PROGRAM
Tuesday 17 Sept
REGISTRATION and WELCOME
09:00 – 10:00
INVITED TALK
10:00 – 11:00: Viola Schmitt – TBA
LIGHTING TALKS
11:00 – 11:30
COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 12:00
FIRST SESSION – ROOM A
12:00 – 12:35: Paul Marty, Omri Amiraz, Patrick Elliott, Guillermo Del Pinal, Jacopo Romoli: Homogeneity in non-monotonic contexts
12:35 – 13:10: Keny Chatain, Benjamin Spector: Readings of pronouns across connectives are sensitive to monotony
FIRST SESSION – ROOM B
12:00 – 12:35: Amira Ramdani, Jeremy Kuhn: Constraints on modal flavor colexification
12:35 – 13:10: Valerie Wurm: Inference complexity is semantically significant
FIRST SESSION – ROOM C
12:00 – 12:35: Chao Sun, Uli Sauerland: Robust Implicatures and Presuppositional Innocent Inclusion
12:35 – 13:10: Nina Haslinger, Viola Schmitt: Revisiting the role of structural complexity in symmetry breaking
LUNCH ON SITE
13:10 – 14:40
SECOND SESSION – ROOM A
14:40 – 15:15: Brian Buccola: Higher-order plurality: To what degree?
15:15 – 15:50: Giorgos Spathas: Measuring change with precise proportions
SECOND SESSION – ROOM B
14:40 – 15:15: Ana Laura Arrieta Zamudio: Epistemic temporal interactions and judge dependency in San Pablo Güilá Zapotec
15:15 – 15:50: Petr Kusliy, Ekaterina Vostrikova: Discontinuous past: a semantic account
SECOND SESSION – ROOM C
14:40 – 15:15: Aron Hirsch, Bernhard Schwarz: Constraining alternatives
15:15 – 15:50: Ryan Bochnak: Underspecified coordination, focus and contrast in Wá∙šiw
COFFE BREAK + POSTERS
15:50 – 17:20
THIRD SESSION – ROOM A
17:20 – 17:55: Ryan Walter Smith: Growth and Improvement: a quality semantics for result state nominals
17:55 – 18:30: Philippe de Groote, Timothée Bernard: Perspective on individuals
THIRD SESSION – ROOM B
17:20 – 17:55: Danfeng Wu: Why “not numeral NP” requires “but” but not “not many NP”
17:55 – 18:30: Marcin Wągiel: A non-Boolean analysis of conjunction in additive numerals
THIRD SESSION – ROOM C
17:20 – 17:55: Sam Alxatib, Andreea Nicolae: FC with discourse referents: the curious case of ‘any’
17:55 – 18:30: Jad Wehbe, Omri Doron: Diagnosing the presuppositional properties of global and embedded implicatures
Wednesday 18 Sept
INVITED TALK
10:00 – 11:00: Gennaro Chierchia – TBA
LIGHTING TALKS
11:00 – 11:30
COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 12:00
FIRST SESSION – ROOM A
12:00 – 12:35: Yağmur Sağ: Pseudo-incorporation, Event Kinds, and Atelicity
12:35 – 13:10: Jens Hopperdietzel: Change-of-state in Samoan: Multiple sources for Inchoativity
FIRST SESSION – ROOM B
12:00 – 12:35: Maribel Romero, Doris Penka: The German particle denn in a Scoreboard model of discourse
12:35 – 13:10: Cornelia Loos, Sophie Repp: Beyond ‘yes’ and ‘no’: Multimodal multilexical polar responses in German
FIRST SESSION – ROOM C
12:00 – 12:35: Ryan Bochnak, Adam Gobeski, Marcin Morzycki, Starr Sandoval: The Twofold Nature of Degree Nominalizations: Degree Concepts and Qualities
12:35 – 13:10: Zhuosi Luo, Alison Biggs: Classifiers and Comparison Class: Evidence for cross-linguistic variation in the calculation of standards
LUNCH ON SITE
13:10 – 14:40
SECOND SESSION – ROOM A
14:40 – 15:15: Omri Amiraz, Omri Doron: Definite plurals in comparatives
15:15 – 15:50: Eri Tanaka, Kenta Mizutani: Comparison among degrees or individuals?: A view from Japanese ichiban superlatives
SECOND SESSION – ROOM B
14:40 – 15:15: Eli Sharf: Speech acts without sincerity: an analysis of parenthetical say in English
15:15 – 15:50: Ilaria Frana & Paula Menendez Benito: X-marking and the Italian reportative conditional
SECOND SESSION – ROOM C
14:40 – 15:15: Todd Snider, Michael Franke: Modeling Uncertainty, Unawareness, and Underspecification among Structural Causal Models
15:15 – 15:50: Yichi Zhang: QUD Mediated Redundancy
COFFE BREAK + POSTERS
15:50 – 17:20
THIRD SESSION – ROOM A
17:20 – 17:55: Jonathan Palucci: Pseudo-scoping out of relative clauses: a dependent definite approach
17:55 – 18:30: Jad Wehbe: On the scope of together
THIRD SESSION – ROOM B
17:20 – 17:55: Despina Oikonomou, Vina Tsakali, Alexandra Samarentsi, Benedict Vassileiou: Temporal interpretation in Directive Speech Acts: A competition between imperative and 2nd-person subjunctive in Greek
17:55 – 18:30: David Müller: Only to forget it in the fridge – A compositional account of German prospective clauses
THIRD SESSION – ROOM C
17:20 – 17:55: Anne Mucha, Wataru Uegaki, Mary Amaechi, Tim Jantarungsee: Disjunction with additives
17:55 – 18:30: A. Bleotu, A. Nicolae, G. Bilbiie, M. Panaitescu, A. Benz, L. Tieu: The role of incompatible disjuncts in the acquisition of disjunction: Insights from studies involving actual and missing logical words in child Romanian
Thursday 19 Sept
INVITED TALK
10:00 – 11:00: Elena Pagliarini – TBA
LIGHTING TALKS
11:00 – 11:30
COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 12:00
FIRST SESSION – ROOM A
12:00 – 12:35: Manfred Krifka: Negotiating discourse referents: Anaphoric uptake in dalogue
12:35 – 13:10: Gregory Scontras, Judith Tonhauser: Projection without presupposition: A model of clause-embedding predicates
FIRST SESSION – ROOM B
12:00 – 12:35: Daniel Lassiter: Sorting out left-nested conditionals
12:35 – 13:10: Seoyoung Lee: You can leave your dog outside, but do you have to?: an RSA approach
FIRST SESSION – ROOM C
12:00 – 12:35: Sebastian Walter, Stefan Hinterwimmer: Shifted face emoji in indirect discourse: A mixed-quotational approach
12:35 – 13:10: Mailin Antomo, Lea Fricke, Patrick G. Grosz, Tatjana Scheffler: Lying and commitment with (not-)at-issue emojis
LUNCH ON SITE
13:10 – 14:40
SECOND SESSION – ROOM A
14:40 – 15:15: Janek Guerrini, Benjamin Spector: Plural Definites and Domain Restriction in Romance and Germanic – A new generalization regarding genericity, kind predication, and maximal reference
15:15 – 15:50: Flavia Naehrlich: A unified account of bare plural generics based on cognitively salient evidence
SECOND SESSION – ROOM B
14:40 – 15:15: Ziling Zhu: Why ‘regret’ and ‘realize’ can embed false beliefs
15:15 – 15:50: Mora Maldonado, Orin Percus: Another look at contrafactive predicates: The case of Spanish ‘creerse’
SECOND SESSION – ROOM C
14:40 – 15:15: Takanobu Nakamura:
Relevance-sensitive co-variation inferences of dependent indefinites
15:15 – 15:50: Starr Sandoval, Yangshuying (Kate) Zhou, Marcin Morzycki: Building Adjunct Questions from Anaphors in Ktunaxa
COFFE BREAK + POSTERS
15:50 – 17:20
THIRD SESSION – ROOM A
17:20 – 17:55: Daiki Matsuoka, Daisuke Bekki, Hitomi Yanaka: A propositions-as-types approach to the generalized crossover effect
17:55 – 18:30: Max Bonke, Katharina Schaebbicke: NPIs in Contrast
THIRD SESSION – ROOM B
17:20 – 17:55: Marianne Huijsmans, Daniel Reisinger: The Maximality Puzzle: Evidence from ʔayʔaǰuθəm
17:55 – 18:30: Varvara Tiutiunnikova, Stiopa Mikhailov, Fedor Golosov: No iota type-shift in Kazym Khanty
THIRD SESSION – ROOM C
17:20 – 17:55: Ankana Saha: Demonstratives and alternatives
17:55 – 18:30: Jia Ren: An experimental study of definite and coordination
Posters - Tuesday 17
Mixed polarity pluralities: a solution to van Benthem’s puzzle
Patrick D. Elliott
Calling something “something” – A unified account of mixed and name-informing quotation
Holden Härtl
Non-intersective modification requires deverbal derivation: evidence from Japanese
Ryan Walter Smith, Ryoichiro Kobayashi
Number marking in interrogative phrases: Evidence from Farsi
Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Esmail Moghiseh
Referential Expressions in a Communicative Setting
Mora Maldonado, Laia Mayol
Intonation as Information Structure Feature: Case Study from Yo in Japanese
Daiki Matsumoto
The syntax of expressive demonstratives in Jordanian Arabic
Marwan Jarraha, Sukayan Ali
Clause-internal causal inferences: Evidence from nouns
Kelsey Sasaki, Daniel Altshuler, Hannah Rohde
What does High Negation do? Nothing, Negation, or Denegation?
Shohei Nagata, Masatoshi Honda
Cross-world reference
Squid Tamar-Mattis
Speech act assignment in Japanese negative imperatives and their historical change: when Dynamic Pragmatics meets Optimality Theory
Akitaka Yamada
Disruptive French questions. A case of strengthening non-canonical questions
Richard Faure, Wiebke Matuschat-Petersen
Disjointness and obligatory binding: Prominence and pronominal typology
Rebecca Jarvis
Accommodating the Question Under Discussion
Swantje Tönnis, Judith Tonhauser
Anankastic Conditionals as Harmonizing Modals
Jingyi Chen, Valentine Hacquard
Temporality and causality in asymmetric conjunction
Zeming Xu, Markus Steinbach
Ways of being similar
Jon Ander Mendia
Question-oriented even and the inquisitiveness parameter
Takanobu Nakamura, Kenta Mizutani
A Local Solution to the Samaritan Paradox
Jonathan Caleb Kendrick
Aspectual shift in Romance: an experimental investigation
Aurore Gonzalez, Anamaria Fălăuş, Gennaro Chierchia
Mapping to a scale: Mandarin even-like dou with hyperbolic comparatives
Zhuang Chen, Yael Greenberg
Embedding definites instead of questions: The case of Spanish and French
Carla Bombi, Jeanne Lecavelier
Emotional Agreement: Interplay of Negativity and Referent Valence in the Interpretation and Use of Expressive Adjectives
Kalle Glauch
Decoupling amounts from their instantiations
Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Bernhard Schwarz
Property Reference and a Decompositional Analysis of Stative Verbs
Friederike Moltmann
Degrees are Accessed Indirectly? A New Look at Chinese Adjectival bi-Comparatives
Yaqing Hu
Expressive inferences & mighty obstacles
Andrés Soria Ruiz
Posters - Wednesday 18
Non-specific and Dependent Indefinites: When -nibud’ meets po
Marco Degano
Correlated scales with incremental ‘more’: Support from a comparison with ‘other’
Yael Greenberg
Viewpoint matters: Prototypical vs. non-prototypical co-speech gestures in the VP domain
Sebastian Walter, Cornelia Ebert, Stefan Hinterwimmer
Ways of knowing in Hungarian
Marta Abrusan
Take my advice: the particle bara in Marathi (Indo-Aryan)
Ashwini Deo
Unified semantics for variable incremental ešče in Russian
Elena Miashkur
Clefts can address wh-questions in referential anchoring contexts
Jun Chen, Dawei Jin
Defeasible Telicity in a Subset of English Incremental Theme Predicates
Fred Whibley
Just cumulative predicates get a minimal sufficiency reading
Lucas Fagen, Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal
How to reconcile maximal and non-maximal Mandarin mei: A cover-based approach
Zeqi Zhao
The case for the strong and conditional analysis of permission
Haoming Li
A crosslinguistic analysis of indefinites marked for specificity
Walid Hafsi
Expressive contexts and descriptive subjects of Spanish imperatives
Seungho Nam, Aarón Sánchez
Until-XPs and their ‘probability’ inference
Maria del Mar Bassa Vanrell
RESPonsible Attitudes: the case of Italian considerare
Achille Fusco
Redundancy under Discussion
Adèle Hénot-Mortier
Argumentless presupposition and verbal semantics in Kanien’kéha
Willie Myers
Unbinding equatives
Karolin Kaiser
Aggregate nouns in German and Russian: mass and count?
Ljudmila Geist
Splitting ‘half’-words meanings in Italian and English
Michelangelo Falco, Roberto Zamparelli
Relative Readings of Japanese ichiban Superlatives
Jun Tamura
Be brief or precise: Reviving the Manner approach to acceptable Hurford disjunctions
Nina Haslinger
On “very”-intensified superlatives
Johanna Alstott
Simultaneous readings of past-under-past in Russian
Ekaterina Vostrikova
From conservativity to the zero interface
Sašo Živanović and Peter Ludlow
On the unity of wh and focus alternatives
Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine
fEMG as a window into conversational commitments
Harriet Yates, Corien Bary, Peter de Swart, Bob van Tiel
Social meaning and pragmatic reasoning: A case study on (im)precision
Andy Lücking, Jonathan Ginzburg
Modified pro-speech gestures as iconic mixed items
Lennart Fritzsche
Posters - Thursday 19
A return to a functional dependency approach to correlatives
Natasha Thalluri
NPI licensing in attitude reports with content-bearing nominals
Kalle Müller
Question word distributivity
Mary Moroney
PPI Disjunction and Epistemic Lists
Giulio Ciferri Muramatsu, Pravaal Yadav
Quantificational Determiners vs. Partitive Nouns in Mandarin Chinese
Jia Ren, Satoru Ozaki, Qiuhao Charles Yan
(Non)factivity and causal inference in evaluative adjective constructions
Prerna Nadathur
Mass nouns, plurals, and mass plurals: on the Russian suffix -ĭj-
Ora Matushansky
Believing p, discovering ¬p: meğer and epistemic shifts
Furkan Dikmen
Main clause phenomena and discourse moves: Mandarin incompleteness
Yenan Sun
Spanish Neg-raising: Mood effects on NPI licensing
Raquel Montero, Leah Doroski, Maribel Romero
Hurford Disjunctions: Beyond redundancy and triviality
Alexandros Kalomoiros, Paul Marty, Matthew Mandelkern, Jacopo Romoli, Florian Schwarz
Semantic triviality leads to ungrammaticality through iterated learning
Ciyang Qing, Wataru Uegaki
Distinctiveness vs. prototypicality in predicate meanings: the case from Italian -issimo, in contrast to English contrastive reduplication
Mathieu Paillé
Conditional Perfection: A Speech Act-Centered Approach
Sarah Boukendour
Assigning cause and effect in asymmetric association statements
Daniel Lassiter, Michael Franke
Conditional Questions as Matrix Questions
Tue Trinh, Itai Bassi
Exploring the Semblance and Discrepancies between Simplex and Complex Numerals in Mandarin-Chinese
Lu Jin, Shiyang Fu
The information status of co-speech gestures: evidence from lying and commitment
Yuqiu Chen, Mailin Antomo
It’s not just Imprecision: Stereotypes guide Vagueness Resolution in Implicit Comparisons
Andrea Beltrama, Joyce He
“Too” builds arguments, too: A probabilistic, question-based approach to additivity
William Thomas
Embedded questions as definite descriptions: An insight from Japanese
Haoze Li, Jun Tamura
Pragmatic reasoning in context: Anticipating negation for gradable adjectives
Yvonne Portele, Chiara Boila, Angela Grimm, Jacopo Torregrossa, Merle Weicker, Barbara Kaup
Selectional restrictions of clause-taking emotive predicates across lexical categories
Luke Adamson, Kajsa Djarv
On the semantics and pragmatics of ‘free’ ablative NPs in Finnish: Non-selected arguments beyond experiencers and agents
Elsi Kaiser
Covert modality in future-oriented finite clauses
Jessica Mendes
On the distinction between amounts and degrees
Jon Ander Mendia, Stephanie Solt
Grammaticality as Contingency
Antonio Negro, Salvatore Pistoia-Reda
Covert generic causatives in Korean as dispositional ascriptions
Se Yeon Park
Trading beliefs: A new view on importation
Andrea Matticchio, Maik Thalmann
PROGRAM
Workshops
Monday 16 Sept
(Ortigia, Siracusa)
Evidentials in non-canonical speech acts
REGISTRATION AND WELCOME
09:00 – 09:45
PLENARY TALK
09:45 – 10:45: Regine Eckardt: TBA
TALK SESSION 1
10:45 – 11:15: Ana Laura Arrieta Zamudio & Ryan Bochnak: Conjectural questions in Ktunaxa as canonical questions
POSTER SESSION AND COFFEE BREAK
11:15 – 12:15
12:15 – 12:45: Michela Ippolito, Crystal Chen: `Gosh, how X is that?!’ The case of Exclamative-Interrogatives
LUNCH BREAK
12:45 – 14:30
TALK SESSION 2
14:30 – 15:00: Karl Mulligan, Kyle Rawlins: Says who? An evidential challenge for English
15:00 – 15:30: Danfeng Wu: Corrective markers ‘bing’ and ‘you’ in Mandarin Chinese
COFFEE BREAK
15:30 – 15:50
TALK SESSION 3
15:50 – 16:20: Elsi Kaiser: On the discourse contributions of reportative evidentials in questions:
A look at Finnish
16:20 – 16:50: Kathryn Barnes & Sebastian Walter: Ideophones and reported speech: Depicting actions, events and speech
Friday 20 Sept
(Noto, CUMO)
Does semantics have a too many tools problem?
INTRODUCTION
09:45 – 10:00
TALK SESSION 1
10:30 – 11:00: Ido Benbaji-Elhadad: Worlds, times and the fate of ontological symmetry
BREAK: 11:00 – 11:30
TALK SESSION 2
LUNCH BREAK: 12:30 – 14:00
TALK SESSION 3
BREAK: 15:00 – 15:30
TALK SESSION 4
BREAK: 16:30 – 17:00
ROUND TABLE AND DISCUSSION
17:00 – 18:00: Gennaro Chierchia, Paul Pietroski, Viola Schmidt, and all: roundtable discussion
Evidentials Workshop Posters
Conchucos Quechua =mi in non-canonical speech acts
Raúl Bendezú-Araujo, Anna Kocher
Epistemic adverbs in questions: A view from Russian
Pavel Astafiev
Epistemics and Evidentials in Assertions, Polar Questions and Declarative Questions in German
Manfred Krifka
Evidential as Positive Polarity Item
Keyu Dong, Bert Remijsen
(In)direct evidential futures in Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian
Anastasia Tsilia
Unifying the French evidential construction on di(rai)t que
Adèle Hénot-Mortier