PROGRAM
Tuesday 17 Sept
00:00 – 00:00: TBA
FIRST SESSION
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Wednesday 18 Sept
00:00 – 00:00: TBA
FIRST SESSION
Chair Person:
00:00 – 00:00: TBA
Thursday 19 Sept
00:00 – 00:00: TBA
FIRST SESSION
Chair Person:
00:00 – 00:00: TBA
PROGRAM
Workshops
Monday 16 Sept
(Ortigia, Siracusa)
Evidentials in non-canonical speech acts
00:00 – 00:00: TBA
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00:00 – 00:00: TBA
Friday 20 Sept
(Noto, CUMO)
Does semantics have a too many tools problem?
00:00 – 00:00: TBA
FIRST SESSION
Chair Person:
00:00 – 00:00: TBA
Talks
NPIs in Contrast
Max Bonke, Katharina Schaebbicke
Growth and Improvement: a quality semantics for result state nominals
Ryan Walter Smith
Lying and commitment with (not-)at-issue emojis
Mailin Antomo, Lea Fricke, Patrick G. Grosz, Tatjana Scheffler
You can leave your dog outside, but do you have to?: an RSA approach
Seoyoung Lee
Mixed polarity pluralities: a solution to van Benthem’s puzzle
Patrick D. Elliott
Constraints on modal flavor colexification
Amira Ramdani, Jeremy Kuhn
Perspective on individuals
Philippe de Groote, Timothée Bernard
Modeling Uncertainty, Unawareness, and Underspecification among Structural Causal Models
Todd Snider, Michael Franke
Why ‘regret’ and ‘realize’ can embed false beliefs
Ziling Zhu
The Maximality Puzzle: Evidence from ʔayʔaǰuθəm
Marianne Huijsmans, Daniel Reisinger
Inference complexity is semantically significant
Valerie Wurm
The German particle denn in a Scoreboard model of discourse
Maribel Romero, Doris Penka
Epistemic temporal interactions and judge dependency in San Pablo Güilá Zapotec
Ana Laura Arrieta Zamudio
Asserting, say, without sincerity.
Eli Sharf
Beyond ‘yes’ and ‘no’: Multimodal multilexical polar responses in German
Cornelia Loos, Sophie Repp
Classifiers and Comparison Class: Evidence for cross-linguistic variation in the calculation of standards
Zhuosi Luo, Alison Biggs
Negotiating discourse referents: Anaphoric uptake in dalogue
Manfred Krifka
Disjunction with additives
Anne Mucha, Wataru Uegaki, Mary Amaechi, Tim Jantarungsee
The Twofold Nature of Degree Nominalizations: Degree Concepts and Qualities
Ryan Bochnak, Adam Gobeski, Marcin Morzycki, Starr Sandoval
Projection without presupposition: A model of clause-embedding predicates
Gregory Scontras, Judith Tonhauser
Homogeneity in non-monotonic contexts
Paul Marty, Omri Amiraz, Patrick Elliott, Guillermo Del Pinal, Jacopo Romoli
Revisiting the role of structural complexity in symmetry breaking
Nina Haslinger, Viola Schmitt
Building Adjunct Questions from Anaphors in Ktunaxa
Starr Sandoval, Yangshuying (Kate) Zhou, Marcin Morzycki
No iota type-shift in Kazym Khanty
Varvara Tiutiunnikova, Stiopa Mikhailov, Fedor Golosov
Change-of-state in Samoan: Multiple sources for Inchoativity
Jens Hopperdietzel
Why “not numeral NP” requires “but” but not “not many NP”
Danfeng Wu
Pseudo-incorporation, Event Kinds, and Atelicity
Yağmur Sağ
Underspecified coordination, focus and contrast in Wá∙šiw
Ryan Bochnak
Another look at contrafactive predicates: The case of Spanish ‘creerse’
Mora Maldonado, Orin Percus
Definite plurals in comparatives
Omri Amiraz, Omri Doron
Sorting out left-nested conditionals
Daniel Lassiter
Robust Implicatures and Presuppositional Innocent Inclusion
Chao Sun, Uli Sauerland
FC with discourse referents: the curious case of ‘any’
Sam Alxatib, Andreea Nicolae
Relevance-sensitive co-variation inferences of dependent indefinites
Takanobu Nakamura
The role of incompatible disjuncts in the acquisition of disjunction: Insights from studies involving actual and missing logical words in child Romanian
Adina Camelia Bleotu, Andreea Cristina Nicolae and many others
Comparison among degrees or individuals?: A view from Japanese ichiban superlatives
Eri Tanaka, Kenta Mizutani
Shifted face emoji in indirect discourse: A mixed-quotational approach
Sebastian Walter, Stefan Hinterwimmer
An experimental study of definite and coordination
Jia Ren
A non-Boolean analysis of conjunction in additive numerals
Marcin Wągiel
A propositions-as-types approach to the generalized crossover effect
Daiki Matsuoka, Daisuke Bekki, Hitomi Yanaka
Diagnosing the presuppositional properties of global and embedded implicatures
Jad Wehbe, Omri Doron
QUD Mediated Redundancy
Yichi Zhang
Temporal interpretation in Directive Speech Acts: A competition between imperative and 2nd-person subjunctive in Greek
Despina Oikonomou, Vina Tsakali, Alexandra Samarentsi, Benedict Vassileiou
Plural Definites and Domain Restriction in Romance and Germanic – A new generalization regarding genericity, kind predication, and maximal reference
Janek Guerrini, Benjamin Spector
Readings of pronouns across connectives are sensitive to monotony
Keny Chatain, Benjamin Spector
Measuring change with precise proportions
Giorgos Spathas
Only to forget it in the fridge – A compositional account of German prospective clauses
David Müller
X-marking and the Italian reportative conditional
Paula Menendez-Benito, Ilaria Frana
Demonstratives and alternatives
Ankana Saha
Pseudo-scoping out of relative clauses: a dependent definite approach
Jonathan Palucci
Discontinuous past: a semantic account
Petr Kusliy, Ekaterina Vostrikova
Higher-order plurality: To what degree?
Brian Buccola
Constraining alternatives
Aron Hirsch, Bernhard Schwarz
On the scope of together
Jad Wehbe
Alternate Talks (Posters)
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
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
A unified account of bare plural generics based on cognitively salient evidence
Flavia Naehrlich
Covert modality in future-oriented finite clauses
Jessica Mendes
Simultaneous readings of past-under-past in Russian
Ekaterina Vostrikova
On the distinction between amounts and degrees
Jon Ander Mendia, Stephanie Solt
Deriving (anti)-uniqueness: Demonstratives in Ga (Kwa)
Agata Renans, Sampson Korsah, Akua Campbell
Posters (in progress..)
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
fEMG as a window into conversational commitments
Harriet Yates, Corien Bary, Peter de Swart, Bob van Tiel
Intonation as Information Structure Feature: Case Study from Yo in Japanese
Daiki Matsumoto
Exploring the Semblance and Discrepancies between Simplex and Complex Numerals in Mandarin-Chinese
Lu Jin, Shiyang Fu
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
Ja or Jaaaaa? Scale Interpretation in Iconically Lengthened Response Particles
Lennart Fritzsche, Nadine Bade, Cornelia Ebert, Cécile Meier
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
Non-specific and Dependent Indefinites: When -nibud’ meets po
Marco Degano
Rethinking Singulative Structures
Victoria Noble
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
Degrees are Accessed Indirectly? A New Look at Chinese Adjectival bi-Comparatives
Yaqing Hu
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
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
Modified pro-speech gestures as iconic mixed items
Lennart Fritzsche
The licensing-conditions on embedded main clauses are a direct consequence of their discourse effects
Kajsa Djärv, Donka Farkas
Hurford Disjunctions: Beyond redundancy and triviality
Alexandros Kalomoiros, Paul Marty, Matthew Mandelkern, Jacopo Romoli, Florian Schwarz
The licensing-conditions on embedded main clauses are a direct consequence of their discourse effects
Kajsa Djärv, Donka Farkas
Semantic triviality leads to ungrammaticality through iterated learning
Ciyang Qing, Wataru Uegaki
Selectional restrictions of clause-taking emotive predicates across lexical categories
Luke Adamson, Kajsa Djarv
Assigning cause and effect in asymmetric association statements
Daniel Lassiter, Michael Franke
The information status of co-speech gestures: evidence from lying and commitment
Yuqiu Chen, Mailin Antomo
TMT Workshop Talks
Neglect-Zero effects in the interpretation of quantifiers and disjunction
Oliver Bott, Fabian Schlotterbeck, Tomasz Klochowicz, Sonia Ramotowska, Maria Aloni
Worlds, times and the fate of ontological symmetry
Ido Benbaji-Elhadad
“One tool to rule them all”? An integrated model of the QuD for Hurford sentences
Adèle Hénot-Mortier
Discourse dynamics as a cure to the problem of too many uniqueness conditions
Haoze Li and Jess H. K. Law
Indefinites as Indexed Definites
Amir Anvari
Restricting determiners: conservativity and negative counterparts
Patrick D. Elliott
Presuppositional Exhaustification vs. supervaluationist RSA
Benjamin Spector
TMT alternate Talks (Poster main session)
From conservativity to the zero interface
Sašo Živanović and Peter Ludlow
On the unity of wh and focus alternatives
Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine
Evidentials Workshop Talks
Conjectural questions in Ktunaxa as canonical questions
Ana Laura Arrieta Zamudio, Ryan Bochnak
‘Gosh, how X is that?!’ The case of Exclamative-Interrogatives
Michela Ippolito, Crystal Chen
Says who? An evidential challenge for English
Karl Mulligan, Kyle Rawlins
Corrective markers ‘bing’ and ‘you’ in Mandarin Chinese
Danfeng Wu
On the discourse contributions of reportative evidentials in questions: A look at Finnish
Elsi Kaiser
Ideophones and reported speech: Depicting actions, events and speech
Kathryn Barnes & Sebastian Walter
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
Mirativity/evidentiality as at-issue variability: Korean direct evidential -ney
Dongsik Lim, Semoon Hoe, Yugyeong Park
Unifying the French evidential construction on di(rai)t que
Adèle Hénot-Mortier