Sinn und Bedeutung 2007, Oslo
The 12th annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Semantik (Society of Semantics), Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 12, was organized in Oslo, September 20–22, 2007.
When Oslo was elected to host the conference, interest and expertise in formal semantics were scarce here, as throughout Scandinavia, and in consequence, practically sole responsibility for matters major and minor fell to a very few persons. Still, we managed to put on a fair show, and to put together a fine volume of proceedings, the first to only appear electronically.
Below are links to the full book as well as to the front matter and the individual papers.
- ISBN 978-82-92800-00-3
- Cite more or less as:
- Lambek, Lambda (2008) "Semantic serenade", in Atle Grønn (ed.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 12, Open Journal Systems, 222–111. URL: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/issue/view/17.
- Preface and Contents
- Márta Abrusán (Budapest/MIT): A Semantic Analysis of Negative Islands with Manner Questions
- Ana Arregui (Ottawa): On the Role of Past Tense in Resolving Similarity in Counterfactuals
- Maria Averintseva (Tübingen) and Sebastian Buecking (Tübingen): Dislocating NPs to the Right: Anything Goes? Semantic and Pragmatic Constraints
- Adrian Brasoveanu (Stanford): Uniqueness Effects in Correlatives
- Petra Burkhardt (Marburg): Two Types of Definites: Evidence for Presupposition Cost
- Emmanuel Chemla (Paris ENS): Projecting Presuppositions with Scalar Implicatures
- Amy Rose Deal (Amherst): Property-type Objects and Modal Embedding
- Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin (Paris 7) and Roberta Pires de Oliveira (Santa Catarina): Reference to Kinds in Brazilian Portuguese: Definite Singulars vs. Bare Singulars
- Christian Ebert (Bielefeld) and Cornelia Endriss (Osnabrück): Intermediate Scope Readings as Embedded Speech Acts
- Francesca Foppolo (Milano-Bicocca): Between “Cost” and “Default” of Scalar Implicature: the Cost of Embedding
- Ljudmila Geist (Stuttgart): Specificity as Referential Anchoring: Evidence from Russian
- Valentine Hacquard (Maryland): Restructuring and Implicative Properties of volere
- Madeleine Halmøy (Tromsø): Number, (In)definiteness and Norwegian Nouns
- Katharina Hartmann (Humboldt Berlin) and Malte Zimmermann (Potsdam): Not only ‘only’, but ‘too’, too: Alternative-sensitive Particles in Bura
- Irene Heim (MIT): Decomposing Antonyms?
- Daphna Heller and Lynsey Wolter (Rochester): That is Rosa: Identificational Sentences as Intensional Predication
- Stefan Hinterwimmer and Sophie Repp (Humboldt Berlin): Different Alternatives for Topics and Foci: Evidence from Indefinites and Multiple wh
- Michela Ippolito (Toronto): Subjunctive Conditionals
- Jacques Jayez (Lyon) and Lucia Tovena (Paris 7): Evidentiality and Determination
- Elena Karagjosova (Oslo): Contrast and Underspecification. The Semantics of aber and doch
- Ezra Keshet (MIT): Infinitival Complements
- Dorota Klimek-Jankowska (Wrocław): On an Analogy between English Nominal and Polish Aspectual Manifestations of Genericity
- Sveta Krasikova (Tübingen): Quantifiers in Comparatives
- Ivona Kučerova (University College London): Givenness and Maximize Presupposition
- Jungmee Lee (Ohio): The Temporal Interpretation of the Korean –ko Construction: Aktionsart and Discourse Context
- Rainer Ludwig (ZAS Berlin): Contrast For Two
- Giorgi Magri (MIT): The Sortal Theory of Plurals
- Alda Mari (Institut Jean Nicod Paris): Analyticity Under Perspective: Indefinite Generics in French
- Eric McCready (Aoyama Gakuin): Particles, Modality and Coherence
- Ana Müller and Luciana Sanchez-Mendes (São Paulo): Pluractionality in Karitiana
- Sarah Murray (Rutgers): Reflexivity and Reciprocity with(out) Underspecification
- David Oshima (Arizona): Stereotypes, Desires, and Constructions
- Lucia Pozzan and Susan Schweitzer (CUNY New York): Not Nearly Synonymous. Similarities and Differences between almost and nearly
- Arndt Riester (Stuttgart): A Semantic Explication of Information Status and the Underspecification of the Recipients’ Knowledge
- Uli Sauerland (ZAS Berlin): Hardt's Surprising Sloppy Readings: A Flat Binding Account
- Gerhard Schaden (Paris 7): On the Cross-Linguistic Variation of ‘One-Step Past-Referring’ Tenses
- Mathias Schenner (ZAS Berlin): Double Face Evidentials in German: Reportative ‘sollen’ and ‘wollen’ in Embedded Contexts
- Hans-Christian Schmitz (Frankfurt): “Eigentlich” again
- Magdalena Schwager (Frankfurt): Keeping Prices Low: an Answer to a Concealed Question
- Stephanie Solt (CUNY New York): Many and Diverse Cases: Q-adjectives and Conjunction
- Yasutada Sudo (MIT): Quantification into Quotations: Evidence from Japanese
- Henriëtte de Swart and Joost Zwarts (Utrecht): Article Use Across Languages: an OT Typology
- Bartosz Więckowski (Rostock & Tübingen): Substitution Puzzles and Substitutional Semantics
- Kazuko Yatsushiro (Humboldt Berlin): Quantifier Acquisition: Presuppositions of “every”