Amsterdam Colloquium 2009

Amsterdam Colloquium 2009: Programme
 
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Wednesday, December 16



09.00-10.00
Registration & Coffee
 (room P015B)


10.00-11.00
Zoltán Szabó

Specific, Yet Opaque
break
11.15-11.45
Michael Franke Torgrim Solstad

Free Choice from Iterated Best Responses Some new observations on 'because (of)'

11.45-12.15
Jacques Jayez Daniel Altshuler

QUD and contrasts for presuppositions Meaning of 'now' and other temporal location adverbs

and implicatures
lunch
13.45-14.45
Chris Potts

Affective demonstratives and the division of pragmatic labor
break


Workshop: Implicatures and Grammar





15.00-15.30
Benjamin Spector & Emmanuel Chemla Walter Pedersen

Experimental evidence for embedded scalar Degree achievement predicates

implicatures "again"-ambiguities

15.30-16.00
Sophie Repp & Andreas Haida Lucas Champollion

Local and global implicatures in Cumulative readings of "every" do not provide

wh-question disjunctions evidence for events and thematic roles
break
16.15-16.45
Philippe Schlenker Lucia M. Tovena

Supplements within a Unidimensional Pluractionality and the unity of the event

Semantics

16.45-17.15
Henk Zeevat, Jeroen Groenendijk & Chris Potts K. Ferret & E. Soare & F. Villoing

Commentary on the presented papers  Affixal rivalry between French -age and -ée:

  the role of grammatical aspect in nominalizations
break
17.30-18.30
Petra Hendriks

Empirical evidence for embodied semantics



19.00-20.00
Welcome Reception at Kapitein Zeppos






Thursday, December 17
09.00-10.00
Larry Moss

Natural Logic and Semantics
break



Workshop: Natural Logic




10.15-10.45
Susan Rothstein Robert van Rooij

The Semantics of Count Nouns Propositional logic as an extension


of syllogistic reasoning

10.45-11.15
Adrian Brasoveanu Crit Cremers

Modified Numerals as Post-suppositions (From Dutch to Flat Logical Form)


and back
break
11.30-12.00
Jakub Dotlacil Reinhard Muskens

Beyond elementary reciprocal sentences A Tableau System for Natural Logic

12.00-12.30
Jakub Szymanik & Marcin Zajenkowski Nate Charlow 

Working Memory in Restricting and Embedding Imperatives

Quantifier Verification
lunch
13.45-14.45
Fred Landman

An almost (but not quite) naïve theory of comparatives
break



Workshop: Vagueness




15.00-15.30
Galit W. Sassoon Magdalena Schwager

Restricted quantification over tastes Modality and speech acts: troubled by


German 'ruhig'
15.30-16.00
Joey Frazee & David Beaver Hedde Zeijlstra & Sabine Iatridou

Vagueness is Rational under Uncertainty On the scopal interaction of negation and


deontic modals
break
16.15-16.45
Kees van Deemter Rick Nouwen

Vagueness Facilitates Search Two puzzles about requirements
16.45-17.15
Tim Fernando Paul Dekker

Temporal propositions as vague predicates There is something about Might
break





20.00-21.00
Beth/Vienna Circle Lecture (room P.227)

Peter Hagoort

The neurobiology of language: beyond the sentence given







Friday, December 18
09.00-10.00
Gerhard Jäger

Natural color categories are convex sets
break




10.15-10.45
Jessica Rett Gianluca Giorgolo

Equatives, measure phrases and NPIs A formal semantics for iconic


spatial gestures

10.45-11.15
Bernhard Schwarz Philippe Schlenker

German "noch so": Scalar Degree Operator Donkey Anaphora in

and Negative Polarity Item French Sign Language

break

11.30-12.00
Jenny Doetjes Mingya Liu

Incommensurability Adverbs of Comment and Disagreement

12.00-12.30
Stephanie Solt Bart Geurts

Much Support and More Co-optation

lunch

13.45-14.45
Maribel Romero

Pluralities in Concealed Questions, Interrogative Clauses and Individuals

break
15.00-15.30
Dag Westerstahl & Denis Bonnay Ivano Alessandro Ciardelli

Logical Consequence inside out A first-order inquisitive semantics

15.30-16.00
Regine Eckardt Floris Roelofsen & Sam van Gool

Easy Linking Logic Disjunctive questions, Intonation, and Attention

break

16.15-16.45 Camilo Thorne & Diego Calvanese Arndt Riester & Hans Kamp

Data Complexity of Syllogistic Fragments of English Squiggly Issues: Alternatives Sets, Complex


DPs and Intensionality





break

17.00-18.00
Roger Schwarzschild

Event semantical analysis of "inherently plural noun''


break

19.00-20.00
Boat trip