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Alles was überhaupt gedacht werden kann, kann klar gedacht werden. Alles was sich aussprechen läßt, läßt sich klar aussprechen.
Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 4.116

Stanford Semantics Fest

March 10, 2000 (Friday)
Cordura 100 (CSLI)

Announcement and Call for Papers

Talks are 20+5 minutes long.
Coffee, lunch and dinner will be served in the lobby of the same building.
Remember that parking in the adjacent A-lot is not free on Fridays.
Any ideas, contributions etc. for evening entertainment are welcome.

Tentative Program

8:30 - 8:55	Breakfast
8:55 - 9:00	Opening Remarks

Session 1	chair: Mike Dukes (Stanford University)
9:00	*Cleo Condoravdi:*
	Tenseless modals for the past
9:25	*Martina Faller:*
	Evidential marking in Quechua

9:50 - 10:00	Coffee

Session 2	chair: Ed Zalta (CSLI)
10:00	*Peter Sells:*
	The puzzling supine verb in Swedish
10:25	*Stefan Kaufmann:*
	Aspects of the the Meaning and Use of Conditionals

10:50 - 11:00	Coffee

Session 3	chair: Ann Copestake (CSLI)
11:00	*Dave McKercher:*
	Kim kissed Sandy with enthusiasm: On 'with'-phrases in event semantics
11:25	*Reinhard Muskens:*
	On natural logic and feasible reasoning
11:50	*Shiao-Wei Tham:*
	Presuppositional effects in the Mandarin 'shi' locative

12:15 - 1:15	Lunch

Session 4	chair: Ivan Sag (Stanford University)
1:15	*David Beaver:*
	Centering in OT
1:40	*Malka Rappaport-Hovav, Beth Levin:*
	Is there a "right" thematic hierarchy? Towards a resolution of conflicting formalisms

2:05 - 2:45	Coffee, Posters

Session 5	chair: Joan Bresnan (Stanford University)
2:45	*Ida Toivonen:*
	Directed motion in Swedish: A constructional approach
3:10	*Eve Clark:*
	Making use of pragmatic inferences in the acquisition of meaning
3:35	*Francis Bond, Kyonghee Paik:*
	Sortal classifiers in Japanese and Korean

4:00 - 4:40	Coffee, Posters

Session 6	chair: Mary Dalrymple (Xerox PARC)
4:40	*Ash Asudeh:*
	Resource-sensitive semantics and the property theory of control
5:05	*Paul Kiparsky:*
	Event structure and the perfect
5:30	*Brady Clark:*
	Diagnosing Optimization: Interactions of Quantifier Scope and Ellipsis

Session 7	(Poster Session)
	*Kyonghee Paik, Francis Bond:*
	Contrastive study of Japanes and Korean shape classifiers
	*Stanley Peters:*
	Does English really have resumptive quantification and do `donkey' sentences really express it?
	*Elizabeth Traugott:*
	On regularity in semantic change

5:55 - 6:00	Closing Remarks
6:00 - 7:00	Dinner
7:00 - 9:30	Drinks, Party

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