You are cordially invited to this free workshop on Saturday, March 10 (ILC S211). No registration is required. The workshop is part of the March 9 & 10 Angelika Fest (check here for updates or download a detailed program with abstracts from here or here. It will be a fast-paced, forward looking, celebration of Semantics, not a retrospective or homage. It’s not your usual workshop: Most talks will be Lightning Talks (5 minutes) or Flash Talks (10 or 15 minutes) with slides to be presented in a single stream for each session. With this talk format, traditional discussion sessions make little sense. The talks are meant to inspire small-group face-to-face discussions over coffee, lunch, and beyond, and curiosity to know more about the topic. Presenters might have supporting materials on their personal websites.
Is there a Future for Semantics? Semantics in the Age of Alpha Zero
| 9:00 to 10:30 | Moderator: Amy Rose Deal (UC Berkeley)
Noah Constant (Google Research), Kyle Rawlins (Johns Hopkins) Discussions over Coffee until 10:30 |
Foundations, Interfaces, Universals, Variation
| 10:30 to 2:30 | Moderators: Valentine Hacquard (Maryland), Hadas Kotek (NYU), Craige Roberts (NYU) |
| Luis Alonso-Ovalle & Aron Hirsch (McGill): Strong “Only”.
Roger Schwarzschild (MIT): Focus. Caroline Féry (Frankfurt): Focus and Intonation in French versus German. Ana Arregui (Ottawa): Exploring the Conditional Mood. Amy Rose Deal (UC Berkeley): Semantic Typology. Ilaria Frana (Kore University of Enna) & Keir Moulton (Simon Fraser): Concealed Propositions. Paula Menéndez-Benito (Tübingen) & Keir Moulton (Simon Fraser): Reasoning and Evidence: Sources and Direction. Discussions over Coffee until 12:00 Aynat Rubinstein (Hebrew University) & Paul Portner (Georgetown): Discernible but not Obvious: Varieties of Epistemic Adjectives. Sarah Murray (Cornell): Logical Connectives in Natural Languages. Min-Joo Kim (Texas Tech): Relative Clauses & Demonstratives. Suzi Lima (Toronto) & Susan Rothstein (Bar Ilan): A Typology of the Count/Mass Distinction in Brazil: Some Methodological Remarks. Junko Shimoyama & Bernhard Schwarz (McGill): A Note on ‘Such That’ Relatives. Ede Zimmermann (Frankfurt): Extensions in Semantics. Sandro Zucchi (Milan): McGee’s Counterexample to Modus Ponens & Minimal Change Theories of Counterfactuals. Discussions over Lunch (not provided) until 2:00 Session on Sign Languages (2:00 to 2:30): Kate Davidson (Harvard) & Sandro Zucchi (Milan). Natural Language in Signing Modes. Visual and Tactile Sign Languages. |
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Semantics for the Next Generation
| 2:30 to 3:00 | Moderator: Shai Cohen (Emory)
Suzi Lima (Toronto): Teaching Semantics in the Field. Andrew McKenzie (Kansas): The Flipped Semantics Classroom. |
Building Bridges within the Cognitive Sciences
| 3:00 to 4:30 | Moderator: Orin Percus (Nantes) |
| Kai von Fintel (MIT): Bridges to Philosophy.
Jonathan Phillips (Harvard Psychology): Bridges to Moral Psychology, Cognitive Development. Florian Schwarz (Penn): Bridges to the Psychology of Language. Discussions over Coffee until 4:30 |
Building Bridges within the Humanities
| 4:30 to 5:00 | Moderator: Alexander Williams (Maryland)
Daniel Altshuler (Hampshire College): Building Bridges with Literary Scholars, Filmmakers, Poets, and Artists. |
Building Bridges to Society
| 5:00 to 6:00 | Moderator: Satoshi Tomioka (Delaware) |
| Andrew McKenzie (Kansas): Deixis in the Operating Room.
Aynat Rubinstein (Hebrew University): Semantics and Time Travel. Christopher Davis (University of the Ryukyus): Language Documentation, Theory-Inspired Fieldwork, Giving Back to the Community. Michael Terry (University of North Carolina): the Cognitive Load of Dialect Switching. |