Sensus 2020
Venue: Zoom
Workshop dates: September 26-27 2020
Invited speakers:
Luis Alonso-Ovalle (McGill University)
Mariapaola D’Imperio (Rutgers University)
Donka Farkas (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Sensus OSF repository: https://osf.io/meetings/Sensus2020/
Saturday September 26
8:50-9:00 (N.B.: All times were EST)
Welcome remarks
9:00-10:00
Invited talk: Luis Alonso-Ovalle (McGill University); joint work with Vincent Rouillard (MIT):
Spanish bare interrogatives and number
10:00-10:40
Adina Camelia Bleotu (UBucharest/ZAS Berlin), Anton Benz (ZAS Berlin) & Nicole Gotzner (ZAS Berlin):
Where truth and optimality part. An experimental approach to implicatures with epistemic adverbs
10:40-11:00
Break
11:00-11:40
Elena Herburger (Georgetown University):
Negative concord in Romance: Cross-linguistic and historical considerations
11:40-12:20
Paloma Jereti? (NYU):
Strengthening must not but not with anti-actuality entailments
12:20-1:00
Lunch break
1:00-1:40
Aurore Gonzalez (Harvard University) & Karoliina Lohiniva (NYU/University of Geneva):
Free choice in constituent unconditionals: Evidence from French
1:40-2:20
Teodora Mihoc (Harvard University):
Epistemic indefinites, number marking, and certainty
2:20-2:30
Break
2:30-3:30
Invited talk: Donka Farkas (University of California, Santa Cruz):
Non-intrusive questions: The case of oare-marked interrogatives in Romanian
3:30-4:30
Business meeting
Sunday September 27
9:00-9:40
Mark Hoff (Ghent University):
Mandatory conversational implicatures? Evidence from Spanish mood variation
9:40-10:20
Christian Puma-Ninacuri (UMass Amherst):
Kichwa particle -ka in Ecuadorian Andean Spanish: Topic or focus marker
10:20-11:00
Luis Alonso-Ovalle (McGill University) & Elizabeth Heredia Murillo (University of Nantes/University of Groningen):
Concessive scalar items: Symmetric vs. non-symmetric alternatives
11:00-11:20
Break
11:20-12:00
Michela Ippolito (University of Toronto):
Gestures as markers of non-canonical questions
12:00-12:40
Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (CNRS-LLF, Université de Paris):
(In)definiteness in quality and quantity superlatives in Romance and beyond
12:40-12:50
Break
12:50-2:10
Posters
Maayan Abenina-Adar (UCLA) & Iara Mantenuto (California State University, Dominguez Hills):
On the semantic effects of noun–adjective order in Italian
Adina Camelia Bleotu (UBucharest/ZAS Berlin), Anton Benz (ZAS Berlin) & Nicole Gotzner (ZAS Berlin):
Shadow playing with Romanian 5-year-olds to shed light on epistemic adverbs. It’s a kind of magic!
Paola Cépeda (Stony Brook University) & Viviane Déprez (Rutgers University):
The role of French expletive negation ne in avant-clauses
Jan Fließbach (Freie Universität Berlin):
Modal non-at-issue commitments are detectable via association measures: A corpus based approach to the semantics of Spanish discourse particles and intonational contours
Ioana Grosu (NYU):
An event-based account of Romanian vreun
Dylan Jarrett (Indiana University, Bloomington) & Laura M. Merino Hernández (Indiana University, Bloomington):
The variability of projective content: The relation between projectivity and at-issueness of Spanish factives
Angelika Kiss (University of Toronto):
Question tags projecting sourcehood in Italian
Filipe Hisao Kobayashi (MIT) & Vincent Rouillard (MIT):
Getting plural answers from singular complex wh-phrases in Brazilian Portuguese
Isaac McAlister (UMass Amherst):
Acquisition of the Spanish present perfect by L1 speakers of American English and L1 speakers of Brazilian Portuguese
Jéssica Mendes (University of Maryland):
Future orientation in modal sentences: Evidence from Brazilian Portuguese
Carolina Oggiani (Universidad de la República, Uruguay):
The meaning of bare singular noun phrases in Uruguayan Spanish
Alexandre Alves Santos (UMass Amherst):
On the differences between WIQs and WFQs in Brazilian Portuguese
2:10-2:30
Break
2:30-3:30
Invited talk: Mariapaola D’Imperio (Rutgers University):
Individual cognitive variability and the intonation-meaning mapping
