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 3 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. 4 Program Time 9:00-10:30 10:3010:50 10:5011:35 11:3512:20 12:2014:00 14:0014:45 14:4515:30 15:3016:00 16:0016:45 16:4517:30 17:4518:30 Monday Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Room VG 2.101 Room VG 2.102 Room VG 2.103 Sabine Iatridou: “Our even” (joint work with Sergei Tatevosov) Room VG 2.101 Coffee Break Maribel Romero: “High Negation in Subjunctive Conditionals” Dorothy Ahn: “The semantics of additive either” Jefferson Barlew: “Coming toward a doxastic agent: A doxastic analysis of the motion verb come“ Julian Grove: “Singular Count Pseudopartitives” Elena Koulidobrova and Kathryn Davidson: “Watch the attitude: Role-shift and embedding in ASL” Natalia Korotkova: “Some structural analogies between evidentials and indexicals” Lunch Sven Lauer: “Biscuits and provisos: Conveying unconditional information by conditional means” Adrian Stegovec and Magdalena Kaufmann: “Slovenian Imperatives: You Can’t Always Embed What You Want!” Stavroula Alexandropoulou: “Testing the nature of free choice effects with modified numerals” Corien Bary and Daniel Altshuler: “Double access and acquaintance” Doris Penka “At most at last” Julia Lukassek: “A one-event analysis for German eventive mitmodifiers” Coffee Break Martin Aher and Jeroen Groenendijk: “Deontic and Epistemic Modals in Suppositional Inquisitive Semantics (InqS)” Giorgos Spathas: “On deriving Principle A: evidence from Greek” Manfred Sailer: “Inverse Linking and Telescoping as Polyadic Quantification” Bert Le Bruyn, Henriette De Swart and Joost Zwarts: “The dynamics of relational nouns” 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” Business meeting Room VG 2.101 5 Time 9:00-10:30 10:30-10:50 10:50-11:35 11:35-12:20 12:20-14:00 14:00-14:45 14:45-15:30 15:30-16:00 16:00-16:45 16:45-17:30 18:00-19:30 From 20:00 onwards Session 1 Room VG 2.101 Tuesday Session 2 Room VG 2.102 Special session: Formal Theories of Meaning Change Room VG 2.103 Ashwini Deo: “Deconstructing Grammaticalization Paths” Room VG 2.101 Coffee Break Ivano Ciardelli and Curt Anderson: Robert Truswell and Floris Roelofsen: “Numerical alternatives Nikolas Gisborne: “Composing and approximation of “Quantificational alternatives” numerals using some” Variability and the Genesis of English Headed Wh-relatives” Dejan Milacic, Raj Singh and Ida Toivonen: “Distance Distributivity and Skolemization” Heiko Seeliger: “Two scopes of negation in Swedish declarative questions” Christopher Davis and Daniel Gutzmann: “Expressive negation in Ryukyuan and the semantics of pragmaticalization” Melania S. Masià: “Adjectives of veracity as vagueness regulators” Lunch Miriam Nussbaum: “Subset Comparatives as Comparative Quantifiers” Elizabeth Coppock and Christian Josefson: “Completely Bare Swedish Superlatives” Daniel Gutzmann and Robert Henderson: “Expressive, much?” Coffee Break Erik Zyman: “On the Semantics of P’urhepecha Degree Constructions” Elena Herburger: “Only if: if only we understood it” Agata Renans: “Imperfective in Ga (Kwa, Niger-Congo)” Oleg Belyaev and Dag Haug: “The genesis of Wh-based correlatives” Andrea Beltrama and Jackson Lee: “Great pizzas, ghost negations: The emergence and persistence of mixed expressives” Toni Bassaganyas-Bars: “The rise of haver as an existential and a ‘perfect auxiliary’: the case of Old Catalan” Roumyana Pancheva: “Historical Change in Scalar Meanings in Slavic” Andrea Beltrama: “From Totally Dark to Totally Old. The Formal Semantics of Subjectification” T. Ede Zimmermann: “Remarks on Type Shifts” Room VG 2.101 Conference Dinner Einstein 6 Time 9:00-10:30 10:30-10:50 10:50-11:35 11:35-12:20 12:20-14:00 14:00-14:45 14:45-15:30 15:30-16:00 16:00-16:45 16:45-17:30 Wednesday Session 1 Session 2 Room VG 2.101 Room VG 2.102 Sophia Malamud: “Dynamics of Conversation and the Emergence of illocutionary force” Room VG 2.101 Coffee Break Karen Duek and Adrian Brasoveanu: Luis Vicente: “Focus effects in “The polysemy of container pseudoparenthetical as-clauses” partitives” Prerna Nadathur and Daniel Yimei Xiang: “A Grammatical View of Lassiter: “Unless: An experimental Exhaustification with Focus Movement: approach” Evidence from NPI” Lunch Benjamin Spector and Yasutada Roni Katzir and Raj Singh: “Economy of Sudo: “Presupposed Ignorance and structure and information” Scalar Strengthening” Florian Schwarz, Jacopo Romoli and Todd Snider: “Using Tautologies and Cory Bill: “Scalar Implicature Contradictions” Processing: Slowly Accepting the Truth (Literally)” Coffee Break Nicole Gotzner: “What’s included in Peter Baumann: “An Empirical the set of alternatives? Challenge of Hurford’s Constraint and Psycholinguistic evidence for a Structural Economy, and a Possible permissive view” Solution” Martin Hackl, Erin Olson and Ayaka Sugawara: “Processing Only: Scalar Presupposition and the Structure of ALT(S)” 7 Wataru Uegaki: “Predicting the variations in the exhaustivity of embedded interrogatives" 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. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Soup (Eintopf) Meal I (Menü I) Meal II (Menü II) Vegetarian (Vegetarisch) Light food (Leichte Küche) Vegan (Vegan) Grill dish (Grillgericht) Currywurst (Grillgericht Currywurst) 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. ii. iii. iv. Take a tray and cutlery. Go to the corresponding counter. Take a meal. 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!!! 8 Campus Map 9 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 10 Map Göttingen 11 Food Name & Address Einstein Cuisine German Price <10 € Mexican <10 € Italian <10 € German <10 € Italian <15 € German <15 € Cuban <15 € Italian <15 € German <15 € Indian <15 € Greek <15 € African <20 € Kurze-Geismar-Straße 9 Sausalitos Hospitalstraße 35 Vapiano Weender Landstraße 1 Myer’s Lange-Geismar-Straße 47 Salvatore Trattoria Theaterplatz 10 Kartoffelhaus Goethe-Allee 8 Villa Cuba Zindelstraße 2 Nudelhaus Rote Straße 13 Paulaner Düstere Straße 20a Maharadscha Gartenstraße 25 Hellas Kurze-Geismar-Straße 29 Sambesi Wendenstraße 8 12 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 13 14