LINGUIST List 27.3904
Mon Oct 03 2016
Confs: General Linguistics/Israel
Editor for this issue: Kenneth Steimel <kenlinguistlist.org>
Date: 30-Sep-2016
From: Luka Crnic <luka.crnic
mail.huji.ac.il>
Subject: 32nd Annual Conference of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics
E-mail this message to a friend 32nd Annual Conference of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL)
Short Title: IATL 32
Date: 25-Oct-2016 - 27-Oct-2016
Location: Jerusalem, Israel
Contact: Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal
Contact Email:
< click here to access email > Meeting URL:
http://www.iatl.org.il/?page_id=970
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Meeting Description:
The 32nd annual conference of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL) will take place at the Language Logic Cognition Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, October 25-27, 2016. The conference will consist of a general session as well as a special session on experimental and historical approaches to semantics.
Invited Speakers:
Cleo Condoravdi (Stanford)
Uli Sauerland (ZAS)
Program:
Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics: 32nd Annual Meeting
October 25-26, 2016
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Tuesday, October 25, 2016:
9:30-10:00: Registration and coffee
10:00-10:20:
Greetings
10:20-11:20:
Invited speaker: Uli Sauerland
11:20-11:40: Coffee
11:40-12:20:
Grammatically Relevant Ontological Categories Underlie Manner/Result Complementarity
Malka Rappaport Hovav
12:20-13:00:
Semelfactives in English and in Hungarian: a countability-based analysis
Zsofia Gyarmathy
13:00-14:30: Lunch
14:30-15:10:
Proportional Comparatives and Relative Scales
Stephanie Solt
15:10-15:50:
Expletive negation and Only
Daniel Margulis
15:50-16:30:
A structural approach to vowel reduction
Markus Alexander Pöchtrager
16:40-17:00: Coffee
17:00-17:40:
Metalinguistic Contrast and Scalar Implicatures: The case of 'x, but X'
Yael Greenberg
17:40-18:20:
Why Rhetorical Questions
Edit Doron and Lavi Wolf
19:30: Conference Dinner
Wednesday, October 26, 2016:
10:00-11:00:
Invited speaker: Cleo Condoravdi
11:00-11:20: Coffee
11:20-12:00:
Embedded gapping
David Erschler
12:00-12:40:
Speech Act Control: An Unrecognized Type
Idan Landau
12:40-13:00:
Business Meeting
13:00-14:30: Lunch
14:30-15:10:
Proxy control
Aaron Doliana and Sandhya Sundaresan
15:10-15:50:
Emergence of relative clause construction in Israeli Sign Language
Svetlana Dachkovsky and Wendy Sandler
15:50-16:10: Coffee
Thematic Session: experimental/historical semantics
16:10-16:50:
From possibility to necessity in the history of Hebrew
Aynat Rubinstein
16:50-17:30:
The reaction times associated with processing 'few' and 'many' are more similar to proportional quantifiers than to degree adjectives
Galit Agmon, Yonatan Loewenstein and Yosef Grodzinsky
17:30-17:50: Coffee
17:50-18:30:
Conjunctive Disjunctions: Evidence for the Ambiguity Theory
Uli Sauerland and Kazuko Yatsushiro
Alternates (in alphabetic order):
A unified existential semantics for bare conditionals
Itai Bassi and Moshe E. Bar-Lev
Phonological ''Roots''
Si Berrebi
The dative alternation again: an argument in favor of a representational account
Nora Boneh and Lea Nash
A surface-scope analysis of authoritative readings of modified numerals
Brian Buccola and Andreas Haida
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