CSSP

Wednesday September 21	Thursday September 22	Friday September 23
9h45–10h Opening 10h–11h Invited speaker: Danièle Godard (UMR7110 LLF Paris 7) Indicative and subjunctive mood in complement sentences: Formal semantics and grammar writing 11h–11h40 Emilie Destruel (UT Austin) The meaning and use of the French c'est-cleft	10h–11h Invited speaker: Cleo Condoravdi (Zukunftskolleg, U Konstanz) Imperatives: Meaning and Illocutionary Force 11h–11h40 Anamaria Falaus (U Basque Country /UPV-EHU) Modal indefinites and free-choice inference in imperatives	10h–11h Invited speaker: Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz) Polarity and case licensing 11h–11h40 Gabi Danon (Bar-Ilan U) Agreement features and non-agreeing copulas in Modern Hebrew
11h40–12h Coffee break	11h40–12h Coffee break	11h40–12h Coffee break
12h–12h40 Yusuke Kubota (U Tokyo) & Robert Levine (Ohio State) Against ellipsis: Arguments for the direct licensing of 'non-canonical' coordinations 12h40–13h20 Artemis Alexiadou & Gianina Iordachioaia (U Stuttgart) Causative Nominalizations from Psych Verbs	12h–12h40 Janna Lipenkova (FU Berlin & U Stuttgart) Obligatory event modifiers and lexical licensing in the Chinese ba-construction 12h40–13h20 Wataru Uegaki (MIT) Content nouns and the semantics of question-embedding predicates	12h–12h40 Eric Potsdam (U Florida) The Syntax of Malagasy Phrasal Comparatives 12h40–13h20 Thomas Grano & Chris Kennedy (U Chicago) Severing the degree argument from the adjective: Evidence from Mandarin transitive comparatives
13h20–14h45 Lunch break	13h20–14h30 Lunch break	13h20–14h45 Lunch break
14h45–15h25 Valentina Bianchi (Siena) & Giuliano Bocci (Bologna) ''Should I stay or should I go?'' Optional focus movement in Italian 15h25–16h05 Theresa Biberauer (U Cambridge/ Stellenbosch U) & Hedde Zeijlstra (U Amsterdam) Inherent instability and spontaneous change: an Afrikaans case study	14h30–15h30 Invited speaker: Jean-Pierre Koenig (U Buffalo) The (non)-universality of syntactic selection and functional application 15h30–16h10 Laura Kallmeyer & Rainer Osswald (Heinrich-Heine-U Duesseldorf) A Frame-Based Semantics of the Dative Alternation in Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars	14h45–15h25 Yusuke Kubota (U Tokyo) Revisiting the progressive/ perfect ambiguity of -te iru in Japanese: A scale-based analysis 15h25–16h05 Gabriela Bilbiie & Anna Gazdik (Paris 7) Coordination of unlikes in multiple questions
16h05–16h35 Coffee break	16h10–16h40 Coffee break	16h05–16h45 Stephen Wechsler (UT Austin) Polysemy and Pancakes
16h35–17h15 Elizabeth Coppock (U Lund) & David Beaver (UT Austin) Exclusivity, Uniqueness and Definiteness 17h15–17h55 Sonia Cyrino (Unicamp) & M.Teresa Espinal (UA Barcelona) Object BNs in Brazilian Portuguese. More on the NP/DP analysis	16h40–17h20 Anne Dagnac (CLLE-ERSS, U Toulouse 2) How do you double your C? Evidence from a Gallo-Romance dialect 17h20–18h Thomas Grano (U Chicago) Exhaustive control is not control: Cinque's IP and the raising/ control divide
18h10 Reception

CSSP 2011