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SALT 15
Program

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The Conference will take place in Royce 314.
The book exhibit will be in the nearby Royce 306.
Friday, March 25:
9:15 - 9:30 Opening Remarks
9:30 - 10:30 Invited Speaker: Yael Sharvit (UConn)
T.B.A.
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 - 11:30 Ricardo Etxepare (IKER,CNRS)
Indeterminate pronouns and universal quantification in Basque
11:30 - 12:10 Igor Yanovich (Moscow State University)
Choice-functional series of indefinite pronouns and Hamblin semantics
12:10 - 2:10 Lunch break
2:10 - 2:50 Shoichi Takahashi (MIT) and Danny Fox (MIT)
MaxElide and Re-binding Problem: Potential Evidence for a Derivational Theory of Deletion
2:50 - 3:30 Ben Russell (Brown)
Functional Parasitic Gaps
3:30 - 3:50 Coffee break
3:50 - 4:30 Valentine Hacquard (MIT)
Aspects of 'too' and 'enough' constructions
4:30 - 5:10 Alan Clinton Bale (McGill)
Quantifier Raising, the Semantics of 'Again' and the Complexity of Verb Phrases
5:30 - 6:00 Business meeting
Saturday, March 26:
9:00 - 9:40 Jean Mark Gawron (SDSU)
Generalized Paths
9:40 - 10:20 Marcin Morzycki (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Size Adjectives and Ad-nominal Degree Modification
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee break
10:40 - 11:20 Carla Umbach (University of Osnabrück)
Why do modified numerals resist specific interpretation?
11:20 - 12:00 Mandy Simons (Carnegie Mellon)
Semantics and Pragmatics in the Interpretation of 'or'
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch break
2:00 - 2:40 Gina Taranto (H5 Technologies)
How Discourse Adjectives Synchronize the Speaker and the Listener's Beliefs
2:40 - 3:20 Josep Quer (ICREA, University of Barcelona)
Context Shift and Indexical Variables in Sign Languages
3:20 - 3:40 Coffee break
3:40 - 4:20 Tom Werner (Carnegie Mellon)
You do what you gotta do, or why 'must' implies 'will'
4:20 - 5:00 Jon Nissenbaum (McGill)
Kissing Pedro Martinez: (Existential) anankastic conditionals and rationale clauses
5:00 - 5:20 Coffee break
5:20 - 6:20 Invited Speaker: Scott Soames (USC)
The Gap Between Meaning and Assertion: Why what we literally say often differs from what we literally mean
7:00 Party
Sunday, March 27:
9:30 - 10:30 Invited Speaker: David Beaver (Stanford)
Bad subject
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 - 11:30 Michael Wagner (MIT)
NPI Licensing and Focus Movement
11:30 - 12:10 Bernhard Schwarz (University of Texis at Austin)
Modal superlatives
12:10 - 12:50 Rajesh Bhatt (UMass) and Yael Sharvit (UConn)
A note on Superlatives in Intentional Contexts
Alternates
Andrew Kehler (UCSD)
Coherence Driven Constraints on the Placement of Accent
Claire Beyssade (CNRS) and Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (CNRS)
A syntax-based analysis of predication


  SALT15 Last updated: Feb 11, 2005