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Fri May 21 2004

Confs: Syntax, Semantics/York, UK

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  • George Tsoulas gt3, Strategies of Quantification

    Message 1: Strategies of Quantification

     Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 10:36:20 -0400 (EDT)
    From: George Tsoulas gt3 <George>
    Subject: Strategies of Quantification


    Strategies of Quantification

    15-Jul-2004 - 17-Jul-2004 York, United Kingdom

    Contact name: George Tsoulas Conference email: lang29york.ac.uk Conference URL: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~lang29/events/conf/soq.html

    Linguistic Subfield: Semantics, Syntax

    Meeting Description:

    This conference aims to bring together researchers in the syntax and semantics of quantification and related fields with a special focus on the issues arising from the crosslinguistic study of quantifiers and quantification and their repercussions on the formal analysis of quantification. The conference is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, as part of the project ''Strategies of Quantification''

    Strategies of Quantification University of York- July 15-17 2004 Programme

    Thursday July 15

    9.30 -10.30 (Invited Speaker) Angelika Kratzer (UMass, Amherst) Quantifiers in the hierarchy of functional heads

    BREAK

    11.00-11.45: Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago) & Lisa Cheng (University of Leiden) Wh-morphology, definiteness, and (more on) the semantics of free choice

    11.45-12.30: Hiroyuki Uchida (UCL) Indefinites: an extra-argument selection analysis

    LUNCH

    2.00 -3.00 (Invited Speaker) Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia) Generics and existentials in a language without bare plurals

    3.00 - 3.45: Kook-Hee Gill (University of York): A crosslinguistic approach to Free choice andpolarity

    BREAK

    4.15 - 5.00: Christina Chen (National Tsing Hua University) On the paired ziji 'self' and Donkey sentences in Mandarin Chinese

    5.00 - 5.45: Henry Davis (University of British Columbia) Quantifiers in Salish and the D-Type versus A- Type Distinction

    5.45 - 6.30: Malte Zimmermann (Humboldt University, Berlin) Or What? Quantificational Phenomena in Hausa.

    Friday July 16

    9.30 -10.30 (Invited Speaker) Edward L. Keenan (UCLA): Non-Standard Quantifiers in Natural Language

    BREAK

    11.00-11.45: Chris Fox (University of Essex) and Shalom Lappin (King's College, London) Generalized Quantifiers with Underspecified Scope Relations in a First-Order Representation Language

    11.45-12.30: George Tsoulas (University of York) The Logic of Indeterminates

    LUNCH

    2.00 -3.00 (Invited Speaker) Akira Watanabe (University of Tokyo) Ingredients of Polarity Sensitivity: Bipolar Items in Japanese

    3.00 - 3.45: Yukio Furukawa (McGill) Negative quantifiers in Japanese are neither NPI nor NCI

    BREAK

    4.15 - 5.00: Evangelia Vlachou (University of Utrecht) The Three kinds of Free Choice Items and the different ways their quantificational domain is constructed

    4.15 - 5.00: Masakazu Kuno (Harvard University) Constraints on Scope Shifting Operations: A Representational View

    4.15 - 5.00: Jonny Butler (University of York) Everything's Indefinite

    Conference Party

    Saturday July 17

    9.30 -10.30 (Invited Speaker) K. A. Jayaseelan (CIEFL, Hyderabad) Comparative Morphology of Quantifiers

    10.30-11.00 Peppina Lee Po-lun (City University of Hong Kong & Macau Polytechnic) & PAN Haihua (City University of Hong Kong) Affixal Quantification: A-Syntax-semantics Approach to Cantonese Suffixal Quantifiers

    11.45-12.30: Hidekazu Tanaka (University of York) Antecedent Contained Deletion without Quantifier Raising

    12.30 -2.00 LUNCH

    2.00 - 2.45 : Christopher Tancredi (University of Tokyo) & Miyuki Yamashina (Yokohama National University) Interpretation of Indefinites in the Japanese who-mo Construction

    2.45 - 3.30 Sun-ho Hong (University of Essex) & Sun-Woo Lee (Hankuk University of foreign Studies) Korean Wh-words as Choice Function Variables

    3.45 - 4.15 BREAK

    4.00 - 4.45 Daniel Wedgwood (University of Edinburgh) Out of focus quantifiers: the emergence of a quantificational strategy

    4.45 - 5.30: Volker Gast (Free University, Berlin) Negated universal focus quantifiers in English, German and Spanish

    5.30 - 6.30 (Invited Speaker) Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh) Surface-Compositional Scope-Alternation and the Non-Existence of Existentials

    Alternates Heather Mardsen (University of Durham): A cross-linguistic investigation of wh/quantifier interpretation Yukiko Ueda (Meiji Gakuin & Yokohama National University) Fqant-Matching as a Syntactic Operation Pirkko Suihkonen (University of Helsinki) Quantification on noun phrases: sample data on the Uralic, Turkic, and Indo-European Languages

    All sessions take place in the Huntington Room, King's Manor.

    For more information on Travel, Accomodation, registration, etc... please visit: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~lang29/events/conf/soq.html