LINGUIST List 17.545

Sat Feb 18 2006

Confs: Ling Theories/Semantics/Tokyo, Japan

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Directory         1.    Christopher Tancredi, Semantics and Linguistic Theory


Message 1: Semantics and Linguistic Theory
Date: 17-Feb-2006
From: Christopher Tancredi <cdtancredihotmail.com>
Subject: Semantics and Linguistic Theory



Semantics and Linguistic Theory Short Title: SALT


Date: 22-Mar-2006 - 24-Mar-2006 Location: Tokyo, Japan Contact: Christopher Tancredi Contact Email: < click here to access email >

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Semantics

Meeting Description:

SALT is the longest-running annual conference dedicated to semantic research in the world.

(Full conference information is available at: http://research.nii.ac.jp/salt16/ )

Wednesday, March 22

9:45 Opening Remarks

10:00 Angelika Kratzer (University of Massachusetts Amherst): TBA

11:00 Break

11:20 Michela Ippolito (Boston University): On the meaning of 'only'

12:00 Giorgio Magri (MIT): A semantic account for the properties of individual-level predicates

12:40 Lunch

2:30 Carmen Rotstein (Intel Corporation/Haifa) and Yoad Winter (Technion): Telicity across Semantic Domains: The case of almost

3:10 David Y. Oshima (Stanford University): Motion Deixis, Indexicality, and Presupposition

3:50 Break

4:10 Ezra Keshet (MIT): Scalar Implicatures with Alternative Semantics

4:50 Break

5:00 Maribel Romero (University of Pennsylvania): On Concealed Questions

6:00 End of first day

Thursday, March 23

10:00 Toshiyuki Ogihara (University of Washington): TBA

11:00 Break

11:20 Ilaria Frana (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Wondering about Concealed Questions

12:00 Kimiko Nakanishi (University of Calgary): Even, Only, and Negative Polarity in Japanese

12:40 Lunch

2:30 Philippe de Groote (Inria-Lorraine & Loria): Towards a Montagovian account of dynamics

3:10 Jessica Rett (Rutgers University): How 'many' maximizes in the Balkan Sprachbund

3:50 Break

4:10 Takuro Tanaka (University of Connecticut): Lexical Decomposition and Comparative Structures for Japanese Determiners

4:50 Stanley Peters (Stanford University) and Dag Westerstahl (Gothenburg University): Taking Exception to Quantified Statements

5:30 Break

6:00 Party

Friday, March 24

10:00 Irene Heim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): TBA

11:00 Break

11:20 Michael Wagner (Cornell University): Givenness and Locality

12:00 Sophia A. Malamud (University of Pennsylvania): (Non)-maximality and distributivity: A Decision Theory approach

12:40 Lunch (Business Meeting)

2:30 Daniel Rothschild (Princeton University): Negative Polarity Items and Definite Descriptions

3:10 Florian Schwarz (University of Massachusetts Amherst): On NEEDING propositions and LOOKING FOR properties

3:50 Break

4:10 Tom Werner (Carnegie Mellon University): An analysis of existential anankastics: How to get there from here

4:50 Break

5:00 James Higginbotham (University of Southern California): TBA

6:00 Closing

Alternates

Friederike Moltmann (Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques): Genericity de se

Magdalena Schwager (University of Frankfurt): Conditionalized Imperatives