Location

University of California, Irvine
School of Social Sciences
Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, room 1517

Visitor parking is available in the Social Science Parking Structure

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Program

FRIDAY, MAY 19

9:30–10:30 : GREGORY SCONTRAS (UCI)
Degrees and kinds: Rethinking the ontology

10:30–11:00 : BREAK

11:00–12:00 : STEFAN HINTERWIMMER (U OF COLOGNE)
The binding options of demonstrative pronouns, complex demonstratives and definite descriptions

12:00–1:30 : LUNCH

1:30–2:30 : MARCUS KRACHT (U OF BIELEFELD)
The morphology-semantics antagonism

2:30–3:30 : STEFAN KAUFMANN (UCONN)
Arbitrary selection semantics for conditionals and modality

3:30–4:00 : BREAK

4:00–5:00 : IVANO CAP0NIGRO (UCSD)
Montague’s turn towards natural language

SATURDAY, MAY 20

9:30–10:30 : EDE ZIMMERMANN (U OF FRANKFURT)
Explicit world variables vs. implicit indices

10:30–11:00 : BREAK

11:00–12:00 : AMY ROSE DEAL (BERKELEY)
Dedicated de re attitude reports

12:00–1:30 : LUNCH

1:30–2:30 : YAEL SHARVIT (UCLA)
Negative polarity items under ‘true’

2:30–3:30 : KAI WEHMEIER (UCI)
Against free variables

3:30–4:00 : BREAK & DISCUSSION