Date:
December 8th 2009
Place:
GFS 330
Guest Speaker:
Prof. James Higginbotham
9:00 -9:30
Breakfast
9:30-10:30
Linguistics I
Chair: Heui-Joo Jeoung
9:30-10:00
Ann Hao
Linguistic analysis of conspiracy theories in Iran
10:00-10:30
Hyuna B. Kim
A pragmatic resolution of a semantic conflict
10:30 -10:45
Break
10:45 -11:45
Invited Talk
"Imagination and the Self"
11:45 -12:00
Break
12:00-1:00
Linguistics II
Chair: Sergio Robles-Puente
12:00-12:30
Erika Varis
Vowel hiatus and Dispersion Theory:
data from Spanish and Catalan determiners
12:30-1:00
Ed Holsinger & David Li
From Seeing to Saying: On the relation between
visual grouping and prosodic grouping
1:00 – 2:00
Lunch Break
Poster by Sarah Ouwayda
Contrast Preservation in dialects of North Levantine Arabic
2:00 – 3:30
Philosophy I
Chair: Ben Lennertz/ Robert Shanklin
2:00-2:30
Geoff Georgi
Complex Demonstratives, Indexicality, and Ambiguity
2:30-3:00
Justin Snedegar
Contrastive Semantics for Deontic Modals
3:00-3:30
Johannes Volker Schmitt
‘Because statements’ and Constitutive Explanations
3:30 – 3:45
Break
3:45 – 4:45
Linguistics III
Chair: Arunima Choudhury
3:45-4:15
Katy McKinney Bock
Adjective Classes and Ordering Restrictions:
Exploring relevant syntactic-semantic interactions
4:15-4:45
Barbara Tomaszewicz
Spurious Coordination? Multiple Wh-Questions in Slavic
4:45 – 5:00
Break
5:00-6:00
Philosophy II
Chair: Geoff Georgi/Justin Snedegar/ Johannes Volker Schmitt
5:00-5:30
Ben Lennertz
Radical Interpretation and Bayesianism
5:30–6:00
Robert Shanklin
A Semantics of Overall Goodness
6:30–...
Dinner at GFS 330
if you have any questions, please, contact Barbara or Arunima