Here's the call for papers.

Preliminary Schedule

8:45-9:00

Coffee and bagels

Session 1 - Chair: Brady Clark

9:00-9:30

Ashwini Deo: Three classes of dative subjects in Marathi

9:30-10:00

Maya Arad: Back to the roots: the semantic and phonological reality of the Hebrew root

10:00-10:15

Coffee break

Session 2: Chair: Beth Levin

10:15-10:45

Ivan Garcia Alvarez: A semantic restriction on exceptive NPs

10:45-11:15

Tomoko Matsui: Ad-hoc concepts - not quite an open and shut class

11:15-11:30

Coffee break

Session 3 - Chair: Arnold Zwicky

11:30-12:00

Philip Hofmeister: Mixing it up: generic operators and scope interactions

12:00-12:30

David Beaver and Cleo Condoravdi: `before' and `after' really are converses after all

12:30-13:30

Lunch break

Session 4 - Chair: Tham Shiao-Wei

13:30-14:00

John Beavers and Andrew Koontz-Garboden: `your ass' is a universal pronoun

14:00-14:30

Paul Kiparsky: From adverbs to affixes: tense and mood in Sanskrit

14:30-14:45

Coffee break

Session 5 - Chair: Ivan Sag

14:45-15:15

Dominic Widdows and Scott Cederberg: Combining information to learn word-meanings

15:15-15:45

Daniel G. Bobrow, Cleo Condoravdi, Dick Crouch, Valeria Paiva, and Reinhard Stolle: Flattened Semantic Representations

15:45-16:00

Coffee break

Session 6 - Chair: Hana Filip

16:00-16:30

David Oshima and Roger Levy: Nouns with multiple classifiers and non-transitive information flow in Japanese

16:30-17:00

Florian Jaeger and Michael Wagner: When warriors mourn longer

Check out the schedule of the previous three Semantics Fests.

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