Program | mdf2011

Program

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	Thursday, 15 December 2011		Friday, 16 December 2011
9:00-9:30	Registration
9:30-9:45	Welcome
9:45-10:45	Invited talk: Louise McNally (UPF) Distributional modifiers
10:45-11:25	Berit Gehrke (UPF) Event-related modification with adjectival passives	10:00-11:00	Invited talk: Christopher Potts (Stanford) Veridicality and (parenthetical) attitude predications
11:25-11:50	Coffee break	11:00-11:40	Lidia Bogatyreva (UAB) Weak case modifiers: Russian instrumental nominals as a counterpart of bare nominals in Romance
11:50-12:30	Thomas Ernst (UMass, Amherst & Dartmouth College) Modification of state predicates	11:40-12:10	Coffee break
12:30-13:10	M. Teresa Espinal & Ía Navarro (UAB & Sonora) Fake arguments: Nouns and clitics as event modifiers	12:10-12:50	Ai Matsui (Michigan State) Transforming Manner Adverbs into Subject-Oriented Adverbs: An Evidence from Japanese
13:10-13.50	Mike Oliver (Johns Hopkins) Interpretation as Optimization: Constitutive Material Adjectives	12:50-13:30	Jens Fleischhauer (Düsseldorf) Modification vs. Quantification: Evidence for the distinction based on verb gradation
13:50-15:30	Lunch	13:30-15:00	Lunch
15:30-16:10	Andreea C. Nicolae & Greg Scontras (Harvard) Saturating Syntax: Linkers and Modification in Tagalog	15:00-15:40	Andrea Beltrama & M. Ryan Bochnak (UChicago) Intensification without degrees cross-linguistically
16:10-16:40	Coffee break	15:40-16:20	Sveta Krasikova & Lucas Champollion (Konstanz & Tübingen) Two "many" modifiers
16:40-17:20	Fabienne Martin (Stuttgart) Decomposing (non)restrictivity. Evaluative modifiers in post-head positions	16:20-17:00	Coffee break
17:20-18:00	Carla Umbach (Osnabrück) Modification by similarity - the meaning of the German demonstrative so	17:00-18:00	Invited talk: Marcin Morzycki (Michigan State) Degrees and state kinds
20:00	Dinner Sidrería el Galopín

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Boban Arsenijevic (UPF)
Aspectual concord and aspectual relativisation: verb prefixation in Serbo-Croatian