Friday, September 29, 3:00pm, MJH Rm 126 Shiaowei Tham (Defense Language Institute) and Hooi Ling Soh (University of Minnesota/National University of Singapore) Discourse effects of lexical specification: The case of the Mandarin aspectual particle -LE" Tuesday, October 3, 2:15pm, MJH Rm 126 Andrew Koontz-Garboden (Stanford University) Monotonicity at the lexical semantics-morphosyntax interface Friday, October 13, 3:30pm, MJH Rm 126 Graham Katz (Stanford University) Against a neo-Davidsonian account of stative verbs Friday, November 10, 3:30pm, MJH Rm 126 Daniel Buering (UCLA) Been there -- marked that: a theory of second occurrence focus [.pdf abstract] [html abstract] Saturday, January 20, all day, MJH Rm 126 (Un)usual Events Fest Monday, February 5, 1 PM, MJH Rm 126 Scott Grimm (Stanford University) Instrumental Subjects Wednesday, February 7, 1 PM, MJH Rm 126 N.J. Enfield (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics-Nijmegen) 'The Semantics-Pragmatics Interplay Friday, March 16, all day, MJH Rm 126 8th Annual Semantics Fest Thursday, March 29, 12 Noon, MJH Rm 126 Prof. Stephen Pulman (Oxford University) Bridging the Gap Between Formal and Computational Semantics Tuesday, April 10, 5:30pm, MJH 126 Zoltan Szabo (Yale University) "Incomplete Events, Incomplete Objects" Friday, April 20, 3:30 PM, MJH 126 Ivano Caponigro (UCSD) "We know, therefore I ask" Tuesday, May 1, 12:00noon, MJH Rm 126 Manfred Krifka (Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin) Postposed additive particles as markers of givenness Monday, May 7, 2:30, MJH 126 Adrian Brasoveanu (UCSC) Donkey Pluralities: Plural Information States vs. Non-atomic Individuals Wednesday, May 16, 12noon, MJH 126 Jonathan Ginzburg (King's College) Resolving Fragments: A Theory of Context for Conversation Wednesday, May 23, 2:30pm, MJH 126 Pranav Anand (UCSC) A Non-Relativist Treatment of Predicates of Personal Taste Tuesday, June 5, 5:30pm, MJH Rm 126 Yukinori Takubo (Kyoto University and Carleton College) Tense and Aspect in Japanese: 'tokoro-da' as a reference time marker Cosponsored with the Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages Tuesday, June 12, 3pm, MJH Rm 126 Dmitry Levinson (Stanford) Negative Polarity Particles and Semantic Negativity (proposal talk)