| Thursday July 15 | ||
| 9.30 -10.30
(Invited Speaker) |
Angelika Kratzer (UMass, Amherst) | Quantifiers in the hierarchy of functional heads |
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| 11.00-11.45: | Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago) &
Lisa Cheng (University of Leiden) |
Wh-morphology, definiteness, and (more on) the semantics of free choice |
| 11.45-12.30: | Hiroyuki Uchida (UCL) | Indefinites: an extra-argument selection analysis |
| LUNCH | ||
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| 2.00 -3.00 (Invited Speaker) |
Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia) |
Generics and existentials in a language without bare plurals |
| 3.00 - 3.45: | Kook-Hee Gill (University of York): | A crosslinguistic approach to Free choice and polarity |
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| 4.15 - 5.00: | Christina Chen (National Tsing Hua University) |
On the paired ziji 'self' and Donkey sentences in Mandarin Chinese |
| 5.00 - 5.45: | Henry Davis (University of British Columbia) |
Quantifiers in Salish and the D-Type versus A- Type Distinction |
| 5.45 - 6.30: | Malte Zimmermann (Humboldt University, Berlin) |
Or What? Quantificational Phenomena in Hausa. |
| Friday July 16 | ||
| 9.30 -10.30
(Invited Speaker) |
Edward L. Keenan (UCLA): | Non-Standard Quantifiers in Natural Language |
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| 11.00-11.45: | Chris Fox (University of Essex) Shalom Lappin (King's College, London) |
Generalized Quantifiers with Underspecified Scope Relations in a First-Order Representation Language |
| 11.45-12.30: | George Tsoulas (University of York) | The Logic of Indeterminates |
| LUNCH | ||
| 2.00 -3.00 (Invited Speaker) |
Akira Watanabe (University of Tokyo) | Ingredients of Polarity Sensitivity: Bipolar Items in Japanese |
| 3.00 - 3.45: | Yukio Furukawa (McGill) | Negative quantifiers in Japanese are neither NPI nor NCI |
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| 4.15 - 5.00: | Evangelia Vlachou (University of Utrecht) | The Three kinds of Free Choice Items and the different ways their quantificational domain is constructed |
| 5.00 - 5.45: | Masakazu Kuno (Harvard University) | Constraints on Scope Shifting Operations: A Representational View |
| 5.45 - 6.30á: | Jonny Butler (University of York) | Everything's Indefinite |
| Conference Party at the National Railway Museum | ||
| Saturday July 17 | ||
| 9.30 -10.30 (Invited Speaker) |
K. A. Jayaseelan (CIEFL, Hyderabad) | Comparative Morphology of Quantifiers |
| 10.30-11.00 | BREAK | |
| 11.00-11.45 | Peppina Lee Po-lun (City University of Hong Kong
& Macau Polytechnic) & PAN Haihua (City University of Hong Kong) |
Affixal Quantification: A-Syntax-semantics Approach to Cantonese Suffixal Quantifiers |
| 11.45-12.30: | Hidekazu Tanaka (University of York) | Antecedent Contained Deletion without Quantifier Raising |
| 12.30 -2.00 | LUNCH | |
| 2.00 - 2.45 : | Christopher Tancredi (University of Tokyo) & Miyuki Yamashina (Yokohama National University) |
Interpretation of Indefinites in the Japanese who-mo Construction |
| 2.45 - 3.30 | Sun-ho Hong (University of Essex) & Sun-Woo Lee (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies) |
Korean Wh-words as Choice Function Variables |
| 3.45 - 4.15 | BREAK | |
| 4.00 - 4.45 | Daniel Wedgwood (University of Edinburgh) | Out of focus quantifiers: the emergence of a quantificational strategy |
| 4.45 - 5.30: | Volker Gast (Free University, Berlin) | Negated universal focus quantifiers in English, German and Spanish |
| 5.30 - 6.30 (Invited Speaker) |
Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh) | Surface-Compositional Scope-Alternation and the Non-Existence of Existentials |
| Alternates | ||
| Heather Mardsen (University of Durham) |
A cross-linguistic investigation of wh/quantifier interpretation | |
| Yukiko Ueda (Meiji Gakuin & Yokohama National University) |
Fqant-Matching as a Syntactic Operation | |
| Pirkko Suihkonen (University of Helsinki) | Quantification on noun phrases: sample data on the Uralic, Turkic, and Indo-European Languages | |