Construction of Meaning/Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop

Stanford Semantics


The Construction of Meaning Workshop is pleased to sponsor:

10th SEMANTICS FEST

Friday, March 13, 2009
and Saturday, March 14, 2009
Cordura 100

The Construction of Meaning Workshop is supported by the Stanford Humanities Center as part of its
Theodore and Frances Geballe Research Workshop Program

SCHEDULE AND ABSTRACTS


Friday, March 13, 2009
10:45-11:00    Coffee and welcome

Session 1    Chair: Stefan Kaufmann

11:00-11:30
Ashwini Deo (Yale University)
Tense Auxiliaries and the Imperfective/Progressive Contrast

11:30-12:00
Sven Lauer (Stanford University)
Everything starts to look like a nail: Free choice effects are not an argument for grammaticalized implicatures

12:00-12:30
Judith Tonhauser (Ohio State)
Interpreting the Unmarked

12:30-1:30     Lunch

Session 2    Chair: Elisabeth Norcliffe

1:30-2:00
Philip Hofmeister (UCSD)
Semantic Processing and Memory Retrieval in Language Comprehension

2:00-2:30
Stanley Peters (Stanford University)
Possessives and Their Look-Alikes

2:30-3:00
Itamar Francez and Andrew Koontz-Garboden (University of Chicago and University of Manchester)
Ulwa Possessed Property Concepts

3:00-3:15    Break

Session 3    Chair: Nola Stephens

3:15-3:45
Jessica Spencer (Stanford University)
Accounting for Copulas in Creole Languages: A Game-theoretic Analysis

3:45-4:15
Rob Munro (Stanford University)
Reported Speech and Perspective Rigidity in Matses

4:15:4:30    Break

Session 4    Chair: Laura Whitton

4:30-5:00
Lucas Champollion and Uli Sauerland (PARC/University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University/ZAS)
Definiteness, Inverse Linking, and Narrowing

5:00-5:30
Iván García-Álvarez (University of Salford)
Adjectival Associates of Exception Phrases

5:30-6:15    Social

6:15-7:15    Dinner

Session 5    Chair: Judith Tonhauser

7:15-8:15
David Beaver and Cleo Condoravdi (University of Texas at Austin and PARC/Stanford University)
Beyond the Logical Form of Action Sentences

8:15    Cake and Celebration

Saturday, March 14, 2009
9:15-9:30    Coffee

Session 6    Chair: David McKercher

9:30-10:00
Nola Stephens (Stanford University)
The Locative Alternation in Child and Adult Speech

10:00-10:30
Andrew Koontz-Garboden and John Beavers (University of Manchester and University of Texas at Austin)
Questioning the Manner/Result Complementarity

10:30-11:00
Jean-Philippe Marcotte (University of Minnesota)
Syntax and Thought: Going all the way

11:00-11:15     Break

Session 7    Chair: Sven Lauer

11:15-11:45
Elizabeth Coppock (Cycorp)
The Predicativity Principle

11:45-12:15
Tine Breban (Flanders K.U.Leuven, University of Leuven/Stanford University)
Secondary Determiners as Lexical Markers Triggering a Generalized Interpretation of English NPs

12:15-1:30     Lunch


Session 8    Chair: Sven Lauer

1:30-2:00
Patricia Amaral and Fabio Del Prete (Stanford University and University of Milan/Stanford University)
Almost Before We Start

2:00-2:30
Cleo Condoravdi and Stefan Kaufmann (PARC/Stanford University and Northwestern University)
Holding on and Letting Go: Facts, Counterfactuals, and Before

2:30-2:45    Break

Session 9    Chair: Brady Clark

2:45-3:15
Arnold Zwicky (Stanford University/OSU)
V+P~∅

3:15-3:45
Cathryn Donohue (University of Nevada, Reno)
Semantic Factors Governing Case Alternations in Basque

3:45-4:00    Break

Session 10    Chair: Brady Clark

4:00-4:30
Shiao Wei Tham (Wellesley College)
Building Resultatives in Mandarin

4:30-5:00
Paul Kiparsky (Stanford University)
Comitative Case, Associative Stem, and Dual Number

5:00    The End





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