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Wednesday, July 19th

= online presenter(s)   = presenter(s) in person   = some presenters online and some in person

10:00 – 11:00 CEST

 

Invited talk
Chair: Nina Haslinger
Stephanie Solt (ZAS)

11:00 – 11:20 CEST

 

Break

11:20 – 12:40 CEST

 

Talk session 1
Chair: Keny Chatain

Similative and Coordinative Compound Plurals in Persian: Alternatives, Homogeneity, or Strongest Meanings?
Fereshteh Modarresi and Manfred Krifka (ZAS)

Homogeneity, Negation, and Neglect Zero
Giorgio Sbardolini (MCMP, Ludwig Maximilan University)

12:40 – 14:00 CEST

 

Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:00 CEST

 

Squib session 1
Chair: Valerie Wurm

Non-Maximality with an Updated Cover
Jia Ren (UMass Amherst)

Effect of time pressure on the availability of non-maximal judgments for sentences with plural definites
Angèle Bernard (Nantes Université), Flavia Nährlich (University of Groningen), Angeliek van Hout (Rjksuniversiteit Groningen) and Jennifer Spenader (Rjksuniversiteit Groningen)

Focus and non-maximality in out-of-the-blue contexts
Omar Agha (NYU)

15:00 – 15:20 CEST

 

Break

15:20 – 16:40 CEST

 

Talk session 2
Chair: Fereshteh Modarresi

Homogeneity as presuppositional exhaustification
Jad Wehbe (MIT) and Janek Guerrini (ENS/PSL)

Non-maximality without part-quantification
Mathieu Paillé (University of Calgary)

16:40 – 17:00 CEST

 

Break

17:00 – 17:40 CEST

 

Squib session 2
Chair: Omar Agha

Homogeneity in sentences with plural definites: rethinking non-maximal readings
Flavia Nährlich (University of Groningen)

Primitive granularities and the context-dependence of partial/total adjectives
Charlie Siu (Sun Yat-sen University)

18:00 – CEST

 

Social Event

Pizza party at the department (6th floor balcony and roof terrace)

Thursday, July 20th

= online presenter(s)   = presenter(s) in person   = some presenters online and some in person

10:00 – 11:00 CEST

 

Invited talk
Chair: Keny Chatain
Jacopo Romoli (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf) and Yasutada Sudo (UCL)

11:00 – 11:20 CEST

 

Break

11:20 – 12:40 CEST

 

Talk session 3
Chair: Magdalena Roszkowski

Putting bare plurals into context
Yizhen Jiang and Yasutada Sudo (UCL)

Sources of homogeneity in kind predication
Janek Guerrini (ENS/PSL)

12:40 – 14:00 CEST

 

Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:00 CEST

 

Squib session 3
Chair: Jakob Majdič

Homogeneity as a diagnostic tool for evaluating semantic analyses of distributive markers
Ana Bosnic (Utrecht University), Jennifer Spenader (Rjksuniversiteit Groningen) and Hamida Demirdache (Nantes Université)

Can Dou Collapse Homogeneity?
Zeqi Zhao (University of Göttingen)

Homogeneity effects are motivated by communicative efficiency
Omri Amiraz (HUJI)

15:00 – 15:20 CEST

 

Break

15:20 – 16:40 CEST

 

Talk session 4
Chair: Janek Guerrini

Counterfactuals (not) under discussion
Sonia Ramotowska (UCL), Paul Marty (University of Malta), Jacopo Romoli (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf) and Paolo Santorio (University of Maryland)

An experimental investigation of implicature and homogeneity approaches to free choice
Lyn Tieu (University of Toronto), Cory Bill (ZAS) and Jacopo Romoli (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)

18:00 – CEST

 

Social Event

Dinner at Schutzhaus Zukunft auf der Schmelz (Biergarten)