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Midwest Workshop on Semantics

University of Chicago
October 7, 2006

All talks will be held in Rosenwald 405. Coffee will be available at 8.30 am, and we will have a reception/dinner after the program (excact time TBD).

Morning

9.00-9.40

Negative Concord in Korean and Japanese

Suwon Yoon, University of Chicago

9.40-10.20

Topicality and Cancellation of Intervention Effects in Korean

Juhyeon Hwang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne

10.20-10.40

Break

10.40-11.20

Constructing a concessive conditional in Japanese -- on temo & tte

Ai Matsui, Michigan State University

11.20-12.00

The Japanese Internally Headed Relative Clause: Toward a Unified Treatment with Null Pronouns

Yusuke Kubota and E. Allyn Smith, Ohio State University

12.00-2.00 Lunch

Afternoon

2.00-2.40

Can Infants Use Adverbs to Learn about Adjectives?

Kristen Syrett, Northwestern University

2.40-3.20

Stage-level/Individual-level Predicates and Aspect

E. Matthew Husband, Michigan State University

3.20-3.40

Break

3.40-4.20

Account For Both Stereotypical & Astereotypical Bridging Inferences

Alex Djalali, Northwestern University

4.20-5.00

Pragmatic Aspects of Compared To

Osamu Sawada, University of Chicago

Alternate

Radical Contextualism and Communication

Nathaniel Hansen, University of Chicago

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