Theoretical Linguistics at Keio

(TaLK)

Semantics Conference


March 2-4, 2022

Links to YouTube recordings of talks


Program

Program

March 2nd

Morning session

10:00-11:30 Lucas Champollion Negative events and truthmaker semantics

11:30-12:30 Patrick Munoz Maori personal marking and type-e nouns

Lunch


Afternoon session

3:00-4:00 Yuta Tatsumi Negative polarity and the silent MUCH in degree constructions (in person+online)

4:00-5:00 Noritsugu Hayashi Generating and licensing the universality of the Japanese NPI dare-mo (in person +online)

Break

5:15-6:45 Wataru Uegaki Cross-linguistic patterns in the selectional restrictions of preferential predicates

6:45-9:00 Dinner party (all in-person participants are invited. Cost: Free)


March 3rd

Morning session

10:00-11:00 Muyi Yang Referentiality and plurality in conditionals

11:00-12:00 Xuetong Yuan and Yusuke Yagi Stronger additivity: Toward a unification of additivity and concessivity

Lunch


Afternoon session

3:00-4:00 Daniar Kasenov Imperatives as counterfactual antecedents in Russian: a stripped approach

4:00-5:00 Jan Wislicki, Marcin Wagiel Deriving a terminal-internal recursion in numerical expressions

Break

5:15-6:45 Yurie Hara A diachronic semantic shift from causal to conditional:

a cross-linguistic and game-theoretic approach

March 4th

Morning session

10:00-11:30 Yimei Xiang Relativized Exhaustivity: Mention-Some and Uniqueness

11:30-12:30 Yenan Sun Maintaining Mandarin hen as a weak intensifier

Lunch


Afternoon session

3:00-4:00 Julie Goncharev Emphatic definite descriptions and detached reference

4:00-5:00 Aviv Schoenfeld Mass definite generics

Break

5:15-6:45 Yasutada Sudo Additivity, Accommodation, and Alternatives



Registration


To register, send an email request to talk2022.keio@gmail.com with "TaLK Registration" in the subject. Please indicate whether you plan to attend online, in person, or both.

Please register early.

Registration is free.

Links for the talks on Zoom and an invitation to the discussion on Slack will be sent out only to people who have registered.

Venue


The conference will be held both online and in person. The in-person event will be held in the 1st floor Hall of the North Building on Keio's Mita campus.

There will be a dinner party after the final talk on the first day of the conference (March 2nd), free to all who have registered.

The online event will be held on Zoom, with an accompanying Slack page for exchange of written comments and discussion. Zoom links and invitations to the Slack page will be sent out by Tuesday March 1st to those who have registered.

Talks will be recorded and made available on YouTube to allow for accessibility to a wider audience.

Call for Papers

Call for Papers

Theoretical Linguistics at Keio (TaLK)

Semantics Conference

Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

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We are soliciting abstracts for 45-minute talks (plus 15 minutes for questions) on topics related to formal semantics. Any topic related to formal semantics is acceptable. The conference will be held at Keio University, Mita campus (Tokyo), though online presentations will also be allowed. Abstracts will be reviewed by the organizing committee and the invited speakers.

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Dates: March 2-4, 2022

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Invited Speakers:

Lucas Champollion, NYU

Yurie Hara, Hokkaido University

Yasutada Sudo, UCL

Wataru Uegaki, University of Edinburgh

Yimei Xiang, Rutgers University

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Organizing committee:

Ikumi Imani, Kiyomi Kusumoto, Elin McCready, Kimiko Nakanishi,

David Oshima, Junri Shimada, Joseph Tabolt, Christopher Tancredi

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Abstracts should be a maximum of 2 pages including examples and references.

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Abstracts should be submitted to: talk2022.keio@gmail.com

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Deadline for submission is midnight, November 15th, Japan time.

Authors will be notified of acceptance by January 15th.

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The conference web page can be found at:

https://sites.google.com/view/talk2022/