LINGUIST List 17.1028

Wed Apr 05 2006

Confs: Semantics/Syntax/Swarthmore, PA, USA

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Directory         1.    Jack Hoeksema, Swarthmore Workshop on Negation and Polarity

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Message 1: Swarthmore Workshop on Negation and Polarity
Date: 04-Apr-2006
From: Jack Hoeksema <jhoekse1swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Swarthmore Workshop on Negation and Polarity



Swarthmore Workshop on Negation and Polarity

Date: 14-Apr-2006 - 15-Apr-2006 Location: Swarthmore, PA, USA Contact: Jack Hoeksema Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/Linguistics/events/negation.html

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics; Syntax

Meeting Description:

Swarthmore Workshop on Negation and Polarity

The phenomenon of negative polarity has proven to be one of the most intricate problems in the study of the syntax-semantics interface. In this workshop, we want to provide a forum for discussion of the issues at hand, and an assessment of current theoretical work as well as its empirical foundations. Attendance is free for all participants.

Invited speakers:

-Jay Atlas (Pomona College)-Anastasia Giannakidou (U of Chicago)-Laurence Horn (Yale University)-Hotze Rullmann (U of British Columbia)

FRIDAY, April 14, 2006

9:00-9:30 Coffee and Welcome

9:30-10:30 Jay D. Atlas, Pomona: Pseudo-Anti-Additivity, Pseudo-Anti-Multiplicativity, and the Future of L.R. Horn's Asymmetry: remarks on only Proper Name and even Proper Name

10:30-11:00 Aviad Eilam, Tatjana Scheffler, U of Penn: Until and Expletive Negation in modern Hebrew

11:00-11:30 Simon Mauck, Elena Herburger, Georgetown: NPIs, free choice items and the Jespersen cycle in modern Hebrew

11:30-11:50 Break

11:50-12:20 Eun-Hae Park, U Chicago: EVEN with Numeral Noun Phrases (NNPs): What happened to the existential presupposition?

12:40-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30 Keiko Yoshimura, U of Chicago: Japanese -shika 'only' as NPI-universal with the semantics of exceptive marker

14:30-15:00 Akio Hasegawa, Buffalo: Japanese Focus Sensitive Particles SHIKA and DAKE: Lexically-driven negative concord

15:00-15:30 Raquel Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Madrid: Negation in Exclamative Sentences

15:30-16:00 Dmitry Levinson, Stanford: Polarity Sensitivity in Inflectional Morphology

16:00-16:30 Break

16:30-17:30 Anastasia Giannakidou, U of Chicago: Polarity, and the nature of wh-morphology in free choice: evidence from Greek and Mandarin Chinese

SATURDAY, April 15, 2006

9:00-10:00 Hotze Rullmann, UBC: What does even even mean?

10:00-10:30 Heiner Drenhaus, Joanna Błaszczak, Juliane Schütte, Potsdam An ERP study on the strength of licensors in Negative Polarity constructions

10:30-11:00 Jack Hoeksema, Swarthmore: A deep positive polarity construction and its negative polarity counterpart

11:00-11:20 break

11:20-11:50 Ted Fernald, Swarthmore: Navajo Negation

11:50-12:20 Sumiyo Nishiguchi, Stony Brook: Bipolar Items and Emotive Modality

12:20-14:00 lunch

14:00-14:30 Young-In Choi, Wisconsin: Lexical Negation and Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in Korean

14:30-15:00 Yukio Furukawa, McGill: The sentential negation in Japanese is not a simple truth functional connective

15:00-15:30 break

15:30-16:30 Laurence R. Horn, Yale: Only browsing: Looking for values on the exclusive shopping network