LINGUIST List 17.1555
Sun May 21 2006
Confs: Semantics/Gargnano (Lake Garda), Italy
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The 2006 Milan Meeting
Message 1: The 2006 Milan Meeting
Date: 18-May-2006
From: Alessandro Zucchi <alessandro.zucchiunimi.it>
Subject: The 2006 Milan Meeting
The 2006 Milan Meeting
Short Title: MM06
Date: 15-Jun-2006 - 17-Jun-2006
Location: Gargnano (Lake Garda), Italy
Contact: Sandro Zucchi
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://filosofia.dipafilo.unimi.it/~zucchi/MM2006.html
Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
Meeting Description:
A formal semantics conference.
The 2006 Milan Meeting is hosted by the Università degli Studi di Milano from June 15 to June 17, 2006 at Palazzo Feltrinelli in Gargnano, on lake Garda. The Milan meeting is a formal semantics conference.
Invited speakers:
DELIA GRAFFIRENE HEIMANGELIKA KRATZERZOLTAN SZABO
The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for formal semanticists and for philosophers of language working on foundational issues in semantics to discuss topics that are relevant for both groups. We accept abstracts on any area of formal semantics and philosophy of language that fit this aim.
THE 2006 MILAN MEETING
June 15-17 Palazzo Feltrinelli Gargnano
Università degli Studi di Milano Dipartimento di Filosofia
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, June 15th
morning 9.30-10.30 Zoltan Szabo, Counting across times 10.30-10.45 discussion 10.45-11.00 coffee break
11-11.30 Friederike Moltmann, Weak reference 11.30-11.40 discussion
11.40-12.10 Wilhelm Geuder and Matthias Weisgerber, On the geometrical representation of concepts 12.10-12.20 discussion
12.20-12.50 Saso Zivanovic, The definite determiner and the superlative determiner: a cross- linguistic generalization 12.50-13.00 discussion
afternoon 15-15.30 Fabio Del Prete, Before as a comparative and after as an atomic predicate 15.30-15.40 discussion
15.40-16.10 Florian Schwarz, A proposition for Need (and a property for Look for) 16.10-16.20 discussion
16.20-16.40 coffee break
16.40-17.10 Aldo Sevi, Exhaustivity: A Semantic account of Quantity Implicatures 17.10-17.20 discussion
17.20-17.50 Candice Cheung Chi Hang, Chinese bare conditionals: against the unselective binding approach 17.50-18.00 discussion
FRIDAY, June 16th
morning 9.30-10.30 Angelika Kratzer, to be announced 10.30-10.45 discussion 10.45-11.00 coffee break
11-11.30 Graham Katz, Propositional content and pre-semantic binding 11.30-11.40 discussion
11.40-12.10 Josep Macià, Expressive meaning, logical consequence and context 12.10-12.20 discussion
12.20-12.50 Elena Guerzoni and Dongsik Lim, Even if, factivity and focus 12.50-13.00 discussion
afternoon 15-15.30 Philippe Schlenker, Transparency: The projection problem revisited 15.30-15.40 discussion
15.40-16.10 Stefano Predelli, Monsters and fiction. Operators on contexts in the semantic analysis of talk about fiction 16.10-16.20 discussion
16.20-16.40 coffee break
16.40-17.10 Stefan Hinterwimmer, The Interpretation of universally quantified DPs and singular definites in adverbially quantified sentences 17.10-17.20 discussion
17.20-17.50 Klaus von Heusinger and Johannes Wespel, Indefinite proper names and quantification over manifestations 17.50-18.00 discussion
SATURDAY, June 17th
morning 9.30-10.30 Irene Heim, to be announced 10.30-10.45 discussion 10.45-11.00 coffee break
11-11.30 Peter Bosch, VP anaphora at the semantics-pragmatics interface 11.30-11.40 discussion
11.40-12.10 Elena Herburger and Simon Mauck, The 'conjunctive' reading of 'or' in conditionals: a semantic account 12.10-12.20 discussion
12.20-12.50 Uli Sauerland, Copying or structure-sharing? A semantic argument 12.50-13.00 discussion
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