Programme
(abstracts: see pdf below)
Friday, March 3
Chair: Berit Gehrke
17:00-17:45 Katja Jasinskaja: Embedding and subordination in discourse structure
17:50-18:20 Karolina Zuchewicz: On the relationship between perfectivity and factivity in Polish
18:25-18:55 Leda Berio & Annika Schuster: Mentalised prototypes
19:00-20:00 Dinner
Chair: Berit Gehrke
20:00-20:30 Paweł Banaś: What makes a proper name a proper name?
20:35-21:05 Justyna Grudzińska: Inverse linking and long-distance indefinites: Scope-taking with dependent types
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
Anna-Christina Boell & Gergő Turi: The Role of Context for Exhaustivity in German it-Clefts & Hungarian Focus: An experimental study
Olga Borik & Berit Gehrke: The role of presupposition and information structure in Russian imperfective passives
Benjamin Burkhardt: Towards semantic grounding via video data: The case of push and pull
Heather Burnett: Functional Compositionality in Identity Construction
Lisa Bylinina, Sjef Barbiers & Ruby Sleeman: The Typology of Numerals and the Number Line
Flóra Lili Donáti: Exhaustivity in Hungarian Focus
Wiebke Petersen: Developing a web-based search tool for accessing annotated data
Yasu Sudo: Redundant assertions and presupposition satisfaction in situation semantics
Saturday, March 4
Chair: Justyna Grudzińska
08:30-09:00 Kata Balogh: Projectivity and information structure in Hungarian that-clauses
09:00-09:30 Swantje Tönnis & Joseph P. DeVeaugh-Geiss: Experimental investigations on exhaustivity in Hungarian preverbal focus
09:30-10:00 Kata Wohlmuth: On the granularity parameter of distributivity
10:00-17:00 Sporting break
Chair: Peter Sutton
17:00-17:45 Eric McCready: Dogwhistles and the At-issue/Not-at-issue Distinction
17:45-18:15 Katherine Fraser & Cora Pots: Motion verbs in progress: A cross-linguistic study of expressive meaning
18:15-18:45 Katarzyna Kijania-Placek: Generalised polysemy
18:45-19:15 Joanna Odrowąż-Sypniewska: Sub-sentential speech acts: A philosopher's evaluation of the argument from connectivity
19:15-late Conference dinner & Lotze Prize ceremony
Sunday, March 5
Chair: Jakub Kozakoszczak
08:30-09:00 Carla Umbach & Stefan Hinterwimmer: Eventive readings of German wie-complements
09:00-09:30 Eva-Maria Uebel: Event-modifying (counterfactual) comparison clauses in German
09:30-10:00 Maria Jodłowiec & Agnieska Piskorska: The dynamism of context: A relevance-theoretic approach
10:00-17:00 Sporting break
Chair: Henk Zeevat
17:00-17:45 Salvador Mascarenhas: Exploring the line between interpretation and reasoning
17:50-18:20 Kathrin Byrdeck, Kurt Erbach, Hana Filip & Peter Sutton: Object mass nouns in Japanese
18:25-18:55 Lisa Bylinina & Rick Nouwen: The Meaning of 'Zero'
19:00-20:00 Dinner
Chair: Anton Benz
20:00-20:30 Jakub Kozakoszczak: Towards natural data substitutes for intuitive judgements on semantic deviances
20:35-21:05 Jakub Szymanyk & Camilo Thorne: Semantic complexity influences quantifier distribution in corpora
21:10-21:40 Henk Zeevat: Frame Semantics by semantic memory
Monday, March 6
Chair: Kata Balogh
09:00-09:45 Gemma Boleda: Back to our sense
09:45-10:15 Anton Benz & Nicole Gotzner: The best response paradigm: Testing for the corner of efficiency
10:30 Departure
