Monday, May 18, 2009

PROGRAMME DE L'ATELIER

26 mai 2009, Université d'Ottawa, Simard (salle 129)

Programme, résumés et renseignements ici

9:00 - 9:10 Welcome

First Session (Chair: Ana Arregui)

9:10 - 9:40 Hotze Rullmann & Kimiko Nakanishi
More about ‘at least’

9:40 - 10:10 Brendan Gillon
Underspecification and the mass count distinction

10:10 - 10:30 BREAK

Second Session (Chair: Masako Hirotani)

10:30 - 11:00 Nancy Hedberg, Emrah Görgülü & Morgan Mameni
More on specificity in English, Turkish and Persian

11:00 - 11:30 Keren Tonciulescu
On the domain restrictions of ‘eyze(shehu)’ determiners in Hebrew

11:30 - 12:00 Elizabeth Ferch
Number, Quantification, and Scope in Shona

12:00 - 13:30 LUNCH

Third Session (Chair: Eric Mathieu)

13:30 - 14:00 Patric Littell, Lisa Matthewson & Tyler Peterson
On the Semantics of Evidential Questions

14:00 - 14:30 Maria Amélia Reis Silva
Root modality in Blackfoot

14:30 - 15:00 Monica Irimia & Simona Herdan
An Aspectual Analysis of Romanian Counterfactuals

15:00 - 15:30 BREAK

Fourth Session (Chair: Ash Asudeh)

15:30 - 16:00 Dennis Storoshenko
Compositional Semantics for the Verbal Domain in Shona

16:00 - 16:30 Veena Dwivedi & Matthew Goldhawk
The role of semantic context in anaphoric processing

16:30 - 17:00 Michael Wagner
More on Nested Foci, Contrastive Topics, and Intonation


17:00 - 18:00 Round Table/Business Meeting