Sinn und Bedeutung 2014 19th Sinn & Bedeutung (SuB 19)

September 15 – 17, 2014

Göttingen, Germany

Contents

Local Organizers 2

Information on the Conference 3

WiFi Information 3

Program 4-6

How to use the “Zentralmensa” 7

Campus Map 8

Transportation in Göttingen 9

Map Göttingen 10

Food 11

Drinks 12

Local Organizers

Eva Csipak

Regine Eckardt

Jovana Gajic

Paula Menéndez-Benito

Edgar Onea

Igor Yanovich

Hedde Zeijlstra

Nurcan Akcam

Ronja Brodhun

Benjamin Burkhardt

Paul Dijkzeul

Lea Fricke

Carina Kauf

Margitta Strüber

Swantje Tönnis

Jessica Vaupel

Tanja Wiessner

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Information on the Conference

Speakers are supposed to use the laptops in the corresponding rooms ( own computers are only to be used in justified exceptions)

It is best if you save your presentation as a pdf. In case you need to make copies of your handout,

there is a copy shop called “DDZ” close to the VG.

!!!Please make sure that you put your presentation on the corresponding laptop in your room DURING the coffee break BEFORE your talk!!!

WiFi-Information

Option #1: Eduroam: In case you are using an Eduroam WiFi connection at your home university, you can also connect to the Eduroam network in Göttingen. Option #2: GoeMobile Guest Account: 1. Open the Network Connection Preferences on your Mac or PC. 2. Choose the “GoeMobile” network and click “Connect”. 3. After opening your web browser you will be prompted to enter the user data you will find included in the conference folder given to you at registration.

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Program Monday

Time Session 1 Room VG 2.101

Session 2 Room VG 2.102

Session 3 Room VG 2.103

9:00-10:30 Sabine Iatridou: “Our even” (joint work with Sergei Tatevosov) Room VG 2.101

10:30-10:50

Coffee Break

10:50-11:35

Maribel Romero: “High Negation in Subjunctive Conditionals”

Dorothy Ahn: “The semantics of additive either”

Elena Koulidobrova and Kathryn Davidson: “Watch the attitude: Role-shift and embedding in ASL”

11:35-12:20

Jefferson Barlew: “Coming toward a doxastic agent: A doxastic analysis of the motion verb come“

Julian Grove: “Singular Count Pseudopartitives”

Natalia Korotkova: “Some structural analogies between evidentials and indexicals”

12:20-14:00

Lunch

14:00-14:45

Sven Lauer: “Biscuits and provisos: Conveying unconditional information by conditional means”

Stavroula Alexandropoulou: “Testing the nature of free choice effects with modified numerals”

Corien Bary and Daniel Altshuler: “Double access and acquaintance”

14:45-15:30

Adrian Stegovec and Magdalena Kaufmann: “Slovenian Imperatives: You Can’t Always Embed What You Want!”

Doris Penka “At most at last” Julia Lukassek: “A one-event analysis for German eventive mit-modifiers”

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-16:45

Martin Aher and Jeroen Groenendijk: “Deontic and Epistemic Modals in Suppositional Inquisitive Semantics (InqS)”

Manfred Sailer: “Inverse Linking and Telescoping as Polyadic Quantification”

Bert Le Bruyn, Henriette De Swart and Joost Zwarts: “The dynamics of relational nouns”

16:45-17:30

Giorgos Spathas: “On deriving Principle A: evidence from Greek”

Antje Rossdeutscher: “Hidden universal quantification and change of argument structure in particle-verb constructions”

Beth Levin, Lelia Glass and Dan Jurafsky: “Corpus Evidence for Systematicity in English Compounds”

17:45-18:30

Business meeting Room VG 2.101

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Tuesday Time Session 1

Room VG 2.101 Session 2

Room VG 2.102 Special session:

Formal Theories of Meaning Change Room VG 2.103

9:00-10:30 Ashwini Deo: “Deconstructing Grammaticalization Paths” Room VG 2.101

10:30-10:50 Coffee Break 10:50-11:35 Ivano Ciardelli and

Floris Roelofsen: “Composing alternatives”

Curt Anderson: “Numerical alternatives and approximation of numerals using some”

Robert Truswell and Nikolas Gisborne: “Quantificational Variability and the Genesis of English Headed Wh-relatives”

11:35-12:20 Dejan Milacic, Raj Singh and Ida Toivonen: “Distance Distributivity and Skolemization”

Melania S. Masià: “Adjectives of veracity as vagueness regulators”

Oleg Belyaev and Dag Haug: “The genesis of Wh-based correlatives”

12:20-14:00 Lunch 14:00-14:45 Heiko Seeliger: “Two

scopes of negation in Swedish declarative questions”

Miriam Nussbaum: “Subset Comparatives as Comparative Quantifiers”

Andrea Beltrama and Jackson Lee: “Great pizzas, ghost negations: The emergence and persistence of mixed expressives”

14:45-15:30 Christopher Davis and Daniel Gutzmann: “Expressive negation in Ryukyuan and the semantics of pragmaticalization”

Elizabeth Coppock and Christian Josefson: “Completely Bare Swedish Superlatives”

Toni Bassaganyas-Bars: “The rise of haver as an existential and a ‘perfect auxiliary’: the case of Old Catalan”

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00-16:45 Daniel Gutzmann and

Robert Henderson: “Expressive, much?”

Erik Zyman: “On the Semantics of P’urhepecha Degree Constructions”

Roumyana Pancheva: “Historical Change in Scalar Meanings in Slavic”

16:45-17:30 Elena Herburger: “Only if: if only we understood it”

Agata Renans: “Imperfective in Ga (Kwa, Niger-Congo)”

Andrea Beltrama: “From Totally Dark to Totally Old. The Formal Semantics of Subjectification”

18:00-19:30 T. Ede Zimmermann: “Remarks on Type Shifts” Room VG 2.101

From 20:00 onwards

Conference Dinner Einstein

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Wednesday Time Session 1

Room VG 2.101 Session 2

Room VG 2.102 9:00-10:30 Sophia Malamud: “Dynamics of Conversation and the Emergence of

illocutionary force” Room VG 2.101

10:30-10:50 Coffee Break 10:50-11:35 Karen Duek and Adrian Brasoveanu:

“The polysemy of container pseudo-partitives”

Luis Vicente: “Focus effects in parenthetical as-clauses”

11:35-12:20 Prerna Nadathur and Daniel Lassiter: “Unless: An experimental approach”

Yimei Xiang: “A Grammatical View of Exhaustification with Focus Movement: Evidence from NPI”

12:20-14:00 Lunch 14:00-14:45 Benjamin Spector and Yasutada

Sudo: “Presupposed Ignorance and Scalar Strengthening”

Roni Katzir and Raj Singh: “Economy of structure and information”

14:45-15:30 Florian Schwarz, Jacopo Romoli and Cory Bill: “Scalar Implicature Processing: Slowly Accepting the Truth (Literally)”

Todd Snider: “Using Tautologies and Contradictions”

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00-16:45 Nicole Gotzner: “What’s included in

the set of alternatives? Psycholinguistic evidence for a permissive view”

Peter Baumann: “An Empirical Challenge of Hurford’s Constraint and Structural Economy, and a Possible Solution”

16:45-17:30 Martin Hackl, Erin Olson and Ayaka Sugawara: “Processing Only: Scalar Presupposition and the Structure of ALT(S)”

Wataru Uegaki: “Predicting the variations in the exhaustivity of embedded interrogatives"

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How to use the “Zentralmensa” (dining hall)

We strongly recommend going to the Zentralmensa for lunch as it is cheapest and closest. Other facilities are further away so that you might not manage to be finished in time.

The cafeteria offers nine different dishes:

1. Soup (Eintopf) 2. Meal I (Menü I) 3. Meal II (Menü II) 4. Vegetarian (Vegetarisch) 5. Light food (Leichte Küche) 6. Vegan (Vegan) 7. Grill dish (Grillgericht) 8. Currywurst (Grillgericht Currywurst) 9. Sweet dish (Süße Versuchung)

The corresponding food changes daily and is to be found either on the board in the lobby or at http://www.studentenwerk-goettingen.de/speiseplan.html.

There also is a salad buffet and a pasta buffet.

Once you have decided on what you want to eat you…

i. Take a tray and cutlery. ii. Go to the corresponding counter. iii. Take a meal. iv. Go to check-out no. 7 or no. 8 and pay in cash.

!!!Do not go to any other check-out as they will only accept student cards as payment!!!

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Campus Map

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Transportation in Göttingen

Local Public Transport Busses are the means of transport in Göttingen. We

recommend http://www.fahrplaner.de/hafas/query.exe/en for

your search. One ticket costs about 2,10 €. If you plan to

use the bus several times on one day we recommend a

daily ticket, which costs about 5,00 €. If you want to use the

bus several times on different days you can also purchase

four or eight tickets at once, which costs about 7,50 € -

13,40 €.

Taxi If you want to use a taxi, we recommend the following

companies. However, taxis are more expensive than

busses in Göttingen.

Hallo Taxi + Frauennachttaxi: +49551/34034

Puk Minicar GmbH +49551/484848

Taxi-Zentrale +49551/69300

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Map Göttingen

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Food

Name & Address Cuisine Price Einstein German <10 € Kurze-Geismar-Straße 9

Sausalitos Mexican <10 € Hospitalstraße 35

Vapiano Italian <10 € Weender Landstraße 1

Myer’s German <10 € Lange-Geismar-Straße 47

Salvatore Trattoria Italian <15 € Theaterplatz 10

Kartoffelhaus German <15 € Goethe-Allee 8

Villa Cuba Cuban <15 € Zindelstraße 2

Nudelhaus Italian <15 € Rote Straße 13

Paulaner German <15 € Düstere Straße 20a

Maharadscha Indian <15 € Gartenstraße 25

Hellas Greek <15 € Kurze-Geismar-Straße 29

Sambesi African <20 € Wendenstraße 8

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Drinks

Name & Address Thanners Barfüßerstraße 1

Esprit Lange-Geismar-Straße 19

Zak Am Wochenmarkt 22

Diva Lounge Kurze-Geismar-Straße 9

Nautibar Theaterstraße 8

Mr. Jones Goethe-Allee 8

Café Botanik Untere Karspüle 1b

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