Schedule

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 6TH – ZAS Berlin
9:30- 17:30	Satelite event “Microvariation in Semantics“
18:00-20:00	Warming up

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 7TH – U Potsdam/Griebnitzsee
8:30-9:15	Registration opens
9:15-9:30	Welcome
9:30-10:45	Invited Talk – Philippe Schlenker: Why Gesture Semantics? Slides
10:45-11:10	Poster lightning talks (6-7)
11:10-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-12:15	Sascha Alexeyenko Quantification in event semantics: Generalized quantifiers vs. sub-events	Luisa Martí Inclusive plurals and the theory of number	Jérémy Zehr and Florian Schwarz Returning to non-entailed presuppositions again
12:20-13:05	Sebastian Buecking Painting cows from a type-logical perspective	Yağmur Sağ The Semantics of numeral constructions in Turkish	Woojin Chung Context updates in head-final languages: Linear order or hierarchy?
13:05-14:15	Lunch
14:15-15:00	Curt Anderson and Sebastian Löbner Roles and the lexical semantics of role-denoting relational adjectives	Saskia Brockmann, Sara McConnell, Valentine Haquard and Jeffrey Lidz Children’s comprehension of pronouns and definites. Are children sensitive to contextual requirements?	Tom Roberts The selectional restrictions of responsive predicates in Estonian
15:05-15:50	Sarah Zobel Capturing the interpretational possibilities of weak free adjuncts	Mojmír Dočekal and Jakub Dotlačil Strong NPIs vs. n-words: acceptability experiment in Czech	Bernhard Schwarz and Alexandra Simonenko Decomposing universal projection in questions
15:50-16:30	Coffee break and poster preview
16:30-17:15	Poster lightning talks (9-10)
17:15-18:30	Invited talk – Amy Rose Deal: Shifty asymmetries: universals and variation in shifty indexicality Slides

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 8TH – U Potsdam/Griebnitzsee
9:30-10:45	Invited talk – Danny Fox: Exhaustivity and the Presupposition of Questions
10:45-11:10	Poster lightning talks (6-7)
11:10-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-12:15	M. Ryan Bochnak and Martina Martinović Event-relative modality: The case of Wolof imperfective di	Pranav Anand and Natasha Korotkova Acquaintance content and obviation	Pritty Patel-Grosz, Patrick Georg Grosz, Tejaswinee Kelkar and Alexander Refsum Jensenius Coreference and disjoint reference in the semantics of narrative dance
12:20-13:05	Sihwei Chen A split temporal system in Atayal	Petr Kusliy and Ekaterina Vostrikova Hard cases of third readings in terms of the standard solution	Masha Esipova Focus on what’s not at issue: Gestures, presuppositions, supplements under contrastive focus
13:05-14:15	Lunch
14:15-16:00	Poster session (with coffee at the end)
16:00-16:45	Carina Kauf An analysis of counteridenticals in terms of dream reports	Jon Ander Mendia Some kind of relative clause	Chao Sun and Richard Breheny Shared mechanism underlying non-embedded and embedded enrichments: Evidence from enrichment priming
16:50-17:35	Michael Deigan Counterfactual donkeys don’t get high	Radek Šimík Ever free relatives as dependent definites: A cross-linguistic perspective	Agata Renans, Jacopo Romoli, Maria-Margarita Makri, Lyn Tieu, Hanna de Vries, Raffaella Folli and George Tsoulas Abundance inferences are scalar implicatures: Evidence from child and adult Greek
17:40-18:25	Katrin Schulz The similarity approach fights back	Claudia Poschmann Embedding non-restrictive relative clauses	Anton Benz, Carla Bombi Ferrer and Nicole Gotzner Scalar diversity and negative strengthening Slides
19:00-23:00	Dinner on boat

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 9TH – U Potsdam/Griebnitzsee
10:00-10:45	Business meeting
10:45-11:10	Coffee break
11:10-11:55	Fabienne Martin Necessary and sufficient conditions in lexical causative verbs	Itai Bassi and Ezer Rasin Intensional-functional relative clauses with syntactic reconstruction	Hiroaki Saito and Adrian Stegovec The pa/wa of imperative alternatives
12:00-12:45	Ralf Naumann, Wiebke Petersen and Thomas Gamerschlag Underspecified changes: A dynamic, probabilistic frame theory for verbs	Ethan Poole Constraining (shifting) types at the interface	Ryan Walter Smith and Ryoichiro Kobayashi Alternating conj/disjunctions: The case of Japanese –toka and –tari
12:50-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:45	Pranav Anand and Maziar Toosarvandani No explanation for the historical present: Temporal sequencing and discourse	Yosef Grodzinsky, Galit Agmon, Kedem Snir, Isabelle Deschamps and Yonatan Loewenstein The analysis of less-comparatives: Evidence from the processing cost of downward entailingness	Diti Bhadra, Haoze Li and Jess H.-K. Law Questioning speech acts
14:50-15:35	Peter Klecha A formal pragmatic account of double access	Qiongpeng Luo and Zhiguo Xie Degrees as nominalized properties: Evidence from differential verbal comparatives in Mandarin	Andrea Beltrama, Erlinde Meertens and Maribel Romero Decomposing cornering effects: An Experimental Study
15:35-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-17:15	Invited talk – Louise McNally: Distributional semantics and linguistic research
17:15-17:30	Farewell

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 10TH – ZAS Berlin

Special Session “Semantics and Natural Logic”