Program

Note that this is a hybrid event. Online presentations are marked with a * on the program. All times refer to the CET timezone.

Tuesday, October 8

9:45-10:00 opening remarks
chair: Keny Chatain invited talk
10:00-11:00 Benjamin Spector (Institut Jean Nicod/ENS):
Weak and Strong Readings of anaphora and Trivalence
11:00-11:20 coffee break
chair: Andreea Nicolae contributed talks
11:20-12:00 Itai Bassi (ZAS) and Moshe E. Bar-Lev (Tel Aviv University):
*A stress-free alternative to a Homogeneity presupposition
12:00-12:40 Flavia Naehrlich, Harmen de Weerd, Rineke Verbrugge and Angeliek van Hout (University of Groningen):
Children's Acquisition of Non-maximality in Plural Definite Sentences with Context
12:40-14:00 lunch break
chair: Janek Guerrini contributed talks
14:00-14:40 Omri Doron (MIT):
*Disjunctive inferences and presupposition projection
14:40-15:00 Flavia Naehrlich (University of Groningen):
Unifying underspecification in bare plural generics and plural definite sentences
15:00-15:20 coffee break
chair: Jad Wehbe contributed talks
15:20-16:00 Maik Thalmann (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) and Andrea Matticchio (UMass Amherst):
On being certain that presuppositions don’t project universally
16:00-16:40 Shrayana Haldar (MIT):
*Unifying Weak Necessity and Habituality through Homogeneity: A Case from Bengali
17:00 social event @ ZAS

Wednesday, October 9

chair: Nina Haslinger invited talk
10:00-11:00 Nadine Bade (Universität Potsdam):
Finding the gap or filling it? Experimental measures of undefinedness
11:00-11:20 coffee break
chair: Benjamin Spector contributed talks
11:20-11:40 Angèle Bernard (Nantes Université):
Distinguishing homogeneity from presuppositions: reassessing the data from polar questions
11:40-12:00 Stefan Milosavljević (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz):
*Where does the multifunctionality of ‘lexical’ cloning come from? A unified account of prototypicality, precisification and domain widening
12:00-12:40 Janek Guerrini (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt):
Articulating gradability, dimension selection, and homogeneity in color adjectives
12:40-14:00 lunch break
chair: Maik Thalmann contributed talks
14:00-14:20 Comfort Ahenkorah (Yale)
*Navigating number marking in Akan nominals and predicates
14:20-14:40 Jia Ren (UMass Amherst):
*Associative Plurals as Definites
14:40-15:00 coffee break
chair: Nadine Bade contributed talks
15:00-15:20 Angèle Bernard (Nantes Université):
Processing non-maximal readings of plural definites: A mouse-tracking investigation
15:20-15:40 Jia Ren (UMass Amherst):
*English definite numerals and nominal conjunctions are different
15:40-16:00 coffee break
chair: Nina Haslinger invited talk
16:00-17:00 Jad Wehbe (MIT):
Redundancy and presuppositional exhaustification
18:00 social dinner
Viet Bowl Charlottenburg (Uhlandstraße 156)