 Allmaehlich
Siemund, Peter (FU Berlin):
 On the Meaning of Inclusive Intensifiers
Spaeth, Andreas (Univ. Leipzig):
 Determination im Satzkontext
Strigin, Anatoli (HU Berlin, ASG):
 Situations, Indices and Adverbs
Tomioka, Satoshi (UC San Diego):
 Focus, Negation, and Semantic Partition
Wulf, Douglas (Univ. Washington):
 Purpose in the Semantics of the Progressive
Wyner, Adam Zachary (Bar Ilan Univ.):
 On factive adverbials
Zeevat, Henk (Univ. Amsterdam):
 Questions and Information
Zeller, Jochen (Univ. Frankfurt):
 Sekundaere Praedikation und Argumentlinking
Zimmermann, Ede (Univ. Stuttgart):
 Skepsis De Se


For information about accommodation, visit the conference homepage at:

 http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/GfS

The final program, as well as travel information, will soon be available
at the same site.

People who register by Nov 15 can be sure to receive the conference
brochure at the registration desk on Friday, Dec 5.


Ewald Lang
Claudia Maienborn
Renate Musan
Heike Wiese

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