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CSSP 1999


The third Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris (CSSP 1999) was held on October 8-10 1999 at the Université Paris 7. A thematic session on sentence structure and discourse structure took place on October 8.

Program

Thursday, October 8th
Friday, October 9th
Saturday, October 10th
9h–9h10 Opening and Welcome
9h10–10h10 Invited speaker:
E. Hajicova (U. Charles, Prague) Discourse, focus and presupposition
 9h–10h Invited speaker :
N. Asher (Austin) Logics of conversation 		9h–10h Invited speaker:
Sandra Chung (UCSC) Restriction versus saturation
10h10–10h30 Break
 10h–10h30 Break
 10h–10h30 Break
10h30–11h D. Kolliakou (Newcastle) & T. Alexopoulou (Edinburgh) Towards a structural definition of linkhood in Greek
11h–11h30 H. van Hoof (Tübingen) I-topicalization: contrastive topic or multiple focus?
11h30–12h R. Artstein (Rutgers) Focus below the word level
12h00–12h30 R. Van Valin (SUNY Buffalo) Quantifier scope in Toba Batak
10h30–11h J. Quer (U.A. Barcelone) The quantificational force of free choice items
11h–11h30 C. Meier (Tübingen) A semantics for result clauses and constructions with too
11h30–12h M. Kelepir (MIT) Negation is free: evidence from Turkish
12h00–12h30 M. Rappaport Hovav (Bar Ilan) & B. Levin (Stanford) Reevaluation the direct object restriction on English resultatives
10h30–11h J. McCloskey (UCSC) On the expression of existence in Irish
11h–11h30 R. Levine (Ohio State), T. Hukari (U. Victoria), M. Calcagno (Tübingen) Unbounded dependencies : a unified class
11h30–12h B. Levine (Ohio State) 'Tough' complementation and clausal transparency
12h00–12h30 A. Munn (Michigan) Extraction domains and the semantics of variables
12h30–14h Lunch
 12h30–14h Lunch

14h–14h30 J. Jayez (EHESS) & C. Rossari (Genève) The accommodation profile of discourse markers
14h30–15h A. Merin (Stuttgart) For every BUT there is an IF 		14h–15h Invited speaker :
T. Reinhart (Utrecht) Interpretation of theta-roles
15h–15h30 Break
 15h–15h30 Break
15h30–16h L. Danlos (Paris 7) Sur la coréférence événementielle
16h–16h30 A. Alves & I. Gomez Txurruka (Austin) Discourse effects of same in anaphoric temporal adverbials
16h30–17h H. de Hoop & H. de Swart (Utrecht) Optimal interpretations of discourse
17h–17h30 M. Poesio (Edinburgh) & U. Reyle (Stuttgart) Partially resolved interpretations
17h30–19h30 Reception
19h30–20h30 Invited speaker :
O. Ducrot (EHESS) La concession dans les énoncés interrogatifs. Approche argumentative 		15h30–16h M. Coene (Antwerp), Y. d'Hulst (Leiden) & L. Tasmowski (Leuven) Romance vocatives and the DP hypothesis
16h–16h30 K. Grohmann (Maryland) The syntax-discourse interface of multiple Wh-constructions
16h30–17h C. Heycock & R. Zamparelli (Edinburgh) The syntax and semantics of DP-internal coordination

Reviewers

Nicholas Asher (U. of Texas, Austin), Mohammed Badawi (U. Stuttgart), Rainer Baüerle (U. Stuttgart), Steve Berman (U. Tübingen), Patrick Blackburn (U. Saarbrücken), Andrée Borillo (U. Toulouse 2), Michel Chambreuil (U. Clermont 2), Sandra Chung (UC Santa Cruz), Ileana Comorovski (U. Nancy 2), Francis Corblin (U. Rennes 2), Marcel Cori (U. Paris 10), Joao Costa (U. Lisboa), Henriette De Swart (U. Utrecht), Paul Dekker (U. Amsterdam), Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (CNRS, Paris 7), Bernard Fradin (CNRS, Paris 13), Claire Gardent (U. Saarbrücken), Anastasia Giannakidou (U. Amsterdam), Danièle Godard (CNRS, Lille) , Alex Grosu (U. Tel Aviv), Jacques Jayez (EHESS), Ruth Kempson (SOAS), Chris Kennedy, Alain Kihm (CNRS), Georges Kleiber (U. Strasbourg), Jonas Kuhn (U. Stuttgart), Brenda Laca (U. Paris 8), Beth Levin (Northwestern U.) , Jean Lowenstamm (U. Paris 7), Chris Manning (U. of Sydney), Jean-Marie Marandin (CNRS, Paris 7), Louise McNally (U. Pompeu Fabra), Philip Miller (U. Lille 3), Stefan Müller, Lea Nash (U. Paris 8), Denis Paillard (CNRS, Paris 7), Marie-Claude Paris (U. Paris 7), Georges Rebuschi (U. Paris 3), Uwe Reyle (U. Stuttgart), Craige Roberts (Ohio State U.), Louisa Sadler (U. of Essex), Ivan A. Sag (Stanford U.), Lucia Tovena (U. di Trente), Robert van der Sandt (U. Nijmegen), Henk van Riemsdijk (U. Tilburg), Henk Verkuyl (U. Utrecht), Annie Zaenen (Rank Xerox), Anne Zribi-Hertz (U. Paris 8).

Organising committee

Francis Corblin (U. Paris 4-Sorbonne), Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (CNRS-Paris 7), Danièle Godard (CNRS-Paris 7), Jean-Marie Marandin (CNRS-Paris 7)

Funding

CSSP 1999 has been organised with the financial support of the CNRS, the University Paris 7 and the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (URA 1028, CNRS-Paris 7).


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