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Friday October 1
9:50-10:00 (N.B.: All times are EST)
Welcome remarks
10:00-10:40
Michela Ippolito (University of Toronto), Francesca Foppolo (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca) & Francesca Panzeri (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca):
Is the mano a tulipano gesture compatible with canonical questions? An empirical study of a speech act-marking gesture
10:40-11:00
Break
11:00-11:40
Anamaria F?l?u? (CNRS-LLING) & Andreea Nicolae (ZAS Berlin):
Additive free choice items
11:40-12:20
Elizabeth Heredia Murillo (University of Nantes/University of Groningen), Angeliek van Hout (University of Groningen) & Hamida Demirdache (University of Nantes):
On the acquisition of scalar and additive inferences. Evidence from Spanish incluso ‘even’ and ni siquiera ‘not even’
12:20-1:00
Lunch break
1:00-1:40
Poster lightning talks
1:40-2:40
Posters
Martina Abbondanza (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca) & Francesca Foppolo (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca):
Semantic or morphosyntactic agreement? A study on agreement in Italian sentences containing quantifiers
Giulia Bettelli (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca), Beatrice Giustolisi (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca) & Francesca Panzeri (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca):
Cross-linguistic recognition of verbal irony in Italian. The role of visual and acoustic cues
Adina Camelia Bleotu (UBucharest/ZAS Berlin), Anton Benz (ZAS Berlin) & Nicole Gotzner (ZAS Berlin):
Quantifiers embedded under epistemic adverbs lead to global but not local implicatures in Romanian child language: Insights from a shadow-play paradigm
Achille Fusco (DISPOC, Università degli Studi di Siena):
Subjective attitude verbs: An empirical study on Italian
Alfredo Garcia-Pardo (SUNY Purchase) & Javier Fernandez-Sanchez (Uniwersytet Gda?ski):
Indirect evidentiality and irony in Spanish: The case of invariable qué questions
Mora Maldonado (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Laia Mayol (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Andrés Soria Ruiz (Universidade Nova Lisboa) & Amir Anvari (École normale supérieure Paris):
El secreto de creerse: Reflexive beliefs and thoughts in Romance languages
María Eugenia Mangialavori Rasia (CONICET) & Rafael Marín (CNRS-Université Lille 3):
Psych verb transitivity: The English-Romance crosscut
Fabienne Martin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Yining Nie (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/ZAS Berlin) & Maria Teresa Guasti (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca):
Two causatives for the price of one in child French
Jéssica Mendes (University of Maryland) & Gesoel Mendes (University of Maryland):
Negative DPs and epistemic modals
Luciana Sanchez Mendes (Universidade Federal Fluminense):
Flavors of intensity and emphasis: The case of muito in Brazilian Portuguese
Luis Miguel Toquero-Pérez (University of Southern California):
Spanish más differs from tanto and English more: A puzzle for the Monotonicity Constraint
Evangelia Vlachou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens):
C’est une ville très sport: Copular sentences with NPs in predicate position
2:40-3:00
Break
3:00-4:00
Invited talk: Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard University):
Indefinites and crossover
Saturday October 2
9:00-10:00
Invited talk: Jenny Doetjes (Universiteit Leiden):
Interpreting French wh-phrases in situ: A choice function approach
10:00-10:40
Andrea Beltrama (University of Pennsylvania):
Discreta—o almeno decente. A window into adjectival mildness
10:40-11:00
Break
11:00-11:40
Eduardo García Fernández (UMass Amherst):
Form and function of Asturian vocatives and their contribution to the utterance’s meaning
11:40-12:20
Samuel Jambrovi? (University of Toronto):
Names are (partially) definite descriptions
12:20-1:00
Michela Ippolito (University of Toronto), Angelika Kiss (University of Toronto) & Will Williams (University of Toronto):
The discourse function of adversative conjunction
1:00-1:40
Lunch break
1:40-2:20
Fabienne Martin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Daniil Bondarenko (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Elisabeth Backes (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) & Yining Nie (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin):
Variation in the actuality inference of circumstantial modals
2:20-3:00
Luis Alonso-Ovalle (McGill University), Paula Menéndez-Benito (Universität Tübingen) & Aynat Rubinstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem):
Subeventive modal projection: The case of Spanish subjunctive relative clauses
3:00-4:00
Business meeting
