program

day 1 | day 2 | day 3
preliminary program in pdf format

Wednesday, September 08, 2010

19:00 –

Day 1 (Thursday, September 09, 2010)

                        09:30                  
words of welcome     
                      
09:45 
 – 11:00                    
Friederike Moltmann
                    (CNRS, Université Paris 1)
      		 Existence Predicates     
                      11:00 
 – 11:15                    break          
                      
                    
Session 1                    
Session 2                    
Session 3          
                      
11:15 
 – 12:00                    
Ljudmila Geist
          (University of Stuttgart)      
      		Indefinite NPs without indefinite articles               
L.M. Tovena
                 (Université Paris VII)
        	Accomplishments: their telos and their structure
                     
Dongsik Lim
          (University of Southern California)        
        		Evidentials in interrogatives: a case study of Korean          
                      
12:00 
 – 12:45                    
Ana Müller
          (University of São Paulo)        
        		On the encoding of the definite/indefinite distinction       on Karitiana NPs               
Berit Gehrke
                     (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
       		Stative passives and event kinds               
Tue Trinh / Luka Crnic
                    (MIT)      
      	On the Rise and Fall of Declaratives     
                      12:45 
 – 14:00                    lunch break          
               
                    
Session 1                    
Session 2                    
Session 3          
                     
14:00 
 – 14:45                    
Stephen Crain / Qiong-peng Luo
                    (Macquarie Center for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University)        
        		Identity and definiteness in Chinese       wh-conditionals               
Patrick Grosz
                    (MIT)        
        	Facts and ideals:       on the relationship between conditionals and optatives               
Olga Kagan / Sascha Alexejenko
                    (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev / University of Osnabrück)        
        	The adjectival suffix -ovat as a degree modifier       in Russian     
                      
14:45 
 – 15:30                   
 Edgar Onea / Dolgor Guntsetseg
                    (University of Stuttgart)      
      	Wh-questions in Mongolian and specificity               
Maria Biezma
                    (UMass Amherst)        
        	Optatives:       conditionals with reversed topicality               
Mojmir Docekal / Ivona Kucerova
                     (Masaryk University / McMaster University)      
      	On the scalar representation of total and partial adjectives: Evidence from Reduplication     
                      15:30 
 – 16:00                    break          
                
                    
Session 1                    
Session 2                    
Session 3          
                    
16:00 
 – 16:45                    
Isabelle Charnavel
                    (UCLA / Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)      
      	On French un même and antispecificity               
Sophie Repp
                    (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)      
      	Relevance topics               
Udo Klein / Marcus Kracht
          (University of Bielefeld)      
      	Referent systems     
                16:45 
 – 16:50                    small break          
              
16:50 
 – 18:05                    
Klaus von Heusinger
          (University of Stuttgart)      
      	Specificity, Referentiality and Discourse Prominence
    
               19:30                  
reception at the town hall

day 1 | day 2 | day 3

09:30	words of welcome
09:45 – 11:00	Friederike Moltmann (CNRS, Université Paris 1) Existence Predicates
11:00 – 11:15	break
	Session 1	Session 2	Session 3
11:15 – 12:00	Ljudmila Geist (University of Stuttgart) Indefinite NPs without indefinite articles	L.M. Tovena (Université Paris VII) Accomplishments: their telos and their structure	Dongsik Lim (University of Southern California) Evidentials in interrogatives: a case study of Korean
12:00 – 12:45	Ana Müller (University of São Paulo) On the encoding of the definite/indefinite distinction on Karitiana NPs	Berit Gehrke (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Stative passives and event kinds	Tue Trinh / Luka Crnic (MIT) On the Rise and Fall of Declaratives
12:45 – 14:00	lunch break
	Session 1	Session 2	Session 3
14:00 – 14:45	Stephen Crain / Qiong-peng Luo (Macquarie Center for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University) Identity and definiteness in Chinese wh-conditionals	Patrick Grosz (MIT) Facts and ideals: on the relationship between conditionals and optatives	Olga Kagan / Sascha Alexejenko (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev / University of Osnabrück) The adjectival suffix -ovat as a degree modifier in Russian
14:45 – 15:30	Edgar Onea / Dolgor Guntsetseg (University of Stuttgart) Wh-questions in Mongolian and specificity	Maria Biezma (UMass Amherst) Optatives: conditionals with reversed topicality	Mojmir Docekal / Ivona Kucerova (Masaryk University / McMaster University) On the scalar representation of total and partial adjectives: Evidence from Reduplication
15:30 – 16:00	break
	Session 1	Session 2	Session 3
16:00 – 16:45	Isabelle Charnavel (UCLA / Institut Jean Nicod, Paris) On French un même and antispecificity	Sophie Repp (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Relevance topics	Udo Klein / Marcus Kracht (University of Bielefeld) Referent systems
16:45 – 16:50	small break
16:50 – 18:05	Klaus von Heusinger (University of Stuttgart) Specificity, Referentiality and Discourse Prominence
19:30	reception at the town hall