LINGUIST List 17.1555

Sun May 21 2006

Confs: Semantics/Gargnano (Lake Garda), Italy

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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