Thu, October 13:
8:45 Registration
9:15 Welcome
9:30-10:25
Richard Breheny (University College London)
On the development of testable theories of semantics-pragmatics
coffee
10:40-11:35
Prashant Parikh (University of Pennsylvania)
Computing Modulations
coffee
11:50-12:45
Jason Stanley (Rutgers University - New Brunswick)
Domain Restriction and the Context-Sensitivity of Questions
lunch
14:15-14:55
Ralf Klabunde, Sebastian Reuße and Björn Schlünder (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Coherence as joint activity
14:55-15:35
Jacopo Romoli (Harvard University)
A Solution to Soames’ Problem: Presuppositions, Conditionals and Exhaustification
coffee
15:50-16:30
Andreas Haida and Sophie Repp (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Necessity = Possibility = Necessity. Authoritative Acts on the Common Ground
16:30-17:10
Dietmar Zaefferer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) and Patric Bach (University of Plymouth)
Testing theories of sentence type
Fri, October 14:
9:30-10:25
Michael Franke (University of Tübingen)
Game Theory in Formal Pragmatics
coffee
10:40-11:35
Benjamin Spector (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
Are there obligatory scalar implicatures? An argument from global
positive polarity items
coffee
11:50-12:45
Mandy Simons (Carnegie Mellon University)
Structured contents and local pragmatics
lunch
14:15-14:55
Bob van Tiel (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Relevant alternatives: a Gricean perspective
14:55-15:35
Daphna Heller (University of Toronto) and Lynsey Wolter (University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire)
Beyond demonstratives: direct reference in perceptually-grounded descriptions
coffee
15:50-16:30
Beata Gyuris (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
An ‘all-purpose’ particle or marker of expectations?
16:30-18:30 Poster Session
19:00 Conference Dinner
Sat, October 15:
9:30-10:25
Lotte Hogeweg (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Synchronic and diachronic semantic weakening
coffee
10:40-11:20
Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas (University of Murcia)
Relevance Theory and Conceptual Integration Theory: Deflationary Accounts of Metaphor
11:20-12:00
Nicholas Allott (CSMN, University of Oslo) and Mark Textor (King's College London)
A Cluster Theory of Ad Hoc Concepts: An Alternative to the ‘Externalist Semantic Perspective’ in Lexical Pragmatics
lunch
13:30-14:10
Richard Moore (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Do great ape gestures have a Gricean intentional structure?
coffee
14:30-15:10
Gerhard Schaden (Université Lille 3)
Modelling the "Aoristic Drift of the Present Perfect" as Inflation
15:10-15:50
Roland Mühlenbernd and Michael Franke (University of Tübingen)
Signaling Conventions: Who learns what where and when in a social network?
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