The Semantics Workshop of the American Midwest and Prairies

November 20, 2009

After-party following the workshop!

9:00

Y

USUKE

K

UBOTA

(The Ohio State University)

Nonconstituent coordination in Japanese as constituent coordination: A categorical grammar analysis

9:45

G

REGORY

W

ARD

, C

HRISTOPHER

A

HERN

& T

OM

H

AYDEN

(Northwestern University)

An empirical investigation of typicality and uniqueness effects on article choice

10:30 – 10:45

B

REAK

10:45

M. R

YAN

B

OCHNAK

(University of Chicago)

Scalarity in the nominal and verbal projections

11:30

A

I

M

ATSUI

(Michigan State University)

Scope and the Nature of Japanese hoo Comparatives

12:15 – 1:45

L

UNCH

1:45

C

HAO

-

TING

T

IM

C

HOU

(University of Michigan)

Point of view binding of the-hell and logophor in Chinese

2:30

A

NASTASIA

S

MIRNOVA

(The Ohio State University)

Epistemic and metaphysical modality and the meaning of tenses in Greek

3:15

T

HOMAS

G

RANO

(University of Chicago)

POS in Mandarin and in Universal Grammar

4:00 – 4:30

B

REAK

4:30

A

LEXANDER

C

LARKE

(Michigan State University)

Colors as Anaphoric Antecedents

5:15

J

OSEPH

T

YLER

(The University of Michigan)

Prosodic Correlates of Discourse Structure