Program

(abstracts below)

Friday, March 4

Chair: Berit Gehrke

17:00-17:45    Galit Sassoon: Dimensions and Compositionality

17:50-18:20    Zoltan Zato: Gradability, Adjectives, and Nominalizations: The Case of Spanish

18:25-18:55    Maja Gwóźdź: Compositionality and possible world semantics in the analysis of deontic proverbs

                                                            19:00-20:00    Dinner

Chair: Peter Sutton

20:00-20:30    Luchezar Jackov: Extending Princeton WordNet with compositional semantics

20:35-21:05    Katherine Fraser: Sitting and Waiting – idle meaning of an English posture verb

 21:10-...          Poster session with drinks and snacks 

              (Note: Drinks and snacks should be purchased during dinner the latest, since the bar closes right after dinner)

Posters

• Suzanne Dekker & Anja Goldschmidt: Hitting playfully and kissing angrily: A self-paced reading study on force inferences

• Paweł Grabarczyk & Tadeusz Ciecierski: Directival theory of meaning revisited

• Wiebke Petersen & Henk Zeevat: Decomposing thematic roles 

• Adam Przepiórkowski, Jakub Kozakoszczak, Jan Winkowski, Daniel Ziembicki & Tadeusz Teleżyński: Lexical and Compositional Semantics in Textual Entailment Rules 

• Fahime Same: Does typicality conform to the principle of compositionality? A conceptual-compositional perspective

Saturday, March 5

Chair: Anja Goldschmidt

08:30-09:15    Louise McNally: A Quest

09:15-09:45    Justyna Grudzinska & Marek Zawadowski: 

                        Dependent Type Semantics for Natural Language Quantifiers

09:45-10:15    Marcin Wągiel: The semantics of pair and the interpretation of the plural

                                                            10:15-17:00    Sporting break

Chair: Peter Sutton

17:00-17:45    Lotte Hogeweg: Strength, Concept Composition, and the Lexicon

17:50-18:20    Julia Lukassek & Alexandra Spalek: Underspecification and Coercion: 

                         Where conceptual knowledge meets compositional semantics

18:25-18:55    Atanaska Atanasova & Ekaterina Gabrovska: Quickly starting: 

                         An investigation of the adverbial burzo and za-prefixed verbs in Bulgarian

19:00-19:30    Wilhelm Geuder: On the roots of adverb classes

19:30-late    Conference dinner & Lotze Prize ceremony

Sunday, March 6

Chair: Katja Gabrovska

08:30-09:00    Anja Goldschmidt & Joost Zwarts: Hitting the nail on the head: Forces in verb meanings

09:00-09:30    Ryan Bochnak: Are morphologically tenseless clauses only superficially tenseless? 

                         The view from Washo

09:30-10:00    Heather Burnett: Signalling Games, Sociolinguistic Variation and the Construction of Style

                                                            10:00-17:00    Sporting break

Chair: Alexandra Spalek

17:00-17:45    Joost Zwarts: Taboo words, hot concepts and expressive clusters

17:50-18:20    Katja Jasinskaja: Not at issue anymore

18:25-18:55    Matthias Irmer & Olav Mueller-Reichau: Puzzling exceptions in German adjectival passives

                                                            19:00-20:00    Dinner

Chair: Peter Sutton

20:00-20:30    Maria Spychalska, Viviana Haase, Jarmo Kontinen & Markus Werning: 

                         Processing affirmation and negation in contexts with unique or multiple alternatives

20:35-21:05    Reinhard Blutner & Anton Benz: Distributional Semantics Meets Quantum Cognition: 

                         The Case of Adjectival Modification

Monday, March 7

Chair: Berit Gehrke

08:30-09:00    Carla Umbach & Stephanie Solt: English rather vs. German eher: A Study in Semantic Micro-variation

09:05-09:35    Henk Zeevat: Update semantics with causal inequalities

09:40-10:10    Kata Balogh & Rainer Osswald: A frame-based account of the syntax-semantics interface of 

                         verbal particles in Hungarian

                                                            10:30    Departure