Wednesday, 19th of June, K503
| 9:00–9:15 | Welcome remarks | |
| Chair: Floris Roelofsen | ||
| 9:15–10:15 | Kajsa Djärv (Edinburgh) invited speaker | Selectional restrictions of clause-taking emotive predicates across lexical categories |
| 10:15–10:45 | Tom Roberts (Utrecht) Kelsey Sasaki (Oxford) | Oh, what predicates embed exclamatives! |
| 10:45–11:00 | Coffee | |
| Chair: Tom Roberts | ||
| 11:00–11:30 | Xinran Yan (Leipzig) | ‘Think’ or ‘Want’: How hierarchical factors influence the interpretation |
| 11:30–12:00 | Emil Eva Rosina (Bochum) Kristina Liefke (Bochum) | German noch wissen: uniform semantics, distinct effects |
| 12:00–13:30 | Lunch | |
| Chair: Elena Herburger | ||
| 13:30–14:00 | Natasha Korotkova (Utrecht) Pranav Anand (UCSC) | Today I learned: English ‘coming-to-know’ predicates [short handout] |
| 14:00–14:30 | Andrea Matticchio (UMass) | A strong semantics for doubt |
| 14:30–15:00 | Coffee | |
| Chair: Jeanne Lecavelier | ||
| 15:00–15:30 | Ciyang Qing (Edinburgh) Deniz Özyıldız (Konstanz) Floris Roelofsen (Amsterdam) Maribel Romero (Konstanz) Wataru Uegaki (Edinburgh) | When can non-veridical preferential attitude predicates take questions? |
| 15:30–16:00 | George Walkden (Konstanz) | Embedding English interrogatives: if vs. whether |
| 16:00–16:15 | Coffee | |
| Chair: Ciyang Qing | ||
| 16:15–17:15 | Tanya Bondarenko (Harvard) invited speaker, online | Thinking Questions and Answers to Questions: a view from Georgian |
| 17:15–17:45 | Huilei Wang (UCLA) online | The non-uniformity of that-CPs |
Thursday, 20th of June, M630
| Chair: Mora Maldonado | ||
| 9:00–9:30 | Deniz Özyıldız (Konstanz) Ciyang Qing (Edinburgh) Floris Roelofsen (Amsterdam) Maribel Romero (Konstanz) Wataru Uegaki (Edinburgh) | The MECORE database |
| 9:30–10:00 | Tomasz Kłochowicz (Amsterdam) | Computational tools for the MECORE database |
| 10:00–10:15 | Coffee | |
| Chair: Natasha Korotkova | ||
| 10:15–10:45 | Raquel Montero (Konstanz) Leah Doroski (Konstanz) Maribel Romero (Konstanz) | Spanish Neg-raising: Mood effects on NPI licensing |
| 10:45–11:15 | Fiona Spencer (Amsterdam) Maria Aloni (Amsterdam) Tom Roberts (Utrecht) | Wondering about Mood in Romance: the view from Italian inquisitive predicates |
| 11:15–11:45 | Luis Alonso-Ovalle (McGill) Paula Menendez-Benito (Tübingen) Aynat Rubinstein (HUJI) | Mood and modal anchoring: divergence of RCs and that-clauses in Spanish |
| 11:45–12:00 | Coffee | |
| Chair: Maribel Romero | ||
| 12:00–13:00 | Paul Portner (Georgetown) invited speaker | Two approaches to mood: Operator or agreement? |
| 13:00–14:30 | Lunch | |
| Chair: Wataru Uegaki | ||
| 14:30–15:30 | Mora Maldonado (Nantes) invited speaker | Constraints on modals and clausal embedding predicates: an experimental investigation |
| 15:30–17:30 | Lightning talks & poster session | |
| Chair: Deniz Özyıldız | ||
| André Meinunger (ZAS) Karolina Zuchewicz (Leipzig) online | (Non-)Factive Factive and Clausal Embedding in German and Polish | |
| Marie-Luise Popp (Leipzig) online | The hope/expect polysemy under Neg-Raising | |
| Manfred Sailer (Frankfurt) online | Negation-transparent matrix predicates: Licensing of embedded NPIs | |
| Giuliano Armenante (Potsdam) | Constraints on the temporal interpretation of complement clauses: The case of Asante Twi | |
| Herald Di (Saarland) | Revisiting the selectional restrictions of preferential predicates | |
| Valérie Jefcott (Leipzig) Wenjiu Du (Leipzig) | To want or to demand: A polysemous clause- embedding verb in Zhuang | |
| Barbara Stiebels (Leipzig) | The role of German preverbs in clausal selection | |
| 19:00– | Dinner @ Constanzer Wirtshaus | |
Friday, 21st of June, G307
| Chair: Deniz Özyıldız | ||
| 9:30–10:30 | Jeanne Lecavelier (Potsdam) Malte Zimmermann (Potsdam) invited speakers | Embedding questions in a language without wh-embedding |
| 10:30–10:45 | Coffee | |
| Chair: Paul Portner | ||
| 10:45–11:15 | David Strohmaier (Cambridge) Simon Wimmer (Dusseldorf) | Contrafactives, learnability, and production |
| 11:15–11:45 | Patrick Elliott (Düsseldorf) Filipe Hisao Kobayashi (UPenn) | Nominal Free Choice |
| 11:45–12:00 | Coffee | |
| Chair: Kajsa Djärv | ||
| 12:00–12:30 | Manfred Krifka (ZAS) | Slifting predicates in German take their prejacents as arguments |
| 12:30–13:00 | Ciyang Qing (Edinburgh) Wataru Uegaki (Edinburgh) | Semantic triviality leads to ungrammaticality through iterated learning |