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Focus at the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Program

 
  Focus at the Syntax-Semantics Interface

Sunday, April 6, 2008
Time Name Title of talk
9:00-9:15 Welcoming Remarks
9:15-10:15 Hans Kamp (Stuttgart) Simultaneous resolution of Information Structure-related and other presuppositions
10:15-10:30 coffee
10:30-12:00 Daniel Wedgwood (Edinburgh) Variation in focus, within and across languages
12:00-13:30 Katalin É. Kiss (Budapest) Structural focus is a specificational predicate
13:30-14:45 lunch
14:45-15:45 Ágnes Bende-Farkas (Budapest) Adverbs of quantification, it-clefts and Hungarian focus
15:45-16:00 coffee
16:00-17:00 Henk Zeevat (Amsterdam) Only as a mirative particle
17:00-17:15 coffee
17:15-18:15 Arndt Riester (Stuttgart) Stress test for definite descriptions
19:00-- WORKSHOP DINNER at Restaurant "Stuttgarter Stäffele", Buschlestr. 2 (S-Bahn "Feuersee")

Monday, April 7, 2008
Time Name Title of talk
9:00-10:00 Klaus von Heusinger & Sofiana Chiriacescu (Stuttgart) Discourse structure and case marking in Romanian
10:00-10:15 coffee
10:15-11:45 David Beaver (Austin) Only as a mirative particle
11:45-12:45 Elena Karagjosova (Oslo/Stuttgart) Towards a DRT account of discourse connectors
12:45-14:15 lunch
14:15-15:15 Artemis Alexiadou & Kirsten Gengel (Stuttgart) FocusP in NP ellipsis?
15:15-15:30 coffee
15:30-17:00 Kjell Johan Sæbø (Oslo) Satisfaction by association
17:00-18:00 Rob van der Sandt (Nijmegen) Promiscuous binding
18:00-18:15 coffee
18:15-19:15 Edgar Onea (Stuttgart) Focus and exhaustivity -- a new approach to Hungarian focus
20:00-- DINNER at "Thai Corner", Friedrichstr. 43 (U-Bahn "Friedrichsbau")