LINGUIST List 17.545
Sat Feb 18 2006
Confs: Ling Theories/Semantics/Tokyo, Japan
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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
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