Program
The conference takes place in Building 18 of the Komaba I campus of the University of Tokyo.
The conference booklet with all abstracts is available for download. Hard copies of this booklet will be provided at the registration desk.
Wednesday, March 22
| 9:15 | Registration and Payment |
| 9:45 | Opening Remarks |
| 10:00 | Angelika Kratzer (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Building a Pronoun |
| 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 | Michela Ippolito (Boston University): On the meaning of 'only' |
| 12:10 | Giorgio Magri (MIT): A semantic account for the properties of individual-level predicates |
| 12:50 | Lunch |
| 2:30 | Yoad Winter (Technion) and Carmen Rotstein (Intel Corporation/Haifa): Telicity across Semantic Domains: The case of almost |
| 3:10 | David Y. Oshima (Stanford University): Motion Deixis, Indexicality, and Presupposition |
| 3:50 | Coffee Break |
| 4:20 | Ezra Keshet (MIT): Scalar Implicatures with Alternative Semantics |
| 5:00 | Maribel Romero (University of Pennsylvania): On Concealed Questions |
| 6:00 | End of first day |
Thursday, March 23
| 10:00 | Toshiyuki Ogihara (University of Washington): Attitudes without Monsters: A view from Japanese |
| 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 | Ilaria Frana (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Wondering about Concealed Questions |
| 12:10 | Kimiko Nakanishi (University of Calgary): Even, Only, and Negative Polarity in Japanese |
| 12:50 | Lunch |
| 2:30 | Philippe de Groote (Inria-Lorraine & Loria): Towards a Montagovian account of dynamics |
| 3:10 | Jessica Rett (Rutgers University): How 'many' maximizes in the Balkan Sprachbund |
| 3:50 | Coffee Break |
| 4:20 | Takuro Tanaka (University of Connecticut): Lexical Decomposition and Comparative Structures for Japanese Determiners |
| 5:00 | Stanley Peters (Stanford University) and Dag Westerstahl (Gothenburg University): Taking Exception to Quantified Statements |
| 5:40 | Break |
| 6:00 | Party |
Friday, March 24
| 10:00 | Irene Heim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Little |
| 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 | Michael Wagner (Cornell University): Givenness and Locality |
| 12:10 | Sophia A. Malamud (University of Pennsylvania): (Non)-maximality and distributivity: A Decision Theory approach |
| 12:50 | Lunch (Business Meeting) |
| 2:30 | Daniel Rothschild (Princeton University): Negative Polarity Items and Definite Descriptions |
| 3:10 | Florian Schwarz (University of Massachusetts Amherst): On NEEDING propositions and LOOKING FOR properties |
| 3:50 | Coffee Break |
| 4:20 | Tom Werner (Carnegie Mellon University): An analysis of existential anankastics: How to get there from here |
| 5:00 | James Higginbotham (University of Southern California): The Anaphoric Theory of Tense |
| 6:00 | Closing |
Alternates
Friederike Moltmann (Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques): Genericity de se
Magdalena Schwager (University of Frankfurt): Conditionalized Imperatives