Georg-August Universität Göttingen
Indefinites and Beyond
Program
| Friday, November 18, 2011 |
Saturday, November 19, 2011 |
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| 9:30-10:30 | Klaus von Heusinger, Stuttgart Specific articles and other specificity markers in German |
Bernhard Schwarz, McGill Two types of class B numeral modifiers |
| 10:30-11:30 | Cornelia Ebert, Stuttgart Experimental evidence for topicality-based approaches to exceptional wide scope |
Bart Geurts, Nijmegen Superlative quantifiers: modal or disjunctive? |
| 11:30-12:00 | coffee break | coffee break |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lucas Champollion, Tübingen / NYU For-adverbials and the scope of indefinites |
Patrick Grosz, Tübingen and Pritty Patel-Grosz, MIT Stubborn Donkeys: On the Cross-Linguistic Rigidity of Larger Pronouns |
| 13:00-15:00 | lunch break | lunch break |
| 15:00-16:00 | Paula Menéndez-Benito, Göttingen Luis Alonso-Ovalle, McGill On the Modal Component of Un NP Cualquiera |
Hedde Zeijlstra, Amsterdam Negation, negative indefinites and modals |
| 16:00-17:00 | Edgar Onea, Göttingen Indefinites in discourse |
Luisa Martí, Queen Mary and Klaus Abels, UCL Syntactic Deficiencies of Propositional Quantification |
| 17:00-17:30 | coffee break | |
| 17:30-18:30 | Ljudmila Geist, Stuttgart Indefinite topics in German |