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SALT 14
Program
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Friday, May 14:
Block Cinema, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
8:30
Registration
9:15 - 9:30
Opening Remarks
Session 1
Sally McConnell-Ginet (Cornell)
9:30 - 10:30
Barbara Abbott (Michigan State University)
Some remarks on indicative conditionals
10:30 - 10:50
Coffee break
Session 2
Michael Walsh Dickey (Northwestern)
10:50 - 11:30
Maribel Romero (Penn)
Tense and intensionality in specificational copular sentences
11:30 - 12:10
Tim Fernando (Trinity College)
Inertia in temporal modification
12:10 - 2:00
Lunch break
Session 3
Stefan Kaufmann (Northwestern)
2:00 - 2:40
Rani Nelken and Chung-chieh (Ken) Shan (Harvard)
A logic of interrogation should be internalized in a modal logic for knowledge
2:40 - 3:40
Kai von Fintel (MIT)
Anatomy of a modal
3:40 - 4:00
Coffee break
Session 4
Jerry Sadock (Chicago)
4:00 - 4:40
Michela Ippolito (UCSC)
The presuppositions of 'still'
4:40 - 5:30
Paul Portner (Georgetown)
The semantics of imperatives within a theory of clause types
5:30 - 6:00
Business meeting
Saturday, May 15:
Harris 107
8:30
Registration
Session 5
Lance Rips (Northwestern)
9:00 - 10:00
Mark Steedman (Edinburgh)
Scope alternation and the syntax-semantics interface
10:00 - 10:40
Anastasia Giannakidou (Chicago)
Contextual restriction and the arguments of quantificational determiners
10:40 - 11:00
Coffee break
Session 6
Anna Szabolcsi (NYU)
11:00 - 11:40
Pranav Anand and Andrew Nevins (MIT)
Shifty operators in changing contexts: Indexicals in Zazaki and Slave
11:40 - 12:30
Yael Sharvit (UConn)
Free indirect discourse and de re pronouns
12:30 - 2:30
Lunch break
Session 7
Daniel B&uunl;ring (UCLA)
2:30 - 3:10
Pauline Jacobson (Brown)
Kennedy's Puzzle: What I'm named or who I am?
3:10 - 4:10
Chris Barker (UCSD)
Parasitic scope
4:10 - 4:30
Coffee break
Session 8
Hana Filip (Discern)
4:30 - 5:10
Marcelo Ferreira (MIT)
Imperfectives and plurality
5:10 - 5:50
Kimiko Nakanishi (Penn)
V-sugiru 'V too much' in Japanese as a comparative quantifier
6:30
Party (Guild Lounge,
Scott Hall
)
Sunday, May 16:
Harris 107
9:00
Registration
Session 9
Peter Lasersohn (Illinois)
9:30 - 10:10
Christopher Potts and Shigeto Kawahara (UMass Amherst)
The performative nature of Japanese honorifics
10:10 - 10:50
Eric McCready (Texas)
Two Japanese adverbials and expressive content
10:50 - 11:20
Coffee break
Session 10
Jason Merchant (Chicago)
11:20 - 12:00
Ivano Caponigro (Maryland)
The semantic contribution of wh-words and the ranking of type-shifts: Evidence from free relatives crosslinguistically
12:00 - 1:00
Barbara Partee (UMass Amherst)
The semantics of Russian genitive of negation: The nature and role of perspectival structure
Alternates
Chung-chieh (Ken) Shan (Harvard)
Binding into Hamblin alternatives calls for variable free semantics
Hana Filip (Discern)
The telicity parameter revisited
Last updated: May 11, 2004