The programme & schedule of the 2017 Amsterdam Colloquium is available for download as a PDF. Below is the list of accepted abstracts.
Information about the conference locations and how to get there can be found here.
General programme
- Dorit Abusch and Mats Rooth: The Formal Semantics of Free Perception in Pictorial Narratives
- Sam Alxatib: The scalar presupposition of only and only if
- Amir Anvari: Global Cosuppositions
- Justin Bledin: Fatalism and the Logic of Unconditionals
- Dominique Blok, Lisa Bylinina and Rick Nouwen: A degree quantifier analysis of split scope readings with negative ‘indefinites’
- Kyle Blumberg: Ignorance Implicatures and Non-doxastic Attitude Verbs
- Rachel Boddy: Frege’s Unification
- David Boylan and Ginger Schultheis: Counterfactual Semantics and Strengthening Principles
- Brian Buccola and Andreas Haida: Expressing agent indifference in German
- Lisa Bylinina and Alexander Podobryaev: Plurality in Buriat and Structurally Constrained Alternatives
- Kurt Erbach, Peter Sutton, Hana Filip and Kathrin Byrdeck: Object Mass Nouns in Japanese
- Patricia Cabredo Hofherr and Urtzi Etxeberria: Distributive numerals in Basque
- Fabrizio Cariani and Simon Goldstein: Homogenous Alternative Semantics
- Eva Csipak: Referentially used definite descriptions can be conditionalized
- Michael Deigan: Counterfactual Double Lives
- Annemarie van Dooren, Anouk Dieuleveut, Ailis Cournane and Valentine Hacquard: Learning what ‘must’ and ‘can’ must and can mean
- Enrico Flor, Nina Haslinger, Hilda Koopman, Eva Rosina, Magdalena Roszkowski and Viola Schmitt: Typological evidence for a non-distributive lexical meaning of conjunction
- Melissa Fusco: An Inconvenient Proof: the Gibbard-Harper Collapse Lemma for Causal Decision Theory
- Yael Greenberg: But, scalar implicatures and covert quotation operators
- Justyna Grudzinska and Marek Zawadowski: Inverse Linking: Taking Scope with Dependent Types
- Hadil Karawani and Brandon Waldon: May or Might? Semantic Strength and Social Meaning
- Carina Kauf and Hedde Zeijlstra: Explaining the Ambiguity of Past-Under-Past Embeddings
- Sven Lauer: ‘I believe’ in a ranking-theoretic analysis of ‘believe’
- Haoze Li: Semantics of metalinguistic focus
- Prerna Nadathur: Implicative inferences and causality in ‘enough’ and ‘too’ constructions
- Agata Renans, George Tsoulas, Raffaella Folli, Nihan Ketrez, Lyn Tieu, Hanna de Vries and Jacopo Romoli: Turkish plural nouns are number-neutral: experimental data
- Maribel Romero: Tense and Mood in Counterfactual Conditionals: The View from Spanish
- Paolo Santorio: Conditional Excluded Middle in Informational Semantics
- Giorgio Sbardolini: Semantic Abstractionism
- Bernhard Schwarz: On question exhaustivity and NPI licensing
- Merel Semeijn: A Stalnakerian analysis of metafictive statements
- Alexandra Simonenko: Towards a semantic typology of specificity markers
- Benjamin Spector: Homogeneity and Non-Maximality within the Rational Speech Act model
- Shane Steinert-Threlkeld: Uniform Definability in Assertability Semantics
- Anna Szabolcsi: Additive presuppositions are derived through recursive exhaustification of focus alternatives
- Natalia Talmina, Arnold Kochari and Jakub Szymanik: Quantifiers and verification strategies: connecting the dots
- Yuta Tatsumi: Asserting a scalar ordering: Evidence from the non-temporal interpretation of ‘before’
- Wataru Uegaki and Yasutada Sudo: The anti-rogativity of non-veridical preferential predicates
- Matthijs Westera: QUDs, brevity, and the asymmetry of alternatives
- Malte Willer: Widening Free Choice
- Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine and Hadas Kotek: Intervention tracks scope-rigidity in Japanese
- Sarah Zobel: The restrictive potential of weak adjuncts: nominal ‘as’-phrases and individual quantifiers
Alternate talks
- Yurie Hara: Causality and Evidentiality
Workshop "Formal and Distributional Perspectives on Meaning"
- Michael Moortgat and Gijs Wijnholds: Lexical and derivational meaning in vector-based models of relativisation
- Reinhard Muskens and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh: Lambdas, Vectors, and Word Meaning in Context
- Tillmann Pross, Max Kisselew, Antje Rossdeutscher, Gabriella Lapesa and Sebastian Pado: Integrating lexical-conceptual and distributional semantics: a case report
Workshop "Causality and Semantics"
- Mario Gúnther: A Proposal for Disjunctive Antecedents in Causal Models and its Implications
- Thomas Icard: From Programs to Causal Models
- Daniel Lassiter: Complex antecedents and probabilities in causal counterfactuals